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Reason For Removing Php-mcrypt From CentOS 6/7

Posted January 22, 2015 by Somers-Harris, David & filed under CentOS Comments: 0

Does anybody know why php-mcrypt was removed from the extras repo when CentOS 6 came out?Ive been going through the archives and I saw plenty of people complain about it but no explanation for the reason.I know its available in EPEL but I want to av..

Scope Of Testing Done By CentOS Development Team

Posted January 12, 2015 by Somers-Harris, David & filed under CentOS Comments: 3

Tags: CentOS Development Team, repositories, test catalog, third party software

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 softw..

When Will CentOS Publish Errata?

Posted December 23, 2014 by Somers-Harris, David & filed under CentOS Comments: 17

Tags: errata, package management system

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 ..