On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:12, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.baggi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I've several questions about C8. I'm using 8 on my personal NAS and works very well. I'm running several VMs with centos 8 and noticed something:
OK most of these questions are going to be answered by the fact that CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not have something in it's base packages, it isn't going to be in the CentOS package set.
- Why corosync, pacemaker and pcs are missing on C8? They are only
available on rhel with payments( rhel ha addons)?
Because Red Hat put them in a package set which is not shipped as source to CentOS to rebuild.
- Why there is only Gnome as available DE? I use centos on my
workstation and I'm a kde-plasma user. XFCE is ok but not gnome. I tried fedora, it has all software that I need and it is a very good distro but I don't like too much update and its EOL (upgrade/reinstall every 13 months on a workstation is not so good for me). I don't want to be forced to install another stable distro like debian (This not means that debian is bad but I prefer centos).
Because Red Hat only did a build of GNOME for RHEL-8.
- I have a VM with C8 installed. I got several updates but I don't
receive any update for 8 on centos-announce like for previous versions (6 & 7). Something has changed?
The way modules and other layout changes come with RHEL-8, the old tools which are used for announcing updates do not work. Please see other threads on this for the request for help on this.
- EPEL. I know that EPEL is a Fedora SIG but I use several packages
from EPEL. There is a place to see what packages will be included in EPEL? For example, I tried to install audacious from epel but got errors for missing deps. Seems that EPEL8 is released but not ready. There is a ETA for this?
EPEL is a volunteer project and there is no ETA because it is up to the volunteers time and effort to build things.
- It's my impression or there are less packages in this release?
You are probably looking for packages in PowerTools. Please enable this as this will also fix your audacious problem.
- Why cockpit installed by default?
Because RHEL shipped with it that way.
- Why repo PowerTools was created? What is the main purpose?
PowerTools is a set of packages which Red Hat ships as CodeReadyBuilder channel fo RHEL-8. It contains packages which are not part of the main distribution and would not have 'technical support'. [AKA if lynx were shipped in RHEL appstream it would have certain support levels for security and application fixes... it has few of those in Code Ready Builder.] For CentOS it is meant to communicate that CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL and certain problems may not get upstream fixes.
- Why NetworkManager is the default method to configure interfaces? I
know that I can install network-scripts but I don't understand this change.
Because RHEL shipped that way.
Best regards, Alessandro.
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