[CentOS] Not To James B. Byrne

Sat Nov 15 23:09:25 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> On 14/11/14 18:09, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So in practice I think this really boils down to the common problem of
>>>> ancient software shipped by RHEL and the bug-for-bug compatibility in
>>>> CentOS with the list system eating its own dog food.  That is, there
>>>> is a fix for mailman, but not in the CentOS version. Sometimes
>>>> stability is good, sometimes you need the updates.
>>>
>>> can you file this at bugs.centos.org please
>>>
>>
>> There was already one:
>> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7149
>> is about this issue.  It already has a comment about centos following
>> upstream, but upstream doesn't seem to care unless you have paid
>> support:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095359
>>
>
> there are really 2 differnet things here, 1) what is the mailman
> included in a specific centos vesion doing and 2) what is the
> lists.centos.org machine doing with DKIM and what is the larger fix for
> each of those things.

The point is that mailman has the fix.  I suppose you can look at the
question of whether you solve the problem only for yourself or for all
centos users as two different things but the solution is pretty much
the same as any other bug that has been fixed (far) upstream.

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   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com