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> With the old CentOS you knew, that if there are breaking changes What manner of breaking changes would these be? AFAIK (may be wrong, please correct if I am
by cheph 6y ago
> With the old CentOS you knew, that if there are breaking changes
What manner of breaking changes would these be?
AFAIK (may be wrong, please correct if I am) by default RHEL is not locked to minor release versions (i.e. no subscription-manager release --set 8.x), but to major release versions (i.e. 8), and I have always used RHEL like this and never had serious issues with minor version updates.
In this sense CentOS stream is really just what I was already doing, CentOS stream is also split by major versions AFAIU (there is 8 stream, and will be 9 stream)[1].
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[1]: https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q6-will-there-be-separateparallelsimultaneous-streams-for-8-9-10-etc https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q6-will-there-be-separatepara...
- vetinari 6y agoStream is already at 8.4 kABI (kernel modules ABI). If you have any binary kernel modules that are not compatible, too bad. (For example, ZFS is still on 8.3). Poppler is going to be rebased from from 0.66.0 to 20.11.0. If you have anything linked to it, it will break; you need new binaries linked against the new soname. There is a surprising number packages linked against it, and third-party ones too (e.g. GDAL, used by all geo apps out there). Similar thing will happen with other rebased packages. RHEL users will get that packaged in 8.4, with release notes. Stream users are getting these breakages randomly.