Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-16 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote: > After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has > decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead > aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible* So this is now a significant difference between AlmaLinux and

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-14 Thread Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
On 7/14/23 00:02, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 14/07/2023 08:16, Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote: After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI)

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-14 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 14/07/2023 08:16, Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez wrote: After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible* Imagine Red Hat shutting down CentOS Stream

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-14 Thread Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
This is actually good news, especially for the CentOS Stream project. https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/ Quotes: After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-12 Thread Leslie Satenstein via devel
SUSE has also jumped in to say they will provide an alternative, but compatible Linux to RH. Leslie Satenstein On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 06:49:38 a.m. GMT-4, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much quicker to

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, Jul 11 2023 at 09:18:57 PM +0200, Leon Fauster via devel wrote: C8S ends 2024, while RHEL8 ends 2029 C9S ends 2027, while RHEL9 ends 2032 You're forgetting the Extended life cycle support phase. RHEL 8 and 9 will both have a 13-year lifecycle (down from 14 years). See this table:

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Leon Fauster via devel
Am 11.07.23 um 21:02 schrieb Chris Adams: Once upon a time, Mattia Verga said: Since RHEL is made out from Centos Stream and Centos Stream is made out from Fedora ELN, can't Alma and Rocky branch directly from Fedora? Can we collaborate in some way with those communities so that we support

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Mattia Verga said: > Since RHEL is made out from Centos Stream and Centos Stream is made out from > Fedora ELN, can't Alma and Rocky branch directly from Fedora? > Can we collaborate in some way with those communities so that we support each > other? I mean, like we have

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Andreas Tunek
Den tis 11 juli 2023 kl 19:12 skrev Mattia Verga via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > Since RHEL is made out from Centos Stream and Centos Stream is made out > from Fedora ELN, can't Alma and Rocky branch directly from Fedora? > Can we collaborate in some way with those communities so

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Mattia Verga via devel
Since RHEL is made out from Centos Stream and Centos Stream is made out from Fedora ELN, can't Alma and Rocky branch directly from Fedora? Can we collaborate in some way with those communities so that we support each other? I mean, like we have Fedora ELN and EPEL... Inviato da Proton Mail

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Michael J Gruber
Kevin Kofler via devel venit, vidit, dixit 2023-07-11 12:49:10: > Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much > quicker to react) made an announcement about the situation: > https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/ Thanks for

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Andreas Tunek
Den tis 11 juli 2023 kl 12:49 skrev Kevin Kofler via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much > quicker to react) made an announcement about the situation: > >

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:49:10PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much > quicker to react) made an announcement about the situation: > https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/ SUSE

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-11 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Oracle has (finally – the community projects Rocky and Alma were much quicker to react) made an announcement about the situation: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/ Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-03 Thread Leon Fauster via devel
Am 03.07.23 um 02:00 schrieb Michael Catanzaro: On Sun, Jul 2 2023 at 06:27:48 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: What about stuff that is too urgent to wait on Red Hat QA?  There have been vulnerabilities (such as CVE-2013-0156 and Log4Shell) for which unauthenticated, fully automated,

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Jul 2 2023 at 06:27:48 PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: What about stuff that is too urgent to wait on Red Hat QA? There have been vulnerabilities (such as CVE-2013-0156 and Log4Shell) for which unauthenticated, fully automated, remote code execution exploits have been found very,

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 6/24/23 11:05, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 08:53:32 AM -0500, Chris Adams > wrote: >>> Is it? At one point, there were considerable gaps in security >>> updates; >> RHEL 9.x would get an update while CentOS Stream 9 (as the target for >> RHEL 9.[x+1]) didn't get a

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Jul 2 2023 at 09:53:30 PM +, "Smith, Stewart via devel" wrote: With this development model, what is the thought for those who may want to / be able to submit pull requests to CentOS Stream with security fixes? It really depends. CentOS Stream does accept merge requests. With

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Smith, Stewart via devel
On Jun 24, 2023, at 8:05 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 08:53:32 AM -0500, Chris Adams > wrote: >>> Is it? At one point, there were considerable gaps in security >>> updates; >> RHEL 9.x would get an update while CentOS Stream 9 (as the target for >> RHEL 9.[x+1])

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-07-02 Thread Smith, Stewart via devel
> On Jun 22, 2023, at 2:01 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> >>> >>> ELN is a build of (some) Fedora packages with EL-specific options, so >>> it requires Fedora. >> ELN can exist off an internal non fedora tree. Just depends who is >> updating the tree. > > Sure, but... that's the _opposite_ of

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-26 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for > production use, and I would argue it provides a differentiated > experience in its own right: because CentOS Stream does not go through > certification work that locks on specific package versions, any and >

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-26 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi Leon, > On 24. Jun 2023, at 19:44, Leon Fauster via devel > wrote: > >> I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for >> production use, and I would argue it provides a differentiated > > Nope, its not perfect for production use. Just an example of _many_: > >

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-06-25 14:29, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: The FOSS licenses give you the right to share the SRPMS, sans the Red Hat trademarks. The GPL, specifically, might guarantee that right, but not all of the distribution is under the terms of the GPL.  I don't have a license count

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-25 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Sunday, 25 June 2023 at 02:44, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > >> > >> Josh Boyer wrote: > >> > Agree with Matthew fully here. We've been working rather hard > >> > internally to adjust the development

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: >> >> Josh Boyer wrote: >> > Agree with Matthew fully here. We've been working rather hard >> > internally to adjust the development process for RHEL to be more >> > collaborative and open than it ever has before.

