John Hanks wrote:
> While setting up warewulf on a new cluster based on SL40 this weekend I
> ran into a problem with dhcpd which seems to be the problem discussed
> here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150267
> 
> I've worked around it by manually installing a newer dhpcd. Is this
> something that is addressed by SL40 errata that is not making it onto my
> system? I'm a newbie to the SL distribution but a long time
> redhat/fedora/gentoo user so I'm still getting a feel for how updates
> are handled in SL, if I'm missing something I'd appreciate pointers in
> the right direction.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jbh
> 
> John Hanks
> Utah State University

Hi John,
S.L. tries to follow RHEL as much as possible, so that updated dhcp did 
not make it into the release until S.L. 4.1.  It is in S.L. 4.1

Why was it not released into the errata area?
Because it was a bugfix and not a security errata.

Why not put the bugfix's into the errata area?
Stability.  Our original users wanted to pick a release and be able to 
sit on it.  All they wanted was the security updates, not the bugfixes 
or extra updates.

But what if you want the bugfixes?
There are currently 2 things to do, and we're working on a third, 
possibly fourth way.
1. Just get it by hand.  Ugg ... that's tedious.
2. Upgrade to the latest release, or possibly even the rolling release. 
  Also tedious, but at least you get them all.
3. We're working on a 'bugfix' repository.  It's currently in 4.1.  So 
that if you do happen to want a bugfix, you can enable that yum 
repository and get it.
4. We're also working on an easy way for users to set things up so that 
they will always be updated to the latest release when it comes out. 
This is how CentOS does it.  This will not be the default setting.

Does that help clear things up?

Troy
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