Re: [cobalt-security] viability of 'up2date' on an XTR?

[Brian Reichert <reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> Brian Reichert wrote:
> > What I can't emperically tell is whether or not Cobalt's RaQXTR
> > platform is enough like RedHat 6.5 that up2date will actually be
> > useful, if not actually non-dangerous, to conventions Sun has
> > introduced to this box.
> 
> My considered opinion is it would be dangerous; Cobalt definitely has
> their own update "track".

Crap.  Cobalt seems, er, remiss in getting their stuff up-to-date,
then.  Are there any _known_ don't-upgrade-this-RPM-or-you-die
gotchas out there?

I have a fantasy of keeping this inherited box up-to-date, but can't
guess as to how fragile the Cobalt-isms actually are. :(

Thanks for the feedback, anyway...

> And perhaps not as useful as you think; for example they'd probably
> never update proftpd.
> 
> Jeff
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