[OT] Fedora 4 and 5

[John Wendel]

Robin Laing wrote:
> Edward Krack wrote:
> 
>> Fedora Core 4:
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/
>>
>> edc9582da8796f9658ed0478a474a5461c3d2a8f
>> SRPMS/firefox-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.src.rpm
>> 22f31a6966879e2b2a62a30f369c8e99ddcd0e7d
>> ppc/firefox-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.ppc.rpm
>> 8c8b61fcf154efdaf1cb630ecafb3ab1b95dfc03
>> ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.ppc.rpm
>> 52ee41a4eefbfa8b0a139476b2d1b8a78d5ddc2b
>> x86_64/firefox-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
>> 46b5a14188582e1760ca3bb4c3bb27be041fdeb1
>> x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.x86_64.rpm
>> 7ea4c55ba11869f85ca89a4b406a712e51c75c34
>> i386/firefox-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm
>> 9b34e30b7c4ec287b823197e5b039d711fdcd5de
>> i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.8-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm
>>
>> Fedora Core 5:
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/
>>
>> aba3a17adde822ac4d3bb900c65e87a06a8d331f
>> SRPMS/firefox-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.src.rpm
>> 1c80c1fd6561c3cc7f3e54463bc6d25445956e30
>> ppc/firefox-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.ppc.rpm
>> 42b8356caa72dafaa84977bf987c6650c715fd7c
>> ppc/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.ppc.rpm
>> bc79140dc00183aeecf8dccd36565a4f78f6bbcd
>> x86_64/firefox-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
>> 95babbc4143fa8164ad71ce9da67469171b4d66f
>> x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.x86_64.rpm
>> d89a1acecd42915ce7571dc1759661f01985e4f8
>> i386/firefox-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>> 4f87d27853e5122b941afbfbb3a1788ffb338b4d
>> i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.5.0.2-1.1.fc5.i386.rpm
>>
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>> SA19631:
>> http://secunia.com/advisories/19631/
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> 
> Seen this info, but I ask, why is FC4 stuck with 1.0.8 and 1.5 is out? 
> Didn't I read that 1.0.x was to be dropped?
> 


Can't answer the why question, but it's really easy to upgrade just by 
downloading the 1.5 tar file. It works fine here. If you're stuck on 
FC4, you might as well plan for Fedora provided updates going away.

Regards,

John