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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:49:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark J Cox <mjc@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: code review CVS
> hahah... as Mark can attest, you're not the only one. I've had to email
> him a few times looking for some obscure src.rpm.
We give the full path in our emailed advisories (except for the cases
where we are shipping something not open source like java/acroread) but
the paths are not in the web based versions. So
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/ since Nov 2007, or for older
stuff http://www.redhat.com/archives/enterprise-watch-list/
Once you get a rpm then unpacking it without installing it is easy:
rpm2cpio fn.rpm | cpio --make-directories --extract
And we nearly always ship the pristine upstream tarball along with each
patch separately (exception being things like OpenSSL).
This is definately material for a 'how to find out how the vendor fixed
this' page.
Thanks, Mark
--
Mark J Cox / Red Hat Security Response Team
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