On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 8:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:

> That's what MandrakeSecure, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing
> list, updates for newer distribs, are all for.
>
> Put it this way:  Subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you should
> already be subscribed if you care about security anyways)... you will
> be alerted on new updates whether they are security or bugfix.  The
> advisory indicates what packages are updated, for what distrib, and
> what the problem is.
>
> Visit http://www.mandrakesecure.net/advisories/ if you don't want to
> subscribe.  The advisories for each platform are there.
>
> Download the src.rpm indicated in the advisory.  Either attempt to
> rebuild it for your old distrib, or extract the patches and apply it to
> whatever version you're currently using (backporting is likely
> necessary).
>
> The information is already all there, and I'm willing to bet that
> people who haven't upgraded their 7.1 machines are using this
> information to keep their 7.1 system relatively current.

So if this part of the support is going to continue there really isn't any 
need to panic?

Anne
-- 
Registered Linux User No.293302


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