Currently CentOS stream is in effect a beta of upcoming RHEL 8.4, and I presume it'll become a beta of 8.5 when 8.4 gets near release, I suspect it'll be fine, and actually is a useful mechanism to get at 'beta' content versus the previously relatively more closed door process.
If nothing else, you'd probably be able to copycds -n centos-8.4 centos-stream.iso That would probably work, even if the fingerprinting does not. Confluent is trying to be fairly adaptive about fingerprinting it, though technically Stream would be best effort since it could change something any time. For example some package randomly went from x86_64 to noarch, which makes sense when you look at it, but is an example of little random changes that could cause fingerprinting of the media to fail. Since there is no promised cadence for media or package stream, then it's probably low risk, but difficult to say *exactly* that it will work without a surprise at an arbitrary point in time. Anyway, I'm very curious as to what RedHat plans to do on their end, and progress of either CloudLinux or Rocky Linux efforts for what people are a bit more used to. From: Lachlan Simpson <lachlan.simp...@digitalfabulists.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 5:10 PM To: James Ault via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming I wouldn't back CentOS Stream's survival until it's proven - that's at least 5 years away. Sticking with RHEL makes sense because it's supported. Cheers L. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, at 08:30, Matt Ismail wrote: Hi Nate, Would it not make sense to focus development/testing efforts on CentOS Stream, in order to have earlier xCAT support for the next (minor) release of RHEL? I could be wrong, but that's what I had thought part of what CentOS Stream was supposed to be for, i.e. a development target for upcoming RHEL... Cheers, Matt On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Nathan A Besaw wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:01:42 -0500 > From: Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com<mailto:bes...@us.ibm.com>> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming > X-Mailer: IBM Notes Release 9.0.1FP7 Octobe4, 2013 > Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list > <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > > > SS, > > Prior to the announcement of CentOS Linux changing to CentOS Stream, the > xCAT core team tested primarily with RHEL with minimal testing with CentOS. > In most cases, any work needed to enable a release of RHEL would allow the > associated CentOS release to function with minimal extra effort. > The xCAT core team will continue to focus our testing efforts on xCAT > integration with RHEL, but now that the release order of RHEL and CentOS is > reversed, it is more likely that xCAT users of CentOS Stream will encounter > problems first, before they have been addressed during RHEL testing. > This is an area where the xCAT core team can use help from the xCAT > community going forward. If support for CentOS Stream is of interest to the > xCAT community, hopefully the community will be able to assist in resolving > issues related to CentOS Stream. > Ideally xCAT will continue to informally support CentOS Stream, but how > well it is supported will be determined by community involvement and how > large the gap is between CentOS Stream and RHEL. > > Regards, > Nate > > > > From: Sajesh Singh <ssi...@amnh.org<mailto:ssi...@amnh.org>> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> > Date: 12/23/2020 06:04 PM > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming > > > > Good day. Is there any documentation on what the supportability of xCAT > will be on CentOS 8 Streaming once CentOS 8.3 has reached end of life? > > Thank you, > > SS > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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