On 05/13/2016 07:59 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:

Hi,

I saw no announcement on centos-announce for this:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0997.html

has it fallen through the cracks somehow?

Nope. It's part of 6.8.

I find the corresponding update for EL7, but not for EL6.

It would be nice if someone could investigate this.

No need. it should be out shortly.

I also didn't find the necessary versions on my local mirror synced, e.g.:

qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm

Is this due to the work done in preparation for EL 6.8 release?

Yup.

But I also do not find any CR repo yet.

Be patient. Point upgrades take a bit of time, and it's only been a few days.

As this is an important update I'd like to know if there is help needed to get it out faster.

Johnny put out an announcement on the main mailing list yesterday with an update. TL;DR, early next week. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2016-May/159404.html

On 05/13/2016 07:59 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:

Hi,

I saw no announcement on centos-announce for this:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0997.html

has it fallen through the cracks somehow?

I find the corresponding update for EL7, but not for EL6.

It would be nice if someone could investigate this.

I also didn't find the necessary versions on my local mirror synced, e.g.:

qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.491.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm

Is this due to the work done in preparation for EL 6.8 release?

But I also do not find any CR repo yet.

There were 350 or so SRPMs and 3050 RPMs as part of the 6.8 update set.

We (the CentOS team) get access to the SRPMs the same time as everyone else, when they shoe up on the public ftp server. Then we have to download and build them.

It takes some finite amount of time to make those build .. and they never build in the correct order first time around. So several need to be rebuilt. They then need to go through some quick QA by the QA team.

Then we can release them into the CR repo. Historically this happens w/in 10 days. In this case it SHOULD happen on Monday (May 16th, tomorrow, 6 days after the RHEL 6.8 release date.

Historically, the final CentOS point released happens 10-21 days after the CR release .. so that would put the final release of CentOS-6.8 at somewhere between 26 May and 11 June. Why so long .. we have to further test the RPMs, we have to generate new ISOs with a new comps file and test all the isos. We have to generate and test cloud images and KVM images.

As this is an important update I'd like to know if there is help needed to get it out faster.

Since Red Hat based this on top up the 6.8 release, I first have to build 6.8, then build these .el6_8 updates against 6.8.

Had they released these updates built against 6.7, I could have built them and released them against 6.7. That's just how it goes.