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Steve Baker eb395ec558 Remove EOLed CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 
CentOS 7 reached EOL on 30th June 2024[1] and RHEL 7 ended its
maintenance support 2 phase[2] the same date.

This change removes the ablity to build images derived from these base
images.

The centos and centos-minimal elements now default to a DIB_RELEASE
value of 9-stream.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/centos-linux-eol
[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux/rhel-7-end-of-maintenance

Change-Id: Ic50e08d9f84bbd319129be236d799eade5f40be8
2024-07-05 09:53:29 +12:00
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environment.d Remove EOLed CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 2024-07-05 09:53:29 +12:00
post-install.d Fix BLS entries for /boot partitions 2022-06-28 02:41:21 +00:00
pre-install.d Move reset-bls-entries to post-install 2022-04-21 10:13:10 +12:00
root.d Add aarch64 support for rhel 2021-03-08 07:00:15 +00:00
element-deps Add version-less RHEL element for RHEL7 and RHEL8 2019-05-29 11:28:53 +03:00
element-provides Add version-less RHEL element for RHEL7 and RHEL8 2019-05-29 11:28:53 +03:00
README.rst Remove EOLed CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 2024-07-05 09:53:29 +12:00

README.rst

rhel

Use RHEL cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.

Because RHEL base images are not publicly available, it is necessary to first download the RHEL cloud image from the Red Hat Customer Portal and pass the path to the resulting file to disk-image-create as the DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE environment variable.

The cloud image can be found at (login required): RHEL8: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---8/8.10/x86_64/product-software RHEL9: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---9/9.4/x86_64/product-software

Then before running the image build, define DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE (replace the file name with the one downloaded, if it differs from the example):

export DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=rhel-9.4-x86_64-kvm.qcow2

The downloaded file will then be used as the basis for any subsequent image builds.

For further details about building RHEL images, see the rhel-common and redhat-common element README files.

Environment Variables

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE
Required

Yes

Default

None

Description

The RHEL base image you have downloaded. See the element description above for more details.

Example

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=/tmp/rhel-9.4-x86_64-kvm.qcow2