Re: What List to Use for Patch Requests (Johnny Hughes) - CentOS Digest, Vol 118, Issue 4

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On 11/04/2014 12:00 PM, Stan Cruise wrote:
> 
> On 11/04/2014 05:00 AM, centos-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>     34. Re: What List to Use for Patch Requests (Johnny Hughes)
> 
> ------------------------------ Message: 34 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014
> 05:58:07 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> To:
> centos@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re:  What List to Use for Patch
> Requests Message-ID: <5458BF4F.6020300@xxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset="windows-1252" On 11/03/2014 06:38 PM, Stan Cruise
> wrote:
> 
>> I posted an issue that may warrant a patch some days ago with no
>> response.
>> Is there a more appropriate list to post on?
> 
> CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL Source code ... we don't release bugfixes of
> things released by RHEL unless we (CentOS team) somehow introduced the
> broken code with branding updates.  Remember, CentOS is supposed to be
> bug for bug compatible with the upstream products and if we want things
> fixed they need to come down from upstream.
> 
> Also, the evolution in CentOS-7 is 3.8.5-22.el7_0.1 ... not evolution
> 3.10.x.  That means that the patch from Fedora 20 will likely not apply
> as is.
> 
> If you are sure that it is the same issue then we can open a Red Hat bug
> and hopefully they will roll in the patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 
> Stan Cruise reply:
> 
> Hi Johnny,
> 
> Many thanks for your reply, and thanks for your description of the
> streaming approach. I was conceptually aware of this, but I do not know
> the process to follow.
> 
> My own use tests produce exactly the errors described in the bug report,
> although without real debugging it is hard to say it is the exact same
> root cause.
> 
> Would I need to submit a specific issue report with log files to
> initiate a Centos/RH process? (I have not done this before, but I do
> have a software development background, and know that one has to put in
> the effort, so I am willing to learn this and hopefully help the
> community).

As I posted in another post on that thread, Red Hat already has that for
action in this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153723

Should be released soon (7.1 at the latest, maybe sooner if it comes out
of QA)


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