Centos 8 Repo outdated

sbeee · May 11, 2023, 6:31am

i noticed that our centos 8 clients have an older icinga 2 version installed (2.13.2) than our centos 7 clients (2.13.7).

i looked into your repositories…

https://packages.icinga.com/centos/7/release/x86_64/icinga2/
https://packages.icinga.com/centos/8/release/x86_64/icinga2/

and yes…the centos 8 repo is outdated! It would be nice if you could fix the problem.

thank you

moreamazingnick · May 11, 2023, 8:07am

CentOS 8 is no longer supported by Icinga, since CentOS dropped its support for CentOS 8 in favour of CentOS Stream

RHEL “Compatible” packages can be optained by a Icinga Repository Subscription
Build by yourself: How to build your own icingaweb2 packages for CentOS 8 as the security fix was not released for it

sbeee · May 11, 2023, 8:44am

I know that CentOS Linux 8 (downstream, EOL 2021) has changed to CentOS Stream 8 (upstream, EOL 2024). But imho that’s no reason to stop maintaining the repos?

is there an official statement on this? curious.

theFeu · May 11, 2023, 8:52am

We have this blogpost that explains a bit more about the decision.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask

sbeee · May 11, 2023, 12:04pm

this is of course not good news, so centos users are faced with a problem. it seems icinga wants to make some more money. (what it definitely deserves)

next step: skip debian repos??

theFeu · May 11, 2023, 1:13pm

Maintaining those repositories sadly costs us a lot of money (or rather our developers time). So there is only so much efford we can put in, in good concience… Our devs want to be able to pay their rent too of course

However, we want to keep the free OS packages that we already offer free to use. No more changes planned!