On 2019-10-09 09:37, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
Yes, I always build packages on an absolutely minimal install. See my pbulk setup instructions for details:On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 02:01, Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:CentOS 7 will remain the mainstream for a few more years. 8 has some major upgrades, but (or maybe "therefore") it will take a long time for the commercial app vendors to catch up. I've been through this transition from 5 to 6 to 7, trust me...I've just realised that Centos 8 has already been released: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.1905 If I only make a minimal install, will it be robust enough to build packages for pkgsrc?
http://netbsd.org/~bacon/Note that I haven't touched CentOS 8 yet and probably won't until the end of the year, so auto-pkgsrc-setup is completely untested on it at this point. If you want an easy life, stick with CentOS 7 for a while.
Also expect a lot of security patches and bug fixes with CentOS 8 for the next couple years. The RHEL/CentOS 7 patching frenzy is just now starting to settle down. Until a month or two ago, I had to update and reboot my C7 servers roughly every few weeks. This is just the process for enterprise Linux - they take a snapshot of a bleeding-edge system and then spend years working out the glitches, back-porting fixes from newer kernels and libraries, etc. A new major release happens whenever they feel it's stable enough to be a supportable product, but the work is far from finished at that point.
I held off on upgrading my production systems to C7 until it started getting difficult to support C6.
Best, JB