Re: [CentOS] strange RPM dependency observed in CentOS 7

2020-12-08 Thread Walter H.
On 08.12.2020 15:12, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 02:54:03PM +0100, Walter H. wrote: Yes, then the interesting question, how can I make use of these GeoIP-features when doing these e.g. nslookup    200:470:17:55::1 nslookup    222.10.10.1 nslookup   www.centos.org host w

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 9.12.2020 0.38, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:34:54AM -0600, Christopher Wensink wrote: Is it possible that more regressions will get through than have before? Well, sure, some. But let's not pretend that even RHEL is ever regression-free. It's software, after all, and ther

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Kingsly John
+++ Rainer Duffner [2020-12-08 15:42:20]: > If your business case resolves around being able to freeload on the work of > others, then there’s a serious problem with the business case. That applies to IBM/RHEL too. They aren't paying for every bit of software that is packaged in the distribution.

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Alexandru Pătrănescu
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 22:58 Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > >> Enter

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:00 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > The problem is that we won't know if it will work. When CentOS matched > the RHEL point releases we knew that an RPM/driver targeted for RHEL > 8.2 has a good chance of working on CentOS 8.2 - but that versioning > match is lost with Stream. So

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Brendan Conoboy
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:19 PM Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > "CentOS will become the developer playground" > > > > This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a dev

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > It is not the same as Rawhide is all I am saying. > > It is based on the current release and it is being modified for some reason. > > That modification can be a bugfix from a reported bug, it can be an > enhancement for a given package or it can be a security update. > > Each of these upd

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:32 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 5:29 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > >>> On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I promise you, to the best of my knowledg

Re: [CentOS] Future of CentOS 7

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 6:04 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > "Rich Bowen" wrote: > >> Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in CentOS >> Linux 7, and we'll continue to produce that version through the >> remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle. > > You say now that you'll support CentOS 7 unt

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 6:18 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > >>> "CentOS will become the developer playground" >> >> This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a developer >> playgro

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 5:29 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: >>> On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with this decision. Red Hat is a d

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
Was this decision forced, despite objection, on the CentOS board by the RedHat Liaison? Yes or No? On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat >

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 17:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > > "CentOS will become the developer playground" > > This one is categorically not the case. Even Fedora isn't a developer > playground. Everything landing in CentOS Stream is a

[CentOS] Future of CentOS 7

2020-12-08 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
"Rich Bowen" wrote: > Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in CentOS > Linux 7, and we'll continue to produce that version through the > remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle. You say now that you'll support CentOS 7 until the end, but you also said you'd support CentOS 8 unt

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Richard G
For the record, I don't think this is a good decision because it changes what CentOS is (its "core mission" in business-speak). On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:07 PM Rich Bowen wrote: > > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linu

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:42:01PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > I too would be interested to know what happens to CentOS 8 Stream once > focus of RedHat moves to RHEL 9? The life cycle document says the last > release of RHEL8 will be 8.10, that's a five year road map (since point > releases seem to

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
> > FAQ:"Updates for the CentOS Stream 8 distribution continue through the > full RHEL support phase." > > What does this "full" exactly means? Will C8S be "closed" in May 31, > 2024 [*] but RHEL8 still supported through Maintenance support mode > until 2029? I too would be interested to know

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with > >> this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still > >> h

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Storck via CentOS
We resolved the issue by modifying the CentOS-Base.repo by adding the appropriate URL's to the various sections, for example: baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/$basearch/ Thank you, Paul On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:25 PM Paul Storck wrote: > Thank you for the response. I added (copied, edite

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 6:05 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with > >> this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still > >> h

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 3:25 PM, Paul Storck via CentOS wrote: > Thank you for the response. I added (copied, edited, pasted from the C6.9 > section) the following to the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo file but > I still get the same error message. > I'm thinking the paths are incorrect in my file because

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
Forget about IBM. We were told way back in 2014, when Red Hat bought CentOS, that CentOS would remain independent from RedHat. This is clearly bullshit now. So we were totally misled into adopting the platform with the belief that what we were getting would stay the same, an unsupported recompile

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 3:40 PM, Jim Bourne wrote: > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with >> this decision.  Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still >> has a CEO, CFO, etc.  Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationsh

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:28:58AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as quite > > arrogant? > I am sorry you feel that way. I was trying to help. Red Hat has Yeah, um, if I'm coming across as arrogant, I apologize. I genuinely thi

