On Dec 8, 2020, at 19:46, Mike Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not a popular decision, going by the comments on the post.
I’m not actually sure that it’s The End of the World for Rivendell on CentOS
just yet.
A lot will depend on what exactly changes between CentOS 8 and CentOS 8 Stream.
At first look, it appears that CentOS is merely moving their release cycle to
be just *ahead* of RHEL releases, instead of just *after*. If that’s truly all
it is, and, all importantly, provided the CentOS 8 ABI is being held stable,
then I see no reason *per se* that we couldn’t support Rivendell just fine on
CentOS 8 Stream. I do know that there has been a lot of frustration within the
CentOS Project about churn (particularly in the package management realm) from
Upstream; this move to CentOS 8 Stream I suspect is an attempt to get a better
handle on that problem by what might be called a ‘pre-emptive release’ strategy
that allows them to better synchronize the state of their own port from
Upstream.
A lot will also depend on where EPEL lands with all of this. EPEL is part of
Fedora (not CentOS), and has historically always based their builds on RHEL.
Provided that the ABI is stable, it shouldn’t much matter, but the devil is in
the details. I’ve sensed a bit of the same ‘churn angst’ WRT Upstream with many
of the EPEL maintainers as well.
We’ll see. Given that we don’t currently have a shipping CentOS 8 integration,
it’s definitely too early to panic. Indeed, holding off on that integration is
starting to look like a rather fortuitous move.
Cheers!
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