On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 5:17 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 04:03, MF Ghani <mfghani0 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Does CentOS monitor the linux mainline to backport bug fixes? or does > > it monitor RedHat patch releases? or both? > > Incase it only monitors RedHat patch releases, does redhat make all > > their security bug fixes publicly available for the CentOS community > > to adopt or does it selectively release patches? > > CentOS is a rebuild of the sources released by Red Hat for its Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. Basically the flow goes something like this > > [Red Hat] -> [git.centos.org] -> [CentOS rebuilders] -> [CentOS mirrors] > > For information on how and what Red Hat makes public, I would check > with what they have on their website versus basing on what a person on > a mailing list says. That said, Red Hat makes the fixes they deliver > to customers available via the above method. > > > Best, > > - Ghani > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. Just wanted to make a note on the centosplus kernel. While the distro kernel is a strict rebuild of the RHEL kernel, CentOS also provides a custom kernel (called kernel-plus in C7 and C8). It can freely accommodate bug fixes (patches) and added features. For example, you can see the actual patches for CentOS-7 here: https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/blob/c7-sig-centosplus-kernel/f/SOURCES A request for a new patch/feature can be filed at http://bugs.centos.org for consideration. Akemi