[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

Fri Jan 22 18:13:45 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 22.01.21 um 14:53 schrieb Neal Gompa:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 8:32 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> Am 22.01.21 um 14:18 schrieb Mike McGrath:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:39 AM Peter Eckel via CentOS-devel
>>> <centos-devel at centos.org <mailto:centos-devel at centos.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi Mike,
>>>
>>>      thanks for the information, this is at least partly good news.
>>>
>>>      Whet I currently can't figure out - maybe you have some information
>>>      about it - is the situation with, e.g. Vagrant.
>>>
>>>      I rely a lot on Vagrant boxes for development and testing work, and
>>>      up to now the situation with RHEL is that there are none, probably
>>>      due to legal issues and because RHN registration doesn't mix well
>>>      with instances created and deleted on-the-fly. The obvious solution
>>>      is - or rather, was - CentOS, which so far fit my needs. CentOS
>>>      Stream in all likelyhood will not fill that gap.
>>>
>>>      Are there plans for making it possible to create Vagrant boxes and
>>>      similar items based on "FreeRHEL"?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think we're going to ship vagrant images directly.  I know
>>> several customers are using vagrant with RHEL and we've got some people
>>> using it internally.  We've got some kbase and docs on the customer
>>> portal (which you do have access to with these developer program accounts).
>>>
>>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_container_development_kit/2.2/html/getting_started_guide/introducing_red_hat_container_development_kit
>>> <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_container_development_kit/2.2/html/getting_started_guide/introducing_red_hat_container_development_kit>
>>>
>>> de-registering a box could be made part of the teardown process I would
>>> think.  I've also heard stale boxes (IE: registered systems that are no
>>> longer check-ing in) have some way to do an automated cleanup after 2
>>> days or so?  I'm a little confused on how that process works though, its
>>> actually on my todo list to check out in February when the new simpler
>>> content access is in place.
>>>
>>
>> Honestly not so much experience with mock but what about mock build
>> environments. While mock bootstraps the context to build rpms quite
>> often, there is the need to access the repos. Does mock support "login"
>> into such "RH accounts" and logout (deregister)?
>>
>> CentOS with there mirrors was quite easy in this case.
>>
> 
> It does not, unfortunately. You need to have subscription-manager
> configured on your host to be able to use RHEL content with Mock
> (which is a bit of a hassle in its own right...).
> 

Thanks, I was afraid reading this. So free RHEL make it more worse.

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Leon