On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:40 PM Stef Walter <swalter at redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:33 PM David Hrbáč <david-lists at hrbac.cz> wrote: > >> I don't use CentOS Stream, I use RHEL. I use RHEL to develop software >>> for RHEL and compatible OS clones, including CentOS. If Stream retains >>> binary compatibility, and specifically kernel ABI compatibility, then >>> the users of the software packages we develop can continue to use them. >>> If not, they can't. Simple as that. So please don't push rolling kernel >>> updates to Stream that break the kernel ABI. >>> >> > Indeed. If any such broken change (eg: that breaks kernel ABI) is pushed > to Stream, that is treated as a serious problem by the RHEL engineering > teams. We have the necessary process in place to QE test changes before > they arrive in CentOS Stream. > > I understand this fact alone is not a panacea for all the problems people > are highlighting. But it does seem to cover your use case. From a > regression, stability, ABI, and kernel ABI perspective, it is the goal and > focus of many of us in RHEL Engineering for CentOS Stream to be stable. > > Cheers, > > Stef > > Or... (Never mind.) > > >>> >> Rolling kernel updates are going to kill all the traditional HPC >> clusters. Almost 25% of the TOP 500 HPC clusters run CentOS. See >> https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ >> DH >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >> > > > -- > Stef Walter (he / his) > Linux Engineering > Red Hat > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201209/fb02567a/attachment-0005.html>