Hi,
I've posted a similar request a while ago on fedora-list and got no answer at all - I suppose it might fit better in here.
Some days ago I received, from fedora-announce, info on updated iptables 1.2.9-1.0. That'd be
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-February/msg00004.h...
It happens that the announcement mentioned a new config option (IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD), so I went to iptables.org in order to learn some more about it.
I couldn't find anything there on the topic ( http://iptables.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.9.txt ) ; then it downed on
me that the Fedora update was 1.2.9-1.0 - this trailing _1.0_ suffix was nowhere to be found on iptables.org (I might as well have missed something there).
But the whole point I'd like to understand is more general and not iptables-specific at all .
It seems that all updates to FC are published by _someone_at_redhat com_ . So I ask - when RH updates a package in FC, might it make some ADDITIONAL change to the original package ? I'm asking this due to the _1.0_ and to the new switch which was not mentioned on the original changelog.
Would someone care to clarify ? Not necessarily on the specific iptables package, but do outside packages receive additional changes before becoming generally available for updating users' systems?
Any docs describing this process ?
Thnx
Thiers