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 version of this repo are both old and out of date and more 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > 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