On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:44 AM Simon Matter simon.matter@invoca.ch wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 7:47 AM Peter Georg peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de wrote:
On 22/06/2023 12.56, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 6:51 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel centos-devel@centos.org wrote:
Hi All,
I wonder if someone is in the role/position to shed some more
light
on
the topic as announced here https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
Any deadlines? Does this target only EL10 or also any current
release?
It is in effect now for RHEL 8 and 9 and will continue for any
future
RHEL releases. The development and source code for all of these releases will continue to happen through the CentOS Stream project.
RHEL 7 and CentOS Linux 7 are not affected.
Would be great if some discussion/communication could be happen.
Thanks!
If you have more questions, please ask and we can try to address
them.
I do indeed have a question. The Kmods SIG currently provides
artifacts
for both CentOS Stream and RHEL. To achieve that we have established some automation using GitLab CI to avoid human interaction as far as possible. For that to work we do need access to the following sources from RHEL (version numbers are just examples):
kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm
or
linux-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.tar.xz (which is included in the
src.rpm).
So far we have downloaded the tarball from git.centos.org/sources
However, my understanding is that new versions of these files will
not
be provided anymore. In fact the example listed here (current RHEL 9 kernel) is already not provided anymore.
Your understanding is correct.
What I don't understand is this: as a Red Hat customer with paid subscription, I'm still able to download kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm, right?
If I do so and extract the kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm archive, can I put the resulting files on a public server and let others download the files?
Regards, Simon
The kernel is GPL, so "yes", as long as you're willing to make any changes you add to the source code available to people who get the binaries. Do review the GPL, it's an interesting license.
I'm not talking about binaries at all. I only say I can get the source in the form of file kernel-5.14.0-284.18.1.el9_2.src.rpm, extract it, and distribute the resulting files to the whole world. I and everybody else can then build binaries from these sources, with or without further changes. Isn't this the whole point of the GPL?
Simon