On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:49:56PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:06:34AM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > > Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: > > > > > is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, > > > > > if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i >must install it from tarball > > > > > > > > All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old > > > > versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. > > > > > > > > Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they > > > > still go back to 5.2 or earlier. > > > > > > RHL 6.2 is the oldest supported version of RHL - RHL 5.2 was supported > > > for 3 years after the release. > > > > Although you work for Red Hat, I'm still going to disagree. Several packages > > have recently been updated for 5.2 and are on your ftp site. > > sendmail, for example, is as recent in 5.2 as it is for 7.2 > > (8.11.6). > > That was one of the last ones. You might notice that e.g. wu-ftpd and > apache were not updated. > > -- > Trond Eivind Glomsrød > Red Hat, Inc. now, should i update my apache for example if there is a bug listing in the www.apache.org? just like the new release of apache fixes anyone can listing files bypass index.* (i hope it's not wrong, i read it 2 days ago from www.apache.org), but in the errata don't have any message about it.
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