Round-up, 2004-10-06

[Barbara Pennacchi]

On 08.10.04 17:25, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> In fact, I will remove the superceded packages from the listing as it is
> true that they obscure the useful parts of the list to some extent.

I agree, that would be the sensible thing to do :-).

Last thing: sorting the list in order of priority (as proposed by someone  
in the ML) would be more clear together with grouping the "duplicate"  
entries. (Uh -- well, I feel pretty stupid now, probably thanks to a  
sudden shortage of caffeine in my bloodstream :) so feel free to ignore  
me!

> > >XFree86 - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1831
> > >Needs VERIFY for rh9 (superceded)

> > I had downloaded the rpm of XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.57.legacy and used it
> > so far without problems (even with GIMP) but, in reading the new
> > bugreport, I'm now a bit confused.

> If you look at the bottom of that bug it gives a link to the new bug on
> which work on packages are currently being done:
> 
> https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2075

That's the bugreport I was talking about :-) I've re-read it but I'm still  
confused about what I should do with the version of XFree86 I'm currently  
using/testing now :p

(If I've read it correctly, only gtk+ and libXpm are the elements affected  
by this specific security issue and I have a handful of X-related programs  
that uses one or both of them -- fortunately I'm the only one using the  
RH9 box used for QA and I have a tight firewall in it, but still, I don't  
know what I should do :-)

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