[Info-vax] TCPIP v5.7 eco5

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/28/15 7:17 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-02-28, Carl Friedberg <frida.fried at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In my opinion, the fact is that a new patch will be issued with the same ID
>> as the defective one. That is not good software or configuration management
>> practice, and does provide interesting support scenarios. It's bad enough
>> when they pull patches without notice; but when they stuff it back out
>> there with the same ID, those of us who already applied the original patch
>> are left in the lurch. It has happened to me several times in the last 5
>> years.
>>
>
> Oh for goodness sake, not again. :-(
>
> I thought HP got well and truly roasted by everyone the last time they
> did that.
>
> Do you happen to know for sure they are reissuing it under the exact
> same ID without a suffix on the end ?

It appears they are not.  I just got a notice about a MUP called:

DEC-AXPVMS-TELNET_PAT-V0507-13ECO5A-4
HP-I64VMS-TELNET_PAT-V0507-13ECO5A-4

As seems to be happening more lately, you can't really get much about
what they fixed except by downloading the kit and extracting the release
notes:

2.5  Problems addressed in this kit:

      See TCPIP_TELNET_PAT57ECO05A.RELEASE_NOTES file included in the kit.
      Installation of this patch is mandatory for systems which has HP 
TCP/IP
      Services for OpenVMS Version 5.7 ECO 5 kit installed.