On 03/01/15 07:12, Steven Crothers wrote: > David, > > The CentOS team has taken the stance that they do not understand what > is required for this, so, they will not be including it under any > circumstances.
umm, no. > > I am unable to locate the thread in the archive: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-September/thread.html > > However, luckily, Gmane archives everything just fine. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.devel/12370/focus=12375 > > In the third reply from KB, he states: > "ok, so the updateinfo content - we can carry that, where would the > data come from ?" > > So it may be possible he doesn't understand where the Errata is > located currently (in the mailing list), again, incorrect - spend a bit of time and actually try to workout what the context and data needs to be and what is being requesed. > so I think someone just needs > to step up and do the work for CentOS in incorporating the Errata, > but, Johnny handles that and the work he does isn't documented to the > public. third part, again incorrect. > So, we're a little in the dark on where/how he sets up the > announce list anyways. But, that's how it's always been with the > CentOS project, the gears are kept private the product is made public. > > Realistically, it would probably be easier to fork the repositories > under a different name, create your own mirrorlist and point back at > the mirrors for your RPM sources. you are still going to need the updateinfo data... > Steven Crothers > steven.croth...@gmail.com > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS > <david.somers-har...@mail.rakuten.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Currently The CentOS project publishes errata on its CentOS Announce mailing >> list. In order to import this into a package management system (like Katello >> on The Foreman), one needs to parse the mailing list and convert it into XML >> before importing it. This is done to some extent on >> http://cefs.steve-meier.de/ but some more legwork needs to be done before >> The Foreman can understand the errata like it does natively for RHN. >> >> I have heard rumour that The CentOS project is planning to publish Errata in >> the same way that Red Hat does, but I haven't been able to find anything on >> the Internet about this. Does anybody know if The CentOS Project has indeed >> declared such intention, and when they plan to do this? >> >> Side Note: Interestingly enough, I've noticed that EPEL has started to add >> errata data to their repositories. >> >> Thanks, >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
