[CentOS-devel] SIGs: Possibility to drop EOL content at 7.6.1810 release time

Sandro Bonazzola

sbonazzo at redhat.com
Thu Nov 1 12:40:05 UTC 2018


Il giorno gio 1 nov 2018, 13:33 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> ha
scritto:

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> Il giorno gio 1 nov 2018, 10:02 Anssi Johansson <avij at centosproject.org>
> ha scritto:
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>> So here we go again. As one of the virtues of a programmer is laziness,
>> I'll just cut&paste the previous email with some modifications. You know
>> the drill.
>>
>> RHEL 7.6 was released a few days ago and building CentOS 7.6.1810 has
>> just started. This would be an excellent time to remove any EOL software
>> you may have floating around on mirror.centos.org. mirror.centos.org
>> should have only supported packages available.
>>
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> Please keep ovirt 4.2 and km-common.
>


also please keep sclo rh-postgresql95




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>> SIGs should explicitly state which content they want copied over from
>> 7.5.1804 to 7.6.1810.
>>
>> I'd imagine that for example ceph-jewel could be dropped because it went
>> EOL in July 2018. Is there some other content that could be dropped? If
>> you are planning to keep content available that has gone EOL upstream,
>> you must commit to backport any required security fixes to it.
>>
>> If SIGs want to transfer some of their packages from 7.5.18004 to
>> 7.6.1810, please let hughesjr know. You can probably simply reply to
>> this message to let people know of your decision. It is possible that
>> some other SIG depends on your packages that are going to be removed. In
>> that case the other SIG should probably update their packages to depend
>> on supported versions.
>>
>> Content to be transferred over to 7.6.1810 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/7.5.1804/extras/x86_64/Packages/ ,
>> perhaps some of those could be trimmed as well.
>>
>> You should also communicate to your users in advance that the EOL
>> packages will disappear, and if necessary, instruct them to migrate to a
>> newer supported version. Having instructions for that procedure
>> published somewhere would be nice.
>>
>> The old content under 7.5.1804, including any EOL content, will be
>> archived to vault.centos.org, and that content will be available in the
>> vault indefinitely. The 7.5.1804 directory on mirror.centos.org will be
>> emptied some time after 7.6.1810 is released.
>>
>> For reference and inspiration, here are some directories from
>> mirror.centos.org, including both up-to-date content and potentially EOL
>> content. SIGs should review the list to make sure these directories can
>> be copied over to 7.6.1810 when that time comes. Making the decisions
>> now would save a bit of time at 7.6.1810 release time.
>>
>> cloud/x86_64/openstack-ocata
>> cloud/x86_64/openstack-pike
>> cloud/x86_64/openstack-queens
>> cloud/x86_64/openstack-rocky
>> configmanagement/x86_64/ansible26
>> configmanagement/x86_64/yum4
>> dotnet
>> nfv/x86_64/fdio/vpp/vpp-1710
>> nfv/x86_64/fdio/vpp/vpp-1801
>> nfv/x86_64/fdio/vpp/vpp-1804
>> nfv/x86_64/fdio/vpp/vpp-1807
>> opstools/x86_64/common
>> opstools/x86_64/fluentd
>> opstools/x86_64/logging
>> opstools/x86_64/perfmon
>> opstools/x86_64/sensu
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin13
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin14
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin15
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin36
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin37
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin38
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin39
>> paas/x86_64/openshift-origin310
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/devassist09
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-3
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-4
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-6
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/devtoolset-7
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/git19
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/go-toolset-7
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/httpd24
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/llvm-toolset-7
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/mariadb55
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/maven30
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/mongodb24
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/mysql55
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/nginx16
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/nodejs010
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/passenger40
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/perl516
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/php54
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/php55
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/postgresql92
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/python27
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/python33
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/python34
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-eclipse46
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-git29
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-haproxy18
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-java-common
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb100
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb101
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mariadb102
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-maven33
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-maven35
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb26
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb30upg
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb32
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb34
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mongodb36
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mysql56
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-mysql57
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nginx18
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nginx110
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nginx112
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nodejs4
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nodejs6
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-nodejs8
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-perl520
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-perl524
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-perl526
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php56
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php70
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-php71
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql10
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql94
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql95
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-postgresql96
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-python35
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-python36
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-redis32
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ror42
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ror50
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby23
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby24
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-ruby25
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-scala210
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-thermostat16
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-varnish4
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rh-varnish5
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/ror40
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/ror41
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/ruby193
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/ruby200
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/ruby22
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/rust-toolset-7
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/thermostat1
>> sclo/x86_64/rh/v8314
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-cassandra3
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-git25
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-git212
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-httpd24more
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php54
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php55
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php56
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php70
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-php71
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python27
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python34
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-python35
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-ror42
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/sclo-subversion19
>> sclo/x86_64/sclo/vagrant1
>> storage/x86_64/ceph-jewel
>> storage/x86_64/ceph-luminous
>> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.10
>> storage/x86_64/gluster-3.12
>> storage/x86_64/gluster-4.0
>> storage/x86_64/gluster-4.1
>> storage/x86_64/gluster-5
>> virt/x86_64/azure
>> virt/x86_64/kubernetes19
>> virt/x86_64/kubernetes110
>> virt/x86_64/kvm-common
>> virt/x86_64/libvirt-latest
>> virt/x86_64/ovirt-4.2
>> virt/x86_64/xen-46
>> virt/x86_64/xen-48
>> virt/x86_64/xen-410
>>
>> In addition to those, ovirt-4.1 should have already been removed, but it
>> is still available in the altarch branch for aarch64 and ppc64le. This
>> is an error, which will hopefully get fixed this round.
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