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 2023-06-24 06:53, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for production use Is it? At one point, there were considerable gaps in security updates; CentOS delayed security updates for 6-8 weeks, twice a year,

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Leon Fauster via devel
I do have packages on a RHEL9 system that do not appear in https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/ - so the fix is unknown from an external view ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Aleksandra Fedorova said: > In this case you don't need a repo, you need just this specific build to > apply it on your environment, isn't it? If I only had one system to worry about, maybe (although maybe not, if the build introduces a new dependency for example). But if I

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Leon Fauster via devel
> I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for > production use, and I would argue it provides a differentiated Nope, its not perfect for production use. Just an example of _many_: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2184640 Despite the fact that some critical

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Aleksandra Fedorova
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 6:36 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Aleksandra Fedorova said: > > When you build a package in CentOS Koji it gets into c9s-gate tag [1]. > > These packages are publicly available and if you'd like to use or test > them > > before their RHEL part passed the

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Aleksandra Fedorova said: > When you build a package in CentOS Koji it gets into c9s-gate tag [1]. > These packages are publicly available and if you'd like to use or test them > before their RHEL part passed the internal RHEL QE, you can do that. > >

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Aleksandra Fedorova
Hi, On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 6:09 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 10:24:58 AM -0500, Chris Adams > wrote: > > Is there any chance of having a CentOS Stream repo along the lines of > > Fedora's updates-testing, so that CVEs at least would have some type > > of > >

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 10:24:58 AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Is there any chance of having a CentOS Stream repo along the lines of Fedora's updates-testing, so that CVEs at least would have some type of available update in a timely manner? With 7 there's the fasttrack repo, but it doesn't

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 03:26:46 PM +, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: If one does find a security update that did not get streamed, is there a way for a non-customer[0] to open an appropriate ticket both now, and in the future when RH moves their internal bug tracker to jira[1]? Yes, you do not

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:05 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > But in practice, we actually currently have a lot of desynced packages > where RHEL is ahead of CentOS Stream for various reasons. I believe > most such cases are mistakes that need to be corrected, not intentional > delays. E.g. if a

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Catanzaro said: > So here is the reality with security updates. The vast majority of > security updates are shipped in RHEL 3-9 months after we fix them, > because minimizing the quantity of updates is an important goal in > RHEL to reduce update churn for customers, so

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, Jun 24 2023 at 08:53:32 AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: Is it? At one point, there were considerable gaps in security updates; RHEL 9.x would get an update while CentOS Stream 9 (as the target for RHEL 9.[x+1]) didn't get a corresponding update for quite a while. If Stream doesn't get

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Neal Gompa said: > I will also point out that CentOS Stream is perfectly suitable for > production use Is it? At one point, there were considerable gaps in security updates; RHEL 9.x would get an update while CentOS Stream 9 (as the target for RHEL 9.[x+1]) didn't get a

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-24 Thread Neal Gompa
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:09 PM Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > Josh Boyer wrote: > > Agree with Matthew fully here. We've been working rather hard > > internally to adjust the development process for RHEL to be more > > collaborative and open than it ever has before. > > The *development

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-23 Thread Kevin Kofler via devel
Josh Boyer wrote: > Agree with Matthew fully here. We've been working rather hard > internally to adjust the development process for RHEL to be more > collaborative and open than it ever has before. The *development process* is more open, but the production releases, which is the only thing end

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-23 Thread Jonathan Steffan
Matthew, Thanks for sending this out. There is a lot of FUD right now and this plan is what I had hoped was going on. The FPO/RH/IBM should do some additional community engagement to clear this up. A very clear diagram of the development/packaging flow would go a long way and give the community a

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-23 Thread Simon de Vlieger
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 11:01 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > 1. Fedora Rawhide continually updated > 2. ELN maintained in parallel, as part of Fedora > 3. At some point, ELN branched to new CentOS Stream > 4. ... a year or so of CentOS Stream development in public ... > 5. RHEL Beta forked from

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-23 Thread Ian Laurie via devel
On 6/22/23 19:01, Matthew Miller wrote: Sure, but... that's the _opposite_ of the direction things are going. Awesome post. -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-22 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:02 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > >> ELN is a build of (some) Fedora packages with EL-specific options, so > >> it requires Fedora. > > ELN can exist off an internal non fedora tree. Just depends who is > > updating the tree. > > Sure, but... that's the _opposite_ of the

CentOS Stream, RHEL, and Fedora [was Re: What is Fedora?]

2023-06-22 Thread Matthew Miller
>> ELN is a build of (some) Fedora packages with EL-specific options, so >> it requires Fedora. > ELN can exist off an internal non fedora tree. Just depends who is > updating the tree. Sure, but... that's the _opposite_ of the direction things are going. Previously, what happened to make a major