[CentOS-virt] XSAs 170 and 154, repository layouts, and centos-release-xen 8-1

Wed Feb 17 17:52:05 UTC 2016
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:04:08PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:30 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu> wrote:
> > I have the following packages going through the CBS:
> > * A CentOS 7 xen-4.6.1-2, with XSAs 170 and 154
> > * A CentOS 6 xen-4.6.1-2, with XSAs 170 and 154
> > * A CentOS 6 xen-4.4.3-11, with XSAs 170
> >
> > All these should show up in mirrors hopefully sometime later today.
> > As usual, please report any problems here.
> >
> > Xen 4.4 only has XSA 170 because at the time the embargo was lifted, I
> > didn't have a suitable backport of XSA-154.  It's only applicable when
> > PCI-passthrough is in effect, so it's not that critical.
> 
> I now have a build of Xen 4.4 with XSA-154 going through the build
> system.  For users who need it, it should be available on buildlogs
> (via centos-virt-xen-testing) sometime later this afternoon.  The
> signed version on mirrors may be delayed until tomorrow.
>

Great!
 
> And that really will be the last Xen 4.4 XSA update I personally port. :-)
> 

:)

> However, if anyone wants to push any further changes to 4.4, feel free
> to send a pull request to this tree:
> 
> https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen
> 
> And I'll be happy to review it and push it through the CBS.  I've made
> a detailed how-to, so hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult.
>

Thanks a lot! Howto looks good.


-- Pasi
 
> Peace,
>  -George