On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:04 PM Jim Perrin jperrin@centos.org wrote:
On 9/24/19 1:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:24 PM Jim Perrin jperrin@centos.org wrote:
Okay, now that the release is out, and everything is announced properly. I'm happy to answer questions about Stream.
Still about libosinfo, but from a different perspective ...
Of course we want to have CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream added to libosinfo (with unattended installations support). However, we have messed up in the past when adding CentOS 7 as we conuted that CentOS 7 would follow exactly the same numbering as RHEL 7. After some time, turned out that we (libosinfo) should have added CentOS 7 as "centos7" and not as "centos7.0".
In order to avoid the same mistake:
- Shall we go for CentOS 8 as a "rolling 8", meaning, no 8.1, 8.2 ... just 8?
I believe CentOS 8 should be a rolling 8, the same as 7, but I'll defer to smarter people like Brian or Fabian to tell me if I'm wrong.
Right, I'll wait for their answers before adding the entry to osinfo-db.
- Shall we go for CentOS Stream or shall we target the Stream as *8*
Stream (and here implying that we'll always see a major stream release)?
This one is slightly tricky. There is only "CentOS Stream" for now, but for technical reasons we've tagged it in yum/dnf as '8-stream' via the stream variable. This may take some discussion before I can give you an official answer.
Okay. I'll wait for the official answer before adding the "Stream" entry.
Thanks a ton for the answers, Jim!
Best Regards,