[elrepo] Demise of Centos 8 (as we know it today) plans...

[Phil Perry]

On 18/01/2021 21:14, Nick Howitt wrote:
> On 18/01/2021 20:43, Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>> ELRepo has always taken the stance that we support RHEL, and by 
>> extention that includes all RHEL compatible clones. Traditionally, 
>> this has included distributions such as CentOS and Scientific Linux 
>> (and any new clones assuming they retain compatibility), whilst other 
>> distributions such as ClearOS, although based on RHEL, make 
>> modifications to their kernel which renders many of our packages 
>> incompatible. This highlights just how important binary compatibility 
>> of the kernel is for ELRepo packages/users.
>>

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> 
> Can I please make a slight correction? Since about ClearOS 7.7, ClearOS 
> reverted to the upstream kernel unmodified so the ElRepo packages are 
> now normally directly installable. The only one I compile differently is 
> the kmod-r8168 where I remove your blacklisting of the r8169 drivers, 
> but then I request the users also install the kmod-r8169 driver which 
> removes r8168 compatibility. We've had that debate before.
> 
> Nick
> 

Thanks for the correction Nick - my apologies, I didn't realise ClearOS 
had reverted back to a standard upstream (RHEL) kernel, but it 
illustrated the point nicely.

Phil