[CentOS] Roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 release?

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Jul 17 15:44:51 UTC 2019


On 7/15/19 1:16 PM, Wood Peter wrote:
> Where can we learn more about the workflow and software used to build
> CentOS RPMs and iso images?
> This will be extremely helpful to everyone facing the same challenges of
> building a custom distro.
> 
> Thank you all for the hard work on CentOS.

So for EL8 we are using koji combined with mbs to build:

koji:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system

mbs (module-build-service):
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/



> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 7:44 AM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/10/19 1:18 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
>>> Good afternoon from Singapore,
>>>
>>> May I know roughly how many more months before CentOS 8.0 will be
>> released?
>>>
>>> https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8
>>
>> Well .. as explained before, it is a very irritative process .. (ie ..
>> do this, test, do that, test .. rinse, repeat).
>>
>> But with where we are right now .. I don't think it will take more than
>> one more month to finish and test.
>>
>> Obviously, we have people working on it every day and a QA team helping
>> us test what we are doing every day and we are still maintaining
>> CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 as well.
>>
>> But we are making progress and we are getting closer.
>>
>> There are many things that we need to work on .. including, but not
>> limited to a whole new build system (Koji AND MBS together), a
>> completely new way to maintain installer images and repos (via Koji
>> because of the modules).
>>
>> A whole new repository paradigm (BaseOS, AppStream, Devel {things not
>> released but needed to build BaseOS and AppStream} .. etc, etc.
>>
>> Anyway .. we are working on it very hard and we will have it released as
>> soon as we can.
>>
>> We don't have date yet.
>>
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