[CentOS-devel] Publish Errata for CentOS

[Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS]

On 02/05/2015 10:35 AM, David Somers-Harris wrote:
>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.

should read "author of 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.