[ale] News: Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder

[Derek Atkins]

However, after I updated my systems Red Hat released yet another update
which apparently reverses the fix..  So if I take yet another update it
will open me up again.  Feh!

-derek

Jerald Sheets via Ale <ale at ale.org> writes:

> I was informed by our engineers that we had relatively smooth
> patching, and had made it through 1/3 of our fleet before having to
> roll back and start applying the Intel patch.  Nice thing about being
> in the valley is that the Intel fellow came by the offices and dropped
> off the patches personally… go figure.
>
> So, we start all over patching 300k+ machines.  Good times.
>
>
>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 7:56 AM, Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>> My upgrades to 7.4 went smoothly on the two systems I upgraded. An
>> interrupted yum update could definitely cause major issues.
>> 
>> -derek
>> Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>> 
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