On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Connie Sieh wrote: > 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). When the Upstream Vendor puts things in fastbugs it does not send out a notice of this. Some have asked for a mailing list but this has not been created. -Connie Sieh > > > > [ 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 > > >