Am 05.02.21 um 18:22 schrieb Simon Matter:
Am 05.02.21 um 17:21 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs:
Le 05/02/2021 à 17:03, Lamar Owen a écrit :
I thought long and hard about it before posting to the CentOS lists, because I don't want to be perceived as advocating for a particular transition path.
I found your post highly interesting, even though I chose a different path:
https://blog.microlinux.fr/migration-centos-oracle-linux-cas-pratique/
Hi Niki, as you did that move. I have a question: Comparing C8 with OL8 (rpmlist) I noticed that a lot of OL8 packages have a different NVR especially the "Release" is bumped up (e.g .0.1 added). I wonder how much the OL8 distro diverges from upstream. It seems that such altered packages are passing the rebranding package count. What's your impression?
I'm not Niki but I try to answer anyway :)
I did the move and also looked at several source RPMs. One thing to note is that by default, you'll end up with packages replaced by updated packages from UEK repository. I've removed the UEK repo and replaced all packages with the corresponding base packages. That brings you very close to what you have with RHEL/CentOS. Additionally what I found in the source RPMs is that Oracle decided to add some patches/changes fixings issues tracked in Oracle tracking system.
I don't think these changes are a problem because they mostly fix things which maybe RedHat voted not to fix. At least that's my impression.
Ok, thanks. This lead me to do following:
Download all OL8 rpms and
$ find . |grep rpm$ | xargs -n1 rpm -q --changelog |grep Orabug |wc -l 3852
quite a lot that got fixed?! Good to known.
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Leon