Apache worm released

Eric Rossiter rossiter at discoverynet.com
Mon Jul 1 21:31:58 CDT 2002


Gerald Combs wrote:

> 
> According to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-103.html,
> apache-1.3.22-6.i386.rpm is the correct package to use to fix the chunked
> encoding problem.

Ok, so then am I to understand I'm good to go with the version I put on
today?

> 
> More often than not, Red Hat won't upgrade to the latest version of a
> package to fix a problem.  Instead they backport the fix to whatever
> version they're currently shipping. The "-6" in the package name indicates
> that this is the 6th change they've made to the stock Apache 1.3.22
> distribution.  This sort of naming can cause a fair amount of confusion.
> 

Thanks Gerald,

Eric




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