Re: sendmail updates

[Kelson <kelson speed net>]

Kurt Bechstein wrote:
> I have a question on the recent sendmail updates.  I'm referencing two
> urls here and they are:
> http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/489
> http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/581
>
> They both appear to refer to the same sendmail bug so I'm just curious
> if the initial packages didn't fully fix the problem or if there is
> something else that I'm missing here since the detail info on each url
> is identical.  

The initial release fixed the bug, but introduced packaging problems on 
some OS versions because they used versions of Sendmail that were too 
old to patch.  FL provided an upgraded Sendmail, but the initial 
packages didn't play well with other parts of the OS (particularly the 
alternatives system).

The new release is to fix the packaging problems.  As I understand it, 
this only affected RH7.3, RH9, and FC1, because Fedora Core 2 and later 
used recent enough Sendmail versions that they could use the patch, so 
no major changes in the packaging spec were necessary.

This is mentioned briefly in the "1. Topic" section:

> [Updated 4th April 2006]
> Red Hat Linux 7.3, Red Hat Linux 9, and Fedora Core 1 packages have been
> updated to correct numerous problems with the previously released
> updates.

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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>