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

Tue Dec 8 20:04:06 UTC 2020
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/8/20 1:50 PM, Phil Perry 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?
>

Yes, you are.

There will be a;;the RHEL engineers rolling all future changes into
Stream for all RHEL versions.

Right now stream is 2 people rolling in changes just like CentOS 8 .. it
takes time.

In fact, if you look, the 240 kernel was released in stream BEFORE it
was released in CentOS Linux 8.  And, we have built and will release
this kernel very soon:

https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=14937