If CentOS Stream is "upstream" of RedHat then how can RH 8.2 be released when Stream is still on 8.1.1911 ?
Have I misunderstood the release model ?
Thanks.
On 13/05/2020 08:46, Andy Hall wrote:
If CentOS Stream is "upstream" of RedHat then how can RH 8.2 be released when Stream is still on 8.1.1911 ?
Have I misunderstood the release model ?
Thanks.
I view CentOS Stream as a public RHEL beta, something that has not previously existed for point releases.
So being a public beta, CentOS Stream (8.1.x) has to come before the main release of RHEL 8.2.
By this analogy, the next release of CentOS Stream (8.2.x) will be the rolling beta for RHEL 8.3.
IMHO, the issue here is timing, with RH making point releases to RHEL8 every 6 months, and CentOS taking 10+ weeks to get their release done, that doesn't leave much time for any meaningful input into CentOS Stream (or rather the next RHEL point release), as I'd expect RH to be (close to) closing the window on the next RHEL release. What it does do is allow Red Hat to perform some (relatively) widespread beta testing of certain components for the next RHEL release.
On Wed, May 13, 2020, at 02:46, Andy Hall wrote:
If CentOS Stream is "upstream" of RedHat then how can RH 8.2 be released when Stream is still on 8.1.1911 ?
Have I misunderstood the release model ?
Thanks. _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
The 8.1.1911 versioning is actually an implementation detail of how the buildsystem puts things in place. We need a package that provides some basic system-release functionality (like /etc/system-release on the filesystem). We're working on removing as much of this style of versioning in CentOS Stream, because CentOS Stream does not have 'releases' it's intended to just roll forward.
Right now, for example, you should see some content in CentOS Stream that is intended for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
Can you describe a little more about where you're seeing 8.1.1911, so we can make sure we have it covered in our versioning plans?
--Brian
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