[WBEL-users] updates listed on redhat not done for whitebox yet

[John Morris]

On Sat, 15 May 2004, chris weisiger wrote:

> There are alot of packages from may 11th onwards to today may 15 at
> 12:03am cst on the redhat site.

You are referring to the update2 batch of packages.  None are security 
related so aren't time critical.

> If so what should i do in the mean time about the updates.
> I dont know where i can get the sources from to update my system...
> plus im new at rebuilding srpms to rpms so i would
> probably just screw something up...

You can get the srpms from your fav RedHat mirror same way I do.  Building 
most is just a matter of "rpmbuild --rebuild <package>" with a --target 
i686|athlon for glibc and the kernel.

I'll be hatching the bulk of them soon.  The ones needing whitebox patches 
will follow along a bit later.

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