[K12OSN] SquidGuard Warning from Extras

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Sep 14 04:31:47 UTC 2005


I have received no responses from any K12LTSP developers or users about 
the Fedora Extras squidGuard package.  Unless we hear any negative 
reports, Extras will push squidGuard tomorrow.

Warren Togami wrote:
> I apologize for not watching K12LTSP development recently, so I have no 
> idea if this will affect the folks here or not.  Just in case here is a 
> head's up.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165689
> squidGuard has just been approved in Fedora Extras, which means it will 
> very soon go into the repository.  This is good to centrally maintain 
> packages in one place.  However it is very possible that this squidGuard 
> differs from the squidGuard package used for years at K12LTSP in such a 
> way that existing servers in a yum upgrade will be broken.
> 
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/squidGuard/?root=extras
> squidGuard source RPM contents
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/extras.shtml
> Anonymous checkout instructions
> After logging in use "cvs co squidGuard" then "make srpm" to pull the 
> Extras .src.rpm
> 
> Please verify that the K12LTSP squidGuard will not break during upgrade 
> from the K12LTSP package to this Extras package.  I suspect that the 
> automatic nightly blacklist update scripts and the blacklists themselves 
> may be different.
> 
> I would do it myself, except I am trying to encourage certain folks here 
> to become more active in the Extras project where we together do a 
> better job of centrally maintaining packages.
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
> 




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