What does 'supported' mean for Fedora Core 1 software?

duncan brown duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
Tue Apr 13 14:28:15 UTC 2004


your official update would be downloadable as soon as it was released by
redhat via 'yum upgrade'.

you could always upgrade your ssh and sshd binaries by using the source on
www.openssh.org the second the authors published a patch.

-d

StoneBeat said:
> I have a doubt,  imagine that tomorrow someone discovered that OpenSSH
> shipped  with Fedora Core 1 had a remote exploitable vulnerability.
>
> How would i be able to get the patch for this vulnerability ?
>
> would i be able to get patched using "yum update" ?
>
> would Redhat / Fedora  publish an Update in
> http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/ ?
>
>
> El Lunes 12 Abril 2004 22:03, Bill Nottingham escribió:
>> Christofer C. Bell (cbell at jayhawks.net) said:
>> > What does "support" mean for Fedora Core 1 software?  I'm not trying
>> to sound like sour grapes, but I'm honestly curious.  I've submitted
>> a couple of bug reports (and submitted the fix with one of them) and
>> so far both have come back closed with "fixed in rawhide."
>> >
>> > I guess I don't know what this means, exactly.
>>
>> Rawhide means that it's fixed in the development tree. If this
>> is done before FC2 is finalized, this generally means that it will be
>> fixed in FC2.
>>
>> Bill
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