On 09/13/2017 08:10 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
I don't have any official knowledge, but I would suspect that they will maintain httpd-2.2 throughout the lifetime of RHEL6. Security issues would be backported. (If older versions of RHEL are any indication)
The basic problem is though that there won't be any security fixes for 2.2 How can they back port something that does not exist?
Or do you mean you think they'll try to port a fix in 2.4 back to 2.2? Not even sure that will be possible.
Is there some way to get an official statement from RHEL on this? Like if I bought a licensed copy of RHEL and used it to open a support case or something like that?
Red Hat will provide security updates to whatever solution that they have in RHEL-6 until end of life .. that is what they do and why their Enterprise Linux has subscription costs .. see:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting
The CentOS Project, on the other hand, does not make any security claims of any kind for CentOS Linux at all. We rebuild whatever source code Red Hat releases for RHEL and the user must make sure it meets any security requirements they have.