Re: Blog article about the state of CentOS

[Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> As reported in my previous message I'm not worried about how much time is
> required to build the new (major/minor) release, it will be ready when it
> will be. My major concern is about the "security update blackout" that take
> long as the build process.

I'm not involved in building CentOS, but the issue is that it is a
rebuild of upstream.  When RHEL 8.2 is released, there are no more
upstream updates released for RHEL 8.1; they are all on top of the RHEL
8.2 release.  So, until the time that CentOS can rebuild RHEL 8.2 and
make a new CentOS release, there can't be any updates for CentOS 8.1.

RHEL 8 introduced modules, which complicated the build system and
required new tooling, so CentOS has had a bunch of "under the hood" work
to catch up.  Hopefully, once that's ironed out, the gap between a RHEL
8.x release and the corresponding CentOS release will drop.

-- 
Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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