There seem to be some packaging bugs, either at Ximian's end or Red
Hat's end, which whilst not a problem for me could be potentially very
confusing for newbies. Red Hat users need to use up2date to check for
kernel (and possibly other) security updates not handled by red-carpet.
However, on my system which has complete (i.e. *all* packages including
devel packges) installs of both RHL9 and XD2, up2date erroneously thinks
that I need to update several packages which I know I don't:
* db4 (this is well-known problem, in Ximian's bugzilla, but something
really needs to be done about the Ximian db1 vs. Red Hat db4
problems);
* control-centre;
* foomatic;
* nautilus;
* redhat-config-printer;
* xscrensaver.
Now, given that Ximian's versions of control-centre, nautilus and
xscreensaver clearly have higher version numbers than the ones up2date
thinks I should "upgrade" to, could these Ximian packages have packaging
bugs? Or does the fault lie with how up2date works, or with Red Hat's
packages. It would be nice to sort this out and file bug reports in the
appropriate places and against the appropriate products, as otherwise
these will just spill over into RHL10. Can anyone shed any light on
where the problems lie?
Best, Darren
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