Reminder, Centos 7 EOL 1 year away

ravenet

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-EOL-2023-7-Stream-8

bnerickson

This should probably be pinned somewhere unless I missed it, but what's the plan going forward for XCP-NG 8.3+ with respect to OS? Will XCP-NG be using AlmaLinux 9, Rocky Linux 9, CentOS Steam 9? Please tell me it won't be Debian-based...

olivierlambert

Hi,

I can tell you it will be still RPM based, for many obvious reasons Again, people are giving too much significance on this, since the already critical packages are NOT coming from another existing distro.

bnerickson

@olivierlambert It's really just a "nice-to-know", since provisioning systems are often based off of the distro version. If xcp-ng uses EL9 as its "base", then I can prepare by making sure the<insert-application-here> configurations to be deployed on a new xcp-ng instance will be compatible with whatever <insert-application-here> version is used on EL9. That's all (for me).

olivierlambert

You shouldn't assume about the distro used as a base, but you can safely assume about being RPM based