Hi Brian, Does this update freeze affect security fixes as well? Will Stream 8 not receive any updates at all until the transition is completed, or will Critical updates still be released? Cheers, Alex On 2/19/23 23:52, Brian Stinson wrote: > Hi Folks, > > As many of you know, CentOS Stream 8 is currently produced using an > "inside out" workflow, meaning RHEL builds happen first and then are > reflected in CentOS Stream afterward. This is not the case with CentOS > Stream 9 where builds are performed directly by maintainers at Red Hat > from merge requests in gitlab.com <http://gitlab.com>. > > The CentOS Stream team is busy working on a project to migrate CentOS > Stream 8 to the gitlab.com/Stream-first <http://gitlab.com/Stream-first> > workflow. This is an exciting step to reflect CentOS Stream's true > purpose in both currently active releases. > > One effect of this transition, though, is that we need to migrate from > the old mbox buildsystem to the new Stream koji > (https://kojihub.stream.centos.org <https://kojihub.stream.centos.org>). > To do this the team needs to pause regular compose and push-to-mirror > jobs to avoid a split-brain situation with 2 separate systems. You may > notice a lack of updates to the repos on the mirrors for a few more > weeks while this transition is completed. The team's first priority is > making sure that Red Hat maintainers take control over the c8s branches > in https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms > <https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms> (and builds in koji) and > then the team will return to working on regular composes and > push-to-mirror operations. > > If you have any questions in the interim, please reach out to me. > > Cheers! > > -- > Brian Stinson > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel