Updating VSFTPD from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1.

[Rick Stevens]

George Lemos wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me Alexander.
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>>Am Mi, den 17.03.2004 schrieb George Lemos um 18:03:
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>>>I'm working on learning VSFTPD and am setting it up on a fedora fc1 
>>>box. The system currently, from the original install, has version 
>>>1.2.0. At least that is what the folder says in 
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>>/usr/share/doc/vsftpd-1.2.0.
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>>rpm -q vsftpd
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>>this tells you the exact version and patch number of the 
>>installed package.
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>>>Bare with me as I am green in Linux but learning every day. If I 
>>>download vsftpd-1.2.0-5.i386.rpm and enter the command:
>>>
>>>rpm -ihv vsftpd-1.2.0-5.i386.rpm
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>>You can install packages easily using the Fedora tool up2date 
>>by running
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>>up2date-nox -i vsftpd
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>>It has the advantage that it automagically resolves 
>>dependencies, while the direct install command using rpm 
>>might fail when other packages are missing.
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> When I run the command
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> up2date-nox -i vsftpd
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> The following packages you requested are already updated:
> Vsftpd
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> But the latest is v1.2.1 according to the website and the package I have
> installed is vsftpd-1.2.0-5
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> What am I missing?

That there's no RPM built yet for the latest vsftpd in the up2date
repositories.  It's not uncommon for RPM versions to lag behind the
tarballs.
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