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

James Szinger

jszinger at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 18:55:21 UTC 2020


On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:22:15 -0500
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:58:10AM -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
> > If the same happened in the previous question but was in a package
> > or set of packages that was being rebased in 8.5 would it work the
> > same way?  
> 
> Hmmm. I'm not sure I understand you. There won't be a dump of 8.5
> packages into Stream at some point. They will be updated there as
> ready.

The scenario I imagine is this:

start out the same
EL 8.4     foo-1.1.1-1
stream-8   foo-1.1.1-1

update stream for EL 8.5

EL 8.4     foo-1.1.1-1
stream-8   foo-1.2.0-1

CVE!

EL 8.4     foo-1.1.2-1
stream-8   foo-1.2.1-1

Result: foo-1.1.2-1 is in EL but not stream.

Jim


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