On Freitag, 18. Februar 2022, 09:18:09 CET Oliver Smith wrote:
Hi,
with CentOS 8 being EOL, and the binary repositories now gone:
* will building packages for CentOS 8 keep working in the public OBS?
* will building packages for CentOS 8 keep working in private instances for OBS?
Right now, both are still working. I guess this is because of cached packages, that will expire at some point and then it starts failing?
Yes, this will happen. We can configure any public mirror of these repositories though.
Or is the public OBS possibly building all of the CentOS packages and that gets used instead of the official repositories, and it will keep on working for some years? If that assumption is true, is that also where the private OBS instances download packages from?
You can not really depend on caches, they can go away. However, as said before,
if someone provides a mirror, which we can also verify (eg. original signed rpm repository),
it can remain.
Questions is of course what it is helping. You shouldn't run it anymore,
when there are no official updates anymore...
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Adrian Schroeter