[CentOS-devel] CentOS Stream 8 kernel

Thu Jan 14 21:06:23 UTC 2021
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021, at 14:50, Gena Makhomed wrote:
> 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
> 
> ==================================
> 
> 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
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We should have a new kernel out in the next couple of days, next step would be to see if that bug is fixed in this build:
https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=15499

One thing we might be able to update about the documentation if you're looking into the sources is to add a link here:
https://wiki.centos.org/Sources (see the section there describing the get_sources.sh script). We store large sources in a separate lookaside, not directly in the dist-git trees.

Cheers!
--Brian