It's a little unclear if IBM will keep to the centos-7 EOL date of 2024 or not, if that helps any. While we know centos-8 will essentially become rhel-next-rolling-release-candidate, they haven't said what they'll do with centos-7 moving forward as far as I've heard. Maybe that helps a little.
But fortunately weewx doesn't care what os you're on as long as you meet the python prerequisites. I 'did' verify at $work that Oracle Linux seeeeeeems to be equally indistinguishable from RHEL like CentOS is, so that is definitely an option short term, if you want to deal with 'that' evil empire. They also quickly published a script to convert your CentOS setup to a OL setup, but I didn't test that. Personally I'd flatten+reload it if you wanted to go that way. I found some upgrade scenarios didn't get quite an identical result under the hood as a clean flatten+load did. On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 10:48:56 AM UTC-8 WindnFog wrote: > I may have been the only one using CentOS for weewx (before switching to a > Raspberry Pi about a year ago.) I note it's still mentioned as a distro in > the weewx documentation, with RedHat and Fedora. CentOS was to be > supported until 31 May 2029. > > Since the takeover of RedHat by IBM, this has been shortened to 31 > December 2021. If anyone is still using CentOS for weewx, it's probably a > good idea to migrate to another distro soon. There's a movement to replace > CentOS with "Rocky Linux", but there's no timeframe for its deployment: > > https://wiki.rockylinux.org/ > > The "strength" of CentOS was stability because it is a clone of RedHat. I > still use CentOS for other things than weewx, and rather than wait to see > if Rocky Linux is successful, I'm moving to Ubuntu LTS 2020, which has at > least 5 years of support/stability. > > - Paul VE1DX > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/61b0dd8a-9f52-45d8-bb6f-71a63054fce7n%40googlegroups.com.