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 03:15:17PM +, Pete Biggs wrote: > Forgive a bit of cynicism ... Sure, some cynicism is absolutely warranted. It's a big change. > "If you want to keep using RHEL for free, you will have to put up with > making sure that our paying customers get better quality releases

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:34:54AM -0600, Christopher Wensink wrote: > I agree this is shocking news.  If we don't want to be beta testers > and want to continue to use a stable tested OS should we be moving > to RHEL servers?  Is there a license-free RHEL server option that is > the recommended pa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:44:36PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on my > > production workload and now hearing this. What do other folks think > > about this? > Speaking only for myself, I am ready to give up

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:13 PM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:02 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: >> > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: >> >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what ar

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Richard
> Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2020 13:25:42 -0800 > From: Paul Storck via CentOS > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:45 AM Subscriber >> wrote: >> >> > - On Dec 8, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Paul Storck wrote: >> >> > Hello, is it possible to install the final updates for CentOS 6? >> > I ran a yum up

[CentOS] Debug information packages for 8.3 missing?

2020-12-08 Thread Oliver Freyermuth via CentOS
Dear all, after the upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3 one of the applications we use has unclear Kerberos authentication issues. I was going to diagnose these and tried: yum debuginfo-install krb5-libs However, I get: Could not find debuginfo package for the following installed packages: krb5-libs-1

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread michael Schumacher
> A colleague of mine - the most proficient admin I personally know - already > decided to move to Oracle Linux. And I'm currently considering it as an > option. And Larry Ellison is sitting in his office laughing his ass off. Happy guy with a nice christmas gift from the RH board of director

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread DHilsbos
Paul; How do you intend to test, and measure stability? I'm not trying to be contrary, or facetious, I'm looking to learn something in this situation. Thank you, Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA Director – Information Technology Perform Air International Inc. dhils...@performair.com www.PerformAir.c

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-08 Thread R C
On 12/8/20 11:44 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:58 -0500, Satish Patel wrote: Folks, What is going on here https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on my production worklo

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Jim Bourne
On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do with this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat still has a CEO, CFO, etc. Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationship with many IBM competitors. So this was not a

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 08.12.20 um 21:56 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to Cen

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 22:12:50 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > A colleague of mine - the most proficient admin I personally know - already > decided to move to Oracle Linux. And I'm currently considering it as an > option. This sounds like a reasonable path forward, but I wonder if Oracle will simply

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Storck via CentOS
Thank you for the response. I added (copied, edited, pasted from the C6.9 section) the following to the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Vault.repo file but I still get the same error message. I'm thinking the paths are incorrect in my file because when I try to go to directly to the URL (http://vault.cent

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:02 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 > >>> Stream? What are the benefits?

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 21:56, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before > CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull > requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in CentOS > Stream, etc . CentOS Linux 8 will st

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
> I promise you, to the best of my knowledge, IBM had nothing to do > with > this decision. Red Hat is a distinct unit inside IBM and Red Hat > still > has a CEO, CFO, etc. Red Hat also maintains a neutral relationship > with > many IBM competitors. So this was not an IBM decision. > So why is

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 2:01 PM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: >>> Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 >>> Stream?  What are the benefits? >>> >>> I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat >> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread centos
On 08/12/2020 20:01, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:02 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > Please sign this petition if you don't want the CentOS Board to implement > this decision: > > > https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream > > Or... don't if you are happy with the

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread centos
On 08/12/2020 15:48, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? What are the benefits? I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that question. Is it just a name change? Is it

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Mike via CentOS
Would love to see this get off the ground: Gregory Kurtzer says: I am considering creating another rebuild of RHEL and may even be able to hire some people for this effort. If you are interested in helping, please join the HPCng slack (link on the website hpcng.org). Greg (original

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
If anyone is considering to fork CentOS 8 (I'm not talking about that "Stream"), count me in. Otherwise I will switch to openSUSE Leap. At least they are not pushing me some testing ground. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В 12:07 -0500 на 08.12.2020 (вт), Phelps, Matthew написа: > I still haven't

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 08.12.20 um 18:11 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with the community. Why would we trust th

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a r

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a > current RHEL release. CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-08 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:58 -0500, Satish Patel wrote: > Folks, > > What is going on here > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ > > CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on > my production workload and now hearing this. What do other folks > think

