[CentOS] Backport uncertainty

Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com
Wed Feb 13 20:02:05 UTC 2008


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





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