[packit|cirrus] Remove centos-stream-8 references

[jcastill]

Remove packit and cirrus references to centos-stream 8 that's EOL since May 31st 2024.

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[jcastill]

First time doing this, so hopefully I didn't miss anything. This is related to the errors that @arif-ali got in #3648 . CentOS Stream 8 was EOL'ed on May 31st 2024.
@pmoravec , thoughts?

[packit-as-a-service]

Congratulations! One of the builds has completed. 🍾

You can install the built RPMs by following these steps:

• sudo yum install -y dnf-plugins-core on RHEL 8
• sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core on Fedora
• dnf copr enable packit/sosreport-sos-3652
• And now you can install the packages.

Please note that the RPMs should be used only in a testing environment.

[arif-ali]

Just thinking from the outside, and no experience with foreman at all.

Is it worth doing the tests for foreman on centos9 stream instead and the versions being removed, or does it not make sense?

[jcastill]

Good point. I thought it was related to CentOS 8 only, but I haven't found any info regarding that yet. Hopefully Pavel should be able to shed some light

[pmoravec]

Foreman is supported on CentOS Stream 8 and 9 (https://www.theforeman.org/manuals/3.10/quickstart_guide.html) while the downstream product Satellite is supported on RHEL8 only (so far). For those "legacy" reasons, I would suggest to:

• still keep CentOS Stream 8 just for foreman testing, for some time
• have foreman tested also on CentOS 9
• bump the foreman version from 3.3/3.5/3.7 to e.g. 3.9/3.10 (worth doing in either case as foreman evolved)

Like:

    matrix:
        - env:
            <<: *centos8
            FOREMAN_VER: "3.9"
        - env:
            <<: *centos9
            FOREMAN_VER: "3.10"
        - env:
            PROJECT: ${DEBIAN_PROJECT}
            VM_IMAGE_NAME: ${DEBIAN_IMAGE_NAME}
            BUILD_NAME: ${DEBIAN_NAME}
            FOREMAN_VER: "3.10"

[jcastill]

Thank you @pmoravec . I'll rewrite this and push again

[arif-ali]

you're still going to have issues with the yum repos right? and will need to point to vault.centos.org? We could do the same for the other CI bits, if we're going to keep it for foreman

[pmoravec]

Indeed, the EOS of CentOS Stream 8 breaks a lot (for us). We are figuring out how to proceed with some testing for foreman.

As any PR will fail on the CI tests for CentOS Stream 8 now, I would suggest merging this PR as is as a kind of "hotfix" to prevent false negatives. And open a new issue where we will propose some more stable plan.

Does this make sense or do you see a better approach?

[arif-ali]

I think that makes sense, let's create a new GH issue, and then we can track it, and resolve it long-term, if there is a resoluton.

I think, what you could do, update the setup section, detect that if it is centos 8, and then update the dnf/yum repos to point to vault? I think that could work; as the setup bit is the common bits across all the CI bits

[arif-ali]

based on previous comment, happy for this to go through, but lets create a new issue.

however, if it's a quick fix/turnaround, then we can continue in this PR