[FC1] Unofficial Updates to ZLIB

nigel henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Mon Aug 8 20:00:34 UTC 2005


It's hardly going to be confusing as fedora legacy are not interested in 
updating packages to enable 3rd party apps like clamav to work. I'm not 
knocking Fedora Legacy, but it's nice to think that someones working on the 
problem. Nigel





On Monday 08 Aug 2005 4:23 pm, Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2005 09:21, James Kosin wrote:
> > JAMES'  Unofficial Unsupported by RedHat, Redhat Fedora Core, and
> > Redhat Fedora Legacy Groups!
> > ~    Any support for my packages, will only come from me!  There
> > is no bugzilla for the packages, groups may not know what version
> > you are talking about.  The biggest support can come from ME or
> > the source creators of the program.  Although, any patches kept
> > over from the Fedora Core packages are not supported by the
> > vendor of the software. ~    My packages are usually re-packaged
> > new versions of many programs.
> >
> >
> > ZLib 1.2.3
> > ------------
>
> Hmmmm, a private security fix?  I was under the impression that
>  this is the kind of thing that's supposed to be addressed by the
>  Fedora Legacy Project.  If so, isn't this going to be rather
>  confusing?
>
> >Version 1.2.3 eliminates potential security vulnerabilities in
> > zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2, so all users of those versions should
> > upgrade immediately. The following important fixes are provided
> > in zlib 1.2.3 over 1.2.1 and 1.2.2:
>
> For example, why is this identified with FC1 when the "current" FC1
> zlib package that's been released
> ( http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/1/updates/i386/ ) is:
>
> rpm -qa | grep -i zlib
> zlib-1.2.0.7-2.1.legacy
>
>
> Regards, Mike Klinke
>
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