[racktables-users] Re: help wanted with RHEL
- From: Christoph Maser <cmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 20:23:09 +0200
Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 18:05 +0200 schrieb Denis Ovsienko:
> Hello, list.
>
> The bug of RackTables 0.18.x not working on CentOS has been pinned down:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457064
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3252
> http://chrisjean.com/2009/01/31/unicode-support-on-centos-52-with-php-and-pcre/
>
> Long story short, it's trivial to fix, but RedHat prefers to leave it open in
> its RHEL product. CentOS folks get it copied from RHEL (and also don't fix
> it), and RackTables is not the first application to be impacted by this bug.
>
> A way to work around that would be to revert a part of the recent switch to
> uniform PCRE, namely, to employ mb_ereg() for character class matching again.
> For me this looks to be only a temporary measure (given, that ereg() is
> already deprecated) and adds undesired maintenance overhead.
>
> This is where you can help. I am looking for a RHEL user with a support
> contract, which they could use to push RedHat's bug 457064 to be properly
> fixed (and working RPM put into updates). Technically it is a very simple
> work, but if we could make it done, that would help a lot.
>
> --
> Denis Ovsienko
>
Did you try that with the RHWAS version which is available for CentOS in
the extras repo?
Chris
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