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

[Jan Stancek]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 12:17 PM Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> 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?

Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>

> 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).

@Li: Do you know who/how frequently updates c9s image?