Re: [Xen-devel] xsa263 wont apply

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 25.05.18 at 02:52, <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to apply xsa263 patches, specifically for 4.10. However they 
> dont seem to on top of 4.10.1 release.
> 
> I see they do apply cleanly to current 4.10 staging branch. Are staging 
> trees for stable branches like 4.10 considered suitable/safe to rebase 
> to for packaging purposes? ie basically ignore the point releases?

The staging branches of the stable trees are generally far less unstable
than the master/smoke/staging set, as (with the exception of security
fixes) commonly only backports of things that have passed the osstest
push gate on master get applied. However, there are regressions now
and then from complex backports, so I don't think taking those trees
blindly is advisable. Otoh, taking together those two hats I wear, I
commonly add to our internal productions repos almost the same set
of changes that I also apply to the upstream stable trees.

I'm sorry for not providing a clear yes/no kind of answer.

Jan



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