Hi Folks, Just wondering what Thunderbird users are doing on el7 now it's been removed from the distro? I note EPEL has a thunderbird package but it seems very out of date at version 24.5.0. Version 24.6.0 was released 10 June, nearly 6 weeks ago, and fixed 3 critical security issues. Is this normal for EPEL to be so far behind on security updates? The other alternative seems to be running the tarball from Mozilla, but that is only available in 32-bit and I don't really want to install a whole bunch of 32-bit libs just to run one program. So what is everyone else using?
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:19:23 +0100 Ned Slider wrote:> Just wondering what Thunderbird users are doing on el7 now it's been > removed from the distro?I don't use thunderbird but am wondering if you have tried compiling a Fedora 20 src.rpm? I've installed a number of things on this C7 system that way over the past few days. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
Ned Slider wrote:> > The other alternative seems to be running the tarball from Mozilla, but > that is only available in 32-bit and I don't really want to install a > whole bunch of 32-bit libs just to run one program.Mozilla do have 64 bit builds: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/24.6.0/linux-x86_64/ James Pearson
On 07/18/2014 02:19 PM, Ned Slider wrote:> I note EPEL has a thunderbird package but it seems very out of date at > version 24.5.0. Version 24.6.0 was released 10 June, nearly 6 weeks ago, > and fixed 3 critical security issues. Is this normal for EPEL to be so > far behind on security updates? > > So what is everyone else using?I'm using the EPEL package for my personal laptop. The odds of me getting bit by a 6 week old exploit are probably almost non-existent. The odds of me forgetting to keep a custom install of thunderbird updated outside of yum is very high. I'm far from any kind of security expert, but here are two things I do to keep my browser/email client safe: 1. I only use gmail - as Google likes to scrub all of my data clean before they steal it 2. I install a custom hosts file ( http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ ). This protects all applications in one swoop, not just the browser. I don't use any adblock browser/email plugins because I've never investigated where the list of re-directs are stored on the machine. Perhaps they are harmless... but it would be easy to place a few re-directs in there and get millions of machines to do bad things real fast. ~ Chris
On 07/18/2014 02:19 PM, Ned Slider wrote:> Hi Folks, > > Just wondering what Thunderbird users are doing on el7 now it's been > removed from the distro? > > I note EPEL has a thunderbird package but it seems very out of date at > version 24.5.0. Version 24.6.0 was released 10 June, nearly 6 weeks ago, > and fixed 3 critical security issues. Is this normal for EPEL to be so > far behind on security updates? > > The other alternative seems to be running the tarball from Mozilla, but > that is only available in 32-bit and I don't really want to install a > whole bunch of 32-bit libs just to run one program. > > So what is everyone else using?Hopefully they will keep it updated better when EPEL 7 is out of beta ... at least I hope so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140719/ccea7118/attachment-0003.sig>