Re: [Security-Discuss] Firefox Backport Request to 10.1

You are total right and i understand. I am also very angrily about the
way of updates from mandriva. You can read this in the clamav thread.
No security about the main trees on the LE2005 and nothing for the
official version (10.1). The LE2005 is only a community Version not for
production.
And you are right no firefox update for 10.1 and this is very important.

I don't no what is going on on mandriva side these are many steps back.

There is nothing to forgive about this discussion this is one way to
change the situation.

I hope we get a reaction here form mandriva side. 



Dieter

Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 15:49 -0500 schrieb Joe Baker:
> Dieter Schütze wrote:
> 
> >The updates for this are exists
> >http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:088
> >
> >Are you not in the mailing list for security updates ?
> >
> >  
> >
> I did see the security update email message.  And I noticed that Firefox 
> was not listed in the Mandrake 10.1 stanza.  I'll be happy to add the 
> macro that was mentioned in an earlier thread and try recompiling the 
> source  for the 10.2 version in my 10.1 environment.  I had found a 
> Firefox package for 10.1 on rpm.pbone.net that had been packaged by H.J. 
> Heines of the NL Mandrakeclub.
> 
> Our organization is persuing a migration strategy from Windows desktops 
> to the LTSP approach on Linux.  Our Terminal server is presently running 
> Mandrake 10.1.  Mozilla Firefox has been chosen as our company's 
> preferred web browser for at least 8 months now.  This standard browser 
> makes one less application users need to learn when switching from 
> Windows to Linux.
> 
> My concern with purchasing Mandrake's Corporate Desktop server is that 
> Mandriva's adoption of new programs and upgrades of existing programs 
> might not keep up with the pace of the developers.
> 
> In other words, Firefox is an awesome web browser and Mandriva should be 
> releasing new versions of it for old versions of the Mandrake operating 
> system that are still supported.
> 
> Open Office is another example.
> 
> I saw the Open Office.org security release about Mandrake's updated 
> packages for OOo.  The security patch was backported to 1.1.3!  Why 
> didn't you simply bring forward 1.1.4 into the Mandrake 10.1 and 10.0 
> environments?
> 
> Is there any work going on that would streamline the update download 
> process to using diff files?  Consider the recent Open Office upgrade 
> was basically the changing of a single file If I read OOo's security 
> announcement correctly.
> 
> Well I hope to upgrade to Mandriva 2005 LE on our Terminal Server soon 
> anyway, but you can imagine the precautions I take, backing up the 
> drives, then testing the resulting system to make sure everything from 
> Samba to KDM to VMWare to nfs, to X font servers are running properly 
> after the upgrade.  Determining if the system is workable and then 
> rolling back to the backup if it isn't fixable.
> 
> The enterprise version of Mandriva must also integrate Gnome 2.10.1 also 
> before we will buy it.
> 
> Forgive my at length discussion, but you have my attention, and we are 
> seriously considering your business offerings, I hope you will seriously 
> consider our feedback.
> 
> Sincerley,
> Joe Baker
> 
> 
> >Regards 
> >
> >Dieter
> >
> >Am Montag, den 16.05.2005, 11:49 -0500 schrieb Joe Baker:
> >  
> >
> >>Could we please get a backported release of Firefox 1.0.4 for Mandrake 10.1?
> >>
> >>/Joe Baker/
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