[CentOS-devel] centos-release-stream.x86_64 VS centos-stream-release.noarch

Mon Feb 1 21:19:17 UTC 2021
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 1/28/21 3:58 AM, lejeczek via CentOS-devel wrote:
> Hi devel
> 
> Is that not something that needs looking into?
> 
> -> $ dnf search release | grep -i strea
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:24 ago on Thu 28 Jan 2021 09:46:52
> GMT.
> centos-release-stream.x86_64 : CentOS-Stream release file
> centos-stream-release.noarch : CentOS Stream release files
> 
> Installing one package and not the other messes things a bit.
> 
> regards, L.

No it is as intended .. one of them resides in CentOS Linux 8 extras
repo .. it will go away once CentOS Linux 8 reaches EOL.  It allows you
to install the release package, run an update to switch from CentOS
Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8 .. where the other package is automatically
installed.