centos2ol
Script and documentation to switch CentOS/Rocky Linux to Oracle Linux (by oracle)
upstream_sync
script to help mirror upstream repositories (by pyther)
centos2ol | upstream_sync | |
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21 | 6 | |
337 | 48 | |
1.5% | - | |
2.5 | 0.0 | |
almost 1 year ago | over 5 years ago | |
Shell | Python | |
Universal Permissive License v1.0 | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
centos2ol
Posts with mentions or reviews of centos2ol.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-31.
- Mixed feelings about Oracle Linux
- What Distro did you use to replace Centos?
- CentOS 8 is gone and EL8 confusion. What's happening actually?
- Alma or Rocky Linux and why?
- CentOS alternatives?
- CentOS Server Alternative
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Next year, IBM's Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort aimed largely at controlling costs.
Oracle has a conversion script/tool to switch a CentOS machine to Oracle Linux. In the FAQ they're at least self-aware of their reputation:
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Linux server flavors?
turn CentOS 8 into Oracle Linux 8: https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol
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Rocky Linux release attracts 80,000 downloads as ex-CentOS users mull choices
But reading the docs and the claims that the site has https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ it's a real option for mission-critical/production systems.
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If Redhat used by the datacenter. Why do we learn another distro?
Actually Oracle Linux already fills that gap as a RHEL clone. Don't kill me, I know Oracle Linux is literally the only free product at that company. It even says so on their website:
upstream_sync
Posts with mentions or reviews of upstream_sync.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-26.
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Patch Managment for a handfull of Servers
If you need to manage your Linux repositories in-house, look at upstream_sync for RHEL and RHEL-clones. Look at debmirror for Debian and Debian-clones. If you have both, you can get debmirror for RHEL and RHEL-clones from EPEL, which would allow you to run both from one server.
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What Distro did you use to replace Centos?
Get x16 RHEL developer subscriptions. Use just x01 to setup a local repository and upstream_sync to pull down content. Fix the reposync options in upstream_sync to properly support RHEL 8 modular data. Configure all your RHEL servers to point to your local repository. Viola! You're now commiting fraud at an effectively limitless scale and, one day, IBM will show up to rape your butthole.
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Syncing RHEL7 repos on a RHEL8 host?
Check this out: upstream_sync
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Resources/Whitepapers for designing a Linux Patching Policy and Local Update Server?
For RPM-based distros, like Alma, CentOS, RHEL, and Rocky, you can use something like this to more easily manage pulling content in your RHEL/RHEL-clone local repository server. Try to add your content into something like /repo/daily/distro_name/. Note, you will need to make a few changes to theupstream_syncscript to allow it to handle EL 8 modular metadata. It's like two additional flags under thecreaterepo` section ... I'll see if I can find them.
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How do you download a RPM by name and version, using Python or terminal?
Start here. You need access to Red Hat CDN; otherwise known as a subscription and related certificate. You don't need that for CentOS or OEL (public). You just need to know what repositories you want to pull from.
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Linux Package repo server
upstream_sync for yum content (see here
What are some alternatives?
When comparing centos2ol and upstream_sync you can also consider the following projects:
centos-stream
aptly - aptly - Debian repository management tool
almalinux.org - almalinux.org official web site sources.
rez - An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software
infrastructure - The infrastructure monorepo for the Rocky Linux project. This project will be archived/deprecated in the future.
docker-images - Official source of container configurations, images, and examples for Oracle products and projects
bento - Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms
almalinux-deploy - EL to AlmaLinux migration tool.
dr-Oracle-Linux-scripts - Scripts that are helpful in use of Drupal on Oracle Linux 8
rocky-tools
zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD