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I didn't know Oracle builds from CentOS rather than RHEL sources. Nor that RHEL doesn't release sources anymore? If that's true, I wonder how Oracle got some o

by em500 6y ago

I didn't know Oracle builds from CentOS rather than RHEL sources. Nor that RHEL doesn't release sources anymore? If that's true, I wonder how Oracle got some of their 8.x releases out much earlier than CentOS. (Oracle Linux 8.3 2020-11-13 vs CentOS 8.3 2020-12-08, Oracle Linux 8.0 2019-07-19 vs CentOS 8.0 2019-09-24.) I'm assuming here without verification that both track the RHEL 8 point releases.

toyg 6y ago
if i remember correctly, RHEL source dumps always lacked some machinery to actually produce a working release; that’s where CentOS were doing actual work, painstakingly replicating all the compilation quirks to end up with RPM builds that matched RHEL. That’s likely why another clone might want to start from CentOS rather than RHEL sources.
- em500 6y ago
  That doesn't answer my question how Oracle got some 8.x builds released weeks/months earlier than CentOS.
  - Twirrim 6y ago
    I can't speak to that. I'm not in the OL team and don't know what they do / did. Oracle can/does throw a lot more engineers at development and build than CentOS does (I believe they only have a few engineers). I believe the stuff for building the RPMs lands in the CentOS git repo early on.