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=