up2date and XML-RPC GET

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Oct 13 08:36:38 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:03 +1000, Alan Milligan wrote:
> 
> I appreciate that XML-RPC's file limitations already require up2date to
> return non-XML-RPC payloads, but wonton undermining of these protocols
> leads us down the path of Microsoft.
> 
> Can we agree that up2date was not designed and developed exclusively for
> RedHat environments, and that as such, it's in all of our interests to
> keep it durable.
> 
> I can provide you with the necessary patch to fix this if required, but
> I'd first like to hear whether or not you'd apply it.

I'm not sure if Adrian is on this list.  You are best off making
comments like this through bugzilla with patches so they don't get lost.

Paul





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