On 5/10/21 11:59 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote: > >> Talking about that : what's the official position on how CentOS 8 will >> go EOL ? >> I'd be myself in favor of transparently redirecting CentOS 8 linux >> yum/dnf mirrorlists to 8-stream end of the year, so that people would >> still get automatically updates and would be able to "dnf install <bla>" >> >> I'd prefer that over a "mirrorlist.centos.org answering <invalid arch / >> release combination>" and so breaking existing installs. >> > > There is already a process that was recently used for CentOS 6, which is to > have people use the repos at vault.centos.org if they need them. Changing > them to Stream could break things in very unexpected ways, which would be > worse than simply having them no longer provide updates. IMO it's better to > not respond and create an error to be investigated and fixed by moving to > the vault repo if desired, or a different 3rd party repo provider. At that > point it is clearly an issue with the repo. Random problems cropping up > with broken packages will be much harder to trace back and will cause all > sorts of people seeking help to fix their then broken CentOS 8 systems to > come out of the woodwork. Using vault will be bad .. no security updates after EOL. I would technically WORK .. but the packages will become outdated. You will need to either shift to CentOS Stream, RHEL, or another source rebuild like Alma Linux after EOL. I don't think we will do an automated shift though to either.