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Alan Mead
On 12/8/2020 11:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I have been doing this for 17 years. I would continue doing for 17 > more. But it is what it is and wishing for it to be different is not > going to happen. I know .. I've tried. We owe everyone who worked on CentOS a big thank you. I think a lot of

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-08 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:54 AM Frank Cox wrote: > Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos? I'm asking because genuinely > don't know; I've never paid any attention to Oracle's Linux offering before > now. > > But today I've seen a couple of the folks here mention Oracle Linux and I > see that Or

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:43 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > "Since March 2004, CentOS Linux has been a community-supported distribution > derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat. As such, > CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL." > I hate to jump in as a De

[CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-08 Thread Frank Cox
Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos? I'm asking because genuinely don't know; I've never paid any attention to Oracle's Linux offering before now. But today I've seen a couple of the folks here mention Oracle Linux and I see that Oracle even offers a script to convert Centos 7 to Oracle. No

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:35 PM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:29 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 12/8/20 11:19 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: >> > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as >> quite arrogant? >> >> I am sorry you feel that w

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:29 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 11:19 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as > quite arrogant? > > I am sorry you feel that way. I was trying to help. Red Hat has > several programs where they

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 11:29 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 11:19 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as > quite arrogant? > > I am sorry you feel that way. I was trying to help. Red Hat has > several programs where they g

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 11:19 AM, Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as quite > arrogant? I am sorry you feel that way. I was trying to help. Red Hat has several programs where they give away RHEL for free. CentOS Stream is free. CentOS Linux

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
The first thing Oracle wants is for you to sign up for an Oracle account. Hmm, I'll give Springdale a try. For those with long memories, remember the DEC RDMS promises prior to take over, and the aftermath? On 08/12/2020 15:58, Julio E. Gonzalez wrote: I am already using Oracle Linux in som

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:20 PM Marc Balmer via CentOS wrote: > Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as > quite arrogant? > Clearly, you haven't been around here long. :) This is par for the course here, and extremely frustrating. > > > Am 08.12.2020 um 18:11 sc

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 11:12 AM, Daniel Worden wrote: > Could you please unsubscribe this email address. I was not aware of the > volume of messages this would create and I would like to resubscire using a > different email address. Done. Thanks, Johnny Hughes __

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:11 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > >>> I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with > >

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
Am I the only one to perceive CentOS/RedHat team members responses as quite arrogant? > Am 08.12.2020 um 18:11 schrieb Johnny Hughes : > > On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.12.2020 um 18:02 schrieb Phelps, Matthew : > > The whole point of CentOS was so that we didn't have to "engage." We don't > have time for that. > You do understand that Open Source does not work like that? > We just want a stable re-compile of RHEL, as promised. CentOS has been > di

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 11:11 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > >>> I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with > >>>

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2020-12-08 Thread John Pierce
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2020-12-08 Thread Daniel Worden
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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 11:02 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with >>> the community. Why would we trust these promises? >> >> "Better en

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
I still haven't seen an answer to the question, "Who made this decision?" and, "How can we lobby to get it changed?" On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the reb

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 10:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with > > the community. Why would we trust these promises? > > "Better engagement with the community" of course requires that th

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with > > the community. Why would we trust these promises? > > "Better engagement with the community" of course requires that

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 16:54, Marc Balmer via CentOS a écrit : > This really pisses me off. You published CentOS 8 with a promise to support > it until May 2029. > > Now you betray all users that took you by the mouth by stating it's EOL > december 31. 2021. > > Do you really think that was a smart mov

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/8/20 11:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: I see a lot of promises that Stream will have better engagement with the community. Why would we trust these promises? "Better engagement with the community" of course requires that the community step up and engage. Trust isn't something anyone

[CentOS] CentOS 8 future

2020-12-08 Thread Satish Patel
Folks, What is going on here https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently deployed CentOS8 on my production workload and now hearing this. What do other folks think about this? ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 10:31 AM, Paul Storck via CentOS wrote: > Hello, is it possible to install the final updates for CentOS 6? > I ran a yum update and I received this message "Error: Cannot find a valid > baseurl for repo: base" > I assume it's due to the EOL of CentOS 6? > Yes, and archived version of

Re: [CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Subscriber
- On Dec 8, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Paul Storck via CentOS centos@centos.org wrote: > Hello, is it possible to install the final updates for CentOS 6? > I ran a yum update and I received this message "Error: Cannot find a valid > baseurl for repo: base" > I assume it's due to the EOL of CentOS 6?

