On 23/12/2019 12:07 pm, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:> Am 22.12.19 um 21:31 schrieb Michael Kofler: >> Hi, >> >> I have been a happy user of CentOS 7 in the past. I am now considering >> switching to CentOS 8. >> >> However, since end of Oct. 2019, I have not received any updates on my >> CentOS 8 test installations. Since then, RHEL 8 has published several >> critical security updates. >> >> Obviously, this make the use of CentOS 8 in production dangerous. >> >> I guess the missing updates have to to with RHEL version 8.1, which is >> not yet available for CentOS. >> >> Basically, I would like to ask how the CentOS team sees the state of >> CentOS 8. Is the current version only intended for testing/evaluation? >> When does the CentOS team consider CentOS ready for production use? Is >> there any public documentation on this matter? > > Here you can find information that explains why there is gap between > RH and CentOS releases. Basically its not intentionally but just hard > work: > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8.x >This misses the point of where are the intermediate updates to 8.0 ? or can we only get point releases with no updates in between? -- Cheers Bill
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:30 PM Bill Maidment <bill at maidment.me> wrote:> > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 > > > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8.x > > > > This misses the point of where are the intermediate updates to 8.0 ? or > can we only get point releases with no updates in between? > >8.0 has to be updated to 8.1 to get any future updates. apparently 8.1 came out in early November before CentOS was able to get the update pipeline moving, so incremental updates will resume after 8.1 is released, which should be pretty soon now based on the schedule on that 8.x page above. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:30 PM Bill Maidment <bill at maidment.me> wrote:> > > https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8.x > > This misses the point of where are the intermediate updates to 8.0 ? or > can we only get point releases with no updates in between?You may want to watch the "CR work" on that wiki page. What is the CR repo? https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR Akemi
Le 23/12/2019 ? 02:48, Akemi Yagi a ?crit?:> You may want to watch the "CR work" on that wiki page.CR seems to be empty right now. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12