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Jan Iven <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:05:02 +0200
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On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:51 -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jan Iven wrote:
> 
> > Just a quick heads-up for things we have seen with the 3.0.8 quarterly
> > update:
> > 
> > * new autofs tries to do a "service autofs restart" in the postinstall.
> > If you have actively-used NFS automounts at that time, the service will
> > not shut down cleanly and will also not come back up. To fix: shut off
> > the processes and manually unmount, or "umount -l" the offending
> > mountpoints, then restart autofs manually. Or reboot.
> > 
> > * g++-3.2.3-56 -W -Wall complains violently about unused parameters in
> > some system header files like
> >  /usr/include/c++/3.2.3/bits/locale_facets.h, to the point where we are
> > considering to go back to the previous version (this apparently hits a
> > lot of users).
> > 
> > * the freetype library had some issues with TTF fonts, we noticed this
> > via some PHP code/broken imagemaps. An updated version of freetype is
> > available and fixes this.
> 
> Will put in this new version because of this?

freetype-2.1.4-5.el3 is out.
autofs: probably not (still open)
g++: probably yes (expect more info on Monday).

Regards
Jan

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