[wplug] Red Hat and backporting

[Tim Lesher]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:32:40PM -0400, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Tim Lesher wrote:
> > I think RedHat could clear up most of these problems by having a
> > simple explanation of sub-versioning, and by having a single place
> > where you could see the sub-versions they've released, and the reason
> > for the re-release.  In other words, an inverse version of the CVE
> > project.
> 
> Something like this?
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh8-errata.html

No, the _inverse_ of that.  Something like this (dates, versions,
advisories are all fictional).

Package:  foo-2.1
Updates:
  Version        Date        Reason
  foo-2.1-3.rpm  2002-12-07  Updated for advisory RHSA-2002:153-01
                             Released: RedHat Linux 7.2
  foo-2.1-2.rpm  2002-06-28  Updated for advisory RHSA-2002:118-08
  foo-2.1-1.rpm  2001-11-21  Updated for advisory RHSA-2001:101-92
  foo-2.1-0.rpm  2001-10-01  Released: RedHat Linux 7.1

(where the RPM, the versions, and the advisories are clickable links).

In other words, a searchable revision history for their released
RPMs.  Maybe they have that, but I haven't found it.

I suspect that RedHat's answer is "just use up2date and don't worry,
be happy".

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
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