on 10/24/2007 12:34 PM Johnny Hughes spake the following: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Scott Silva wrote: >>>> No. But we had that stuff rather regularly with samba - their first line >>>> of support seems to be : "Upgrade your version to the most current one, >>>> then ask again." >>>> >>>> That's what I meant. >>>> >>> That is very common with applications. They don't back patch old >>> versions, and the problem you ask about might be already fixed. Just >>> look at the dovecot list. People still pop in and ask why 0.99 has >>> this problem, because that is what their distro came with, but they >>> are currently at 1.0.5, and have 1.1 in beta. Who has the time to >>> backport fixes to old versions if you don't get paid for it? >> And what's the point even if you do get paid? The problem is really in >> distributions that by policy won't do a version level app upgrade even >> in instances where it would clearly be better than patching the beta >> version they chose to include. >> > > Well ... Even IF the dovecot people backported patches to 0.99 ... RHEL > would probably not bring those patches in anyway, unless it fixed a > problem that they have in the RH bugzilla. That is the whole purpose of > freezing on the enterprise distribution. > > They fix security updates and bugs and you run it like it was released > ... IT IS THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT. > > IF that isn't the distribution type you want ... CentOS is not the > distribution for you :D > > (You being users in general and not anyone in particular) > And if you really need a particular package newer, you just have to bite the bullet and either manage it yourself, or use a third party trusted repo that has what you want. Even Centos made the redhat application stack available "if you want it". -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!