[Info-vax] TCPIP v5.7 eco5

[Carl Friedberg]

Thank you Craig

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Craig A. Berry via Info-vax <
info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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