[CentOS-devel] Christmas gift from SantaOS.

> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 06:46, aleksander.baranowski via CentOS-devel <
> centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When it comes to modules the situation is clusterfu**.
>>
>> That reason why making EL8 took us so long. I'm quite sure that without
>> internal knowledge of modules (that only Fedora uses - and documentation
>> sucks) amount of reverse engineering is tremendous. The best place to
>> start is https://pagure.io/fm-orchestrator.
>>
>> RHEL sources based/CentOS clones will also have different platform
>> string, that will make the whole system reinstall itself xDDDDDDD.
>> That's a reason why migrating to these solutions will be a pain in the
>> neck.
>>
>> Going back to src.rpms. If you are looking for src.rpms best bet is
>> using original RHEL src.rpms, these are readily available when you have
>> even minimal subscription. It's the much safer bet for long term system.
>>
>> Imagine the following:
>>
>> - RHEL made errata for package X version n release m.
>> - CentOS stream have package X version n release m+10.
>>
>> Which one will be available on git.centos.org?
>>
>>
> Both will be available on git.centos.org. All of the source code from
> RHEL-7 onward has been pushed to there... including buildroot only source
> code.
>
>
>
>> Using git.centos.org is a bad idea for next gen rebuilds IMO.
>>
>>
> I am going to strongly recommend against this for 3 reasons:
> 1. It is a contractual problem to do this. [AKA Get a lawyer. I am not one
> and I am not going to try to argue it anymore than I am going to argue
> Rust
> language syntax I don't know. I will just say that two wrongs do not make
> a
> right.]
> 2. The src.rpms are not debranded. That is extra work a rebuilder has to
> do. The git source seems to be debranded by Red Hat.
> 3. Not all the src.rpms may be shipped with the developer etc. Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 8 is not self-hosting. You need extra packages to build

That's an interesting point which is, from a technical POV, really not
nice. Just imagine an enterprise Linux distribution which was a) self
hosting, and b) provides reproducible builds...

Simon