CentOS no longer downstream of RHEL

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/9/20, 7:45 AM, "dev on behalf of Peter Schober" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>    FYI, going forward CentOS will no longer be usable as a no-license
>    downstream/rebuild of RHEL. I guess that'll influence the project's
>    ability to build and test packages for RHEL using CentOS:

Yes.

>    The Shib deployers community's reaction remains to be seen, which
>    could also influence the projects directions (wrt CentOS being the
>    primarily supported distribution on GNU/Linux), I would imagine.

I expect to be able to switch to an AWS-based packaging workflow next year that should allow use of real RHEL to produce packages, though for cost reasons we would eliminate 5 and 6 since they're EOL even now. So in that sense "nothing changes", except that we'd be producing packages for an OS probably nobody wants.

There is some talk already of a revolt and some people standing up a new fork of course, but it's probably not realistic.

-- Scott