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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Dan Noe wrote: |
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> If that isn't acceptable to you, you should seriously consider using a |
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> commercial distribution where people *are* paid to fix security bugs. |
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I second that opinion. Personally, I'm quite grateful for all of the hard |
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work all of the Gentoo developers put in, and would like to take this |
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opportunity to point that out explicitly. |
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This vulnerability was only announced yesterday, and given that are |
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probably no visible changes between 1.5.0.4 and 1.5.0.5 other than internal |
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bug fixes, a temporary workaround would probably be as simple as copying |
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the ebuild to your local overlay directory and changing the version number. |
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Having spent the last month trying to put together a reasonably |
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minimalistic install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an Oracle project, let |
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me tell you that while they might fix bugs quickly, working with it is a |
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pain in the ass, particularly compared to the simplicity and flexibility |
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that is Gentoo. (you have to love wanting to install package A, which has a |
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dependency on package B you don't even care about, but can't get rid of, |
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and that dependency cascades into a dozen more packages you want nothing to |
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do with that have to install just to get package A <sigh>...) |
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Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ |
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Operating Systems and Network Analyst | henson@×××××××××.edu |
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California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 |
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