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

[Chao Ye]

Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> 于2023年11月2日周四 10:50写道：

> 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.
>
>
The offical centos stream images would be:
https://quay.io/centos/centos:stream9
https://quay.io/centos/centos:stream8

According to https://sigs.centos.org/hyperscale/content/containers/
"This container image is automatically built from scratch on the CentOS CI
infrastructure and pushed weekly."
Ref: https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/containers-releng

Thanks,
Chao


> Cc'ing Chao Ye.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Li Wang
>


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