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