[rdo-list] Archived EOL distribution not available?

[David Moreau Simard]

I just realized I didn't include the intended links, which were
referring to the upstream release cycle and the supported release
cycle for Red Hat OSP.

Upstream: http://releases.openstack.org/
OSP: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openstack/platform

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]


On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM, David Moreau Simard <dms at redhat.com> wrote:
> RDO follows upstream release cycles [1]. As such, RDO should not be expected
> to mirror or support releases that have reached end of life and are no
> longer maintained upstream.
>
> Icehouse has been dropped upstream on 2015-07-02. We're talking about a
> version that was released in 2014. There are vendors that may support
> releases for an extended period of time, for example the Icehouse release by
> Red Hat (OSP 5) is supported until 2017 [2].
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | Openstack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
> On May 15, 2016 1:28 PM, "Baek Hyun-wook" <baekhw at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been using OpenSatck Icehouse on CentOS 6 for research purpose,
>> but recently found the rdo-release-* files in EOL archive are all removed
>> from the repository in fedorapeople
>> (i.e., repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/EOL/openstack-
>> /epel-6/).
>>
>> Actually, I am in critical trouble for this
>> because deployment of that version on CentOS 6 is essential
>> for evaluation of my system..
>>
>> I am not sure those files are deleted by accident
>> or intentionally to prevent people to use deprecated versions.
>> But, if latter is the case, I think it is not fit to the purpose of an
>> archive as well..
>>
>> It looks there are also some other people who are confused for this:
>>
>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/87680/did-the-package-rdo-release-icehouse-4noarchrpm-get-renamed/
>>
>> Please consider to bring back those rdo-release-* files in the archive..
>> Or is there any other mirror repo where I can get old versions of
>> OpenStack on CentOS?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hyun-wook Baek
>>
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