On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 1:48 PM Mike Simpson mikie.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
Tbh it’s nothing technical at all.
For some decades concomitantly and continuously, I’ve run OpenBSD -current, Kali and Fedora Rawhide so it’s not that I care if it’s a point release or CR distro. I know it’s different but I ran the CentOS CR repo when it was available.
If we're going to talk about this: point releases are a *big deal* in high reliability shops. Compared to the auto industry, having a model year you could refer to as having specific specs is a very, very big deal for the people who have to work on it and address requirements. A whole lot of people I've worked with have had to simply turn off updates, and engage in massive fork lift updates, when things start breaking down in the RHEL and CentOS 8 stream world, and engage in very peculiar date based local repo updates to avoid the "stream". They've had to basically focus the stream into local reservoirs which they access with date-stamped local repos, a painful and expensive workaround to re-create releases.
I publish tools for generating those at need, such as supporting the old perl "rsnapshot" tool and my "reposync" scripts over at https://github.com/nkadel/nkadel-rsync-scripts . I'm afraid i don't have permission from people using them to publish the combinations used to weave those into an EFS published repo for AWS cloud environments, also using my EFS RPM. There are limits of the approach. bit it helps reduce the ridiculous costs of the repodata churn of the CentOS 8 stream repos.