On 8/7/20 2:40 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Il 07/08/20 08:22, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: >>> "How on earth could this have passed Q & A ?" > > Hi Johnny, > Niki's question is spread, legit, in the thoughts in many and many users > so don't see this as an attack. Many and many users,though really "if > this was tested before release" and I think that many of us are > incredulous at what happened on CentOS and in the upstream (specially in > the upstream) but as you said CentOS inherits RHEL bugs. I'm reading > about many users that lost their trust in RH with the last 2 problem > (microcode and shim). This is bad for CentOS. > >> Well, I mean that would be a valid point if it happened for every >> install. The issue did not happen on every install. There is no way to >> test every single hardware and firmware combination for every single >> computer ever built :) >> >> It would be great if things like this did not happen, but with the >> universe of possible combinations, i am surprised it does not happen >> more often. > > Probably many users have not updated their machines between the bug > release and the resolution (thanks to your fast apply in the weekend, > thank you) and many update their centos machines on a 2 months base (if > not worst). I think also that many users of CentOS user base have not > proclamed their disappointement/the issue on this list or in other > channels. For example I simply updated in the wrong time. > >> We do run boot tests of every single kernel for CentOS. The RHEL team >> runs many more tests for RHEL. But every possible combination from >> every vendor can't possibly be tested. Right? > > you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the same > on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my uefi > workstations. It would be nice if it did .. however, this worked on many UEFI/Secureboot machines. It did not work on a small subset of machines. > > While CentOS team could not have so much resources to run this type of > tests would be great to know what happened to RHEL QA (being RH giant) > for this release and given the partenership between CentOS and RH if you > know something more on this..... > I have not seen the full post event account if what actually happened. I do know that many Red Hatters worked many hours over the last weekend to fix it. I am sure a public post will be made (if not already there) .. if someone knows where it is, post a link. If I don't see it posted soon, I'll look for it and post here.
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