Re: [PATCH 2/2] tests: Update CentOS 8 container to CentOS Stream 8

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 06:02:21PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:08:22AM -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream 8 are two pretty distinct operating
> > systems in terms of update cadence and stability expectations, so I
> > think that using the label "centos8" for containers and CI jobs that
> > are actually consuming CentOS Stream 8 is going to be a source of
> > confusion.
>
> Given the EOL of what I call the "traditional" CentOS model at the
> end of 2021, both "CentOS" and "CentOS Stream" terms effectively
> mean the same thing now.

Note that while CentOS 7 is no longer targeted by QEMU, it still is
very much relevant as an OS and will keep receiving updates for ~2.5
more years.

> The caveat is that aside from this dockerfile, we also have a
> VM config in test/vm/ that historically used traditional CentOS.
> That may also need updating to point to Stream unless it has
> seemlessly transitioned to using Stream content without us
> needing to change anything. I've not looked closely at that yet.

This example IMO only highlights the need for names to match reality
and why overloading existing names is a bad idea.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization