At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:11:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, here is the interesting part :-)
>
> I'm new here as of about 4 months ago, and I just asked some coworkers
> why we went with 2.2.10 instead of the 2.2.3 that comes with CentOS
>
> Apparently at the time we'd been having some problems with mod_perl
> crashing (and still are in fact - I'm working on it slowly but
> surely), and we'd hired an outside consulting company to help out with
> it. Their first comment was that 2.2.3 was "extremely buggy" and that
> we should definitely not go with it. So that's what we did. The
> newest release at the time was 2.2.10 and that's where we are.
>
> There was also so speculation that our DB2 client did not work so well
> with 2.2.3
>
> Can someone answer me this - I see that today we have 2.2.3 patch
> level 22 as our most recent release.
>
> Is there a document that will tell me what patch levels were shipped
> with the different releases of CentOS? In particular 5.2?
rpm -q --changelog httpd
>
> Maybe I don't really need > 2.2.3, I dunno. I've seen some other
> evidence that this outside contracting company did not seem to know as
> much as they let on. For starters, they did not get very far with our
> mod_perl problem. I got a lot further in about a week of googling,
> and I came into it with no knowledge of mod_perl, and no debug-level
> knowledge of Apache (albeit 7 or 8 years of apache config experience)
Hmmm... It sounds like you were scamed on some level...
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>
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