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8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by agrzella » 2023/01/12 07:38:42

I have a bunch of VMs running 8-Stream, all of them being affected by a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2017672.

RedHat published a kernel update for RHEL 8 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6970635 in Nov 2022 fixing this issue.

My assumption is, that the patch for the bug would be included in a recent 8-Stream kernel version.
Unfortunately, there has been no kernel update for 8-Stream since July 2022: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-strea ... /Packages/

Hereby I'm asking kindly, whether someone in this Board can help me understand, why there is no recent kernel available for 8-Stream and whether there will be any.

Thanks in advance
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Re: 8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by TrevorH » 2023/01/12 11:34:58

Yours is not the first request for an update and the last one seems to have gone precisely nowhere. There are good reasons why no-one on this board recommends use of Stream for anything production. This particular problem also seems to negate its only perceived use case which was to allow developers to do work for the next RHEL point release before it actually came out. Since the current kernel for Stream 8 is older than the released RHEL 8.7 one, even that use case is no longer valid.

My advice, don't use Stream at all. There are several other rebuilds of RHEL who provide timely updates and try to abide by the old CentOS philosphy of 'bug for bug' compatibility with the currently released RHEL of the same version.

If you want an 'official' answer then you will need to raise a bug report in the correct bug tracker - see https://wiki.centos.org/ReportBugs
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Re: 8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by BShT » 2023/01/12 12:30:33

there are some script that you can make a migration from CentOS stream to a productional Linux without a new install

obviously you need a good backup

I made more than 20 migrations from Centos 8 to Oracle Linux successfully, I believe that in the stream the process should work too

there are others, Alma, Rocky

a tip, do the process in a test VM first and completely update your Centos before migrating

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Re: 8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by TrevorH » 2023/01/12 18:48:18

Ha, that'll teach me. A new c8s kernel just hit git.c.o about 15 mins ago: version 4.18.0-448.el8 but since the latest c8 compose went out to the mirrors about an hour before that, it'll probably be next week before that gets built, tested and pushed.
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Re: 8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by agrzella » 2023/01/13 07:33:06

@TrevorH: Thanks for your support with this issue.

As TrevorH suggested, yesterday at 2023-01-12 12:27:18 UTC I created a bug in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160436
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Re: 8-Stream: no new kernel version in repo

Post by TrevorH » 2023/01/13 11:52:04

Bugzilla kernel reports are always marked private and are accessible only to the original reporter (and Red Hat).
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