[CentOS] CentOS Stream from bottom works, what is this?

Wed Dec 9 18:26:22 UTC 2020
Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) <noam.bernstein at nrl.navy.mil>

> On Dec 9, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:58:10AM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
>> If a bug were to make it into CentOS Stream, and identified before
>> RHEL 8.4 was released, would an updated/fixed package be produced
>> and placed into CentOS Stream?
> 
> Absolutely. The only path into RHEL minor releases that isn't through Stream
> is for CVEs and other embargoed changes. And those will go back into Stream
> as soon as they can.

Does that mean that it will always be possible to recreate the set of final RHEL point release packages by cherry-picking from Stream?  If so, isn't that a solution (and, I'd argue, _the_ solution if there's some officially supported way of grabbing that set)?

							Noam