Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> >>> that's what I get for building a firewall box against the >>> 4.something or 5.0 book and then never updating it.) >> Why? Did it fail? Was there a security issue? > > Well, I think there are security issues with Apache that I need to fix. > But that wouldn't require rebuilding the entire system, or iptables. > > That box was the last time I built iptables, though; I was basically > saying that if I *had* rebuilt that box, I'd have figured out what was > going on because I'd have looked at the most recent BLFS page. > Whatever.
I hope you understood my point. IMO, a package in a production system shouldn't be updated just because an update is available. That's one of the beauties of LFS--you get to pick and choose. But I suspect you knew that. :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
