On 06/24/2017 01:51 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 24/06/17 02:23, Todd Chester wrote: >> On 06/23/2017 03:04 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> On Saturday, 24 June 2017 3:32:02 AM AEST ToddAndMargo wrote: >>>> On 06/23/2017 07:28 AM, Sean A wrote: >>>>> Are you all referring to RHEL 7.4 Beta? >>>>> >>>>> Given recent history on the past 2 releases, I would put my money on >>>>> 7.4 >>>>> GA in Nov. 2017. Scientific probably not until Jan 2018. >>>> Just 7.4. When Red Hat Bugzilla notifies me they >>>> have fixed something, they say they fixed it in 7.4. >>>> >>>> The way RH sounds, RHEL is already on 7.4, but I >>>> haven't checked. >>> >>> Nope: >>> >>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) >>> >> >> Sounds to me like RH has lost interest in fixing anything in 7.3 > > A clarification on how the Red Hat releases and updates work is probably > in order. > > Red Hat have a few Errata categories - depending on how critical and > sever an issue is. > > Important and critical bug fixes are fixed in erratas during the life > time of the point releases (7.0, 7.1...7.3). > > Trivial and minor bug fixes, which does not impact stability, security > and such will most commonly be postponed to the next point release. > That also includes new features. > > If something is targeted for the next point release or is put in an > errata for the current release is most commonly evaluated and decided on > a case-by-case scenario by Red Hat's product manager and the package > manager. > > You may want to enable the fastbugs repository, which will update all > packages not been considered important enough for the current main > repositories, but still important enough to ship to those who might care. > > A bit more info: > <https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/faq-updates/#updates-how> > > What you typically will notice when enabling fastbugs, is that the > packages required to update from a 7.x with fastbugs to the next point > release will be noticeably smaller compared to not having fastbugs enabled. > > But, you will notice that the updates will often be a bit fewer when the > next point release is talking shape and especially after the public > betas have been released. That said, important fixes will still flow to > the current stable releases where it is needed and supported. > > > Hope this clarified more than added more confusion. > > Hi David, Thank you for the tutorial! I checked out sl7-fastbugs.repo [sl-fastbugs] ... enabled=1 So I do have it. I haven't seen any of the bugs I reported show up. Then again, RH specifically stated that they release them in 7.4. So, I will have to wait. Aw shucks. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~