Hi Pat,

while my site is not affected by that bug, this move seems reasonable to me even though it will cause some (modest) additional effort here.

- Stephan

On Jun 16, 2017, at 19:34 , Pat Riehecky wrote:

> A recent security update to rpcbind (SLSA-2017:1267) contained a bug that causes rpcbind to crash under some conditions. The specific conditions involve the interaction between ypbind, ypserv, and IPv6 addresses within rpcbind.
> 
> The fix (SLBA-2017:1435 and SLBA-2017:1436) is currently available in the fastbugs repos. But given that there is potential for a significant unplanned outage when the latest rpcbind security update is applied, and that many SL systems do not install fastbugs by default, we will push SLBA-2017:1435 to security.
> 
> Publication of a non-security package to older releases is something the SL Team generally does only to permit the installation of security updates. We're making an exception for this case.
> 
> On June 19 2017, SLBA-2017:1435 and SLBA-2017:1436 will be published for all SL6 and SL7 releases so that it supersedes SLSA-2017:1267 in a default yum update operation