[CentOS-devel] published errata at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/ and how that relates to CentOS

Sun May 8 13:46:17 UTC 2011
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Hughes
> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:21
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] published errata at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/
and how that relates to CentOS
> 
> On 05/08/2011 12:40 AM, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 07:27:17AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> We contact upstream every time we see one of these, but 
> are kind of 
> >> at their mercy if they don't follow up.
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Johnny,
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >   Does CentOS wants to start compiling also Extended Update 
> Support (EUS)
> >   rpms? (Instead of EUS, Red Hat seems to call this also 
> "Long Life".)
> > - From the extended list of errata you can see many addon 
> rpms which are
> >   all Open Source. In addition to the base Enterprise 
> Linux, does CentOS
> >   want to recompile additional products?
> 
> I am pretty sure that Red Hat does not publish the "Extended 
> Update Support" source files on their FTP site.  Do you know 
> of a public place where those SRPMS are at?
> 

Surly the GPL would still apply. So them must be available somehow.

> My understanding of this program is that the SRPMS are only 
> suppled to the specific customers.




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