[cobalt-users] Warning BAD Updates!!!

["Franklin S. Werren" <fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Updates have bugs

Name: Qube3-ml-System-2.0.1-10448
Version: 1.0
Vendor: Cobalt Networks
Copyright: Copyright 2001, Cobalt Networks, Inc.
Type: complete
Description: This OS Update adds Chinese to the Qube.

It rewrites or overwrites the srm.conf
in the /etc/httpd/conf

And if you had index.shtml in it as a default page.... Guess what
you loose index.shtml and it installs a bunch of index.htm.ch and more....
This is a BAD UPDATE!
I just spend 2 hrs with Cobalt fixing this....


Name: Qube3-All-Kernel-2.0.1-2.216C27III
Version: 2.0
Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Appliance Products
Copyright: Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems Inc.
Type: Update
Description: Kernel Update for i386 products

This update breaks Internet Explorer 6 Browser to BlueLin interface
I do not know about IE 5 or 5.5
The Java Scripting appears to have some code IE does not like.
You will point to the word in the side pannel and you do not get a hand
to click the button you have to click on either side of the the word.
Netscape 4 works fine including the new  Netscape 6.1 preview


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