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| + | In December 2020, it was announced by the CentOS project that the future is CentOS Stream, and over the past year the project has been focusing from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. At the same time it was announced that at the end of this year CentOS 8 would stop being supported and it would be replaced with CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream would become a rolling release and it would be supported for 5 years and would receive updates. However it would be more of a development release of RHEL 8 This would make it difficult for the StarlingX community to support because updates might remove software that the project depends on. Various alternatives such as Ubuntu and Suse were reviewed as well, and it was decided by the community that it would be the base for StarlingX. | ||
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| + | The purpose of this wiki page is to describe to developers, over time, ] how they can convert existing CentOS RPM based packages to create Debian packages that can be included into StarlingX. | ||
Revision as of 00:34, 15 October 2021
StarlingX Debian
Introduction
In December 2020, it was announced by the CentOS project that the future is CentOS Stream, and over the past year the project has been focusing from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. At the same time it was announced that at the end of this year CentOS 8 would stop being supported and it would be replaced with CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream would become a rolling release and it would be supported for 5 years and would receive updates. However it would be more of a development release of RHEL 8 This would make it difficult for the StarlingX community to support because updates might remove software that the project depends on. Various alternatives such as Ubuntu and Suse were reviewed as well, and it was decided by the community that it would be the base for StarlingX.
The purpose of this wiki page is to describe to developers, over time, ] how they can convert existing CentOS RPM based packages to create Debian packages that can be included into StarlingX.
