[CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 10:25:38 UTC 2015


On 2015-01-06, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS
<david.somers-harris at mail.rakuten.com> wrote:
>> 1.  Blatant screen scraping is a violation of the terms of service
>> for RHN ..  so where is a SOURCE of information for something like
>> this:
>>
>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2024.html
>>
>> If you read this: https://access.redhat.com/help/terms/
>>
>> then, one can not just grab all the info on that errata page and
>> distribute it ..  which is why we LINK to it and not distribute it
>> currently.
>>
>> So, the first issue is that one must find a source for the
>> information that would go into the 'updateinfo.xml' file that is
>> always maintained and is available to read and to redistribute.
>>
>> 2.  If someone comes up with a place to get said data, THEN we could
>> properly publish that data in some way.
>>
>> Thanks, Johnny Hughes
>
> Can't we just ask Red Hat if it's OK for CentOS to use the data for
> its updateinfo.xml?  Is there some official communication channel
> between the CentOS Project and Red Hat?

Maybe you missed the big announcement:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html

-- 

Liam





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