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

Tue Nov 13 10:52:49 UTC 2018
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>

Il giorno mar 13 nov 2018 alle ore 11:24 Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com>
ha scritto:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:23:38PM +0000, Niels de Vos wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:52:59PM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> > > Il giorno ven 2 nov 2018 alle ore 12:33 Niels de Vos <
> ndevos at redhat.com> ha
> > > scritto:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:01:51AM +0200, Anssi Johansson wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > ..
> > > >
> > > > > storage/x86_64/gluster-3.10
> > > > > storage/x86_64/gluster-3.12
> > > >
> > > > The above two can be dropped (also for CentOS 6). This includes the
> > > > centos-release-gluster310 and centos-release-gluster-312 packages in
> > > > Extras.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Can we keep 3.12? It's still consumed by oVirt 4.2.
> > > Adding oVirt devel team, just in case we'll need urgently to rebase on
> > > newer Gluster on CentOS 7.6 GA or block upgrade to CentOS 7.6 from
> oVirt
> > > side till we figure out how to handle.
> >
> > 3.12 does not get any updates anymore... Ideally users do not consume
> > that version but have moved on to 4.0 or 4.1 already. Gluster 5 is
> > available and should get announced soon (not sure if that can happen
> > with the CentOS 7.6 release).
>
> Is it possible for us to remove the centos-release-gluster312 package
> from CentOS Extras, but keep the gluster-3.12 repository available for
> you to consume with oVirt 4.2? That would prevent users from installing
> an unmaintained version, but you can still download the packages.
>
> We also forcefully disable the unmaintained repositories (as they will
> get deleted later), but I can wait with that if it helps. This is done
> through
> https://github.com/CentOS-Storage-SIG/centos-release-gluster-legacy in
> case you're interested.
>
> So, what I need from you, is an estimation of dates of when the
> following actions can be done:
>
> 1. delete centos-release-gluster312 from CentOS Extras
>

I think this can be removed, we don't have a direct requirement on that
package


> 2. remove the gluster-3.12 repository from the mirrors
>

I started discussion with oVirt development team about switching to a newer
Gluster release, I need to get feedback from them.


> 3. update centos-release-gluster-legacy with Gluster 3.12 deprecation
>

I think this can be updated while removing centos-release-gluster312 from
CentOS Extras


>
> Thanks,
> Niels
>


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