[CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

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:

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

> However, luckily, Gmane archives everything just fine. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.devel/12370/focus=12375 Thanks Steven for bringing this thread to my attention. So it looks like there was already a discussion about this in September, and it ended with two action items. 1. Wr

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

> 1. Blatant screen scraping is a violation of the terms of service for RHN .. > so where is a SOURCE of information for something like this: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2024.html > > If you read this: > https://access.redhat.com/help/terms/ > > then, one can not just grab all the

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

On 01/07/2015 3:04 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Maybe you missed the big announcement: >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html Thanks for this Liam! It gave me a lot of context I was missing. On 01/07/2015 4:25 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > Nope. We're still air-gapp

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

> On 2015-01-06, Keith Keller wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:37:46AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> 2. If someone comes up with a place to get said data, THEN we could >>> properly publish that data in some way. >> >> It would be a hack, but you could probably subscribe an automated >> a

[CentOS] Scope of testing done by CentOS Development Team

Hello, What types of tests does the CentOS Development Team do for software in its repositories? Where does it get its test catalog from? I want to create a testing process which is equal to if not more rigorous that the CentOS process for any third party software we use. For example, if I in

Re: [CentOS] Scope of testing done by CentOS Development Team

> First, I guess this question would be more suitable for the devel list than > for the users list, but that's just my opinion :) Thanks Sven. You're probably right. I'll move this to the devel list. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

> PS: I guess this discussion should move to the devel list? I was actually beginning to think the same think. I'll move this to the devel list. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS Publish Errata?

> I'll move this to the devel list. I've created the following thread. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-January/012600.html Thanks for the discussions so far. I look forward to making more progress on centos-devel. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Scope of testing done by CentOS Development Team

> Thanks Sven. > You're probably right. I'll move this to the devel list. I've created the following thread on the centos-devel list http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-January/012599.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://

[CentOS] Reason for removing php-mcrypt from CentOS 6/7

Does anybody know why php-mcrypt was removed from the extras repo when CentOS 6 came out? I've been going through the archives and I saw plenty of people complain about it but no explanation for the reason. I know it's available in EPEL but I want to avoid third party repos if at all possible.