CentOS - Dec 2004 - httpd trademark issue -- here it is!

Hey,

A "powered by RedHat" gif recently appeared on the
bottom of the mirror monitor (mirmon) page:

http://www.advanced-app.com.hk/caosity/

This appeared in place of the "powered by CentOS" gif
that used to be there.

The mirmon page is getting it from the icons directory
under the default html directory.

An Apache update in November put the new gif there in
place of the CentOS gif.  This was fixed in a httpd
update early this month.

This server is on a 28 day update lag.  Just a few
hours ago, yum automatically updated httpd to version 

httpd-0-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.1.i386.hdr

which came into my master repository on November 19th
HKT.  

Actually, a newer httpd version came in on December
3rd,

httpd-0-2.0.46-44.ent.centos.2.i386.hdr

Theoretically, the appearance of the more recent
version should have blocked the installation of the
prior version, but the logic in the lag mirror
software needs refinement (it is not expecting a newer
version to have a non-contiguous number component).  

I am away from the office.  Could someone please let
me know where I can grab the correct gif off some web
site?

Thanks,

Rick

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
> An Apache update in November put the new gif there in
> place of the CentOS gif.  This was fixed in a httpd
> update early this month.
> 
> This server is on a 28 day update lag.  Just a few
> hours ago, yum automatically updated httpd to version 
> Theoretically, the appearance of the more recent
> version should have blocked the installation of the
> prior version, but the logic in the lag mirror
> software needs refinement (it is not expecting a newer
> version to have a non-contiguous number component).  
'non-contiguous number component' ????

1->2 is hardly non-contiguous

m-e-v-r comparison should have picked that up ...


Regards
Lance

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rick Graves wrote:
> I am away from the office.  Could someone please let
> me know where I can grab the correct gif off some web
> site?
Download the new rpm and install it.

Or download the src.rpm, unpackk it and copy the image file.

Lance

anyway - isnt this the idea of lagmirror - to give you n days extra 
exposure to security flaws and bugs ;)

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Michael,
> Is your code Python?  If so, you should use the 
> python rpmlib bindings for this.
Yes, my code is written in Python. 
> Yeah, that's how mine worked too, only it used 
> version comparison to handle the case where 
> multiple new updates for the same package
> appeared simultaneously ...
Good point -- thanks for the tip.  I will take a look
at rpmlib bindings.

Rick


--- centos-request at caosity.org wrote:

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:33:20 -0500
From: Michael Jennings <mej at caosity.org>
To: centos at caosity.org
Subject: Re: [Centos] httpd trademark issue -- here it
is!

On Monday, 20 December 2004, at 09:18:48 (-0800),
Rick Graves wrote:
> Thanks, I am clear on that.  My code was sometimes
not working
> right.  I simplified and clarified it, and it is
working right now
> -- at least on the httpd versions, and I hope on
everything else.

Is your code Python?  If so, you should use the python
rpmlib bindings
for this.
> I am not sure I need to even worry about comparisons
on this level.
> My program is most concerned about when a
*different* version
> appears on the public mirrors.  So 2.0.46 would be
different than
> 2.0.127, and my logic presumes the one that appears
after supercedes
> the one that appeared before.
Yeah, that's how mine worked too, only it used version
comparison to
handle the case where multiple new updates for the
same package
appeared simultaneously (which can happen if the
script doesn't run
frequently enough or a quickie-fix is required.

Michael