[Open-scap] Mommy, where do openscap repos come from?

[Simon Lukasik]

On 09/04/2014 04:58 PM, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 02:51 PM, Greg Elin wrote:
>> What repos host openscap?
>>
>> I've been asked to install OpenSCAP on Amazon Linux. I thought I was
>> getting OpenSCAP from Fedora EPEL (
>> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm),
>> but testing on Amazon Linux, that now seems incorrect.
>>
>
> As Martin already wrote, openscap can't be part of epel repository since
> it's part of RHEL. However, RHEL is upstream for several distributions
> like CentOS so you could try to look there:
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
>

The centos version of the package may or may not work. No assurance. We 
cannot fix things for you on Amazon.

More correct approach would be to ask Amazon to include OpenSCAP 
package. That way you could actually get some support.

Good luck!

-- 
Simon Lukasik
Security Technologies, Red Hat, Inc.