[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream -- centos-release

Tue Jan 21 07:59:31 UTC 2020
Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:06:33AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:05 AM Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > what is the mechanism of contributing change to CentOS Stream but not
> > necessarily to CentOS? In RHEL, redhat-release package ships SWID
> > tag(s) for the distribution. Looking at
> >
> >         http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/
> >
> > redhat-release rpm is not included there but centos-release is, the
> > same as in CentOS. What is the mechanism of submit pull request for
> > centos-release which will end up in CentOS Stream?
> 
> We use the same centos-release package in c8 branch for all variants
> of CentOS 8, including CentOS 8 Stream. Send a PR there.
> 
> Note that centos-release is evolving to be structured more like
> fedora-release so that we can support variants better.

Thank you!

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Security Engineering, Red Hat