On Thu, December 3, 2015 5:24 pm, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 03.12.2015 um 22:24 schrieb "Phelps, Matthew" > <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>: >> CentOS should do whatever RHEL/Upstream does. >> >> Period. > > > I sometimes misguide myself in doing; CentOS = RHEL, but > the truth is, that CentOS is not exactly the same as RHEL! > Well, in the past when talking to professors I work for, I had to argue the choice of system I set up on their group servers/number crunchers. They often prefer what they know works best for their collaborators, which often is RHEL, or "Scientific Linux". I don't want hassle to maintain RHEL, and, let's say, I have my opinion about "Scientific Linux". When I want them to agree to go with CentOS I was usually saying "it is binary compatible with RHEL". Which though not strictly true, but is very close to be true, and in one phrase settles the argument. But with all new different schemes of naming, I avoid saying it now. So, I perfectly understand the frustration of those who have to explain their managers version relations etc. Valeri > > >> Why the change now? It really does matter, a lot, to those of us who >> need >> to do compliance testing/security checks, etc. all based on "version" >> number. I know there is no such thing in practice because of all the >> non-sequential updates that happen, but there's a shit-ton of work that >> we >> have to do for each new release, and we have depended in the past on the >> versions matching the RHEL ones. Now, they don't, and that's wrong. >> >> It seems like a minor thing, but in real-world practice it is most >> definitely not. > > > > As stated by others - this provisioning concept never was supported by > CentOS. > > -- > LF > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++