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Glossary

This section serves to highlight certain terms which should be used on the project within specific situations.

Terms and phrases

  • Use "CentOS Stream" when referring to the Linux distribution, not just "CentOS".
  • Use "CentOS" (without Stream) when referring to the CentOS Project.
  • Draft Builds: A Koji feature that allows multiple builds with the same NVR (Name-Version-Release). Used by the ROG pipeline to allow iterative builds before promotion.
  • Koji: The build system used by CentOS Stream (and Fedora) for building RPM packages. The CentOS Stream instance is at kojihub.stream.centos.org.
  • Konflux: A Kubernetes-native build and delivery platform built on Kubernetes and Tekton. It is an open-source project led by Red Hat, being adopted to modernise the RPM build pipeline for CentOS Stream and RHEL.

Abbreviations

  • CentOS Stream 9: c9s
  • CentOS Stream 10: c10s
  • ROG: RHEL On Gitlab - A merge-request-based build pipeline for RHEL and CentOS Stream.
  • NVR: Name-Version-Release - The unique identifier for a package build in Koji.