On 2001-07-17, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> >For future reference (and not wanting to start a flame war!!!) where is
>> >this documented???
>>
>> rpm -q --changelog sendmail
>>
>> ...and logged via syslog ;-P
>Ok, I asked to see where this was documented many times and this is the first time I
>have
>gotten a credable answer. However, it is unreasonable to ask people to do a changelog
>on all
>the rpm's in a distribution to see such critical information. Why couldn't this have
>been put in the
>Release notes with the other sendmail change?
Perhaps you remember that I have been one of those who have asked
the same question on this list very early, after I had run into the
/etc/hosts.deny trap and discovered that sendmail syslog message on
tcpwrappers while testing my installation.
Please let's not repeat this "Why couldn't this have been documented...".
Of course, it should have been mentioned in the RELEASE-NOTES, too
(so at least we two would have read about it ;-P ). But most likely
it has been forgotton (a bug so to say), because Seawolf doesn't
protect sendmail via /etc/hosts.deny. Hence most users probably
don't need to know about it.
At this point in time, we can only hope that fundamental changes
like massive use of libwrap will be mentioned in the release notes
next time.
One could move this issue into another direction. I'm not sure what
other changes should be documented, too. When a software's config
file format changes? One learns about that as *.rpmsave, though.
When it introduces new options? Any ideas?
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