[rhn-users] RH ES3 Update Packages are generally older/obsolete?

[Todd Warner]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, James Bourne wrote:

> Hi List,
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> (Please correct me if this the wrong list for these sort of issues).
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> I'm concerned that some of the patches / updates offered by RHN for ES 3 are
> detrimental from a functionality perspective? The main three we have issues
> with are:

Red Hat generally backports fixes and security issues to the older
packages in order to reduce churn within an enterprise release. That
being said, if you have a concern I would contact support (or maybe
sales) and notify them of your concerns. And to answer your first
question, yes, this is more or less not the most perinent mailing list
for your question. It's really something you should field with one of
the more general Linux mailing lists and definately follow up with it to
support.

-taw

> DHCPD
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> BIND
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> YP
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> DHCPD: 3.0pl2. This version is ancient (2+ years?). 3.0.1 superseded it six
> months ago. 3.0pl2 contains numerous bugs especially in regard to high
> availability "peering" setups.
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> BIND: 9.2.4. This release is rc6. The decision to distribute a release
> candidate version of BIND dumbfounds me as well as several users on the
> isc.org list.
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> YP: 2.8. Another 2+ year old version of the daemon. This version SIGSEGV's
> when you supply the -p switch.
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> In all the daemon's above we have had to replace the binaries via third
> party RPM or from source.
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> Interestingly, we also use SuSE Enterprise 8 and 9 which ship the most
> recent versions of all these daemons.
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> The bottom line is: what am I really paying for here? Old, broken, obsolete
> daemons? A vagely souped up version of RedHat 9? Whilst I am "told" that we
> are paying for reliability and stability - that's a crock. None of these
> daemons work properly out of the box and have to be replaced. Will ES4
> resolve this?
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> James Bourne   |   Platform Engineering
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