[CentOS-devel] CentOS Streams q&a

Tue Sep 24 21:20:22 UTC 2019
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, at 16:04, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/24/19 1:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:24 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Okay, now that the release is out, and everything is announced properly.
> >> I'm happy to answer questions about Stream.
> >>
> > 
> > Still about libosinfo, but from a different perspective ...
> > 
> > Of course we want to have CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream added to
> > libosinfo (with unattended installations support). However, we have
> > messed up in the past when adding CentOS 7 as we conuted that CentOS 7
> > would follow exactly the same numbering as RHEL 7. After some time,
> > turned out that we (libosinfo) should have added CentOS 7 as "centos7"
> > and not as "centos7.0".
> > 
> > In order to avoid the same mistake:
> > - Shall we go for CentOS 8 as a "rolling 8", meaning, no 8.1, 8.2 ... just 8?

What are the tradeoffs here? I'd lean toward calling it a "rolling 8" for CentOS Linux.

If it helps we're going with this CPE string for all CentOS Linux 8 composes:
cpe:/o:centos:centos:8,CentOS 8

> 
> I believe CentOS 8 should be a rolling 8, the same as 7, but I'll defer
> to smarter people like Brian or Fabian to tell me if I'm wrong.
> 
> > - Shall we go for CentOS Stream or shall we target the Stream as *8*
> > Stream (and here implying that we'll always see a major stream
> > release)?
> 
> This one is slightly tricky. There is only "CentOS Stream" for now, but
> for technical reasons we've tagged it in yum/dnf as '8-stream' via the
> stream variable. This may take some discussion before I can give you an
> official answer.
> 
> 
> 
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