OT: Sendmail {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> On Thursday 18 September 2003 4:44 pm, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> > Redhat for example backported the fixes, they always do...
>
> Shouldn't they still change the version number in some way
> (eg 8.12.8 ->
> 8.12.8a or 8.12.8-1) so that sysadmins know whether they've
> got the new one
> or the old one on a given machine?

See rpm -qi sendmail.  They update the release number within the package.
Latest is 9.90.  That number is appended to the sendmail version number in
the package filename.  If you are using up2date you probably just aren't
seeing the release number, but it's definitely there and not difficult to
find.  It also shows up in a listing of the installed packages:

# rpm -qa | grep sendmail
sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.90
sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
sendmail-doc-8.12.8-9.90