Jon Peatfield wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: > > <snip> >> *Troy sighs tiredly* >> Every once in a while I just want to *talk* to some of the RedHat >> fellows and say "What are you thinking?" >> RedHat is currently trying to figure out how to give users the ability >> to sit on a release. They seem to be trying to do it by putting a >> 'minor' number in their distrubution tag. But it's a new concept, and >> they don't seem to be getting it. >> We're leaving our dist tag as 'el5' like they used to have, until they >> figure out what they are really going to do. As a result, some of our >> rebuilt rpm's are going to say el5 while TUV will say el5_0 or el5_1. >> As you can see from this example, el5_1 doesn't really mean it's only >> for RHEL 5 Update 1 only. Because if I were wanting to stick with >> RHEL 5 Update 0, I would still want this critical update. >> We'll get our rpm fixed, and hopefully TUV will also. > > They seem to have changed their minds between pcre-6.6-2.el5_0.1 and > pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.1 'cos the specfile changelog diff contains: > > %changelog > +* Fri Nov 09 2007 Josh Bressers <[log in to unmask]> - 6.6-2.el5_1.1 > +- Resolves: #373441, CVE-2006-7224 > + > * Thu Oct 11 2007 Than Ngo <[log in to unmask]> - 6.6-2.1 > - Resolves: #315951, CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660 > > so pcre-6.6-2.el5_0.1 got tagged in the changelog as 6.6-2.1 and > pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.1 as 6.6-2.el5_1.1 > > It is a pity that values of rpm macros like %{dist} arn't included in > the set of RPMTAG_ values. > > -- Jon Well ... it looks like someone did tell RedHat to take another look at this rpm. And it looks like they did take a look at the rpm. And, they made a change. It is no longer critical, just important. *Troy sighs* Nothing like getting my hopes up just to dash them again. I'll have my modified (release name only modification) version out in a bit. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________