On 17/04/2024 18.15, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
RHEL 9 (and thus also the derivatives) are available since two years
now, so according to QEMU's support policy, we can drop the active
support for the previous major version 8 now.
Thus upgrade our CentOS Stream container to major version 9 now.
The second reason for doing this is that Centos Stream 8
will go EOL in about 1 month:
https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/
"After May 31, 2024, CentOS Stream 8 will be archived
and no further updates will be provided."
I'm seeking confirmation, but I suspect after that date we
will be unable to build centos8 containers, as the package
repos will likely be archived.
RHEL-8 and other derivatives (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux,
etc) remain actively supported by their respective vendors
/ communities. Only CentOS Stream EOLs.
This has implications for our CI on stable branches. It is
valid for our stable branches to continue targetting the
RHEL-8 family of distros, as a 2 year cutoff in our support
policy is evaluated at time of each given major release.
IOW, cherry-picking this change to switch to CentOS Stream
9 is possibly inappropriate for stable branches.
lcitool supports Alma Linux as target, so we could switch
stable branches to Alma Linux 8 if desired to keep CI
coverage of RHEL-8 family.
Thoughts ?
Either use AlmaLinux for the stable branches, or drop the EL 8 testing in
the stable CI completely ... I assume that the probability will be rather
low that we break something there by backporting some few patches (and if
so, people can still complain by opening a bug ticket, then we can fix it in
the following stable release).
Thomas
