[CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Tue Dec 8 19:55:34 UTC 2020
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:50 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/12/2020 19:29, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 19:32 +0100, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote:
> >> Am 08.12.20 um 18:00 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
> >>> On 12/8/20 8:58 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> >>>> On 12/8/20 4:47 PM, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does
> >>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__centos.org_distro-2Dfaq_-23q5-2Ddoes-2Dthis-2Dmean-2Dthat-2Dcentos-2Dstream-2Dis-2Dthe-2Drhel-2Dbeta-2Dtest-2Dplatform-2Dnow&d=DwICAg&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=OAMtP0DWou0nlXG7Kmxo2enjXJfwb1DXS9fwcaESuTE&m=8Lv8HbfA7AuR_Q6CkfjD-A3fVVYhVr4LSB2NvpFMYII&s=aqmZahlJ5iHfl0sF63gxK7YxqgE5wFeXLEDwmMFpGX4&e=
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> address your concerns?
> >>>>
> >>>> When I see "Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream
> >>>> after they
> >>>> are solved in the current RHEL release." I can only reply your
> >>>> question
> >>>> with "No, it does not"
> >>>
> >>> That is NO different that now.  We build CentOS updates after they
> >>> are
> >>> released in RHEL and then the source code is pushed to
> >>> git.centos.org
> >>> .. we always have.
> >>>
> >>> This is no different.  The security updates will be pushed to
> >>> stream
> >>> after they have been pushed to RHEL .. just like now.
> >>
> >> If you compare it carefully you find rpms in CentOS Linux that are
> >> newer
> >> than in CentOS Stream - so security updates not landed in C8S.
> >
> >
> > The security updates are in Stream.  They got into stream /before/ they
> > landed in CentOS Linux 8.
>
> Sorry Pat, I'm not seeing that?
>
> Taking just one example, CentOS8 has kernels  4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64.rpm
> and 4.18.0-240.1.1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm as seen here:
>
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>
> whereas CentOS Stream still only has kernel 4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64.rpm
> and not the security update.
>
> http://mirrors.coreix.net/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
>
> That's just the kernel. In fact I can't see _any_ security updates in
> stream. Am I missing something?
>
> Phil
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An updated kernel is coming. But it is kernel-4.18.0-257.el8 according to:

ttps://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/commits/c8s

Akemi