[CentOS-devel] RHEL receiving updates before CentOS Stream

Currently the reality is closer to the latter (rolling public beta),
with the goal of working towards the former (being upstream of RHEL).

In this particular case, this was an update to RHEL 8.2, which was
pushed to the c8 branch two days ago [0].  We have built that [1] and
will be releasing it to both c8 and c8s soon.

[0] https://git.centos.org/rpms/firefox/c/a595fa443f2953a685963925e3e0c6b38bf8b372?branch=c8
[1] https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=11801

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:35 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/07/2020 03:56, Andy Hall wrote:
> > How does RHEL receive the latest Firefox package before CentOS Stream ?
> >
> > https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2828
> >
> > "This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.10.0 ESR."
> >
> > Here's is CentOS Stream...
> >
> > [ahall at ctream ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release
> > CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)
> >
> > [ahall at ctream ~]$ yum info firefox
> > Installed Packages
> > Name         : firefox
> > Version      : 68.9.0
> > Release      : 1.el8_2
> >
> > [ahall at ctream ~]$ sudo yum upgrade firefox
> > [sudo] password for ahall:
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:36 ago on Tue 07 Jul 2020 03:43:44 BST.
> > Dependencies resolved.
> > Nothing to do.
> > Complete!
> >
> > [ahall at ctream ~]$ yum info firefox-68.10.0
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:06:42 ago on Tue 07 Jul 2020 03:48:12 BST.
> > Error: No matching Packages to list
>
> Because it's a security update, and CentOS rebuilds RHEL sources so
> there is always going to be some inherent lag.
>
>  From the title of your email you appear to be viewing CentOS Stream as
> an upstream to RHEL. I view it more as a rolling public beta for the
> next RHEL point release. Either way, you will not get security updates
> before RHEL.
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS-devel mailing list
> CentOS-devel at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
>


-- 
Carl George