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RSOP:EOL

Description

Each release of Fedora is maintained as laid out in the maintenance schedule. At the conclusion of the maintenance period, a Fedora release enters end of life status. This procedure describes the tasks necessary to move a release to that status.

Actions

Set date

  • Releng responsibilities:
    • Follow guidelines of maintenance schedule
    • Take into account any infrastructure or other supporting project resource contention
    • Announce the closure of the release to the package maintainers.

Reminder announcement

  • from rel-eng to f-devel-announce, f-announce-l, including
    • date of last update push (if needed)
    • date of actual EOL

Koji tasks

  • disable builds by removing targets
koji remove-target f19
koji remove-target f19-updates-candidate
  • Purge from disk the signed copies of rpms that are signed with the EOL'd release key

Bodhi tasks

  • In puppet, set the push scripts to not push the old release:
diff --git a/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
b/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
index 2c05334..39e25f7 100755
--- a/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
+++ b/configs/system/fedora-updates-push
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SOURCE=/mnt/koji/mash/updates
 DEST=/pub/fedora/linux/updates/

-for rel in 11 12 13; do
+for rel in 12 13; do

 rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --exclude "repodata/*" \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates/ $DEST/$rel/ &>/dev/null
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --delete
--delete-after \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates/ $DEST/$rel/ &>/dev/null

 done
-for rel in 11 12 13; do
+for rel in 12 13; do

 rsync -rlptDvHh --delay-updates $RSYNC_OPTS --exclude "repodata/*" \
         $SOURCE/f$rel-updates-testing/ $DEST/testing/$rel/ &>/dev/null
  • Take a bodhi database snapshot for good measure
[masher@releng04 bodhi]$ bodhi-pickledb save 
  • Remove all updates and comments associated with the release
[masher@releng04 bodhi]$ bodhi-rmrelease F19

PackageDB

Set the release to be End of Life in the PackageDB. A admin can login and do this from the web interface.

Source Control (git)

  • Branches for new packages in git are not allowed for distribution X after the Fedora X+2 release. New builds are no longer allowed for EOL Fedora releases.

Fedora Program Manager Tasks

Bugzilla

Docs tasks

  • any?

Badges tasks

Cloud tasks

Taskotron tasks

  • File a Taskotron ticket and ask for the EOL'd release support to be removed. (Log in to Phabricator using your FAS_account@fedoraproject.org email address).

Final announcement

  • from releng to f-announce-l
    • on EOL date if at all possible
    • link to previous reminder announcement (use HTTPS)

Announcement content

Update eol wiki page

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life update with release and number of days.

Verification

Consider Before Running

  • Resource contention in infrastructure, such as outages
  • Extenuating circumstances for specific planned updates, if any
  • ot