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Re: Do SL-fastbugs packages get security updates?
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Ioannis Vranos <[log in to unmask]>
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Ioannis Vranos <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:54:37 +0200
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Ioannis Vranos
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Any package released as a security errata is placed in the security tree.
>>  Non-security updates are placed in the fastbugs tree.
>>
>>  If a non-security package has a security errata issued for it,
>
> Issued by whom?
>
>> the security errata for that
>> package is released as a security errata.

For example, I have installed the latest SL 6.2 kernel update from
SL-fastbugs. Will it get all future security updates of the mainline
SL 6.2 kernel?


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Ioannis Vranos

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