8-stream vault and 9-stream support

lordkage commented 3 months ago

:frowning_person: Problem Statement

8-stream EOL'd on 31 May 2024, the mirrorlist does have a baseurl replacement targeting a vault repo
9-stream does exist, and it appears to be supported in Chef. Can it be added to the supported list?

:grey_question: Possible Solution

Update the targeting for 8-stream to be the vault baseurl's
Add 9-stream as a functional target for the resource providers

:arrow_heading_up: Describe alternatives you've considered

Dropping this cookbook and CentOS, but this is hard lift, atm.

:heavy_plus_sign: Additional context

Upgrading is hard, keeping systems in functional status is hard. Leveraging this well architected cookbook over any slap-dash creation of my own, priceless.

lordkage commented 3 months ago

Has there been any decision on this update?

ramereth commented 2 months ago

So given that 8-stream and 7 have been EOL, I would prefer just removing both and only supporting 9-stream. 10-stream is slated for later in the year and we can add that then.

lordkage commented 2 months ago

Wouldn't that orphan users of this cookbook? Or is there an alternative other than removing this cookbook?

ramereth commented 2 months ago

@lordkage we typically don't support EOL platforms past their date. You should be able to adjust the attributes to work with the vault repos with the current state of this cookbook.

lordkage commented 3 weeks ago

@ramereth, has there been any update on adding 9 stream support?

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