On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, Josh Boyer wrote: Josh, Thank you for the reply! I'm still poking around Stream 9, trying to devise some site-specific configuration-management rules, so I appreciate all the information I can get. >> Of note: java, perl and ruby are entirely streams now, while python >> remains tied to the base OS. All RDBMS releases are streams. There >> is no Tomcat! libgcc is part of the base OS but is also a stream. >> I'm not sure how that will work. > > I can clarify that a bit. We have Application Streams and > separately the AppStream repo. The AppStream repo contains the > Application Streams, but it also contains things that are still part > of the standard OS that aren't what we'd consider "Base" or "core". Ah! I hadn't understood that distinction. Thanks for the clarification. > We'll have a similar page for RHEL 9 when that is released, but your > list of languages and RDBMS in CentOS Stream 9 is a good start. Also, > the python language stack will be slightly different in 9. We still > have a system python (platform-python in RHEL8/CentOS Stream 8), which > is python 3.9 but the packaging format is a more traditional RPM > packaging. The same concept applies to the system level gcc, and > therefore libgcc. Does that mean there might be, say, a python310 or gcc12 stream? > RHEL 8 does not include Tomcat either, so that is not new. Heh. I guess I should have looked at that. None of our internal Tomcat users have yet moved to EL8. -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W