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

Wed Sep 9 15:05:18 UTC 2020
Dominik Holler <dholler at redhat.com>

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:53 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >     __
> >     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     I'd love to learn that my understanding is outdated!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
> >>     http://blisses.org/  ((   from day's caravan." - Rabindranath
> Tagore
> >>
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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.
>
>
How CentOS Stream is going to handle RHEL 9?
Will there be a CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9?


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