Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:10:43 -0400 Received: from mms.mms.de ([193.103.160.42]:52232 "EHLO mms.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:10:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:15:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Sven Koch X-X-Sender: haegar@space.comunit.de To: "Randal, Phil" cc: "Linux-Kernel (E-mail)" Subject: RE: [PATCH-RFC] README 1ST - New problem logging macros (2.5.38) In-Reply-To: <0EBC45FCABFC95428EBFC3A51B368C9501AF48@jessica.herefordshire.gov.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 27 On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Randal, Phil wrote: > You'll have to ask RedHat et al why they persist in backporting > security patches to "old" releases of Apache (etc) instead of > releasing the new versions. The effect is the same, with > vulnerabilities being squashed, but the version numbers reported > suggesting otherwise. Because every new version gives you some new problems/incompatibilities, which must not happen in a running production-environment. And testing every security-update 4 weeks in the lab before putting it into production would be worse. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/