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

I have a mailman rpm with a bug fixed by mailman in 2005,
yet it is not
in the rhas3 yet.....indeed support tells me it may never be
put in so I
have to patch it from the mailman tree....kinda blows away
the reason
for getting rhas in the first place when I start to roll my
own
solutions...........

regards

Steven Jones
Senior  Linux/Unix/San System Administrator
APG -Technology Integration Team
Victoria University of Wellington
Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 

 


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Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RE: rhn-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue
5

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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On 2/7/07, Steven Jones <Steven.Jonesvuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> I have a mailman rpm with a bug fixed by mailman in
2005, yet it is not
> in the rhas3 yet.....indeed support tells me it may
never be put in so I
> have to patch it from the mailman tree....kinda blows
away the reason
> for getting rhas in the first place when I start to
roll my own
> solutions...........

Security fixes and other bug fixes are naturally treated
differently.
Is your mailman issue something that leaves your system or
service
vulnerable to attack?

RHEL3 is in deployment support now so I would think Red Hat
would
still fix bugs that aren't security related unless they are
of very
little consequence.

John

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