On 18/03/2024 08.28, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > Hi all, > > As you're all aware (we sent multiple mails in the last year about > this), CentOS 7 and Stream 8 will go EOL soon : > https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/ > > Let's lists some things that will happen on the CentOS Infrastructure as > we'll be approching (or passed) these dates : > > # CentOS 7/8s content itself > Usual process : content will be archived to https://vault.centos.org and > removed from mirror.centos.org completely, with just a simple readme > file dropped here (for example http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/readme > for already EOL'ed version). Worth knowing that some SIGs are still > building for RHEL8, still supported for SIGs through > https://cbs.centos.org so such kind of content will continue to be > available there as long as SIGs can build against/for it > > # CBS/koji (https://cbs.centos.org) > No impact on CBS env itself ( not running centos 7 nor 8s for a long > time now) but the various build tag reflecting centos 7 and 8s will be > locked so that nobody would be able to build content anymore : that > would even be impossible as content itself will have been removed from > mirror.centos.org (internally used for cbs build tags) > > # CentOS Forums (https://forums.centos.org) : > still running on centos 7 and even if that's easy to migrate to > newer/supported EL version, it was decided to just shutdown the service > (based on discussion with the actual moderation team). An option (to be > announced on forums.centos.org ?) is to eventually start moving > thread/discussions on Fedora discourse (There is already a CentOS > category there : > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/neighbors/centos/71) > So the plan is just to shutdown forums.centos.org and remove A/AAAA > records from DNS > > # mirrorlist.centos.org service : > Starting from Stream 9 (and above), deployed CentOS instance ares using > Fedora infra mirrormanager instance for metalink= instead of mirrorlist= > in .repo files. We'll just decommission our mirror crawler (also running > with a mix of perl/python2 code), so not validating any mirror for > legacy/EOL releases. mirrorlist.centos.org A/AAAA records will be > removed in the following weeks after c7 will be EOL'ed. > That means that people still running CentOS 7 or 8-stream will not have > functional yum/dnf stack, except if they point to either vault or have > internal mirror but at least people would be aware that distro itself is > EOL and that they shouldn't expect to receive any update anymore So SIGs building for RHEL8 might have to replace the mirrorlist= line in their .repo files (in case they provide any) by a baseurl=. Personally I'd prefer having SIG content built for RHEL8 being pushed to mirror.stream.centos.org due to these changes (incl. sources and debuginfo) just like content built for RHEL 9 and Stream 9. > > # CentOS mailing-lists > Currently running on mailman2 stack, on top of CentOS 7 linux : there is > WIP to port everything to up2date mailman3 stack, actually packaged for > EPEL9. > We have successfully imported archives into mailman3 and same for lists > config but let's start a different/separate thread to discuss changes > (like renaming lists, see next coming thread) > > Kind Regards, > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel