On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote:
> is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php,
> if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must
>install it from tarball
All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old
versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing.
Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they
still go back to 5.2 or earlier. To get traditional bug fixes and new
features (and these typically go together) you need to upgrade to their
latest distribution.
This is a policy I can't disagree with. Regression testing is a major
undertaking, and Red Hat does this with every full release, and again
when security fixes are released. No company has the resources to do
that for every bug fix.
.../Ed
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