It very much depends on the particular patch. Some are very easy, some take a fair bit of time. Now that I've done the redhat 7.3 kernel packages, I plan to have redhat 9 specs patched tonight and left to rebuild during the early hours. I apologize for the slowness, it's just time consuming and if I spend any more time on it my wife will kill me ;-) - Si On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:09 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:39:42AM -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > > > >>There's the recent local security hole found in the Kernel, and updates are > >>available for virtually all Linux distros except for (gulp) Fedora Core 1... > >> > >>Is a fix in order? Is there at least an SRPM for FC1 available that I can > >>compile? > > > > > > <https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336#c40> > > > >>Also, I've noticed no updates (via yum) for months - has support for FC1 been > >>dropped? > > > > > > No, but a combination of lack of manpower, downtime on the build server > > and the fact that we are releasing Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9 and Fedora > > Core 1 packages together means that the project is grinding to a halt. > > As soon as the build server comes back I will try and clear a lot of the > > backlog. > > > > Cheers, > > > > How much actual porting is involved on the releases for FC1? I haven't > touched many of the desktop related utilities, but have recompiled > things like Apache/PHP/MySQL/SSL (i.e., server related packages) for RH8 > and 7.3. I've also made some very minor changes to SPEC files to get > them to compile. > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list -- Simon Weller Systems Engineer Education Networks of America 1101 McGavock St. Nashville TN 37203 Phone: 615.312.6068 -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
