Once upon a time, Mattia Verga <mattia.ve...@proton.me> said: > Since RHEL is made out from Centos Stream and Centos Stream is made out from > Fedora ELN, can't Alma and Rocky branch directly from Fedora? > Can we collaborate in some way with those communities so that we support each > other? I mean, like we have Fedora ELN and EPEL...
Their goal is to replicate, as near as practical, the versions, bug fixes, patches, etc. in RHEL, so that the usage (and for some people, running of pre-compiled binaries) is functionally identical to a given RHEL release. Since Red Hat has long used the "patch rather than upgrade" approach for most packages during a release's lifetime, the only way to get a practically-identical system is to get those same patches. In theory, any patch to a package in say RHEL 9.2 should eventually land in CentOS Stream 9, because RHEL 9.3 should be forked from CentOS Stream 9, but that doesn't always happen in a convenient time frame (plus sometimes something may be fixed one way in a 9.2 update but differently in 9.3). Also, CentOS Stream 9 will stop getting updated much sooner than RHEL 9.x - when RHEL 9.x transitions to "maintenance mode" (no new functionality planned, just bug/security fixes), CentOS Stream 9 will stop altogether. And Fedora ELN is aimed at CentOS Stream 10, which will eventually be used to make RHEL 10.0, so is not useful for replicating RHEL 9.x updates. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
