[avahi] avahi 0.6-14 in suse 10.2 doesn't attempt to join multicast

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Mon Mar 19 15:09:01 PDT 2007


On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:00:41PM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/19/07, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> wrote:
> >I advised all vendors remove this patch as it was incorrect and broke
> >Avahi completely, the correct fix was rolled into 0.6.15
> >
> >This needs to be filed upstream with suse to fix their broken fix.
> >
> >Where do we do that?
> 
> bugzilla.novell.com is the right place to report downstream SUSE bugs.
> 
> It looks like 0.6.17 is in FACTORY, however, which is what will become
> openSUSE 10.3.  In general, non-security bug fixes aren't pushed out
> for released versions.

Well that patch was  "security fix" but rather than fix it actually just
pretty much broke Avahi completely, so arguably they should roll a fix.

Trent

> 
> Also, it looks like the GNOME:UNSTABLE repo in the openSUSE build
> service has Avahi 0.6.17 for 10.2:
> 
>    http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/UNSTABLE/openSUSE_10.2/
> 
> But I'm not sure what the RPM dependency implications are there.
> 
> Joe
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