[Mageia-dev] Security Update Process

Mon May 16 18:05:38 CEST 2011

On 16 May 2011 16:57, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 15:45, Stew Benedict <stewbintn at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> OK,
+>>
+>> Mageia 1 is approaching quickly and we need to get our process in place
+>> for security updates. We talked a bit about it a few weeks ago, and I
+>> started a wiki page, but it needs more detail. Anne and I chatted on IRC
+>> and it looks like we'll want to cutoff the "on the iso " updates at the
+>> end of this week, so we need a process in place to release post-iso updates.
+>>
+>> ref: http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=security
+>>
+>> As I see it, initially we need, in no particular order:
+>>
+>> 1) a means to build updates for the release (iurt setup for mga1?)
+>
+> A iurt setup for mga1 will exist anyway, what is missing is a way to
+> later upload to non public place.
+> Initially, we can just setup youri to restrict submitting a build to
+> updates_testing or updates to the secteam and it should be enough.
+>
+
+Ideally packagers should be able to submit to update_testing when they
+want to push a fixed package to ask for testing. So restricting
+submitting to updates sounds more logical?
+
+[...]
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+