Yes I am aware. I was asking if you offer access to Red Hat resources to open-source folks for compat testing. I can't buy a subscription just for making sure Chef community cookbooks work on your platform but I'm happy to add it to my test matrix if you make it easy :-) Otherwise the best I can offer Chef users is to test on CentOS/SCLo and say "it should work with RHEL".
--Noah > On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Brian Gollaher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Noah. Red Hat offers no support in any way for CentOS. CentOS is a > community supported distro. Red Hat offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a > number of support SLAs for development, test, and production usage. Red Hat > builds Docker images from our RHSCL collections and makes those images > available to subscribers in our Registry with full Red Hat support. I don't > want to make a product plug on this list but it is important to understand > that Red Hat develops, tests, and supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and that > CentOS is supported only by the CentOS community, not Red Hat. > > Brian > > On 03/15/2016 06:28 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> I've found shocking few people care about official RH support for stuff like >> this but I'm probably looking at a self-selecting group since the more >> conservative folks probably don't use Chef :-) I'll make sure to note in the >> docs that SCLo recompiles are not covered under RH support though. I could >> do a similar backend for my installers that uses RHSCL but I would need to >> work out a way to test it. Do any of the RH folks on the list know if y'all >> offer subscription-y access for compat testing? I would still have to build >> the Docker image myself but that seems doable, if somewhat frustrating. >> >> --Noah >> >> >>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Honza Horak <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Well, I've been pointed to the fact that on RHEL the only supported set of >>> RHSCL packages are those that are available in the RHSCL channel, as part >>> of the subscriptions, so we shouldn't suggest using CentOS packages on >>> RHEL. I'm sorry for giving wrong directions previously, but we want to make >>> sure users are using only properly tested and supported packages on RHEL >>> platform. >>> >>> Thanks for understanding, >>> Honza >>> >>> On 03/15/2016 04:11 PM, Honza Horak wrote: >>> >>>> Oh, I wasn't aware there are RHEL subscriptions without access to RHSCL >>>> packages. But in case you don't have access to RHSCL channel, it is >>>> possible to install the CentOS repos with SCLs by following steps in: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/sclorg/centos-release-scl#how-to-install-sclo-packages-on-rhel-systems >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Please, let me know whether this will work for you. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Honza >>>> >>>> On 03/15/2016 03:39 PM, Stuart Campbell wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Honza, >>>>> Just so you know that we have a RHEL license that doesn't allow/enable >>>>> us to have access to the RHSCL channel. So it would be useful to allow >>>>> access to the centos packages. >>>>> Many Thanks >>>>> Stuart >>>>> >>>>> On 03/15/2016 08:32 AM, Honza Horak wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Noah, >>>>>> >>>>>> thank you for reporting, the issue with wrong redirection link was >>>>>> caused by mistake and we're already fixing the redirection, so the old >>>>>> links will work again soon. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now, for the question about supported CentOS and RHSCL builds -- we're >>>>>> now working on updating information for all the collections on >>>>>> softwarecollections.org, so they all should soon say generally this: >>>>>> >>>>>> For getting the CentOS builds you are expected to use: >>>>>> yum install centos-release-scl-rh >>>>>> >>>>>> For RHEL builds you are expected to use builds from Red Hat: >>>>>> yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms >>>>>> (this information is now added to >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/ >>>>>> and will >>>>>> be soon added to other collections as well) >>>>>> >>>>>> If you have any use case to use CentOS builds from >>>>>> softwarecollections.org on RHEL, I'd like to know it, since my >>>>>> understanding is that every RHEL machine should be fine with using >>>>>> packages from rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms channel. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Honza >>>>>> >>>>>> On 03/14/2016 10:54 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> So softwarecollections.org recently shuffled URLs, breaking all the >>>>>>> repo package downloads >>>>>>> ( >>>>>>> https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/epel-7-x86_64/download/rhscl-python27-epel-7-x86_64.noarch.rpm >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.softwarecollections.org/repos/rhscl/python27/epel-7-x86_64/noarch/rhscl-python27-epel-7-x86_64-1-2.noarch.rpm >>>>>>> ). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On its own this is kind of super uncool, but deeper than that is that >>>>>>> it seems the Correct™ way to get the repos installed is to use `yum >>>>>>> install centos-release-scl-rh` now. As expected from the name, this >>>>>>> doesn't work on RHEL as that package isn't available outside of >>>>>>> CentOS's repos. Is softwarecollections.org dropping RHEL support? And >>>>>>> if so, what's the RHEL-official way to get things like Python 3 or >>>>>>> Ruby 2 on RHEL 6/7? I'm happy to fix the Chef cookbooks to work >>>>>>> whatever way is deemed official, but it seems like the RHEL and >>>>>>> CentOS SCL folks are operating on entirely different wavelengths. >>>>>>> Should I use softwarecollections .org for Cen! >>>>>>> >>>>>> tOS and th >>>>>> e older RedHat Software Collections for RHEL? >>>>>> >>>>>>> --Noah >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> SCLorg mailing list >>>>>>> >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> SCLorg mailing list >>>>>> >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> SCLorg mailing list >>>>> >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SCLorg mailing list >>>> >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SCLorg mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SCLorg mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/sclorg > > -- > Brian Gollaher > Red Hat Platform Product Management > Phone: 978 392-3173 > Cell: 508 740-6549 > > [email protected]
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