[CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Am 08.12.20 um 20:39 schrieb Mauricio Tavares:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:00 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/8/20 8:58 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>>> On 12/8/20 4:47 PM, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Does
>>>> https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q5-does-this-mean-that-centos-stream-is-the-rhel-beta-test-platform-now
>>>>
>>>> address your concerns?
>>>
>>> When I see "Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream after they
>>> are solved in the current RHEL release." I can only reply your question
>>> with "No, it does not"
>>
>> That is NO different that now.  We build CentOS updates after they are
>> released in RHEL and then the source code is pushed to git.centos.org
>> .. we always have.
>>
>> This is no different.  The security updates will be pushed to stream
>> after they have been pushed to RHEL .. just like now.
> 
>        So it will get package upgrades first because it is supposed to
> be RHEL +0.1 but will get security patches later since in that aspect
> it is RHEL -0.1.


Good catch. In the old days of CentOS the "security" gap was "only"
while building a point release. Now, the gap expands gradually over
the life of a point release. Important fact ...

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Leon