RE: rhn-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 5

Another shortcoming that Red Hat Network and Up2date only
has versions of 
software that Redhat has made available.

I've seen certain tools indicate a version of software is
vulnerable for a 
number of months before redhat has those patched versions
available through 
redhat network or up2date.

When I inquire to their mailing list regarding these issues
they won't allow 
my emails to be sent to the list.

I don't think that is good service for those of  us who
actually subscribe 
and pay for updates.


Lee

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Ex Fed wrote:
> When I inquire to their mailing list regarding these
issues they won't 
> allow my emails to be sent to the list.

The only thing I can think of is that you may have tried to
post to a 
mailing list that you were not a member of. It's a pretty
standard spam 
prevention policy to restrict posts to members only on many
mailing 
lists. Are you sure you were a member of the list(s) your
message(s) did 
not get through to?

I am one of the administrators of this list. Moderation
tasks such as 
keeping the discussions on-topic has been an open community
effort. Your 
messages are not being blocked by this list's
administrators.

~m

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On 2/7/07, Ex Fed <exfedhotmail.com> wrote:
> Another shortcoming that Red Hat Network and Up2date
only has versions of
> software that Redhat has made available.

This depends on your point of view. Not getting a mess
created by
mixing repos is a benefit to a lot of folks. And while the
Red Hat
Network provides software blessed by Red Hat, you can easily
configure
up2date to access other repositories of software if you wish
to do
that.

> I've seen certain tools indicate a version of software
is vulnerable for a
> number of months before redhat has those patched
versions available through
> redhat network or up2date.

Recently? In my experience over the past couple of years I
have not
noticed this to have happened. Do you have examples?

Red Hat's diligence in pushing out security errata is one of
Red Hat's
strengths I think.

John

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