On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> RHEL 9 (and thus also the derivatives) are available since two years
> now, so according to QEMU's support policy, we can drop the active
> support for the previous major version 8 now.
> Thus upgrade our CentOS Stream container to major version 9 now.
The second reason for doing this is that Centos Stream 8
will go EOL in about 1 month:
https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/
"After May 31, 2024, CentOS Stream 8 will be archived
and no further updates will be provided."
I'm seeking confirmation, but I suspect after that date we
will be unable to build centos8 containers, as the package
repos will likely be archived.
RHEL-8 and other derivatives (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux,
etc) remain actively supported by their respective vendors
/ communities. Only CentOS Stream EOLs.
This has implications for our CI on stable branches. It is
valid for our stable branches to continue targetting the
RHEL-8 family of distros, as a 2 year cutoff in our support
policy is evaluated at time of each given major release.
IOW, cherry-picking this change to switch to CentOS Stream
9 is possibly inappropriate for stable branches.
lcitool supports Alma Linux as target, so we could switch
stable branches to Alma Linux 8 if desired to keep CI
coverage of RHEL-8 family.
Thoughts ?
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth
> ---
> .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml| 16 -
> .gitlab-ci.d/container-core.yml | 4 +--
> .../{centos8.docker => centos9.docker}| 34 +++
> tests/lcitool/mappings.yml| 20 ---
> tests/lcitool/refresh | 2 +-
> tests/vm/centos | 4 +--
> 6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> rename tests/docker/dockerfiles/{centos8.docker => centos9.docker} (82%)
>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> index cfdff175c3..9f34c650d6 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
> @@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ build-system-centos:
> - .native_build_job_template
> - .native_build_artifact_template
>needs:
> -job: amd64-centos8-container
> +job: amd64-centos9-container
>variables:
> -IMAGE: centos8
> +IMAGE: centos9
> CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-nettle --enable-gcrypt
> --enable-vfio-user-server
>--enable-modules --enable-trace-backends=dtrace --enable-docs
> TARGETS: ppc64-softmmu or1k-softmmu s390x-softmmu
> @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ check-system-centos:
> - job: build-system-centos
>artifacts: true
>variables:
> -IMAGE: centos8
> +IMAGE: centos9
> MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check
>
> avocado-system-centos:
> @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ avocado-system-centos:
> - job: build-system-centos
>artifacts: true
>variables:
> -IMAGE: centos8
> +IMAGE: centos9
> MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-avocado
> AVOCADO_TAGS: arch:ppc64 arch:or1k arch:s390x arch:x86_64 arch:rx
>arch:sh4 arch:nios2
> @@ -327,9 +327,9 @@ avocado-system-flaky:
> build-tcg-disabled:
>extends: .native_build_job_template
>needs:
> -job: amd64-centos8-container
> +job: amd64-centos9-container
>variables:
> -IMAGE: centos8
> +IMAGE: centos9
>script:
> - mkdir build
> - cd build
> @@ -651,9 +651,9 @@ build-tci:
> build-without-defaults:
>extends: .native_build_job_template
>needs:
> -job: amd64-centos8-container
> +job: amd64-centos9-container
>variables:
> -IMAGE: centos8
> +IMAGE: centos9
> CONFIGURE_ARGS:
>--without-default-devices
>--without-default-features
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-core.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-core.yml
> index 08f8450fa1..5459447676 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-core.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-core.yml
> @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
> include:
>- local: '/.gitlab-ci.d/container-template.yml'
>
> -amd64-centos8-container:
> +amd64-centos9-container:
>extends: .container_job_template
>variables:
> -NAME: centos8
> +NAME: centos9
>
> amd64-fedora-container:
>extends: .container_job_template
> diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker
> b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos9.docker
> similarity index 82%
> rename from tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker
> rename to tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos9.docker
> index ea618bf352..6cf47ce786 100644
> --- a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker
> +++ b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos9.docker
> @@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
> # THIS FILE WAS AUTO-GENERATED
> #
> -# $ lcitool dockerfile --layers all centos-stream-8 qemu
> +# $ lcitool dockerfile --layers all centos-stream-9 qemu
> #
> # https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci
>
> -FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream8
> +FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9
>
> RUN dnf distro-sync -y && \
>
