[CentOS-devel] SIGs: Possibility to drop EOL content at 6.10 release time

Fri Jun 29 13:30:41 UTC 2018
Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 01:48:34PM +0300, Anssi Johansson wrote:
> RHEL 6.10 was released today and building CentOS 6.10 has just started. This
> would be an excellent time to remove any EOL software you may have floating
> around on mirror.centos.org.
> 
> SIGs should explicitly state which content they want copied over from 6.9 to
> 6.10.
> 
> I'd imagine that for example openstack-juno could be dropped because it went
> EOL in 2015-12-07 (so actually prior to CentOS 6.8's release..). Is there
> some other content that could be dropped?
> 
> If SIGs want to transfer some of their packages from 6.9 to 6.10, please let
> hughesjr know. You can probably simply reply to this message to let people
> know of your decision. Content to be transferred over to 6.10 can be
> specified either by directory name, or by individual package names.
> 
> There are also various centos-release-* packages in extras,
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.9/extras/x86_64/Packages/ , perhaps some
> of those could be trimmed as well.

All versions of centos-release-gluster310 and lower can be removed.
Ideally centos-release-gluster-legacy gets included before that time
(tagged in the CBS already, waiting for Johnny finishing some 6.10 work).

> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.6
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.7
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.8
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.9
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.10
.. (skipping 3.12)
> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.13
> storage/x86_64/gluster-4.0

These are now unmaintained as other Long Term Maintenance releases are
available (3.12 and 4.1). The repositories can be removed.

Thanks!
Niels
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