[CentOS-devel] [EXT] CentOS 7/8s EOL : infrastructure impacts (please read)

Mon Mar 18 11:59:08 UTC 2024
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 18/03/2024 10:48, Peter Georg wrote:
> On 18/03/2024 08.28, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> # 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.
> 

That's the second option on the table : push these to 
mirror.stream.centos.org and so use metalink=, metalinks being served by 
mirrormanager .
I don't mind one or the other but for people used to eventually search 
for src.rpm/debuginfo on vault.centos.org/debuginfo.centos.org for these 
packages, suddenly they'd have to search elsewhere .. but one way or 
another it's a small change anyway so I personally don't mind adapting 
the releng process to push to mirror.stream.centos.org and so content 
would land under https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/8

Let's wait on other SIGs' feedback (for those also building against/for 
RHEL 8) and we'll have a final decision about the direction to take soon

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
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