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 08/12/2020 à 16:12, Johnny Hughes a écrit : > Another very good thing > > There is no longer a huge delay of a drop of 750 packages at once and a > delay of more than a month to get a new release. > > There will be on delay in stream .. it will be a constantly rolling > distribution .. updates

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 10:29 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:15:04AM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: >> That page was never a contract. It's a web page published by an open source >> project. Please do not misconstrue it as a contract. > > I don't think anyone seriously thought it was a con

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/8/20 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings > > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > >>> You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states t

[CentOS] Update CentOS 6 one last time?

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Storck via CentOS
Hello, is it possible to install the final updates for CentOS 6? I ran a yum update and I received this message "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base" I assume it's due to the EOL of CentOS 6? Thank you, Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
To be fair, that was a commitment RH gave. They are now a department within Big Blue and must dance to their tune. Of course you could always try holding your breath and awaiting the sell off to Lenovo in about five years time. On 08/12/2020 16:25, Lange, Markus wrote: Hi, this is really b

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 11:15:04AM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > That page was never a contract. It's a web page published by an open source > project. Please do not misconstrue it as a contract. I don't think anyone seriously thought it was a contract. Open Source works largely on trust. Trust tha

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Lange, Markus
Hi, this is really bad news. Back in 2014 [1], sadly no one at RH seems to remember... "Some of the things that are not changing: - - The CentOS Linux platform isn't changing. The process and methods built up around the platform however are going to become more open, more inclusive and transpare

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Tom Bishop
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 10:15 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/8/20 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings > > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > >>> You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
> Am 08.12.2020 um 17:15 schrieb Rich Bowen : > > > > On 12/8/20 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the EOL

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rich Bowen
On 12/8/20 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the EOL for CentOS 8 is May 2029. (c.f. https://endoflife.software/operat

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Laack, Andrea P
Many CentOS users are also RedHat customers. Those RedHat customers may currently be rethinking their RedHat investment given this change of events. We currently run Oracle Linux on a number of servers and have been very pleased with it. Andrea -Original Message- From: CentOS On Beh

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread John Thomas
I'll probably switch to Debian over the new year. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:01 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Julio E. Gonzalez > wrote: > > > I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. > > > > Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra su

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:58 AM Julio E. Gonzalez wrote: > I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. > > Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra support, > BTRFS and a newer kernel, for example. > > > I expect their usage is about to explode. I've always feared a g

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Julio E. Gonzalez
I am already using Oracle Linux in some servers. Free as CentOS, faster updates than CentOS, and with some extra support, BTRFS and a newer kernel, for example. On 12/8/20 12:15 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: Red Hat's perspective is "CentOS is ours now; IBM have told us to make sure it's pulling it

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
This really pisses me off. You published CentOS 8 with a promise to support it until May 2029. Now you betray all users that took you by the mouth by stating it's EOL december 31. 2021. Do you really think that was a smart move? > Am 08.12.2020 um 15:06 schrieb Rich Bowen : > > The future of

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the EOL for CentOS 8 is > > May 2029. (c.f. > https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos). > > CentOS St

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:28 AM Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat >> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the EOL for CentOS 8 is > May 2029. (c.f. https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos). > CentOS Stream *is not* CentOS 8. > > This announcement is a breach of that tr

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a > current RHEL release. CentOS

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Harold Toms
On 08/12/2020 15:15, Pete Biggs wrote: So as far as I can see all the RHEL rebuilds are dead now - WhiteBox, Scientific Linux, now CentOS. Are there any left? Springdale: http://springdale.math.ias.edu/ -- Harold Toms SBCS NMR Manager Working from home _

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Laack, Andrea P
It appears that Red Hat has taken ownership of a free and opensource OS and is now making decisions regarding it. Maybe it is time to look at Oracle Linux. Andrea -Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Pete Biggs Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 9:15 AM To: centos@centos.org Subje

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Pete Biggs
Forgive a bit of cynicism ... On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 09:06 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/8/20 8:35 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > Aside from the the latest shiny - what are the advantages of CentOS 8 Stream? > What are the benefits? > > I read through the announcement and FAQ, but they do not address that > question. Is it just a name change? Is it an attempt to put CentOS on a > s

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