Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Tru64 User
Thanks Vincent for all the education. I knew that was the best way to get the info out of someone This was all done on a a test system.so nothing is really lost so far. It makes perfect sense from your explanation that the RPM's I was trying to install are for RH. In the future, how does

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Richard, Do you know something about urpmi? Is a Mandrake feature, you can add several internet servers as rpm sources (urpmi.addmedia) and install lots of packages (in rpm format) just writing "urpmi ". I have added the textar, plf and contribs sources, and I have forgotten the rpm dependen

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 10:54:20AM -0700, Tru64 User wrote: > i checked my openssl, it was version 0.9.6x > (vulnerable) > MandrakeUpdate, does not offer its upgrade via > security updates. What vulnerability are you thinking of, specifically? Is it this one: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/adv

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 10:54, Tru64 User wrote: > Hi, > > i checked my openssl, it was version 0.9.6x > (vulnerable) > MandrakeUpdate, does not offer its upgrade via > security updates. > > OK. So? Download openssl-0.9.7b (No rpm available) > OK. Make one of my own (rpm -tb .tar.gz), Fine. >

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread alan
RPM is not your problem here. The warning messages you are getting are from OpenSSL. The OpenSSL API changes between version. It is trying to verify that the version you linked against is the version you are actually calling. (There are some very good reasons to do this.) Upgrading OpenSS

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:54, Tru64 User wrote: > So, now I have to uninstall tcp_wrappers to install > libwrap > (If you are still reading, do you even remember the > original problem?) > > Why are things this complicated > > _Thanks > > Richard > You have to understand that everythi

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3618 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why are things this complicated Because you aren't reading the security advisories sent by mandrake. Vincent and the rest of the secteam backport the security patches to the version that came out with whichever release of man

[expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Tru64 User
Hi, i checked my openssl, it was version 0.9.6x (vulnerable) MandrakeUpdate, does not offer its upgrade via security updates. OK. So? Download openssl-0.9.7b (No rpm available) OK. Make one of my own (rpm -tb .tar.gz), Fine. Try installing (complains about conflicting stuff!) rpm -e openssl-