Postfix On Fedora Core4

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Tue Aug 30 13:24:11 UTC 2005


Am Di, den 30.08.2005 schrieb CHAT KHODA um 15:20:

> As fas as I know the latest available version of
> Postfix MTA is 2.2.5 (Pathchlevel 5) but YUM always
> suggests downloading and installing 2.2.2 and as you
> can see by installing this package we will lose 3
> levels of patches that might be dangerous.
> Please guide me; what is the best solution to install
> the latest version of Postfix (other than source
> compiling ofcourse).

yum install postfix

If there would be security issue it would be fixed, either by a patch or
by version updating. Don't expect to always have the latest application
version packaged. It often makes not that much sense to be that close to
upstream.

Alexander


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