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From: Jonathan Wright <[email protected]>
To: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add AlmaLinux as Specifically Supported Distro
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 10:38:42 -0600
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On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:35 AM Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 11:13 -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> > I defer to Devrim on if the PostgreSQL YUM Repo supports AlmaLinux. I
> > did see some random Internet instructions that shows how to install
> > packages from the PostgreSQL YUM repo onto AlmaLinux systems.
>
> I build packages on RHEL 8 and then test on Rocky 8, like I used to
> test on CentOS 8 in the past. I know that many people want to see Alma
> Linux as a supported distro, but at some point I had to make a decision
> which clone should be the "main" supported one -- and that's Rocky
> Linux.
>
> (I'm not going to start a discussion about who are behind two distros,
> as this won't be a technical one, and also not related to this list).
>
> I'm quite sure that packages will work on Alma Linux, but no intention
> to test the packages on yet-another-clone.
>

Makes sense.  All of the clones are supposed to be binary compatible so
testing across tons of them would be mostly a waste of time.

I'm happy to set up a build node on Alma and add it to the build farm if
that helps everyone feel better about listing Alma as well.


>
> -HTH
>
> Regards,
> --
> Devrim Gündüz
> Open Source Solution Architect, Red Hat Certified Engineer
> Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
>


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Jonathan Wright
AlmaLinux Foundation
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