[CentOS-devel] SCL packages in CentOS 7 that are expired and EOL

[Tru Huynh]

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:05:33AM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 13/05/2019 20:47, Trevor Hemsley via CentOS-devel wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I just had a glance at the various repos installed by centos-release-scl
> > on CentOS 7 and a large number of the packages available in the CentOS
> > version of this repo are both old and out of date and more importantly,
> > EOL. They should be removed from our repos ASAP.
> > 
> > I know we had/have a policy of cleaning these repos up at point release
> > times but it's quite apparent that we have missed all of these for a
> > number of point releases from 7.3 onwards. Thus I propose we make an
> > exception for these and remove them anyway, regardless of point release
> > time or not. A lot of them should have been gone for 3 years already.
> > 
> > The following are all dead as per
> > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl - some of them
> > deader than others.
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> Thanks a lot for the list Trevor,

+1

Although I agree that devtoolset-n n<=6 are no longer supported
(no bug fix/obsolete) I would rather keep them as some user might have
built software stacks (HPC people?) on those and they "need" to keep them running.

For public facing software framework, nginx/redis/php/... +1

Cheers

Tru
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