On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:50:53PM +0200, Leon Fauster via devel wrote:
> If a bumped version of a package fixes an issue (stream variant of
> CentOS) e.g 2.2, and a released package (rhel variant) has a
> backported fix for e.g. 2.1, that doesn't mean that the code is also
> in the stream git just because both code fragments fixes the same
> issue. The backported code can be very different, and its not in the
> git branch of the stream variant. So, that code is not available in
> git, and to cite Michael "and never will be."
However, this has _always_ been the situation for RHEL. Only the
sources for the _latest_ point release (eg RHEL 7.4) were ever made
available to the general public; updates/fixes backported to prior
versions (eg RHEL 7.3) never saw the precise corresponding sources
released (directly) to the public. Pre-Stream CentOS therefore only
ever received updates for the _latest_ point release of RHEL.
(Of course, actual RH customers can always download the corresponding
SRPMs, and RH will send the sources to any third party who makes a
request in writing, for $5)
So, yeah. Complaining _now_ about what's been the operating policy for
two decades seems pretty silly.
- Solomon
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