On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> FYI.
> Binand
[snip bugtraq post about broken exim fix on redhat 7.0]
As a followup ...
> Date: 21 Jun 2001 09:24:33 +0100
> From: Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Fw: [Bugtraq] RE: [RHSA-2001:078-05] Format string bug fixed
>
> > That's great - but did you even *bother* to check if the update works on
> > RedHat 7.0?
>
> Not speaking for Red Hat in any way...
> The RPM set I released earlier in the week is likely to have exactly
> this problem. I only have a couple of RH71 machines around since our
> infrastructure is still RH62 based, I have no RH70 machines and cannot
> build or test against them.
>
> To make matters worse, my RH62 RPMs will be built against openssl
> 0.9.6 which is not a RH supplied package (I consider their hacked
> openssl add-on for RH62 to be badly broken - some of the protocols
> have been removed and it is not link compatible with the standard
> openssl).
>
>
> In either of these cases, and also for RHs exim packages, I would
> strongly suggest that people get the SRPM and rebuild that (rpm
> --rebuild x.y.src.rpm)
>
>
> Nigel.
>
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