Yes, we had the same problem on a few desktops that had a custom version.
I re-installed the custom version and excluded openoffice and oobasis from
future sl-security updates.
Eve
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Simon Butcher wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:20:37 +0100
From: Simon Butcher <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problems caused by recent security update to openoffice.org-ure
package
hi everybody
We run a lot of desktop SL machines running openoffice. Last week there was
an update to openoffice.org-ure package to
openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1.i386
As a result our 5.x machines with openoffice 2.3 have been suddenly upgraded
to 3.1 - a bit of a surprise!
Unfortunately the update to openoffice.org-ure from sl-security broke the
custom OOo 3.0 we use on many of our desktops where the local custom repo was
not prioritized over sl-security repo (we provide newer versions of OOo
because only 2.3 was provided by the distro)
i'm surprised that nobody else seems to be affected by this, or has mentioned
the jump to 3.1.
we've now managed to put an emergency workaround in place. however, i'm just
writing this note in case others are affected.
any "me too"s, or were most people using the old 2.3 OOo provided by SL5.x
(where x<5) ?
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Simon Butcher
Computer and IT Systems Manager
School of Mathematical Sciences,
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS,
United Kingdom.
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 7348
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Argonne National Laboratory,
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9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439 USA
Phone: (630)-252-6208
Fax: (630)-252-5047
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