Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Release Notes Release Notes for all architectures. Ryan Lerch Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc.. This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1.0 or later (the latest version of the OPL is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Red Hat and the Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Release Notes 5.1. All Architectures ......................................................................................................... 24 5.2. x86 Architectures ........................................................................................................ 25 5.3. PowerPC Architectures ............................................................................................... 26 5.4. x86_64 Architectures ..................................................................................
Feature Updates • a sample STIG rules file, named "stig.rules", is newly provided in these updated packages. This file contains the auditctl rules which are loaded whenever the audit daemon is started by init scripts. In addition to the listed enhancements, these updated audit packages also include a new feature to allow a server to aggregate the logs of remote systems. The following instructions can be followed to enable this feature: 1.
Release Notes NetworkManager re-base NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.7.0. This update provides the following fixes and enhancements: • NetworkManager would not display a LEAP password, even when the user selected the "show password" option. This has been fixed through a rebase to NetworkManager 0.7. • During the beta phase, a version of NetworkManager was unable to automatically start network interfaces for which "ONBOOT=no" was present in the ifcfg file.
Feature Updates background. The window was therefore not obvious to the user. The applet now opens in the foreground, alerting the user to take action. • when resuming, NetworkManager could sometimes re-establish a wireless connection, but not a route. A fix for this problem from upstream has been included in this update. • NetworkManager did not previously support Cisco Airo Wi-Fi cards, as these devices did not respond to NetworkManager's attempts to detect them.
Release Notes 1.2. Resolved Issues • system-config-network requires the fonts provided with xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 in order to display. However, this fonts package was not previously set as a dependency for systemconfig-network and it was therefore possible (for example, in the case of a minimal installation) for system-config-network to be present on a system and yet unable to function because these fonts were missing.
Virtualization 1.4. Virtualization • A bug in the IDE/ATA driver stack that could prevent a system using kernel-xen from booting into the kdump environment is now fixed. In previous releases, this occurred if the system encountered a kernel panic while an IDE device was performing I/O and the IDE device was being controlled by a device driver other than libata. • A softlockup may have occurred when creating a guest with a large amount of memory.
Release Notes semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1(/.*)?' semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib64/ooo-1.1(/.*)?' restorecon -Rv /usr/lib/ooo-1.19 restorecon -Rv /usr/lib64/ooo-1.19 Alternatively, you can also upgrade your OpenOffice to a correct version compatible with SELinux in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Technology Previews attempt to install the libcmpiutil-devel package on a system that does not have a Subscription including the Workstation option or is not subscribed to the Workstation channel on the Red Hat Network, will fail with an unresolved dependency error. • It is possible in rare circumstances, for makedumpfile to produce erroneous results but not have them reported. This is due to the fact that makedumpfile processes its output data through a pipeline consisting of several stages.
Release Notes echo eth6 > /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/destroy For further information on software based FCoE refer to: http://www.open-fcoe.org/openfc/wiki/ index.php/FCoE_Initiator_Quickstart. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 provides full support for FCoE on three specialized hardware implementations. These are: Cisco fnic driver, the Emulex lpfc driver, and the Qlogic qla2xx driver.
All Architectures • Creating or using encrypted software RAID member disks (i.e. software RAID partitions) is not supported. However, creating encrypted software RAID arrays (e.g. /dev/md0) is supported. • The NFS default for RHEL5 is "locking". Therefore, to mount nfs shares from the %post section of anaconda, use the mount -o nolock,udp command to start the locking daemon before using nfs to mount shares.
Release Notes • If your system has yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-5.el5_1.2 (or an earlier version) installed, you will be unable to upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 through yum update. To work around this, upgrade your yum-rhn-plugin to the latest version (using yum update yum-rhn-plugin) before running yum update. • Previously, anaconda could not access more than 8 SmartArray controllers. In this update, this issue has been resolved. • A driver disk, supplied by an OEM, is a single image file (*.
ia64 Architecture • Installation on a machine with existing Linux or non-Linux filesystems on DASD block devices may cause the installer to halt. If this happens, it is necessary to clear out all existing partitions on the DASD devices you want to use and restart the installer. 2.4. ia64 Architecture • If your system only has 512MB of RAM, attempting to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 may fail.
Release Notes Improvements in Driver Disk Support A driver disk, supplied by an OEM, is a single image file (*.img), containing potentially multiple driver RPMs and kernel modules. These drivers are used during installation to support hardware that otherwise would not be recognized. The RPMs are installed on the system and placed into the initrd so that they are supported when the machine reboots. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Feature Updates TTY Input Auditing TTY input auditing is now supported. If a process is marked for TTY input auditing, the data it reads from TTYs is audited; this will show up on audit records with type TTY. You can use the pam_tty_audit module to mark a process (and its child processes) for TTY input auditing. For instructions on how to do this, refer to man pam_tty_audit(8). The TTY audit records contain the exact keystrokes read by the audited process.
Release Notes http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=rhel53 Cluster Manager Update The Cluster Manager utility (cman) has been updated to version 2.0.97. This applies several bug fixes and enhancements, most notably: • cman now uses the following firmware versions: APC AOS v3.5.7 and APC rpdu v3.5.6. This fixes a bug that prevented the APC 7901 from using simple network management protocol (SNMP) properly.
