[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 kernel

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 
> ==================================
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
>   Gena

You do realize that Red Hat doesn't really support every function available in every program, right?  I wonder how many users are using systemd-nspawn-based containers?  My point is that they can't test every use case that exists and have no bugs or regressions.  I realize that feature is very important to you... but no RHEL release has ever been perfect.  CentOS Linux, as a downstream of RHEL... being 100% compatible... prides|d itself in having all the same bugs as RHEL. :)  While Stream wants to have less bugs than RHEL, that doesn't mean there won't be any bugs that appear first in Stream.  No matter how much testing is done, the real world reveals more.

There *WILL* be bugs in Stream.  There are bugs in RHEL.  The more lines-of-code there are, potentially the more bugs... and no one wants to nor can fix all of them.  They fix the most important ones using someone's determination.  I only speak for myself. Thanks for reporting the bug.  It definitely has a greater chance of getting fixed if it is reported.

I tried to check out your bugzilla link but even after logging in, it was blocked. :(

TYL,
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