FLSA:2404 (Redhat 9) question

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Ben Feinstein wrote:
>> Regarding Fedora Legacy Security Advisory 2404 of Mar 07 2005:
>> 
>> The updated less-378-7.2.legacy RPM and SRPM are no longer available at the
>> URLs listed in the advisory.  Are these updates no longer applicable and 
>> were
>> removed from the repository, or is there another reason the packages are 
>> now
>> missing?
>> 
>> Please address or CC me directly as I don't subscribe to this list...
>> 
>> Thanks much,
>> Ben
>> 
> Hi Ben, looks like they are in updates-testing:
>
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates-testing/i386/ 
> less-378-7.2.legacy.i386.rpm
> http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates-testing/SRPMS/ 
> less-378-7.2.legacy.src.rpm

Moreover,

if you look at the bug in question, some folks reported that yum 
crashed with this less update (though the patch was trivial and should 
not have changed anything in this regard).

IMHO, the problem was/is likely with the build system.


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