[CentOS-docs] Misleading information on main page about Centos Stream

Wed Sep 9 07:52:47 UTC 2020
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

On 09/09/2020 07:15, Dominik Holler wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:05 AM Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com 
> <mailto:brian at bstinson.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, at 14:26, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
>>     On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:28:58PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>
>>     > This is pretty misleading. Isn't Stream just a collection of
>>     repos that
>>     > offer pre-release packages for the next RHEL point release? It's
>>     not a
>>     > midstream between Fedora and RHEL.
>>
>>     Along those lines, if someone's adjusting text in there, I'd tend
>>     to think
>>     "rolling release" indicates that one could go from RHEL 8 to 9
>>     without a
>>     reinstall, but unless something's changed, major version moves
>>     will require
>>     a reinstall, just like standard CentOS.
>>
>>     I'd love to learn that my understanding is outdated!
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Mason Loring Bliss   ((  "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams
>>     mason at blisses.org <mailto:mason at blisses.org>     ))  build  their
>>     nest  with fragments  dropped
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>     These are both good pieces of feedback, we're considering some of
>     the wording here. Keep in mind that CentOS Stream is still ramping
>     up (even though we've come a long way already).
> 
>     We want to communicate a few things like:
>     - CentOS Stream is made up of content intended for the next minor
>     release of RHEL
> 
> 
> Is CentOS Stream based on the next minor or major release of RHEL?
> 

Neither. The next minor release of RHEL8 is based on CentOS Stream. i.e, 
what you see in the current CentOS Stream should/will be in minor RHEL 
release - RHEL 8.3.