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 version of this repo are both old and out of date and more importantly, 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.