Hi,
new packages for CentOS 7 used to be posted on the centos-announce mailinglist. The last one posted was on 27th of September, but there were several updated rpms released in October and November that were not announced on the mailinglist. The mailinglist itself seems still to be working, as I got the announcement for Centos 8 2111 just fine.
Could somebody responsible for the update / release process please look into this?
Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process before updating your servers.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
Gerd
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:25 AM Gerd v. Egidy lists@egidy.de wrote:
Hi,
new packages for CentOS 7 used to be posted on the centos-announce mailinglist. The last one posted was on 27th of September, but there were several updated rpms released in October and November that were not announced on the mailinglist. The mailinglist itself seems still to be working, as I got the announcement for Centos 8 2111 just fine.
Could somebody responsible for the update / release process please look into this?
Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process before updating your servers.
Agreed. In our case, we build an OS image based on CentOS atomic host 7, and try to rebuild our image whenever important vulnerabilities crop up.
It's possible to check RedHat errata and see what came up recently for RHEL 7, but getting the announcements via email was easier.
Thanks, Stefan.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
Gerd
CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
Am 17.11.21 um 00:24 schrieb Gerd v. Egidy:
Hi,
new packages for CentOS 7 used to be posted on the centos-announce mailinglist. The last one posted was on 27th of September, but there were several updated rpms released in October and November that were not announced on the mailinglist. The mailinglist itself seems still to be working, as I got the announcement for Centos 8 2111 just fine.
Could somebody responsible for the update / release process please look into this?
Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process before updating your servers.
JFYI: https://feeds.centos.org/
-- Leon
Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process before updating your servers.
I know. I had used that while using Centos 8 and before migrating away. But it required an extra tool to read the feed and turn it into emails. Also the upstream detail links are not included, so you have to search them yourselves. So for me using the announce-mailinglist is more convenient.
But the missing packages now seem to be posted to -announce. Thank you very much for this Johnny Hughes.
Kind regards,
Gerd
On 11/17/21 16:22, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process before updating your servers.
I know. I had used that while using Centos 8 and before migrating away. But it required an extra tool to read the feed and turn it into emails. Also the upstream detail links are not included, so you have to search them yourselves. So for me using the announce-mailinglist is more convenient.
But the missing packages now seem to be posted to -announce. Thank you very much for this Johnny Hughes.
You're welcome.
There is an ongoing issue where the errata index ( https://access.redhat.com/errata/#/ ) is sometimes delayed several days. I have an internal infrastructure issue filled to have the issue fixed.
I have a script that queries that errata index when I do releases for CentOS Linux 7, but if the index is not updated then I have to go back later to rerun the query manually.
I will try to develop something that can automate the re-querying if the errata data is delayed.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
-
Gerd v. Egidy -
Johnny Hughes -
Leon Fauster -
Stefan Puiu