[CentOS] C8 Questions

Fri Nov 15 20:49:22 UTC 2019
Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com>

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.
> >>
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