matthew sporleder writes: >On 2/26/07, Hallvard B Furuseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Quanah Gibson-Mount writes: >>> Using vendor packages to run an OpenLDAP server is nearly always a bad >>> idea (Mandriva's a definite exception). There is almost nothing that >>> motivates the vendor to use current releases, or backport stability >>> fixes. There are known problems with the connection code in OL >>> 2.3.27, for example, that were fixed in OpenLDAP 2.3.32. In general, >>> use vendor packages at extreme risk. >> >> Is there something particular which makes this more so for OpenLDAP than >> other packages, or (...) >> I had the impression that this was mostly a RedHat issue. (...) > > It's more a general problem with the decoupled nature of linux > distros. OpenLDAP is simply mentioned a lot on this list. :)
Ouch. Does that mean the way to have a solid system is to check the age of most of its major packages and compile newer ones myself? -- Regards, Hallvard
