So for HA tool a SIG is needed? Il Ven 15 Nov 2019, 18:14 Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> ha scritto: > > > On 2019-11-15 10:52, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 11:12, Alessandro Baggi > > <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I've several questions about C8. I'm using 8 on my personal NAS and > >> works very well. I'm running several VMs with centos 8 and noticed > >> something: > >> > > > > OK most of these questions are going to be answered by the fact that > > CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If Red Hat Enterprise > > Linux does not have something in it's base packages, it isn't going to > > be in the CentOS package set. > > > >> 1) Why corosync, pacemaker and pcs are missing on C8? They are only > >> available on rhel with payments( rhel ha addons)? > > RedHat was diligent in following License Requirements. For the most part > the software they use is GNU licensed, and GNU requires: > > 1. all code derived from original be also GNU licensed, > 2. and as such, whatever [GNU licensed] is provided to customer, should > be published and available for everybody. > > The above prompted me to check what is the license for corosync. It > turns out to be BSD license. The last does not subject everyone to the > requirement of publishing [derived if any[] source code, and RedHat does > not publish srpms (as Alessandro mentioned), and there is no violation > of License on RedHat side. > > I just satisfied my curiosity, I hope, this helps others. > > Valeri > > > > > Because Red Hat put them in a package set which is not shipped as > > source to CentOS to rebuild. > > > >> 2) Why there is only Gnome as available DE? I use centos on my > >> workstation and I'm a kde-plasma user. XFCE is ok but not gnome. I tried > >> fedora, it has all software that I need and it is a very good distro but > >> I don't like too much update and its EOL (upgrade/reinstall every 13 > >> months on a workstation is not so good for me). I don't want to be > >> forced to install another stable distro like debian (This not means that > >> debian is bad but I prefer centos). > > > > Because Red Hat only did a build of GNOME for RHEL-8. > > > >> 3) I have a VM with C8 installed. I got several updates but I don't > >> receive any update for 8 on centos-announce like for previous versions > >> (6 & 7). Something has changed? > > > > The way modules and other layout changes come with RHEL-8, the old > > tools which are used for announcing updates do not work. Please see > > other threads on this for the request for help on this. > > > > > >> 4) EPEL. I know that EPEL is a Fedora SIG but I use several packages > >> from EPEL. There is a place to see what packages will be included in > >> EPEL? For example, I tried to install audacious from epel but got errors > >> for missing deps. Seems that EPEL8 is released but not ready. There is a > >> ETA for this? > > > > EPEL is a volunteer project and there is no ETA because it is up to > > the volunteers time and effort to build things. > > > >> 5) It's my impression or there are less packages in this release? > > > > You are probably looking for packages in PowerTools. Please enable > > this as this will also fix your audacious problem. > > > >> 6) Why cockpit installed by default? > > > > Because RHEL shipped with it that way. > > > >> 7) Why repo PowerTools was created? What is the main purpose? > > > > PowerTools is a set of packages which Red Hat ships as > > CodeReadyBuilder channel fo RHEL-8. It contains packages which are not > > part of the main distribution and would not have 'technical support'. > > [AKA if lynx were shipped in RHEL appstream it would have certain > > support levels for security and application fixes... it has few of > > those in Code Ready Builder.] For CentOS it is meant to communicate > > that CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL and certain problems may not get > > upstream fixes. > > > >> 8) Why NetworkManager is the default method to configure interfaces? I > >> know that I can install network-scripts but I don't understand this > change. > > > > Because RHEL shipped that way. > > > >> > >> > >> > >> Best regards, Alessandro. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >