[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 117, Issue 9

[Ted Miller]

On 11/18/2014 07:00 AM, centos-announce-request at centos.org wrote:
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>     1. ABRT for CentOS Linux is now live (Karanbir Singh)
>     2. CESA-2014:1861 Important CentOS 7 mariadb	Security Update
>        (Johnny Hughes)
>     3. CESA-2014:1859 Important CentOS 5 mysql55-mysql	Security
>        Update (Johnny Hughes)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:49:32 +0000
> From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
> To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org>
> Subject: [CentOS-announce] ABRT for CentOS Linux is now live
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> ABRT is a collection of scripts that makes it easier to report bugs and
> crashes in various components of the distribution to a central server.
> Metadata from this allows developers and upstream projects to evaluate
> their priority chain, and also get crucial information on why their
> software might not be performing as expected on CentOS Linux.
>
> This information is sent to the server in a json format text file, the
> contents of which will never contain private date. The entire
> specification for this report format is available at :
> https://github.com/abrt/faf/wiki/uReport and I encourage everyone to
> read it once, so as to build confidence in the process.
>
> --------
> You can enable ABRT reporting by running:
> /usr/sbin/abrt-auto-reporting enabled
>
> this script is provided by the 'abrt' rpm package.
>
> --------
> More details on ABRT on CentOS are available on the CentOS wiki at
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ABRT ; The entire ABRT
> documentation is available online at :
> http://abrt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ - this includes both user and
> developer information.
>
> For those looking to get started with hacking on ABRT, start by reading
> through the advanced usage examples at :
> http://abrt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html
>
> --------
> The reports posted by CentOS machines will currently land at the Fedora
> Project hosted retrace server at : https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/
>
> --------
> For any problems or issues with the abrt code included in CentOS Linux,
> or for any problems associated with abrt user experience on CentOS Linux
> : please post reports at http://bugs.centos.org/ by selecting the right
> Distribution version and component as 'abrt'.
>
> All other conversations around abrt on CentOS Linux should goto the
> CentOS-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ).
>
> regards,

Thanks KB and anyone else involved.  I was one of the ones that first 
complained asking "Why are you even distributing this tool that will only 
send reports to RH, but RH rejects them."
Ted Miller