> On 11/30/22 11:41, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote: >> Thanks for the reference, Simon. [tl;dr: delays due to CentOS folks >> repeating tremendous effort RH already solved.] While I am grateful for >> everyone's time and efforts, it is hard to understand why there isn't >> more technology transfer within RH to the CentOS folks if they're one >> big happy family. And disappointing there is no communication on this >> issue here. >> >> With vulnerable internet-interacting apps like Thunderbird and Firefox >> (possibly others), IMHO CentOS 7 is unsafe for general use. Effectively >> EOL. I'm sad, but no time for self pity when there's work to replace >> the OS on our systems... >> >> Thank you, CentOS team. Incredible success for many years - I've >> enjoyed the ride with you. >> > > These (firefox and thunderbird) are now released. Hi Johnny and all, Thank you very much for your hard work on this, it's much appreciated! Regards, Simon > > Regardless, these things still need to be built in the CentOS > Infrastructure. Just FYI, i had to bootstrap all of the following to > make this work: > > rust-1.54 > rust-1.58 > rust-1.62 > devtoolset-12 > llvm-toolset-12.0 > llvm-toolset-13.0 > llvm-toolset-14.0 > > Many of these items needed to be combined together in different > buildroots to get different library links. > > I also provided the required source packages to other people so they > could build this as well since not all the things required to build > Firefox/Thunderbird are part of the distribution. > > The real bottom line here is that this was not easy to do. It requires > MANY things that are newer than the items released in EL7. But once > built, it still needs to run on the items included in EL7. > > This was much easier to do in both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9 > as the toolsets are all part of those distribution. They are not part > of the RHEL 7 (so also not part of CentOS Linux 7). > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > >> >> On 11/30/22 3:45 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>> OK, this is a known issue as seen here: >>> >>> https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=79706 >>> >>> Seems then that all users of CentOS 7 are at risk if they are using >>> Firefox or Thunderbird on it. >>> >>> And that's for three months now. Not good. >>> >>> Dear Red Hat, how can you left us in the rain that way? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Simon >>> >>>>> Hi Chris, >>>>> >>>>>> [No response on CentOS list, so trying CentOS-devel.] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >>>>>> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates >>>>>> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:33:56 -0500 >>>>>> From: Chris Schanzle via CentOS <centos at centos.org> >>>>>> Reply-To: Chris Schanzle <christopher.schanzle at nist.gov>, CentOS >>>>>> mailing >>>>>> list <centos at centos.org> >>>>>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> Looks like CentOS 7 hasn't shipped Thunderbird updates for a while. >>>>>> The >>>>>> latest I see in repos is: >>>>>> >>>>>> Sep 1 15:22 thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm >>>>>> >>>>>> Perusing through the RHEL announcements, that was from the >>>>>> RHSA-2022:6169-01 on 2022-08-24. Seems none of the 102.x versions >>>>>> have >>>>>> shipped: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2022-09-26 RHSA-2022:6710-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm >>>>>> >>>>>> 2022-10-18 RHSA-2022:6998-01 thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm >>>>>> >>>>>> 2022-10-25 RHSA-2022:7184-01 thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> And for completeness, just announced today: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2022-11-21 RHSA-2022:8555-01 thunderbird-102.5.0-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm >>>>>> >>>>> The same seems true for firefox, which is still at >>>>> firefox-91.13.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64. >>>>> >>>>> Was it not updated in RHEL7? >>>> It was, at least Oracle Linux has firefox-102.5.0-1.0.1.el7_9.src.rpm >>>> >>>> I was already worried because firefox on CentOS7 as aged a bit... >>>> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >