Hi Dave

LSB is the Linux Standards Base and the update is to bring things into line 
with it.  You probably haven't seen it before because a lot of Mandrake 
already adheres to the LSB.

ttfj

John

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 08:51 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw a message on the security announce list regarding LSB 1.2 being made
> available now.  I've checked rpmdrake, and found that I've never installed
> any of the LSB packages from the distribution CDs.  I *can* just go ahead
> and install via rpmdrake from the update FTP site, and I'm guessing that
> the ones I want to install are:
>
> glibc_lsb
> lsb
> lsb-release
>
> Anyone who knows, please correct me if I've got the wrong packages here.
> Also, I would like to know what the pros and cons (if any) are of
> using/installing these packages are.  Please don't ask me to go to the LSB
> website - I've already done that and the information there isn't in a
> form/format that *my* brain can process in a reasonable amount of time. :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
>                     --Dave

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