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Change "CentOS" to e.g. "Rocky Linux" in docs #10065

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opened 2025-12-29 21:26:22 +01:00 by adam · 4 comments
adam commented 2025-12-29 21:26:22 +01:00
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Originally created by @koratfood on GitHub (Aug 9, 2024).

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Cleanup (formatting, typos, etc.)

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As of June 30 2024, CentOS is no longer supported by its vendor/publisher. Should we perhaps update NetBox's docs to reflect this, and replace "CentOS" with e.g. "Rocky Linux" or other non-EoL RHEL-based distribution?

Please feel free to assign this to me if accepted. I can then perform an installation from scratch on whichever RHEL-based distro NetBox prefers, and follow all instructions where CentOS is mentioned, before proposing changes.

Originally created by @koratfood on GitHub (Aug 9, 2024). ### Change Type Cleanup (formatting, typos, etc.) ### Area Installation/upgrade ### Proposed Changes As of June 30 2024, CentOS is no longer supported by its vendor/publisher. Should we perhaps update NetBox's docs to reflect this, and replace "CentOS" with e.g. "Rocky Linux" or other non-EoL RHEL-based distribution? Please feel free to assign this to me if accepted. I can then perform an installation from scratch on whichever RHEL-based distro NetBox prefers, and follow all instructions where CentOS is mentioned, before proposing changes.
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adam commented 2025-12-29 21:26:22 +01:00
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@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2024):

IMO it might be time to just drop the CentOS-focused portions of the documentation entirely. Most of these are redundant to the documentation for installing externals tools (PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) anyway.

@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Aug 9, 2024): IMO it might be time to just drop the CentOS-focused portions of the documentation entirely. Most of these are redundant to the documentation for installing externals tools (PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) anyway.
adam commented 2025-12-29 21:26:23 +01:00
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adam commented 2025-12-29 21:26:23 +01:00
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@koratfood commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2025):

I disagree that having instructions specific to RHEL-based systems - as opposed to assuming everybody is running Debian-based - is redundant. Removing them from the docs will undoubtedly cause at least some new netbox-community users to struggle with installation unless they already have intimate knowledge of specific differences between RHEL and Debian with regards to names of required packages, manual package post-install commands, and default OS paths + behaviour.

Again, I volunteer to perform the proposed update (if/when accepted), including full testing of every installation step on both Ubuntu and Rocky, and updating/correcting steps where necessary.

@koratfood commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2025): I disagree that having instructions specific to RHEL-based systems - as opposed to assuming everybody is running Debian-based - is redundant. Removing them from the docs will undoubtedly cause at least some new netbox-community users to struggle with installation unless they already have intimate knowledge of specific differences between RHEL and Debian with regards to names of required packages, manual package post-install commands, and default OS paths + behaviour. Again, I volunteer to perform the proposed update (if/when accepted), including full testing of every installation step on both Ubuntu and Rocky, and updating/correcting steps where necessary.
adam commented 2025-12-29 21:26:23 +01:00
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@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2025):

We've decided to drop CentOS from the installation documentation (see #19327).

@koratfood you are certainly welcome to publish supplementary installation material covering the installation of NetBox on other platforms, however we are no longer going maintain it as part of the official docs.

@jeremystretch commented on GitHub (Apr 25, 2025): We've decided to drop CentOS from the installation documentation (see #19327). @koratfood you are certainly welcome to publish supplementary installation material covering the installation of NetBox on other platforms, however we are no longer going maintain it as part of the official docs.
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