Am 05.02.21 um 18:22 schrieb Simon Matter: >> Am 05.02.21 um 17:21 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs: >>> Le 05/02/2021 à 17:03, Lamar Owen a écrit : >>>> I thought long and hard about it before posting to the CentOS lists, >>>> because I >>>> don't want to be perceived as advocating for a particular transition >>>> path. >>> >>> I found your post highly interesting, even though I chose a different >>> path: >>> >>> https://blog.microlinux.fr/migration-centos-oracle-linux-cas-pratique/ >>> >> >> Hi Niki, as you did that move. I have a question: Comparing C8 with OL8 >> (rpmlist) I noticed that a lot of OL8 packages have a different NVR >> especially the "Release" is bumped up (e.g .0.1 added). I wonder how >> much the OL8 distro diverges from upstream. It seems that such altered >> packages are passing the rebranding package count. What's your impression? > > I'm not Niki but I try to answer anyway :) > > I did the move and also looked at several source RPMs. One thing to note > is that by default, you'll end up with packages replaced by updated > packages from UEK repository. I've removed the UEK repo and replaced all > packages with the corresponding base packages. That brings you very close > to what you have with RHEL/CentOS. Additionally what I found in the source > RPMs is that Oracle decided to add some patches/changes fixings issues > tracked in Oracle tracking system. > > I don't think these changes are a problem because they mostly fix things > which maybe RedHat voted not to fix. At least that's my impression. > Ok, thanks. This lead me to do following: Download all OL8 rpms and $ find . |grep rpm$ | xargs -n1 rpm -q --changelog |grep Orabug |wc -l 3852 quite a lot that got fixed?! Good to known. -- Leon