[CentOS-devel] thunderbird 31 in centos 5 updates

On 10/23/2014 02:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 06:56 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>> On 23/10/14 00:51, Anssi Johansson wrote:
>>> 23.10.2014, 2.00, Orion Poplawski kirjoitti:
>>>> I thought the base and updates repos were supposed to track
>>>> upstream.  But
>>>> thunderbird-31.2.0 is in the centos 5 updates repo, while RHEL5.11
>>>> just has
>>>> thunderbird-24.8.0.
>>>
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html seems to suggest
>>> there's thunderbird-31.2.0-2 in RHEL 5.x as well
>>
>> It's linked off the Client errata page not the server one.
>>
>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-client-errata.html
> 
> They (RHEL) do that frequently, but I am pretty sure they don't have
> different versions in different parts of their tree.  I guess anything
> is possible.
> 
> But as is already posted, they upgraded to the new version and released
> an errata.
> 
> Orion, Are you sure you updated your RHEL-5.11 to the latest version?
> 

So my problem was that I was looking at 5Server (and I have a RHEL 5.11 server
install) and only thunbird 24.8.0 is there.  Now in hindsight it makes sense
to look for TB in Workstation rather than Server, but I wonder why the
disparity.  But that's a RHEL issue, not CentOS.  Sorry for the noise.

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