On 4 Apr 2021, at 0:19, Simon Wilson wrote:
CentOS / RHEL backport critical security fixes into the stock versions... you lose that as soon as you go 'roll-your-own'.
Not a real feature IF you're keeping up with SA releases. Arguably an anti-feature. Critical security fixes for SA are integrated into minor version releases (such as in 3.4.5) and are not assured of being backportable onto any version of SA older than the live 'HEAD' of the development branch when the security fix is committed.
Put another way, RedHat cherry-picks code changes (security and bugfix) that may not be fully independent of the other changes made between releases. They may be creating versions that have subtle breakage that no canonical release or even point-in-time development HEAD snapshot shares.
-- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire
