[CentOS-devel] Publish Errata for CentOS

[Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS]

On 01/21/2015 05:41 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/21/2015 10:06 AM, Tony Coffman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> the question isnt 'how' its just a xml file, you can write it by hand if
>>> you wish. the question is what do we put inside it and how do we make
>>> sure what we put inside it is accurate.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Why not do a minimal version that simply includes the information from
>> the centos-announce mailing list and no external data?  There are a
>> few other errata fields that can simply be filled in with "not
>> available".  This minimal solution is nearly there using existing open
>> source scripts tied together.
> 
> If someone from the community would be willing to script something up
> for this we can take a look at it. 

Is this the kind of script you are envisioning?
  Input:
    Announcement data input by author or CentOS announcement.
  Output:
    Announcement email text
    updateinfo.xml patch

> I've been toying with the idea of 
> adding an rss feed to www.centos.org for the repositories in place of 
> updateinfo, mostly since Johnny is quite correct, we don't validate 
> cve closure, so providing that info as if we do seems a bit wrong.

I don't see anything wrong with filling errata fields with "not available" as Tony suggested, at least to start with.