On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> > sl-fastbugs - disabled by default - These are bugfixes that are put out by 
> > the upstream vendor, before the official updates. At the time of this 
> > writting, this is a new program, that the vendor calls 'fasttrack'. It is not 
> > enabled by default, because sometimes bugfixes change the way a program 
> > works, and the releases of S.L. are designed to be very stable.
> >
> > sl-bugfix-44 - disabled by default - These are the non-errata, updated 
> > packages from the next release. In this case, sl-bugfix-44, is in S.L. 4.3, 
> > and it points to all the bugfixes that happened in S.L. 4.4. Since S.L. 4.4 
> > currently isn't out yet, this repository is empty. When S.L. 4.4 is released, 
> > this repository will be populated, and S.L. 4.4 configuration will have 
> > sl-bugfix-45.
> 
> I find the term non-errata slightly confusing since the vendor refers to 
> all 3 kinds (security/bugfix/enhancements) as errata...
> 
> What about (non-security) errata that the Vendor *has* released (after a 
> given release).  atm there arn't many examples of those at the moment, 
> though ypserv *is* one e.g.:
> 
>    https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0263.html
> 
> mentions ypserv-2.13-11 which isn't anywhere obvious other than 
> 43/<arch>/errata/fastbugs/... at the moment (ypserv-2.13-9 is in 
> 42/<arch>/SL/RPMS/ of course since that was current at the 43 release).
> 
> [ Aside: While looking at this I noticed that lmbench and rh2r (which had 
> bugfix releases last month) arn't anywhere in sl43 at all.  Is this 
> because there is no source or are they excluded for some other reason? ]

If the Upstream Vendor releases the src.rpm then we include it.  So it is
not included because the upstream vendor does not provide a src.rpm for
it.  In this case the upstream vendor does not include lmbench in RHEL.  
They do include lmbench in their "Hardware Certification" product but the
src.rpm is not on

  ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4AS/en/

so we do not rebuild it.

I did not find rh2r so do not know the status of it.

-Connie Sieh

 > 
> I'd always assumed that SL only (normally) included the security related 
> errata (plus any dependencies etc), but now with bugfix/fastbugs etc 
> things aren't so clear.  Has this changed?  Do non-security errata now get 
> into the main errata/SL/RPMS/ space?
> 
> Or am I just missing something about how the term errata is defined/used?
> 
>   -- Jon
>