[CentOS] State of CentOS 8

Thomas Stephen Lee

lee.iitb at gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 07:03:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:19 AM Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:

> Le 23/12/2019 à 23:01, Jonathan Billings a écrit :
> > No.  8-stream is where packages will (eventually) be available to test
> software that’ll be part of the next point release of RHEL. So, for
> example, before RHEL 8.1 was released, 8-stream had kernel packages with a
> version-release close to what was eventually released in RHEL 8.1, and
> eventually into CentOS 8.1.xxxx.
>
> In short and to sum it up, CentOS 8 in its current state has some
> unpatched vulnerabilities. They have been adressed in RHEL since
> October, but not in CentOS.
>
> It's fair to say this raises a few eyebrows among concerned CentOS users.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
>
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I don't know whether the below steps are permitted.
but, you can install RHEL 8.1 Developer Edition on a VM.
Download the SRPM for your package.
Then rebuild on the CentOS machine and install the RPM.
This is just for the important fixes like security.

thanks

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Thomas Stephen Lee


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