When will fedora get new a RPM for OpenSSL?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:34 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:14 -0700, steffen yount wrote:
> > I went back and checked my installation.
> > 
> > It claims to be OpenSSL 0.9.f, and its feature set
> > matches OpenSSL 0.9.7f, and its feature set does not
> > match OpenSSL 0.9.8.
> > 
> > So, I don't think this is a case where the version
> > number is out of sync with the package contents.
> > 
> > Which brings be back to my origional question: Will
> > Fedora see a new RPM for this releases in the
> > near future? When? What's holding the rpm back?
> ----
> past history says that it isn't likely to happen in FC-3 or FC-4.
> Updates would include backporting of patches for errata/security issues
> but not likely to add new features.

That's more true of RHEL than of FC.  Note that RHEL 4 is still running
kernel 2.6.9, even though a lot of the newer kernel bugfixes and even
some functionality have been back-ported.  FC4 has gone from 2.6.9 to
2.6.12, and IIRC 2.6.13 is on its way to updates.

Thomas