On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:00 -0400, Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 06:28 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > Tom Sightler wrote:
> 
> > Another way to look at the same situation is this though (from RH's
> > perspective) is ... we already broke something that created the other
> > problem with a regression, so we don't want to make it worse with a
> > quick fix that breaks something else that potentially effects even more
> > customers than the first issue.
> 
> I can understand this, but I'll make at least one couterpoint.  In most
> cases, the regression seems to be found and identified quickly, yet
> Redhat continues to leave the broken package out there, allowing more
> and more customers to go from a working setup to a broken as they
> update. 

Hmm, just saw this in the Slashdot RSS feed - suggesting that the latest
Red Hat bind update overrides current named.conf files with the default
associated with caching nameservers
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/18/1210257&from=rss 

Makes me wonder why there isn't a Red Hat security RSS feed (or perhaps
there is, and I've missed it).

Thanks,
Mike

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