On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:04 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> 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? > > 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. Right, I'll wait for their answers before adding the entry to osinfo-db. > > > - 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. Okay. I'll wait for the official answer before adding the "Stream" entry. Thanks a ton for the answers, Jim! Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio