How to patch Fedora Core 2 Bind RPM?

[Mark Haney]

John Smith wrote:
> I have a Fedora Core 2 box that is running BIND 9.2.3-13 and I want to
> update to the latest patch due to the DNS issue. How can I upgrade my RPM
> install? Is there an RPM that is independent of the  Fedora OS?
> 
> Or is it possible to compile and use the patch installed from source overtop
> my RPM?
> 
> Any help would be great.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

Your best bet is to do what I did with my FC6 boxes and get the latest 
Source RPM (9.5.0 or thereabouts) install it and see if you can build it 
on the FC2 box.

You might need to satisfy some dependencies and devel packages, but it 
should work.  Maybe.  That's an old OS.



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