[Opendnssec-develop] WARNING: 1.4.0a1 appears in Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories

[Roland van Rijswijk - Deij]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the quick action! 

This REALLY messed up our production signers, I hope Paul & RH take quick action :(

Cheers,

Roland

On 8 jul. 2012, at 15:22, Jerry Lundström wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is the works of Paul Wouters.
> 
> I have pointed this out to him and posted on EPEL issue
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711899) that this is an
> ALPHA release and should not be pushed to production.
> 
> It went unnoticed...
> 
> opendnssec-1.4.0-0.a1.el6.2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6
> stable repository.
> opendnssec-1.4.0-0.a1.fc16.2 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.
> opendnssec-1.4.0-0.a1.fc17.2 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.
> 
> /Jerry
> 
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Roland van Rijswijk - Deij
> <Roland.vanRijswijk at surfnet.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> A friendly warning: we are currently dealing with the fall out from what appears to be a stupid mistake by Red Hat. OpenDNSSEC 1.4.0a1 has appeared in repositories that are apparently configured on production systems by default. Consequently, our well-managed 1.3.9 install has been upgraded to 1.4.0a1 and all configuration has been wiped.
>> 
>> I don't know which one of you (if any) has contacts at Fedora/Red Hat, but please tell them that 1.4.0 is an alpha that should NEVER end up in production repositories…


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