On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 08:13, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 02:02, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:43, Jack Coates wrote: > > > Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 17. September 2003 21:07 schrieb Vincent Danen: > > > > > > > > > > > >>Problem is people don't take security seriously, so they don't sign > > > >>up for the list. There isn't much we can do to combat that... in the > > > >>same way, they may skip those messages we put on every single list > > > >>and then what? > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep agree. It would be a horror to spam the lists !!!Getting it four > > > > times with an interest in security even five times ? No way. I inform > > > > me on what i'm interested in. running urpmi update in cron and looking > > > > sometimes on mandrakesecure should be enough. Even on servers. > > > > > > > > Steffen > > > > > > I'm on Bugtraq -- I get the alert once from mandrakesecure, once from > > > Mandrake's message to bugtraq, and once from every other Linux > > > distributor out there, in addition to the original discovery argument. > > > > > > Mandrake is typically pretty slow about updates compared to RH and > > > Gentoo, but hopefully that'll change if/when they hire Vincent some > > > minions :-) > > > > Dunno here Jack. MDK and SuSE are ssh patched. RH is still 6 versions > > behind in the last (a while back too) update for anything but 9. I have > > noticed that for every 5 or 6 notices I get from RH I get 1 from either > > SuSE or Mandrake. Lotta times, it's just bug fixes for things like > > compiling kernels (think 8.0 and 7.0) So I'm not sure if RH patches > > faster or has more bugs to fix. *grin* > > > > James > > > > Red Hat definitely sucks pretty bad. I've been having to do a lot of > work with 6.2 and 7.3 lately, building test environments to recreate > customer-discovered bugs in. Man, I miss urpmi. up2date is just flatout > broken in 6.2 (way out of support window, tell that to the thousands of > customers still using it), and on 7.3 I've actually been installing > Ximian's Red Carpet to get something that can do dependencies worth a > damn.
If you want to get industrious you could "create" a urpmi for Redhat. Perl URPM libraries + urpmi + genhdlist....... *grin* James
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