We moved from CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 in the past. If Rocky Linux 9 is not viable in the future, we should move to another distro such as CentOS Stream 9.
Since most of the products bundled by Bigtop are implemented with Java, it is expected to be platform-neutral basically. Since the packages do not provide exhaustive package dependencies, building RPM on any Red Hat clones is expected to work with trivial fixes. It should not matter whether it is exact clone of RHEL or not. While we are accepting the fix for unsupported distros, pre-built binaries (for users' convenience) are provided for limited distros. https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/98893429ad45bbd5e782ce1d1238f75ca65c2af4/bigtop_toolchain/manifests/packages.pp#L131-L159 On 2023/08/10 1:38, [email protected] wrote:
Due to Redhat’s recent decision to block source from downstream distros it does not appear that it will be possible (legally) for any distro to remain 1:1 compatible with RHEL. Does the Bigtop project see a way forward for supporting RHEL in the future? What are the thoughts there on Redhat’s decision?
