[CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 8:01 AM Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote:

>
> It's got to be done, so may as well test it ...
>
> The FAQ says to do:
>
>    dnf install centos-release-stream
>    dnf distro-sync
>
> This I did and everything went fine. I checked before doing the distro-
> sync and there was a load of new Stream repos in /etc/yum.repos.d
>
> Rebooted the machine and dnf has gone back to only looking in 8.3, and
> the stream repos had disappeared.
>
> Looking in the logs I can see this:
>
> 2020-12-09T12:28:42Z DEBUG ---> Package centos-stream-release.noarch
> 8.4-1.el8 will be installed
> 2020-12-09T12:28:42Z DEBUG ---> Package centos-linux-release.noarch
> 8.3-1.2011.el8 will be obsoleted
> 2020-12-09T12:28:42Z DEBUG ---> Package centos-release-stream.x86_64
> 8.1-1.1911.0.7.el8 will be obsoleted
>
> and
>
> Installing:
>  centos-stream-release                      noarch 8.4-1.el8
>                        Stream-BaseOS     21 k
>      replacing  centos-linux-release.noarch 8.3-1.2011.el8
>      replacing  centos-release-stream.x86_64 8.1-1.1911.0.7.el8
>
> The centos-stream-release RPM does not contain any repo information,
> that was all in centos-release-stream that has been removed. So stream
> has deleted itself.
>
> It's not a good start.
>
> I also can't seem to get back to a sensible system and have now got a
> system with a mixture of CentOS 8 and CentOS 8 Stream RPMs with no way
> of installing the Stream repos from an RPM.
>
> I see that "subscription-manager" has been installed on this system now
> which it never was. Is CentOS also going to be part of that ecosystem
> as well?
>
> Fortunately this was a throw-away install. I hope no one has tried the
> instructions in the FAQ on an important machine!
>
> P.
>
>
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>
> I thought I saw a reply from Johnny that streams wasn't quite ready, maybe
> he will chime in but that's what I thought I saw in a response.