
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
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:
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- Required
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No
- Default
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None
- Description
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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
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DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR=http://amirror.com/centos
- DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES:
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- Required
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No
- Description
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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
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DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES=/path/to/my/centos/8/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-x86_64.qcow2