On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: > The usual problem is that the version it is complaining about is really > installed. Because of slots and other peculiarities, there can be > multiple versions installed that may not show on some utilties when you > check. Use equery l packagename, and qpkg -v packagename to check. > Note that on older, crufty systems I often have problems digging out the > version thats being complained about. > > Easiest fix is just run "glsa-check -f [glsa number]" in most cases > > Does it ever get it wrong? - not so far on my systems that I have > noticed.
It doesn't really handle version numbering very well. I run Apache 1.x on my machines and it still reports an Apache 2.x security problem. I also run gentoo-dev-sources but I get reports about other (more esoteric) kernels... -- A. -- [email protected] mailing list
