[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

Fri Jan 22 18:57:08 UTC 2021
Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 1:54 PM redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel
<centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
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> On Friday, January 22, 2021 12:13 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> They are also setting a termination date for the official centos8 docker hub image with no replacement being provided by RHEL.
>
> There is no official centosstream on docker hub and I question how much a streamlatest image would ever be used.
>

I'd rather have centos:8 replaced with CentOS Stream 8 content rather
than just abandoned.



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