On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 07:11:50AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> How are other SIGs handling the removal of repositories from the > >> mirrors? There are centos-release-<sig-project> packages around that > >> have YUM .repo files pointing to the now non-existing repos. Some (all?) > >> of these centos-release-<sig-project> packages are still available in > >> CentOS Extras. > >> > >> From #gluster: > >> 21:25 < mallorn1> Anyone know why the 3.13 repository is gone from CentOS? http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/storage/x86_64/ > >> 21:25 <@glusterbot> Title: Index of /centos/7/storage/x86_64CentOS Mirror (at mirror.centos.org) > >> 21:26 < mallorn1> Installed the centos-release-gluster313.noarch package that CentOS has, but then you can't install gluster because the target doesn't exist. > >> > >> At the moment I am tempted to create a centos-release-gluster-DONTUSE > >> package that replaces centos-release-gluster313 and other unmaintained > >> versions (suggestions for an alternative to DONTUSE welcome!). > >> > >> I do not want to force users to upgrade to a newer Gluster version > >> without manual intervention. Some versions are/may not be compatible > >> between client/server, or require some additional steps depending on the > >> features that are used. > > > > A new centos-release-gluster-legacy package has now been created and > > will get requested for inclusion in CentOS Extras after a little more > > testing and announcing the Gluster 4.1 release. > > > > Once this package is available, the old centos-release-gluster* RPMs for > > releases that are not maintained anymore become useless and can be > > removed from the repo. Removal requests will be sent through > > bugs.centos.org later. > > > > Thanks to all who gave inputs for this, > > Niels > > Will there be an appropriate centos-release-gluste[whatever] package > that Obsoletes the old, obsolete packages? Because otherwise, they're > just going to sit there on obsolete systems and are unlikely to be > cleared up properly. Yes, that is what the new centos-release-gluster-legacy is intended to do. You can review the .spec if you like (and send PRs!): https://github.com/CentOS-Storage-SIG/centos-release-gluster-legacy Thanks, Niels