I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it.
How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info?
Thanks! jlc
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don’t really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it.
For the most part if it's a feature it's not added, and if it's a bug/security issue it is.
How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info?
The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's changelog. Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell you.
Cheers, Erek Dyskant
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Erek Dyskant wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers donÿÿt really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it.
For the most part if it's a feature it's not added, and if it's a bug/security issue it is.
How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info?
The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's changelog. Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell you.
Instead of downloading the srpm why not just run rpm -q --changelog postfix | less and read that?
If the rpm is not installed, do rpm -qp --changelog /path/to/postfix-blah.rpm | less
Regards,
Instead of downloading the srpm why not just run rpm -q --changelog postfix | less and read that?
Nice, it looks like it's not backported. I looked at an rpm I _know_ is backported (xen 303) and it's easy to grep for the possibility as they call it out!
I guess I don't have Postfix 2.4x :(
Thank you everyone! jlc
The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's changelog.
Didn’t think of that!
Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell
you.
I tried searching errata for postfix and turned up only old results. I will rip that srpm down shortly!
Thanks for the tip! jlc
Erek Dyskant wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it.
For the most part if it's a feature it's not added, and if it's a bug/security issue it is.
How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info?
The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's changelog. Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell you.
For changelog one could do 'rpm -q --changelog postfix' and see it without downloaded and installing the source rpm.
With yum-changelog installed one could do a 'yum changelog postfix' to see the changelog without even installing or downloading postfix.
Some apps will display the build options used under the version information, maybe postfix has something like that too, if not to find out for sure you will need to look at the .spec file.
-Ross
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