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

On 14/05/2019 13:40, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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>
> On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 07:57, Jan Staněk <jstanek at redhat.com
> <mailto:jstanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     As the person in charge of maintaining updates for the rh-* SCLs,
>     I can say that I'm not shipping/caring about these once they are
>     marked
>     as EOL; so from my POV, they can be removed if it is not desirable to
>     have them in the repositories.
>
>     That being said, there is a possibility that a inter-SCL
>     dependency will
>     break, as have happened last summer with rh-ror42 (maintained at the
>     time) and rh-nodejs4 (EOL). Since upstream does not remove the
>     unmaintained packages from the repos, such dependencies won't be
>     discovered until someone does remove them.
>
>     Basically, I'm in favor of removing the EOL SCLs, but it might break
>     non-EOL collections, which will take some time to fix.
>
>
> Is there a way to archive these versus remove them? That way people
> who are looking for them would know that they are EOL but they could
> make their own copy and maintain it themselves?
>

Standard practice in the past has been to move expired things to
vault.centos.org - for example
http://vault.centos.org/centos/7.5.1804/sclo/x86_64/sclo/

Trevor
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