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From: Andrew J Cosgriff
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 00:00

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>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Andrew <nick@zeta.org.au> writes:

Nick> I got bitten by a nasty bug in SysVinit which was already fixed
Nick> by the author but RedHat was (is) a few releases behind in its
Nick> SysVinit RPM.  So they need to focus more on maintaining
Nick> currency in all the packages they maintain.

they seem to be reasonably quick in releasing "security hole" patch
packages, but perhaps someone ought to tell them they could be better
with other bugfix packages.

Something i've found with both RedHat and Debian right now is that
since they're both in the "transition-to-libc6/glibc2" phase with
unstable new versions of their distributions available, recent
packages aren't always made available for the stable (but older)
distribution.  Of course, if you know how to do it, it's easy enough
to go and build it from the source package...

-- 
 - Andrew J Cosgriff -                                   ajc@bing.wattle.id.au
    "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, 
                     hysterical, naked" (Ginsberg, "Howl")

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