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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20220104/ce0ac76e/attachment.sig>