build failed on OSX 10.4.10 (ppc) - OT

[Tony Earnshaw]

Mordechai T. Abzug skrev, on 12-08-2007 06:54:

>> 	We've put significant effort into compensating for the
>> 	determination of the vendor of our Linux-distro-of-choice to stay
>> 	18 months or so behind updates recommended as 'critical' for key
>> 	components of our infrastructure, such as OpenSSL or BIND.
> 
> IME, the major Linux vendors are pretty good about backporting
> patches.  I.e. you may be officially running bind version 9.2.2, or
> whatever, but the vendor backports patches so the (known)
> vulnerabilities should no longer apply.
> 
> Although I still prefer to build my own, so I get the warm fuzzies of
> *knowing* that I'm running 9.3.4P1 or 9.4.1P1.

Agreed, and is also my policy. What Adam Tkac doesn't say (talk about 
hiding one's light under a bushel), is that he personally has put an 
enormous amount of work into producing the very latest packages for 
Fedora; his srpms will build on RHL5/CentOS5 and I'm using his 9.4.1-P1 
on RHL5, choosing this rather than Red Hat's patching policy.

The same goes for Buchan Milne's OpenLDAP, Simon J. Mudd's Postfix and 
other stuff for which I'm forced to build my own rpms/srpms.

Best,

--Tonni

-- 
Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl