[CentOS] libxml2 update/packaging issues?

Mon Oct 25 14:36:19 UTC 2021
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 10/20/21 23:57, Simon Matter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> last Friday (Oct 15) I encountered a weird issue relating to the
>> libxml2* packages.
>>
>> I have a script which monitors the CentOS mirrors to find new packages.
>> On Friday, these showed up:
>>
>> libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.5.i686.rpm
>> libxml2-2.9.1-6.el7.5.x86_64.rpm
>> libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7.5.i686.rpm
>> libxml2-devel-2.9.1-6.el7.5.x86_64.rpm
>> libxml2-python-2.9.1-6.el7.5.x86_64.rpm
>> libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7.5.i686.rpm
>> libxml2-static-2.9.1-6.el7.5.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> However, looking at Scientific Linux
>> (https://scientificlinux.org/category/sl-errata/slsa-20213810-1/)
>> and Red Hat Errata (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3810) it
>> seems that CentOS is one release
>> behind (el7.5 from CentOS vs. el7.6 for SL and RHEL).
>>
> 
> Yes, it seems the newest package has not been built from current GIT.
> 
> What's also strange is that I see libxml2 two times, in
> centos/7.9.2009/updates/x86_64/Packages/ and in
> centos/7.9.2009/os/x86_64/Packages/. Both with identical version but
> _different_ builds.
> 
> Maybe some automated thing which went wrong?
> 

Thanks for the report, this was fixed on 10/21