David,
The CentOS team has taken the stance that they do not understand what is required for this, so, they will not be including it under any circumstances.
I am unable to locate the thread in the archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-September/thread.html
However, luckily, Gmane archives everything just fine. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.devel/12370/focus=12375
In the third reply from KB, he states: "ok, so the updateinfo content - we can carry that, where would the data come from ?"
So it may be possible he doesn't understand where the Errata is located currently (in the mailing list), so I think someone just needs to step up and do the work for CentOS in incorporating the Errata, but, Johnny handles that and the work he does isn't documented to the public. So, we're a little in the dark on where/how he sets up the announce list anyways. But, that's how it's always been with the CentOS project, the gears are kept private the product is made public.
Realistically, it would probably be easier to fork the repositories under a different name, create your own mirrorlist and point back at the mirrors for your RPM sources. Steven Crothers steven.crothers@gmail.com
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS david.somers-harris@mail.rakuten.com wrote:
Hello,
Currently The CentOS project publishes errata on its CentOS Announce mailing list. In order to import this into a package management system (like Katello on The Foreman), one needs to parse the mailing list and convert it into XML before importing it. This is done to some extent on http://cefs.steve-meier.de/ but some more legwork needs to be done before The Foreman can understand the errata like it does natively for RHN.
I have heard rumour that The CentOS project is planning to publish Errata in the same way that Red Hat does, but I haven't been able to find anything on the Internet about this. Does anybody know if The CentOS Project has indeed declared such intention, and when they plan to do this?
Side Note: Interestingly enough, I've noticed that EPEL has started to add errata data to their repositories.
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