[CentOS-devel] Module version differences between RHEL8 and Centos8?

Mon Oct 5 00:48:18 UTC 2020
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM Antal Nemeš <Antal.Nemes at hycu.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to correlate modular package versions in RHEL8.x with ones from Centos8.x in any way, no matter how difficult?
>
> For example, looking at package list for https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3714:
> - RedHat lists httpd-2.4.37-21.module+el8.2.0+5008+cca404a3.x86_64.rpm
> - in CentOS this (probably?) matches httpd-0:2.4.37-21.module_el8.2.0+494+1df74eae.x86_64
>
> AFAIK, the non-modular packages shared the same NEVRA between RHEL and Centos (not sure if there were exceptions, though).

Define "correlate". Everything up to the ".module" is consistent. I'll
also admit that I've found modules to create real difficulty updating
and that their use in RHEL 8 makes it far more difficulty to manage
python module updates for various CentOS releases.