Marcus Meissner wrote:
Will a Novell programmer make the necessary patches to 1.4? will SUSE (YOU) provide upgrade to 1.5 or 1.6... giving I'm stuck with the 1.6 upgrade :-)
We currently do this, yes: $ ls -l /work/SRC/old-versions/10.0/all/mediawiki
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1604 2005-12-07 14:47 mediawiki-1.4.7-php4.4.1.diff
official last 1.4 version is 1.4.14
php scripts are very sensitive materials. vulnerability found there can severely impact a server.
Just do not use them. ;)
the server is just made to run these :-)
2 years of security updates, as with the dozen SUSE Linux releases before.
I don't question the security release, just the way they are done. at first glance it seems very expensive to fix programms that where not entended to be when the developper do this better (I beg) and free, just to stay with obsolete versions. I mean if the developper of the app XXxx gives two years security update, it seems enough to use them. if not, how can you be sure? does this mean you have a programmer for any and each package available on SUSE Linux? if yes is this one included in the main developper team or working alone? I think it's very interesting to know, I think you make often internally more work than most people know and you are not granted for it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos