Bug 170392

Redhat needs to promptly release an update to completely resolve all issues 
that have been resolved in squid-2.5.STABLE-11 plus the delay pool problem 
solved prior to STABLE-12 or I will be recommending that we not renew our 3 
RHEL ES subscriptions. 

The reasons I recommended RHEL in the first place was 1)quality controll and 2)
RHN provided time and cost savings value when looking for and installing 
updates. Unfortunately neither benefit is being realized.

The current squid packages are critically broken and have been for 3+ months. 
Our squid servers were crashing once or twice per day with the current RHEL 
released squid package. Redhat has tried unsucessfully for 3+ months to back 
port patches to resolve the issues. I have built, installed and used an RPM 
from the squid-2.5.STABLE-11 source which resolved all problems encountered 
with the RHEL squid packages. I installed these RPMs two weeks ago and squid 
has not crashed since. Redhat has built and distributed a squid RPM package for 
Fedora 4 that is also built from squid-2.5.STABLE-11 and includes the delay 
pool patch.

If an update will not be released within the next week, I an invite the RHEL 
managers to explain, in this forum, why they will not allow a new package to be 
released that fixes these critical service interrupting bugs and why, in that 
case, we should renew our RHN subscriptions if we are not receiving the updates 
that we paid for.

Page with packages from upstream and hopefully fixed packages for RHEL3/4 is here:

http://people.redhat.com/stransky/squid/

Yes, please. Current version of Squid in RHEL4 has problems with Java/NTLM,
which makes it really annoying in most corporate environments.

Current stable version, as of 30 May 2006, is squid-2.5.STABLE14:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/

The latest 2.5 and 2.6 packages for RHEL4 are available on my squid page...

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Testing packages are here:

http://people.redhat.com/stransky/squid/

so anybody can check them.

Could you build 2.6.STABLE6 for RHEL4 and upload to the above page? TIA!

(In reply to comment #12)
> Could you build 2.6.STABLE6 for RHEL4 and upload to the above page? TIA!

I'm going to update directly to STABLE7 there, it should be here in a week.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

The page was updated.

Excellent! Thanks.

Are the "Differences between current RHEL4 package and the latest upstream 
package" up-to-date for the squid-2.6.STABLE7-1.RHEL4 package?

(In reply to comment #17)
> Are the "Differences between current RHEL4 package and the latest upstream 
> package" up-to-date for the squid-2.6.STABLE7-1.RHEL4 package?

No, it's for the latest 2.5 line (i.e. for STABLE14).

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0251.html