[CentOS] [EL6] How to follow upstream updates?

Leon Fauster leonfauster at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 26 23:44:34 UTC 2017


> Am 27.01.2017 um 00:32 schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
> 
> On 01/26/2017 04:02 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 01/26/2017 03:35 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
>>> Sorry, if it was answered already elsewhere. 
>>> 
>>> Where exactly are the current EL6 builds done? 
>>> Or rephrased: I would like to look into the state 
>>> of following security update:
>>> 
>>> mysql-5.1.73-8.el6_8.src.rpm
>>> 
>>> Looking into
>>> 
>>> https://git.centos.org/repositories/ 
>>> http://cbs.centos.org 
>>> http://buildlogs.centos.org/
>>> 
>> 
>> None of the above has anything to do the el6 .. el6 builds happen as
>> they always have in our old buildsystem.  None of those builds are
>> public, just the released files.  There will be an announcement on
>> CentOS Announce list when this package is released.
>> 
>>> shows mostly EL7 stuff. 
>> 
>> Yes, EL7 has a completely different build system and all of the things
>> you pointed to are el7 only.  There is currently no plan to change el6
>> building.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Just curious,
>>> LF
>> 
>> That mysql does not build as released .. see this BZ:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1412805
>> 
>> I have applied the patch and I am currently building and testing that SRPM.
>> 
>> It should be released sometime in the next couple of hours, assuming
>> everything works.
>> 
> 
> This EL6 update has now built and has been though CI testing:
> 
> https://ci.centos.org/view/CentOS-Core/job/C6-x86_64-Pretest-Updates/171/console
> 
> And has been pushed to the Master mirror.
> 
> It should populate all mirror.centos.org servers in the next hour and
> then external mirrors as they sync on their schedules.
> 
> I'll release the announce message shortly after mirror.centos.org
> machines are populated.


Thanks you Johnny for the insights into this specific package and the fast response! Great!

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LF














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