Bidwell, Christopher wrote:
> Thanks for that quick response! I guess I should have looked closer
> through the wiki. Much appreciated!
>
Please don't top post.
One suggestion: if you have a number of systems, buy at least one RHEL
license - that way, you can ask for enhancements, bugfixes, and such from
them.
That's how we got US gov't PIV card support from them. Most of our systems
are CentOS, though....
mark
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Yves Bellefeuille <yan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 07 May 2013, "Bidwell, Christopher" <cbidwell@xxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > My question is what kind of time frame are we looking at when a
>> > vulnerability (critical or high) is announced and a patch has been
>> > released for RHEL does it get implemented into CentOS?
>>
>> >From the FAQ, http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General:
>>
>> > 2. How long after Red Hat publishes a fix does it take for CentOS to
>> > publish a fix?
>> >
>> > Our goal is to have individual RPM packages available on the mirrors
>> > within 72 hours of their release, and normally they are available
>> > within 24 hours. Occasionally packages are delayed for various
>> > reasons. On rare occasions packages may be built and pushed to the
>> > mirrors but not available via yum. (This is because yum-arch has not
>> > been run on the master mirror. This may happen when issues with
>> > upstream packages are discovered shortly after their release, and if
>> > releasing the package would break it's functionality.)
>>
>> --
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