[Spacewalk-list] Errata files

[jin&hitman&Barracuda]

So, I'm a bit overkill...

Thanks that explains a lot of thing. May i ask that the document you shared
in previous mail, mentioning this kind of situations ?

On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, 01:27 Avi Miller, <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 1 Jun 2018, at 8:18 am, jin&hitman&Barracuda <jinhitman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Avi for this explanation. How did i know that there is a weird
> situation, becouse whole errata counts is really less than channel's (lets
> say oraclelinux6) errata counts. I did not count every single errata but
> web page says these are different. When i follow web page "Errata -> All"
> it says there are 1900 errata and "Channels -> Oracle Linux 6" has 7000
> errata. These aren't the Actual numbers but i saw that total errata count
> is way too much less than channel's errata counts. Is this normal ?
>
>
> It's normal. :)
>
> Using your numbers, there have been 7000 errata released since the initial
> GA of Oracle Linux 6 (back in 2011). However, only 1900 errata are
> currently active. The other 5100 errata have been superseded by one of the
> 1900 active ones, i.e. an RPM that's had 10 errata since release only has 1
> active/latest one and 9 older ones.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
>
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