On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 cslyon@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpm-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On > > Behalf Of Jesse Keating > > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:14 PM > > To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Updates for RH9.0 > > > > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 17:40, cslyon wrote: > > > I will give that a try but it doesn't look like they have all the new > > > stuff. I don't see perl 5.8.3 and the latest sendmail. Any ideas or > > > should I ask them? > > > Ask the yum team I guess? Red Hat supplied so that might have answered my > question. See below. > > > > Ask who? Duke is just hosting a mirror of all the Red Hat supplied > > updates. Red Hat doesn't upgrade software just for the fun of it, > > there has to be technically sound reasons to incur the man hours of > > work (usually that means there has to be a security flaw). If you're > > just looking for new software to have new software and new features and > > new breakage, then you're on your own. > > The real reason for the updates is because we are having a security audit > done on our network and we must have a few issues fixed. All of the RH9 > machines we have are out of date for a few things but mainly sendmail is the > issue. Right now for RH9 the newest that I can find for sendmail is > 8.12.8-9.90. Between 8.12.9 and 8.12.10 there are a few critical security > issues that have been fixed. So, where are the RPMs for RH9.0? I know that > Fedora even has a later version, 8.12.11 of sendmail but that won't work > with RH9. > One approach would be to get the RH9 sendmail srpm, the sources of sendmail you want, tweak the spec file for the new sources and rebuild it yourself. I have done this with sendmail, but I have with various other packages, and it works fine. Also, if Fedora has something newer you might try downloading its SRPM and just building it on RH 9 (have done this also several packages also with great success). Cheers...james > So, that goes back to my original question. Is Redhat releasing new updated > RPMs? Is it dead? > > > > > > -- > > Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) > > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) > > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > > > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
