On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 02:38 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
I do not believe that they'll stop. Just because they'll stop building it doesn't mean that they can't continue to use it as a mechanism for delivering the sources in a way that's straightforward to understand and build.
Indeed. Let's not forget we're talking about a git repository here, and how git works.
The way the git.centos.org is currently laid out is basically 1 package is 1 repository.
Within that repository are separate branches, these branches are currently set out as follows (for CentOS 8):
c8 c8-beta c8s
You'll notice immediately c8s is clearly CentOS Stream, c8 is CentOS as we use it daily, and c8-beta was setup during the beta.
So - Redhat could easily just continue exactly as they are now.
CentOS Stream updates will be pushed to the c8s branch, RHEL updates will continue to go to c8 branch as it does now, and perhaps c8-beta branch will just get dropped (no longer necessary).
So in my opinion, they have already prepared for this with regards to git.centos.org, it will just continue as I described above.
But of course, this is just my personal opinion.
- Jake