On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:37:17AM -0800, grenoml wrote: > Mike, > I read through this errata and the major areas seem to be addressed > but why does RedHat do it this way? To me it would seem far easier to > just issue an upgrade to httpd-2.0.43 and openssl 0.97 or 0.96h than to > go through all the effort to extract the fixes between 2.0.40 and > 2.0.43 and then back apply them to 2.0.40. Sure seems like a lot of > monkey business! Also could introduce weird RedHat specific problems > to apps. It would seem to be just as much work to do this as it would > be to just provide an upgrade to the official Apache version. > Additionally, then users would be able to take advantage of some of the > newer capabilities in the official upgrade release - specifically > referring to mod_jk2 improvements. Lastly, once you have your system > apps RedHatized then its really hard to correlate general public > comments about specific app version issues with the versions on your > system. I'm really not liking the way RedHat is doing this.
The main reason is that the apps redhat put in the installation CD went through an extensive QA process before shipping. Now if redhat wanted to upgrade the package to a new version, they would have to QA the entire package again. By backporting fixes, all they need to QA is the fix, which gives us faster availability of updates. Related to this is the problem that might appear with configuration file syntax changes. Upgrading the package's version might introduce config file syntax errors in your system after an upgrade, while backporting the fix is much safer. If this process bothers you, you can always download the source from the main distribution site of the package, remove the redhat RPM and compile yourself. Be aware that redhat will not support that software, though. Also, you should note that redhat does this for several packages besides apache. The kernel itself is one of the most heavily modified packages in a redhat system. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763
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