Feature Updates • ibsim • ibutils • infiniband-diags • libcxgb3 • libehca • libibcm • libibcommon • libibmad • libibumad • libibverbs • libipathverbs • libmlx4 • libmthca • libnes • librmdacm • libsdp • mpi-selector • mpitests • mstflint • mvapich • mvapich2 • ofed-docs • openib • openib-mstflint • openib-perftest • openib-tvflash • openmpi • opensm • perftest 17
Release Notes • qlvnictools • qperf • rds-tools (future) • srptools • tvflash Net-SNMP Re-Base Net-SNMP has been re-based to upstream version 5.3.2.2. This update adds Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) support (as per RFC 3873, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3873.txt) and introduces two new configuration options (to be used in /etc/snmpd.conf): • dontLogTCPWrappersConnects — suppresses logging of connection attempts.
Feature Updates certificates failing verification. In order for certificates to pass verification, the -CAfile /etc/ pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt option had to be used. In these updated packages, the default CA certificates file is read, and no longer needs to be specified with the -CAfile option. yum Re-Base yum has been re-based to upstream version 3.2.18.
Release Notes For more information on IBS refer to the paper: Instruction-Based Sampling: A New Performance 2 Analysis Technique for AMD Family 10h Processors, November 19, 2007 Squid Re-base Squid has been re-based to the latest stable upstream version (STABLE21). This update addresses several bugs, including: • The squid init script always incorrectly returned an exit code of 0. This bug is now fixed, making squid compliant now with Linux Standard Base.
All Architectures • The following Wacom graphics tablets are now supported through the linuxwacom drivers: • Cintiq 20WSX • Intuos3 4x6 • the lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters has been updated to version 8.2.0.33.2p. This applies several upstream changes, most notably: • the NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT socket is now used • Resolved uninitialized node access. • fixed a bug that caused echotest failure when NPIV is enabled. • fcauthd 1.19 is now required for fibre channel authentication.
Release Notes • igb: driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated to version 1.2.45-k2, adding support for 82576 based devices. • the ixgbe driver for Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express network devices has been updated to version 1.3.18-k4. • the niu driver has been added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, adding support for 10Gbps ethernet devices on Sun CP3220 systems. • the ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers for Intel PRO Wireless devices has been backported to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
All Architectures • The irq handler is now freed when __tw_shutdown() is initiated. This prevents a possible null pointer de-reference if an interrupt was shared during shutdown. • RCD bit for caching mode page is now turned on. • ioctl resets and scsi resets are now serialized so they no longer collide. • 3w-9xxx: driver for 3ware SATA RAID Controllers updated to version 2.26.08.
Release Notes 5. Kernel-Related Notes 5.1. All Architectures • relayfs previously had a buffer size limit of 64MB. In this update, the limitation of the memory allocated to relayfs for on-memory buffers has been increased to 4095MB. This allows SystemTap and other tracing tools that utilize relayfs the ability to trace more events. • The driver for Dell Remote Access Controller 4 (DRAC4) was not present. Consequently, any virtual devices provided by the DRAC4 were not being detected by the kernel.
x86 Architectures • oprofile did not correctly identify processors based on the Next-Generation Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem). Consequently, the performance monitoring unit could not be used and the processor fell back to the timer interrupt. The kernel has been updated to resolve this issue. • Support has been added to the kernel for the CPU power state, C3, on the Next-Generation Intel Microarchitecture (Nehalem).
Release Notes 5.3. PowerPC Architectures • CPUFreq, the kernel subsystem that scales CPU frequency and voltage, has been updated with improved support for Cell Processors. This update implements a Synergistic Processing Unit (SPU) aware CPUFreq governor that enhances the power management of Cell processors. • Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) is now supported on the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.
ia64 Architecture To resolve this issue, parameters should be enclosed with single quotes inside of double quotes (ie parameters="vmhalt='LOGOFF'") Note The syntax structure of single quotes inside of double quotes is the default in Red hat Enterprise Linux 5. 5.6. ia64 Architecture • The Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor filled out machine check architecture (MCA) records differently to previous Intel Itanium processors.
Release Notes • Fully virtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 guests encountered suboptimal performance when using emulated disk and network devices. In this update, the kmod-xenpv package has been included to simplify the use of paravirtualized disks and networks in fully virtualized guests. Using these drivers in fully virtualized guests can significantly improve the performance and functionality of fully virtualized guests.
Resolved Issues • the crash utility could not analyze x86_64 vmcores from systems running kernel-xen because the Red Hat Enterprise Linux hypervisor was relocatable and the relocated physical base address is not passed in the vmcore file's ELF header. The new --xen_phys_start command line option for the crash utility allows the user to pass crash the relocated base physical address. • Not all mouse events were being captured and processed by the Paravirtual Frame Buffer (PVFB).
Release Notes 6.3. Known Issues 6.3.1. All Architectures • Diskette drive media will not be accessible when using the virtualized kernel. To work around this, use a USB-attached diskette drive instead. Note that diskette drive media works well with other non-virtualized kernels. • In live migrations of paravirtualized guests, time-dependent guest processes may function improperly if the corresponding hosts' (dom0) times are not synchronized.
