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

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centos

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

For further details see the redhat-common README.

Environment Variables

DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR:
Required

No

Default

None

Description

To use a CentOS Yum mirror, set this variable to the mirror URL before running bin/disk-image-create. This URL should point to the directory containing the 7/8-stream/9-stream directories.

Example

DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR=http://amirror.com/centos

DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES:
Required

No

Description

Set the desired URL to fetch the images from. ppc64le: Currently the CentOS community is working on providing the ppc64le images. Until then you'll need to set this to a local image file.

Example

DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES=/path/to/my/centos/8/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-x86_64.qcow2