I'm a smidge confused by something. I am looking at the timestamps on a
couple of the SRPMS and something seems to be amiss.
In ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/SRPMS/vendor
are these files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 568054 Nov 15 2007
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.0.1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570887 Mar 27 2009
pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 567559 Nov 13 2007
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570836 Nov 29 2007
pcre-6.6-2.el5.7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 568035 Nov 15 2007
pcre-6.6-2.sl5.1.src.rpm
it seems to be that the file el5_1 is newer than el5.7 but I wanted to
see if anyone had any opinions on it since the RPMS reflect a different
story.
Release : 2.el5.1.0.1 Build Date:
Thu 15 Nov 2007 02:57:05 PM GMT
Release : 2.el5_1.7 Build Date: Mon 26
Nov 2007 11:49:29 AM GMT
Release : 2.el5.1 Build Date: Tue 13
Nov 2007 05:20:59 PM GMT
Release : 2.el5.7 Build Date: Thu 29
Nov 2007 07:13:57 PM GMT
Release : 2.sl5.1 Build Date: Thu 15
Nov 2007 02:45:30 PM GMT
Which seems to indicate that el5.7 is the newest package.
Does anyone have any opinions on this? I'm going to try to rebuild this
one package for myself but I'd like to do it with the right sources.
P.S. For those interested, here's what I'm trying to address:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457064
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3252
http://chrisjean.com/2009/01/31/unicode-support-on-centos-52-with-php-and-pcre/
Long story short, it's trivial to fix, but RedHat prefers to leave it
open in its RHEL product. CentOS folks get it copied from RHEL (and
also don't fix it), and RackTables is not the first application to be
impacted by this bug.
A way to work around that would be to revert a part of the recent
switch to uniform PCRE, namely, to employ mb_ereg() for character class
matching again. For me this looks to be only a temporary measure
(given, that ereg() is already deprecated) and adds undesired
maintenance overhead.
This is where you can help. I am looking for a RHEL user with a support
contract, which they could use to push RedHat's bug 457064 to be
properly fixed (and working RPM put into updates). Technically it is a
very simple work, but if we could make it done, that would help a lot.
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