[CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

Am 15.12.20 um 18:22 schrieb Phil Perry:
> On 15/12/2020 17:13, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 05:09:39PM +0000, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL 
>> (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote:
>>>> 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each 
>>>> package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll 
>>>> back broken packages.
>>> Really? I hadn't appreciated that.  How does one the contribute back 
>>> to RH/the community by checking at what point something broke?
>>
>> I don't know the answer here but it's a good point to raise. In 
>> Fedora, we
>> don't keep all updates on our mirrors either, but we _do_ make them
>> accessible forever from our build system
>> (https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/), and there's a command-line 
>> tool for
>> easily pulling the packages from a build.
>>
> 
> No disrespect Matthew, but this isn't fedora. On Enterprise Linux 
> systems users expect long-established tools like 'yum/dnf downgrade' to 
> just work, and when they don't, that's something that needs fixing. 
> Users should not be expected to go rooting around on build systems 
> trying to find old copies of packages to fix things that shouldn't have 
> broken in the first place.
> 



not to mention that such packages are not signed.

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Leon