On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the purpose of this distribution is to provide stable platforms for > scientific research how do you marry that with releasing back-ported beta > versions of the future release as a security patch? Seriously, what is > going on with dropping RHEL 7.4 beta kernel, gnome-3.22, etc. packages into > SL7.3 as security updates? > > All of our desktops with NVIDIA cards are now about as good as boat > anchors under the 3.10.0-693 kernel. Sudo segfaults when using it with > pam_ssh_agent_auth, luckily pam_pkcs11.so works so at least I can use my > CAC to escalate privilege if I am at the console. I'm sure the list could > go on, but these are of my immediate concern. > > --Sean >
I believe that the updates were built from the sources for RHEL 7.4. SL has been doing this practice for quite some time, so this is not really new. Which packages do you think are from the 7.4 beta release? For example, you mentioned kernel 3.10.0-693 but this is the RHEL 7.4 GA kernel. 7.4 beta had kernel 3.10.0-663. Akemi
