[CentOS-devel] CentOS-[56] Continous Release

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 01:38:06 UTC 2011


On 6/21/11 6:27 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 11:48 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> make that choice, which is why I think the choice should be opt-out, not
>> in.  It may be a matter of faith one way or another, but I think there
>
> A vast majority of these updates are not Security related, they are the
> BA / EA variety, and if there is a security issue - we can always push
> those packages into the regular /5/updates/ repo.
>
> quite a few people run private repo store's and they might not even come
> across any of the CR stuff; so major security issues *should* go into
> the regular /5/updates in an either and/or with CR

I'd expect it to be common for the kernels and probably glibc's included with a 
point release or soon thereafter to include security fixes.  If you push those, 
you have the biggest risk of affecting everything else - so what's the point of 
isolating the rest?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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