[CentOS-devel] CentOS Linux 8 and SIGs content removal plan (please read)

Tue Jan 4 10:42:52 UTC 2022
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 13/12/2021 17:22, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> As you’re all aware, and per https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/ , 
> CentOS Linux 8 is going EOL end of this month, and content will just 
> remain available on mirror network until January 31st.
> 
> After that date, CentOS Linux 8 repositories will be removed from mirror 
> network, and mirrorlist will start answering “invalid release”, so no 
> way to easily install any rpm component.
> 
> But what about SIGs content that was built for/against CentOS Linux 8 ? 
> (basically other repositories that you can see under 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/ but that aren’t coming from centos 
> linux 8 distro itself ?
> 
> As soon as CentOS Stream 8 was announced, we offered the possibility to 
> all SIGs to opt-in and build for/against Stream 8, and so have their 
> repositories automatically pushed to 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream , as it was for /8/ .
> 
> Most of the SIGs opted at that time to build in parallel for 8 and 
> 8-stream, while some decided to just start building against/for 8-stream 
> directly (and of course content built on 8-stream *should* just work 
> fine, and reverse is also true)
> 
> But some months ago, community members asked 
> (https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/400) if that was possible to 
> continue building against/for el8, but so switching buildroot from 
> centos 8 to RHEL 8, which was worked on and is now available.
> 
> What does that mean for you, SIGs ?
> 
> If you want (opt-in and so optional) continue to build for el8, just 
> create a ticket on https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issues to ask your 
> tags to build against RHEL 8 instead of CentOS Linux 8. You can do that 
> whenever you want but before (for obvious reasons) end of January 2022
> 
> What if you don’t opt-in ? You SIG content will removed from mirror 
> network, at the same time as CentOS Linux 8 content.
> 
> 
> So to recap :
> 
>   * End of january, *all* repositories listed under 
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/ will be removed (except for SIGs that 
> opted-in for the ‘switch to RHEL 8 buildroot’ plan)
>   * mirrorlist.centos.org will also start answering ‘invalid repo’ for 
> SIG content, as it will be for CentOS Linux 8 itself
>   * All SIGs tags for 8 will be locked down (except for SIGs that 
> opted-in for the ‘switch to RHEL 8 buildroot’ plan) so no way to just 
> tag-build (and so push anything) out
> 
> 

Just a quick reminder about SIG content also going away end of this 
month, *except* for SIGs who have opted-in to start building against 
RHEL8 (and so far we only got kmods/ceph/nfs-ganesha so all the rest 
will disappear - see 
https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issues?status=Closed&tags=cbs-rhel8-buildroot&close_status=)

Worth knowing that the CentOS Infra tags and configmanagement ones will 
stay in place, as used by the centos infra (and yes, building against 
rhel8 but still applying on 8-stream just works fine, as we use that for 
months and 8-stream is just 8)

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab
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