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

[Carl T. Miller]

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:17 AM Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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 version of this repo are both old and out of date and more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
>
> I've done things like that. And picking and choosing which obsolete
> parts to clear out is awkward. If they're still in the RHEL channels
> upstream, I'd encourage keeping them, even if those components are
> obsolete and deprecated. I've certainly seen people running versions
> of MySQL, for example, that are extremely obsolete because they
> couldn't choose a migration technique. And the tendency of EPEL to
> discard all but the current versions has been the bane of my "we need
> to keep the binaries and sources available" existence.
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Agreed.  There have been several times I've been burned when
"yum history undo last" failed because epel had removed the
most recent previous version.  Keep up the good work!

c