Plans for CentOS-8?

[marhoy]

Thanks for a great docker image!

Any plans for creating a CentOS-8 version?
Some packages in CentOS-7 are getting quite old...

[jdeathe]

Hi @marhoy,

Thank you for your interest in the project. Yes there are plans to add a CentOS-8 branch however I'm pausing development on all personal projects until sometime next year when I have some spare time.

[saeedvaziry]

@jdeathe I am waiting for that 💯

[magau]

Hi @jdeathe!
Can you create a branch centos-8-develop for this purpose?
I did a kind of a CentOS-8 adaptation forking from your centos-7-develop that I'd like to propose a PR...
https://github.com/magau/centos-ssh/tree/centos-8-develop
I didn't spend much time on that but it seams succeed to build FROM centos:8.
At least it can be a start point...
Any way, I'd like to thank you for the nice work that you've did!
Cheers!

[lunarfs]

Hi @jdeathe
Any plans for upgrading to a more recent Centos veersion, are the target Centos-9 stream? or Centos 8?
Cheers

[jdeathe]

Hi @lunarfs

Thanks for you're interest in the project. I currently have no use case for this except for education and personal interest and don't have spare time to pick this up right now.

There's no longer an Enterprise CentOS product so CentOS-8 was never worked on and I have no plans to support CentOS Stream yet.

[lunarfs]

Hi @lunarfs

Thanks for you're interest in the project. I currently have no use case for this except for education and personal interest and don't have spare time to pick this up right now.

There's no longer an Enterprise CentOS product so CentOS-8 was never worked on and I have no plans to support CentOS Stream yet.

OK, i see.. So I could be interested in porting this to a different base image e.g. Debian based..
how would you think of that.. I would realy like to sort of fork this.. and then base it on a debian base image.. but keep alot of the nice functionality you have added.

[lunarfs]

so I did a POC on Rocky linux 9.0
centos-7-develop...lunarfs:rocky-ssh:rocky9-devel
since I am running Mac M1, I needed to remove the usage of inotify, there might be better alternatives than my fix.. I am up for discussing this. at least it work on my machine for now.. I might spend a bit more Time on this..