IIRC you can choose not to apply certain updates by unchecking them in the Software Update dialog window.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 16, 2017, at 6:07 PM, Rick Thomas <r...@kptz.org> wrote: > > We are using the CentOS-6 that is part of the Rivendell Broadcast Appliance > system from Paravel Systems. We have a paid-up support contract. It’s > really great, and we love it a lot! Thanks for all the wonderful features! > > Now the problem: > > The Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update appears along with more than 300 other updates > from Centos when we run “yum check-update”. Some of those CentOS updates are > important security fixes. So far as I know, there are no security issues > with the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 package. > > However, if we hold off installing the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update because we > don’t want to deal with the bug in the attached mail from Fred Gleason, > discovered by Ryan Williams, we are also holding off on installing all the > security (and other) fixes from CentOS. > > We have two alternatives, as I see it. > > 1) What we’re doing now: hold off on any updates until the attached bug is > fixed by Paravel Systems. > > or > > 2) Disable the Paravel Systems repo in the yum configuration files, thereby > preventing the Rivendell 2.15.3-1 update from being applied — along with > everything else from Paravel. We’ve never done this before (never needed > to!) and we don’t know what it might break if we try it. If it breaks > something in the Rivendell system, that will take us off the air, which we > don’t want to do. > > So… > > Please fix the attached bug! > > Thanks! > Rick Thomas > SysAdmin, KPTZ 91.9 FM, Port Townsend, WA > > >> On May 16, 2017, at 1:26 PM, Scott Spillers <sco...@paravelsystems.com> >> wrote: >> >> Rick, >> We do not have any influence over development of the CentOS Linux >> distribution, only the Rivendell code. What version of CentOS are you >> using? CentOS 5 has reached end of life and is no longer updated. You may >> want to consider updating to CentOS 7 if your version of the distro is no >> longer supported. >> >> Scott Spillers >> sco...@paravelsystems.com >> >> On May 16, 2017 12:10 PM, "Rick Thomas" <r...@kptz.org> wrote: >> Dear Rivendell developers, >> >> We’ve been holding off installing the Rivendell2.15.3-1 update, hoping to >> see a fix for this bug. >> >> But with all the activity over the NSA zero-day exploits released a few >> months ago, it’s becoming imperative that we get the security updates from >> CentOS that this is blocking. >> >> Please bump up the priority on this one… >> >> Thanks, >> Rick Thomas, >> SysAdmin KPTZ, 91.9 FM Port Townsend, WA >> >> >>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>> From: Fred Gleason <fr...@paravelsystems.com> >>> Date: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:05 AM >>> Subject: Re: [RDD] Rivendell v2.15.3 >>> To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System >>> <rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> >>> >>>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:57, Ryan Williams <rya...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I'm having an regression with the most recent release. If I open RDLogEdit >>>> and try to add to a log's description it does not save. We use the field >>>> field to add "READY" to the end of the description when the log is cleared >>>> for air, so this one is going to sting a lot. >>> Partially confirmed here. If you use the ‘Save’ button, the updated >>> Description is indeed lost. However, clicking ‘OK’ (without clicking >>> ‘Save’ first) appears to work normally. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> |----------------------------------------------------------------------| >>> | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | >>> | | Paravel Systems | >>> |----------------------------------------------------------------------| >>> | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | >>> | -- Cicero | >>> |----------------------------------------------------------------------| >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rivendell-dev mailing list >>> Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org >>> http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
