On September 1993 plus 3618 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why are things this complicated????
Because you aren't reading the security advisories sent by mandrake. Vincent and the rest of the secteam backport the security patches to the version that came out with whichever release of mandrake that has a vulnerability, instead of just upgrading to the latest stable/secure version of the packages. If you use MandrakeUpdate to update your box, and it tells you there are no security updates, it's because you are on the latest patched version of the packages. This is done so you don't have to download a bunch of packages that have no problems just because they were compiled against the version that the distro was released with. So...you went through all of this without cause or reason. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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