Bug 57668
Summary: | ghostcript fails to upgrade | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <james.martin> |
Component: | ghostscript | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2001-12-19 00:59:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-12-18 16:37:46 UTC
This was intentional; a feature part of the errata. You can get the Omni package from the same place you got the ghostscript package. Here's the problem, its listed under Security Advisory: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh72-errata-security.html This link says that this patch group fixes a security issue: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-138.html Omni should be part of the "Enhancements" Errata. It should not be required to install Omni to fix a security hole. The only thing Omni is providing is additional print drivers. Fixing a hole in ghostscript should be possible by just patching ghostscript. The addition of Omni as a requirement for the new version of ghostscript is unecessary. This shoving "features" with patches is what got MS in trouble with their Service Packs. Well, it's very difficult to rectify now. :-( Thanks for bringing it to our attention, and I'll make sure to separate out security updates on any future errata in packages I maintain (this particular advisory was put together by the previous maintainer of these packages). |