[CentOS] CentOS 8 future

Sat Dec 12 21:03:32 UTC 2020
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 12.12.20 um 21:55 schrieb John R. Dennison:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:50:07PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>> Springdale Linux, RHEL clone already exists. Rocky Linux clone is in
>> preparation, and CloudLinux plans to publish RHEL clone also.
>> And notice that CentOS Linux 7 will be supported until EOL in 2024 and
>> there will still be support for CentOS Linux 8 for next 12 months,
>> enough to chose your exit strategy smartly and without emotions.
> 
> Springdale does not at present have an EL8 release to the best of my
> knowledge. 

I was also confused at the beginning taking a look at it but they have a 
current EL8.3 branch - a tested migration path look like this:


curl -O 
"https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/7/x86_64/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-puias"

rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-puias

curl -O 
"https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/Packages/springdale-release-8.3-0.42.el8.x86_64.rpm"

curl -O 
"https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/Packages/springdale-appstream-8-0.sdl8.2.noarch.rpm"

curl -O 
"https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/Packages/springdale-core-8-0.sdl8.2.noarch.rpm"

rpm -K springdale-* |grep "digests signatures OK"

rpm --nodeps -ev centos-linux-release-8.3-1.2011.el8.noarch 
centos-linux-repos-8-2.el8.noarch

yum --releasever 8 localinstall spring*

yum clean all

yum distrosync

reboot

--
Leon