[EPEL-devel] Re: OFFLIST Re: rh-epel] END OF LIFE FOR EPEL-5 (2017-03-31)

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> "RPH" == R P Herrold  writes:

RPH> question / thought as to a possable extensionto the outline -- can
RPH> a 'final' revised EPEL yum repodata update be issued pointing to
RPH> the new location (and the move and later remove staged in two
RPH> pieces), so existing users can get repoclosure?

There is no need; the repository files shipped by EPEL point to
mirrormanager, which will direct users to the proper location.  Of
course, the set of potential mirrors will be smaller as there are fewer
sites which mirror the archive.

It will be interesting to see if this appreciably increases traffic to
my mirrors.

 - J<
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[EPEL-devel] Re: OFFLIST Re: rh-epel] END OF LIFE FOR EPEL-5 (2017-03-31)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9 March 2017 at 10:56, R P Herrold  wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> What this means is the following:
>> 1. EPEL-5 (/pub/epel/5/, /pub/epel/testing/5/) will be copied to
>> /pub/archive/epel/5.
>
> question / thought as to a possable extensionto the outline --
> can a 'final' revised EPEL yum repodata update be issued
> pointing to the new location (and the move and later remove
> staged in two pieces), so existing users can get repoclosure?

Well the archive will be live in /pub/archive/epel/5. Repoclosure and
similar tools should work there just like the people getting EPEL-4
are doing (all 20 of them) or Fedora 8 (all several thousand of them).
They should be able to get packages and such but no updates will
happen in those trees.

> understanding that people SHOULD move on, some cannot -- I hit
> a strange perl issue earlier just today with C7 on code that
> works fine under C5, in my 'backoffice' behind the firewall
>
> -- Russ herrold
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[EPEL-devel] END OF LIFE FOR EPEL-5 (2017-03-31)

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On March 31, 2017, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 will move out of
"Production Phase 3". At this point various rebuilds will be ending
support for EL-5 and EPEL will be archiving EPEL-5.

What this means is the following:
1. EPEL-5 (/pub/epel/5/, /pub/epel/testing/5/) will be copied to
/pub/archive/epel/5.
2. Mirrors that mirror archives will pick up EPEL-5 in it new location.
3. Mirrormanager will point to those location as the canonical places.
4. Koji will be set to no compose for EPEL-5. This effectively stops
builds from getting 'pushed' to the trees.
5. The data in /pub/epel/5 and /pub/epel/testing/5/ will be removed
and will disappear from mirrors.

Because 2017-03-31 is a Friday, these changes will occur during the next week.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
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