On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 06:02:21PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:08:22AM -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream 8 are two pretty distinct operating > > systems in terms of update cadence and stability expectations, so I > > think that using the label "centos8" for containers and CI jobs that > > are actually consuming CentOS Stream 8 is going to be a source of > > confusion. > > Given the EOL of what I call the "traditional" CentOS model at the > end of 2021, both "CentOS" and "CentOS Stream" terms effectively > mean the same thing now.
Note that while CentOS 7 is no longer targeted by QEMU, it still is very much relevant as an OS and will keep receiving updates for ~2.5 more years. > The caveat is that aside from this dockerfile, we also have a > VM config in test/vm/ that historically used traditional CentOS. > That may also need updating to point to Stream unless it has > seemlessly transitioned to using Stream content without us > needing to change anything. I've not looked closely at that yet. This example IMO only highlights the need for names to match reality and why overloading existing names is a bad idea. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization