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Red Hat refuses Alma's CVE patches to CentOS Stream; says "no customer demand" (i.redd.it)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/iperf3/-/merge_requests/5

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 years ago (9 children)

In its blog post Red Hat specifically called out downstream distributions for not contributing anything to the development of RHEL and that they should be making fixes to CentOS Stream. Well, this is a fix for CentOS Stream and Red Hat still doesn't care. They just don't want community contributions.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (7 children)

CentOS Stream is the staging ground for RHEL. It isn't a bleeding edge distro that can accept any merge request willy-nilly. For the reason why, reread my original comment about the nature of enterprise support.

Fedora is the distro that is more bleeding edge in the RHEL realm. This merge request was more suited for Fedora, and the fix was successfully applied to Fedora. So, I fail to see any irrational actions from Red Hat here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds to me like they messed up the communication between them and the devs. If they directed the PR submitter to Fedora, I think there wouldn't be as much fuel to the fire.

Granted, all the chaos surrounding RHEL does make me a little worried for Fedora. Fedora is not a bad distro by any means, and I don't want to have to not recommend it because of the drama.