On 4/13/07, Steven Lee <slee at cs.cornell.edu> wrote: > I have a quick question: if a bug is discovered in CentOS but the bug > came from RHEL, how would this bug be handled? If CentOS fixes the bug, > it would no longer be identical to RHEL, no? Short answer is: It depends. Long answer is: we verify the bug, and make sure that the bug does exist upstream as well. Then depending on the severity and/or impact of the bug, we may fix it ourselves, but place the new package into centosplus, so as to not interfere with the 1:1 compatibility that users want, unless they specifically choose to add the fix. This was done in centos 4 with the spinlock typo issue with the kernel and 1 or two other packages. Other times if we can fix the bug, we submit the patch/fix upstream and wait for it to be rolled into the updates. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell