[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 updates not posted on centos-announce mailinglist anymore

Thu Nov 18 10:20:06 UTC 2021
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 11/17/21 16:22, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
>>> Having the updates announced via mailinglist is very helpful if you do not
>>> have fully automatic updating activated, but do your own manual QA process
>>> before updating your servers.
>>
>> JFYI: https://feeds.centos.org/
> 
> I know. I had used that while using Centos 8 and before migrating away. But it
> required an extra tool to read the feed and turn it into emails. Also the
> upstream detail links are not included, so you have to search them yourselves.
> So for me using the announce-mailinglist is more convenient.
> 
> But the missing packages now seem to be posted to -announce. Thank you very
> much for this Johnny Hughes.
> 

You're welcome.

There is an ongoing issue where the errata index ( 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/#/ ) is sometimes delayed several days. 
  I have an internal infrastructure issue filled to have the issue fixed.

I have a script that queries that errata index when I do releases for 
CentOS Linux 7, but if the index is not updated then I have to go back 
later to rerun the query manually.

I will try to develop something that can automate the re-querying if the 
errata data is delayed.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes