[CentOS-devel] c8 container images - old - ?

Tue Mar 1 13:25:53 UTC 2022
lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk>

On 27/02/2022 16:45, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:23 AM Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 7:12 AM lejeczek via CentOS-devel <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I pulled one yesterday:
>>>
>>> -> $ podman pull registry.centos.org/centos:latest
>>>
>>> and it's old EOL centOS 8.
>>>
>>> Should not there be 'stream' in repos already and EOL ones be removed & sion was
>>> gone? (or am I missing something)
>>
>> The Stream images have been built as separate images since CentOS Stream was introduced.  You can find them on quay as well.
>>
>> https://quay.io/repository/centos/centos?tab=tags&tag=stream8
>>
>> Removing the existing CentOS Linux images was something that was considered but I don't recall what the decision was.
>>
> I believe it was decided not to, but instead to add warnings for the
> EOL nature of those images.
>
> Personally, I would have preferred that 8 redirect to stream8 images...
>
>
I do not see any warnings, but it should be simple - if something is EOL 
(@devel) then treat is as such and remove it, then make 'latest' latest.

many thanks, L.