On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 11:30 AM Casey Bodley <cbodley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > from https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/ > > > > all ceph builds for centos 8 will start failing then, because dnf > > won't be able to find the centos package repos any more > > > > the teuthology suites for main and squid don't rely on centos 8 > > packages any more, but cephadm suites still use the centos 8-based > > container. these suites will break until we switch to the centos > > 9-based images. this should happen very soon, if it hasn't already > > > > the quincy and reef qa suites still depend on centos 8 for packages > > and containers, though we do build centos 9 packages for both. we'll > > just need to backport a lot of the changes (like > > https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53517 and > > https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/53901) that removed centos 8 testing > > on main > > > > we've been planning to switch to centos 9-based containers for main > > and squid, and most of the work there is done. but this will also > > necessitate a switch for the quincy and reef releases because ceph > > containers need security updates > > > > the centos 9 builds for quincy and reef are already trying to build > > containers, but that containerization step has been failing for quincy > > with what looks like a ganesha-related issue (see > > https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/66253) > > https://github.com/ceph/ceph-build/pull/2235#issuecomment-2150782468 > > This is insane. They've actually turned off the mirrors and painted > this as a "helpful" exercise in disaster recovery? Wow. it's important that users know when their distro stops getting security updates. archiving the package repo seems like a reasonable way to alert users (like us) that aren't paying attention to eol dates. that noticeably breaks things, but has a workaround to reenable the archived packages. if absolutely necessary, we could probably revive c8 builds and test suites using vault.centos.org. but shouldn't we just stop using it? > > Are we going to have to play this game every time Centos EOLs a > release? If so, I propose we switch to another distribution that is > not a guinea pig environment for a downstream distro. Either switch to > actual RHEL or a centos fork? > > I'm not at all amused by this waste of developers' time. i understand the frustration, but pretty much any distro choice will require some level of maintenance on our part. i'm not against moving away from centos, but that's going to cost developer time too. and we'll still have to keep building and testing centos 9 packages for the releases that already support it > > -- > Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. > He / Him / His > Red Hat Partner Engineer > IBM, Inc. > GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
