The EL7 deprecation checklist

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#1

Owners: @upadhyeammit, @Zhunting , @evgeni
Target Release: Foreman 3.4

  • The Leapp changes,
    • Make Leapp bits available through the the repository for EL7 to EL8 in place upgrade
    • Documentation for Leapp upgrade process
  • Documentation changes,
    • EL8 documentation updates
    • Release notes update for nightly and then Foreman 3.4
    • Removing the EL7 installation and upgrade steps
    • Removing any other EL7 related references from documentation
  • Pipeline changes,
    • Stop building server packages for EL7 for nightly
    • Stop building server packages for EL7 for Foreman 3.4
  • Changes in Koji infrastructure to deprecate EL7,
    • Changes in mash scripts
    • Anything else?
  • Cleanup the EL7 repositories Foreman and Plugin repositories from yum.theforeman.org
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Release team meeting agenda 2022-04-20
#2

Would it make sense to capture this in a Redmine issue? At least some of this work must be done in foreman-packaging.git and that has a Redmine project attached.

I think we should also specify that it stops building the server packages. I assume the client repository will remain.

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#3

For sure, updated the list and created tracker : Tracker #34759: EL7 deprecation tracker - Packaging - Foreman

#4

Tying some conversations back:

These both imply changes in Puppet modules. Like puppet-foreman doesn’t make sense if there are no packages for it. Most of the modules now have acceptance tests. They’ll clearly show if it’s broken or not.

#5

Considering the amount of changes we require for deprecation of EL7 the task has been moved to Foreman 3.4 release instead of 3.3.

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Wipe Katello and Foreman clean