So long as the upstream source is published, we plan to continue Scientific Linux updates and new releases.
Pat On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 12:18 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > Thank you for the update. Although I could not find a listing for > you > at Fermilab through a web search engine (my fault), I did find > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_patriehecky&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=GmODBvzVccq62b85_5FqC1HOEq9xjkakc0x_NkH_UPM&s=PBlj4xQGhYUMveDLgNXtrHFOLrflQ6c3bCukF64rzRQ&e= > which indicates that you > are > (paid) professional Fermilab staff assigned to SL, and presumably > will > be part of the Fermilab CentOS 8 team if all of the HEP CERN > collaborations stay with CERN CentOS 8. The only reason I checked > was > to understand your official capacity to provide release information. > As > you can read below, my university does not allow unmodified > (uncensored?) URLs to be transmitted -- the URL you posted has been > modified in the email that I can see (one of the reasons I use my > gmail > account whenever allowed). The TUV life cycle is for RHEL 7 that is > under paid subscription except in so far as RH is required by the > GPL, > etc., to release full source (no binaries). > > Will the SL group be adding these RHEL 7 updates, etc., to the SL > distro > repos? Will these be 7.9 ... or are future minor release number > versions of RHEL 7 (that are reflected in SL 7) determined by IBM RH > (TUV)? Will these only be from CentOS with the SL repos simply > mirroring those at CentOS (part of RH and thus part of IBM), or will > SL > be doing independent builds? Any idea about EPEL, ElRepo, etc., > updates > as well? > > Thank you for any clarification. > > Stay safe. Take care. > > Yasha Karant > > On 4/24/20 10:10 AM, Patrick Riehecky wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 23:36 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > > > is SL 7.8 the end of SL 7? > > The projected end of life for SL7 is June 2024. > > > > > > This is following TUV's lifecycle: > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_support_policy_updates_errata&d=DwIGaQ&c=B_W-eXUX249zycySS1AyzjABMeYirU1wvo9-GmMObjY&r=Z7xHp2tIJsvAE2FtPxl_lynvf4hA_FJ8mKsaIgvY6Dk&m=fYi-TgtnkkAnP39HKALbNwMQbeKUf-VzYQvK8v2Gwu0&s=ktFojwgMAipkzHysivjUStHOolz9UiOiDr2iR7LLkP4&e=
