Re: where? security updates for FC4

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:04:48AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> 
> At release time, FC5 would have older packages than FC6 at release time, 
> but FC5 has since seen updates etc. Eg.
> 
> fc5 release firefox : firefox-1.5.0.1-9
> fc5 latest firefox :  firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc5
....
> 
> centos-5beta firefox : firefox-1.5.0.8-1.el5.centos

In this particular case this happens to be no problem.  1.5.0.9 is a
security fix and firefox-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4.centos4 is in CentOS 4
updates now so whatever will eventually show up will be not lower.

Besides I have seen an anoucement, even if I cannot find it
currently, that support for firefox-1.5 series will end in
not so distant future (April?) and backpatching those browsers
is really hard and does not really buy much beyond headaches.
In other words you can expect newer versions of Firefox soon.
OTOH FC5 still has mozilla with known security issues
( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195318 )
so maybe I am too optimistic here.

   Michal