On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:12 +0100, Thijs Cadier wrote:

> zlib-1.2.1.2-1.2 is the newest one...
> 
> 
> On 19-jan-2006, at 13:04, Ole Johansen wrote:
> 
> > yum upgrade zlib

As stated before on this list ... CentOS did backport fixes to zlib ...
as does SuSE, Red Hat, and Mandrake in their Enterprise OSes.

I personally think that a require for Zlib > 1.2.x should not be put in
a product that is multi distro and requires a major package to be
upgraded instead of allowing for backports ... (that is just my personal
opinion).  Here is what RH says about backports:

http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html

Even Linus Torvalds thinks backporting is OK:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3342671

(He is mostly talking about kernel backports, but the concept is the
same for packages as well)

That said, there does not seem to be any issue with the new qmail-
toaster zlib package in CentOS ... at least not any issues I have
noticed (I could be wrong though, and zlib effects everything on the
distro, including sshd and httpd).  I usually never recommend a --nodeps
install ... what I did on all but a test server was change the SRPM spec
file and recompile it without that require.

A long term permanent solution might be a %if statement in the clamav-
toaster SPEC that only requires the new version of zlib on distros that
don't backport packages.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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