[CentOS-devel] Publish Errata for CentOS

Wed Jan 14 14:06:40 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 01/13/2015 07:49 PM, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS wrote:
> Hello,
> 
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> 
> I originally asked on the centos mailing list when CentOS will publish
> errata like Red Hat does for RHEL.
> 
> It has since turned into a discussion which seems more fit for the
> centos-devel list, so I’m moving it here now.
> 
> Here is the last post on the centos list:
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2015-January/149122.html
> 
>  
> 
> The current problem which needs to be tackled is where to get the data from.
> 
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> It has been suggested that getting the data from Red Hat’s emails would
> not be a breach of Red Hat’s ToU.
> 
> Can anybody confirm this?
> 
>  
> 
> If this is the case, then we can just subscribe a bot to the emails and
> generate the data from that and put it in updateinfo.xml.

They only do emails for Security updates, not bugfix or enhancement
updates.

Look at the oval data, that might have all the info required:

http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/

But, I think that is also ONLY RHSA data and not bugfix or enhancement info.


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