From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:11:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640609081311j509c88a6sae8ad81ad3be4663@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0609081227n56c4402fh7a85d05c62c39fb8@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/8/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I sort of have a problem with this. Maybe the info is in the change
> logs?
Yes, you really should read the ChangeLog if you want anwers to such
questions. Looks like 4.1.21 was stabilized to solve a security bug
[1] [2].
> up with 4.1.20 I think it must have been marked stable. Why did folks
> mark it stable and then completely remove it when 4.1.21 came along,
> but we continue to have older versions like 4.0.27?
Versions older than 4.1 are not affected by the security bug, so there
was no need to remove them.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-09.xml
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142429
-Richard
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-08 17:02 [gentoo-user] package removed from portage question Mark Knecht
2006-09-08 17:35 ` kashani
[not found] ` <5bdc1c8b0609081227n56c4402fh7a85d05c62c39fb8@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-08 20:11 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-09-08 20:36 ` Mark Knecht
2006-09-08 21:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-09 17:06 ` Mark Knecht
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