[CentOS-devel] CentOS Streams q&a

Wed Sep 25 07:15:25 UTC 2019
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

On 9/25/19 12:51 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/24/19 2:55 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
>> Honestly, I read the announcement on the RedHat site and got even more
>> confused
>> (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/transforming-development-experience-within-centos),
>> partly because there were extra products there I wasn't aware of. I
>> think I have my head wrapped around it now.
>>
>> * To borrow someone else's attempt at understanding, is this along the
>> right lines?
>>
>> Currently: fedora --> RHEL --> centos,
> 
> This is accurate for how major releases are developed, but during that
> fedora->RHEL bit, it's currently not public.
> 
> For the current minor releases (the .1, .2, etc) there isn't really an
> 'upstream' for rhel to pull from, or a place for people to publicly see
> what's coming.
> 
>> New: fedora --> centos stream --> RHEL --> centos
>>
>> You're describing CentOS Stream as parallel to CentOS in the blog post
>> linked above, but then from the rest of it it looks like it's being used
>> to feed stable features in to RHEL, which would naturally then make
>> their way in to CentOS, same as things do currently.
>>
> 
> They are two separate distributions. Currently CentOS Stream and CentOS
> Linux differ only slightly, but this will change in the future.
> 
>>
>> * "It is a single, continuous stream of content with updates several
>> times daily, encompassing the latest and greatest from the RHEL codebase."
>>
>> What level of changes/updates are we talking about?  More up to date
>> applications or libraries, or more of just the same kinds of updates as
>> we'd expect to see between, say, 8.0 and 8.1 (typically more minor
>> upgrades of libraries and applications.)
> 
> 
> A rough analogy is "When RHEL 8.1 is out, CentOS Stream content would be
> the development of what should become 8.2".

I am happy to learn I understood the process when I first read the
announcement, even though I was totaly blindsided with appearance of
CentOS Stream :-)

> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Finally, how does this relate to RedHat Application Streams, or does it
>> not at all?  If it doesn't relate, that feels like a bit of a branding
>> overload of a term that may unintentionally cause some confusion.
> 
> The branding is admittedly a little confusing. CentOS Stream is a
> rolling development branch for RHEL. AppStreams are a conceptual piece
> of RHEL, CentOS and CentOS Stream. Where they are in their lifecycle
> differs based on which one you're running.
> 
> Does that help explain it a bit, or did I just muddle it up further for you?
> 
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 9/24/19 05:45, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> So, now that Earth has caught up to the TARDIS......
>>>
>>>
>>> Would someone from the CentOS team like to explain CentOS Streams?  I
>>> saw an article at The NewStack yesterday that gave some info; oddly
>>> enough that article is giving a 404 right now, but Google still has it
>>> in cache.  But Johnny's statement a few days ago, and then this
>>> announcement, makes this new CentOS Streams business look
>>> interesting.  I see a new directory on the mirrors called 8-stream
>>> with interesting content......
>>>
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