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RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed
From: <storage () iewebs com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:50:43 -0000
"Mayers, Philip J" <p.mayers () ic ac uk> said:
That's great - but did you even *bother* to check if the update works on RedHat 7.0?
<SNIP>
*Wonderful* - you've shipped an update that no-one can apply, unless they update their OpenSSL package (an update you don't provide). Doubtless you built the RPM on RedHat 7.1, which has OpenSSL 0.9.6 and libcrypto.so.1 I like RedHat, but this is the third time you've done something like this in recent months:
<SNIP> I have to agree with Philip. I like Red Hat too but the updates are getting slow and messy. An example is the mod_php package shipped with Red Hat 7.0, which has flawed url-encoded form handling and has never been fixed, even though two bug reports have been filed on Bugzilla about it. I emailed Red Hat directly to ask about status - there's a newer package on Rawhide but it would mean converting pretty much *everything* to Rawhide - and didn't even receive an autoresponse, never mind an answer. The mod_perl package is also missing CPAN distributions for embedding Perl in Apache configuration files, which is just a silly oversight. This affects me badly becuase I run Red Hat on three remote machines and one local development machine. I'd *like* to keep these machines as stock as possible to take full advantage of the Red Hat Network that Red Hat are so keen to tell me about, but it's proving impossible. If it was Red Hat 5x or maybe even 6x I could probably understand it, but this is the previous release in the same primary version. It's not on. I'm beginning to wonder if the profits are going to Red Hat's head... :) adam
Current thread:
- [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed bugzilla (Jun 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed Mayers, Philip J (Jun 20)
- RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed storage (Jun 22)
- RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed helmut g. katzgraber (Jun 25)
- Re: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed Petri Kaukasoina (Jun 26)
- RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed storage (Jun 22)