Update Path Question In Connection With CentOS Stream?
Hello,
when someone has installed a CentOS 7.1 in the past,
and did ‘yum update’ regularily, his/she got a CentOS 7.8 now without any reinstallation procedure or other complications;
when the same wanted to update to CentOS 8 he/she had to do a new install;
what happens to CentOS Stream?
when some is now installing CentOS Steam and will do
‘dnf update’ or ‘yum update’ regularily in the future,
what does he/she get till the “end”?
is this a rolling release like Win10 which doesn’t need to be reinstalled now and in future?
(the fact that hardware can break is not the question)
Thanks, Walter
2 thoughts on - Update Path Question In Connection With CentOS Stream?
Yes, you just continually get updates in 8-stream. There’s no quantised point releases. A fully updated 8-stream install is the equivalent of the last point release of RHEL8 plus some other bits and those other bits will accumulate over the 6 months and eventually form the next point release.
You will continue to get updates in 8-stream until the last RHEL8 point release (8.10) in 2024. It is unclear to me what will happen then –
will 8-stream remain dormant and get security fixes only? Will it be removed completely (either deleted or put in vault)? Will there be an
“upgrade” mechanism to get to 9-stream?
P.
Am 10.12.20 um 16:51 schrieb Pete Biggs:
No.
https://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS-devel/2020-December/075532.html
Retired+Vault:
https://CentOS.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-CentOS-stream-8-after-rhel8-reaches-the-end-of-full-support
C9S will be based on ~F34. Someone mentioned a path elsewhere.
https://lists.CentOS.org/pipermail/CentOS/2020-December/352366.html