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Re: named-chroot issue - AGAIN
From:
Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:42:58 +1100
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On 19/03/2016 1:31 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:17 PM, David Sommerseth
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 17/03/16 13:23, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:53 PM, David Sommerseth
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not going to argue that this could have been done better, I agree with you
>>>> here. On the other hand, maybe *that* is one reason it takes time to get this
>>>> issue resolved too? That Red Hat QE is working on improving the situation,
>>>> adding needed regression tests and so on for this use case. I know I'm
>>>> speculating now, but I also know that these guys really do their best to avoid
>>>> painful experiences for users and customers. Unfortunately, they do mistakes
>>>> - as we all do from time to time.
>>>
>>> Given the
>>> https://git.centos.org/blobdiff/rpms!bind.git/d56ed2d3a2736a07a09c268f3b2607cca8f1b6ca/SOURCES!named-chroot.service
>>> commit, there's probably a lot of hype in RH's QA marketing claims.
>>> I'm not implying that there's no QA at all but, in this case, if there
>>> was any, it sucked.
>>
>> The people working on CentOS are not the same people working on RHEL,
>> even if they're working in the same company.  And RHEL is still the
>> upstream source of CentOS.
>>
>> So if CentOS decides to fix this on their own, they need to keep track
>> of this until it's fixed in RHEL and then remove their own fix.  Of
>> course SL could do that as well, but that can be a maintenance burden.
>>
>> That's the downside of being a downstream distro.
> 
> Just because it's on git.centos.org doesn't mean that this is a CentOS
> change. It's an import from RH. CentOS doesn't diverge from RHEL with
> downstream patches. And, AFAIK, SL uses pristine RH sources and not
> those modified by CentOS.

Correct - that was my point. This is part of a change that RH pushed
internally and to CentOS. The origin is RedHat - and the change shows
the source of the bug - RedHat :)

-- 
Steven Haigh

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