Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 16, 2021 5:06 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame by mattdm
Parent article: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

> RHEL point releases will be assembled as forks from CentOS Stream.

I feel like I don't understand the word "fork" as it is being used here, could you elaborate? Is it just that the contents of the CentOS Stream repo are copied to the RHEL point release repo, and then the release happens immediately, or is there more development going on (as usually implied by the word "fork") after copying CentOS Stream to RHEL?

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 16, 2021 14:02 UTC (Fri) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

> I feel like I don't understand the word "fork" as it is being used here, could you elaborate?

"Branch" would have been a better choice of word. These RHEL branches (or at least some of them) will be eligible for EUS, and so get "hotfixes" that don't go into Stream (just as current EUS branches aren't in CentOS Linux). The same issues will of course get fixed in Stream, although possibly in a different way. (Again same as EUS in the pre-Stream model.)

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 17, 2021 1:53 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

OK, that makes sense, thanks.