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

[Li Wang]

Hi Jan, All,


On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 8:28 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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>
>

Reviewed-by: Li Wang <liwang@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?
>

I'm not sure about it. I guess Chao Ye knows better than me.

Cc'ing Chao Ye.

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Regards,
Li Wang