[LTP] [PATCH 0/2] Remove CentOS 7 support

[Petr Vorel]

Hi all,

Note for myself: typo in subject s/ReAplace/Replace/

> > we recently had yet another regression on old CentOS 7 (kernel 3.10,
> > glibc 2.17, gcc 4.8.5 [1]. That brought me to the question if we still
> > want to support it.

> > Although we test in SUSE also very old SLES releases, these are tested
> > with older LTP releases. I suppose Red Hat does the same with RHEL
> > (Li, Jan, please correct me if not, or feel free to introduce another
> > CentOS version, as there will none with this patchset), thus why
> > pretend current LTP is useful on these old releases.

> Looking at internal LTP test wrapper, it's using older LTP release for RHEL7,
> so your assumption appears to be correct.


> > I wonder who is actually interested in keeping LTP compilable for CentOS 7.
> > According to distrowatch it EOL in 2024-06 [2], but does anybody even run new
> > LTP on it. If yes, please speak up, but I'd expect that person to
> > actually maintain CI failures.

> There's planned ELS until 2026, but I'd expect that continues using
> older LTP for tests.

@Li, Jan Could you please add your ABT or RBT?
Also, feel free to add quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 or rockylinux:9 or
rockylinux:8 or whatever makes sense to you. These are tested in
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml
(it would have to be checked if ci/centos.sh needs be modified to support).

Kind regards,
Petr