Victor, Thanks for the reply. "openssl version" reports:
OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005 Looks like I should take this up with the folks at Fedora... Best, -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Duchovni Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:30 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: newer versions of openssl via yum On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:34:20PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > I have some Fedora 5 systems on which I'd like to upgrade openssl. I'm > currently running 0.9.8a-5.4, which is reported by yum as the latest > version: > Many O/S vendors backport bugfixes from OpenSSL "patch" releases, so, for example, instead of updating to 0.9.8g, they will import just the bug fixes from 0.9.8g back to the base 0.9.8a version. I don't blame them. The OpenSSL "patch" releases are hybrid patch and feature releases, and distributions want a stable feature-set at a particular release level. It could also be as simple as wanting to keep the package name the same. What does "openssl version" report? If that also reports "0.9.8a", then most likely the vendor backports fixes. Sadly, in that case, one can't tell at a glance which OpenSSL patch level a vendor release like "0.9.8-5.4" corresponds to. -- Viktor. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
