> On 7. Oct 2019, at 18:17, Jose Marques <jm...@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On 7 Oct 2019, at 16:43, Fait, James F. >> <00000c6019404d64-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: >> >> I tend to ignore ANY distribution with a .0 suffix. > > I'm going through the process of updating our kickstart scripts, repos, and > puppet config for Centos8. We (CS at St Andrews) have been using SL7 but we > also deploy Fedora 30. Centos8 is a lot more like the latter.
Right, and once more it's a huge step from ELn to ELn+1. Those 4+ years between major releases are just too long IMHO. Remember when RHEL set out, it was about quarterly minor releases and major ones every 12-18 months. Maybe that would have been a bit too frequent, and of course these things change over time. But it's quite a burden on admins when for example the next EL release is based on a Fedora release which has long abandoned any backward compatibility with the one the previous EL release was based on - even if it's retrofitted in some later minor EL release (like systemd vs. sysvinit). It's really sad, but yes this is a good reason to largely ignore EL .0 releases (and probably at least .1 ones too). > The only thing concerning me so far is the lack of packages in EPEL. There > are things we use from EPEL on SL7 that are not present in EPEL on Centos8. > Maybe it's still being built out but if not then that may delay us deploying > it (more things we have to package). AFAIK EPEL is built on CentOS systems, and given that CentOS 8 has been out for just a couple of days now I wouldn't expect EPEL 8 to be anywhere near complete for now. Chances are this will work out. What I'm really curious about is folks' thoughts on "CentOS Stream". Will it scratch our itches?
