[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 kernel

Thu Jan 14 20:50:50 UTC 2021
Gena Makhomed <gmm at csdoc.com>

Hello All,

I found regression in the CentOS Stream 8 kernels, and create
bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913806

After reading https://wiki.centos.org/Contribute/CentOSStream
I try to download kernel sources and look for root cause of bug,
but dist-git and source-git repos does not contain kernel sources,
even if I try to execute %prep phase. For this reason I can't
even try to find root cause of this bug by myself.

This bug is critical for me, because currently I try to use
systemd-nspawn for containers virtualization in production.
If future CentOS 8.4 will contain this bug - it will be disaster.

What else I can do (as user or developer) for fixing this bug?

P.S.

https://centos.org/distro-faq/

Q5: Does this mean that CentOS Stream is the RHEL BETA test platform now?

A: No. CentOS Stream will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. 
Generally speaking we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more 
runtime features as it moves forward in time but always giving direct 
indication of what is going into a RHEL release

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But currently I hit the bug, which is absent in CentOS 8.3
but present in CentOS Stream 8. Looks like CentOS Stream 8
is really the beta version for future RHEL minor release,
despite the CentOS FAQ. Sorry, but this is true.

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Best regards,
  Gena