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 things.. the source for those should be on git.centos.org That is all I am going to say on this. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201216/2473cfe6/attachment-0005.html>