Mike C wrote:
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to fix bind (bind-chroot) running in an old machine running FC7 so that it offers the same protection as bind-chroot-9.5.0-28.P1.fc8 and bind-9.5.0-33.P1.fc9.i386 ??
Can one use the src rpm for F8 and re-configure it for FC7?
Sure, you should be able to rebuild the F-8 bind srpm or update bind on F-7 to 9.4.2-P1.
Then you'll get to do it again soon for any other packages that have security problems. IMO, your time would be better spent updating those boxes to a supported release of Fedora (or RHEL or CentOS) -- unless you're already quite good at building packages and backporting patches.
I guess there are still quite a lot of servers in use that are running EOLed Fedoras.
That means a lot of admins get to see how much work is really involved in keeping software up to date (or learn the joys of having their boxes rooted).