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dsumsky
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Latest updates delayed

Post by dsumsky » 2017/04/04 16:14:26

Hello,
why are the recently announced updates for CentOS 6 x86_64 so delayed? I'm mainly concerned about the following CESAs:

CentOS 6 : openssh (CESA-2017:0641)
CentOS 6 : gnutls (CESA-2017:0574)
CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2017:0680)
CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2017:0817)
CentOS 6 : bash (CESA-2017:0725)
CentOS 6 : samba (CESA-2017:0662)

I can see they are announced on the CentOS-CR-announce mailing list. But I can't install them with 'yum update' command and I can't see them in updates repository (http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updat ... /Packages/). The latest ones are from 2017/03/20. The listed CESAs were mostly released on 2017/03/24.

Is there any reason why they are so delayed?!?

Thanks,
David

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Re: Latest updates delayed

Post by TrevorH » 2017/04/04 17:11:19

Because they are part of the next point release and content for that is pending creation and testing of the iso images. This is why the CR repo exists in the first place. See http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResour ... itories/CR

For CentOS 6 you need to install the centos-release-cr package and then use yum --enablerepo=cr update to get it.
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Re: Latest updates delayed

Post by dsumsky » 2017/04/05 09:02:32

Thanks for the answer. But does it hold for all kind of updates - security errata, bug-fix or enhancement?

I mean shouldn't be security updates released ASAP? There is almost 2 weeks delay now.

I may have an answer but I'm not sure if it is correct. As CentOS does not provide security errata as RedHat does it may be not possible to say what is a security update or a bugfix. And then everything is in continuous release repo before a new minor version is released, isn't it? Am I right or is it anything else?

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Re: Latest updates delayed

Post by TrevorH » 2017/04/05 09:15:25

Everything in a point release is tested and released together in exactly the same way as RH do it upstream. The security implications are precisely why the CR repo was made available.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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