On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Pat Riehecky wrote:

> On 11/08/2012 07:59 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm currently working through an issue with OpenSSH in 6.3.
>> 
>> Relevant bugzilla entries:
>> Fedora 18: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872608
>> EL6: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869903
>> 
>> I'm a bit curious how stuff gets into the fastbugs or testing repos for SL. 
>> Are these the same source repos that TUV uses for the same repo names?
>> 
>> When this does get fixed and confirmed, I'm going to try and chase it 
>> through the EL6 chains as well as F18.
>> 
>
> Items in the 'fastbugs' repo are packages released by upstream which do not 
> address a security issue and are not part of a point release.  These are 
> primarily bugfix and enhancement packages.  Some packages developed by 
> Scientific Linux are also considered fastbugs, depending on when they were 
> developed and how quickly they should be released.

Fastbugs trys to "follow" the "FastTrack" channel of RHEL.

>
> Packages in the 'testing' repo are packages that we feel could benefit from 
> some additional testing before being merged with the main trees.  This is 
> handled on a case by case basis, so it is difficult to provide an exact 
> description.  For upstream packages, these packages are typically built from 
> the publicly released source.  For example, when firefox moved from the 3 
> series to the 10 series, the firefox packages were placed in testing first. 
> Similarly, the security errata released as a part of the upstream 6.3 release 
> went into testing before being merged into the main SL trees.
>
> I hope this has been helpful.
>
> Pat
>
>

-Connie Sieh