How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

[Res]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, jri wrote:

> What about Redhat? we are using paid redhat enterprise version, but
> they are still with the version 9.3 and no P2 yet (9.3.4-6.0.2.P1
> available on july 10).
> So end up compiling is not what I thought when buying RHEL.
> Any comments will be appreciated.

Simple, take it up with RedHat, its got nothing to do with ISC, that they 
and debian and so on have policies about living in dark ages, but then, 
you should be aware of this if you use their distros anyway to make for 
these allowances, research a bit more before using those types of distros. 
The only Linux flavours that keep complete up to date are the ones that 
use upstream sources (like ISC's bind), Slackware (and I heard Gentoo) do
this.


(PS: fanbois of RH/Debian/Ubunut/CentOS/insert_other_variant_here please 
dont waste your time with the rhetoric we get about "stableness" and only 
why back patch security blah blah blah, if I hear that crap once more I'll 
throw up, its old, its boring, if the likes of Slackware can produce a 
completely stable and bullet proof distro for well over a decade no reason 
others cant)

Res (a RHEL'r as well as a Slackware'r)