Known Issues • When running multiple guest domains, guest networking may temporarily stop working, resulting in the following error being reported in the dom0 logs: Memory squeeze in netback driver To work around this, raise the amount of memory available to the dom0 with the dom0_mem hypervisor command line option. 6.3.2. x86 Architectures • Migrating paravirtualized guests through xm migrate [domain] [dom0 IP address] does not work.
Release Notes When this occurs, add the boot parameter console=tty to the kernel boot options in /boot/efi/ elilo.conf. • On some Itanium systems (such as the Hitachi Cold Fusion 3e), the serial port cannot be detected in dom0 when VGA is enabled by the EFI Maintenance Manager.
Technology Previews For more information about T10, refer to http://www.t10.org. ext4 The latest generation of the ext filesystem, ext4, is available in this release as a Technology Preview. Ext4 is an incremental improvement on the ext3 file system developed by Red Hat and the Linux community. The release name of the file system for the Technology Preview is ext4dev. The file system is provided by the ext4dev.
Release Notes mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/secret /mnt/secret The secured portion of the file system should not be exposed, i.e. it should not be mounted to other mount points, bind mounts, and the like. • eCryptfs mounts on networked file systems (e.g. NFS, Samba) will not work properly. • This version of the eCryptfs kernel driver requires updated userspace, which is provided by ecryptfs-utils-56-4.el5 or newer. For more information about eCryptfs, refer to http://ecryptfs.sf.net.
Technology Previews • non-exclusive access to storage devices In addition, the following issues still exist in FireWire: • a memory leak in the SBP2 driver may cause the machine to become unresponsive. • a code in this version does not work properly in big-endian machines. This could lead to unexpected behavior in PowerPC. ktune This release includes ktune (from the ktune package), a service that sets several kernel tuning parameters to values suitable for specific system profiles.
Release Notes 8. Resolved Issues 8.1. All Architectures • The data for TTY device activity reports was not generating correctly. Consequently, the command sar -y failed, returning the error: Requested activities not available in file In this updated package, sar has been corrected so the -y option outputs the TTY device activity. • Previously, setting max_fds to unlimited in /etc/multipath.conf would prevent the multipathd daemon from starting.
All Architectures • smartmontools has been re-based to version 5.38. This update improves autodetection of hardware devices, improves support for CCISS RAID arrays, and features a larger database of supported devices. This update also fixes a bug wherein SELinux prevented smartmontools from monitoring 3ware RAID devices. smartmontools can now monitor such devices properly. • python-urlgrabber has been re-based to version 3.1.0-5.
Release Notes • Because the xterm binary had the set group ID (setgid) bit configured, certain environmental variables (such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH and TMPDIR) were unset. In this release, the xterm binary now has mode 0755 permissions configured, which resolves this issue. • The recommended method for balancing the load on NIS servers when multiple machines are connecting with ypbind has changed with this release.
x86_64 Architectures Note This flaw did not allow the attacker to acquire the contents of the SSL key. The password has no value without the key file which arbitrary users should not have read access to. To better protect even this value, however, the dovecot.conf file now supports the "!include_try" directive. The ssl_key_password option should be moved from dovecot.conf to a new file owned by, and only readable and writable by, root (ie 0600). This file should be referenced from dovecot.
Release Notes Stopping disk encryption [FAILED] This message can safely be ignored, the shutdown process will complete successfully. • When using an encrypted device, the following error message may be reported during bootup: insmod: error inserting '/lib/aes_generic.ko': -1 File exists This message can safely be ignored. • Installation using a Multiple Device (MD) RAID on top of multipath will result in a machine that cannot boot.
All Architectures # yum update You will also see this error if you downgrade glibc to an earlier version on an installed 5.3 system. • mvapich and mvapich2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are compiled to support only InfiniBand/ iWARP interconnects. Consequently, they will not run over ethernet or other network interconnects. • On systems with more than two encrypted block devices, anaconda has a option to provide a global passphrase. The init scripts, however, do not support this feature.
Release Notes To avoid this, set no_path_retry [N] in /etc/multipath.conf (where [N] is the number of times the system should retry a path). When you do, remove the features "1 queue_if_no_path" option from /etc/multipath.conf as well. If you need to use "1 queue_if_no_path" and experience the issue noted here, use dmsetup to edit the policy at runtime for a particular LUN (i.e. for which all the paths are unavailable).
All Architectures kernel: pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS These messages indicate that certain PCI-E ports are not requesting IRQs. They do not, however, affect the operation of the machine in any way. • Removable storage devices (such as CDs and DVDs) do not automatically mount when you are logged in as root. As such, you will need to manually mount the device through the graphical file manager.
Release Notes This is caused by the cleanup code, which waits until the path checker request either completes or fails. To display the current multipath state without hanging the command, use multipath -l instead. • Upgrading pm-utils from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Beta version of pm-utils will fail, resulting in the following error: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/pm/sleep.d: cpio: rename To prevent this from occurring, delete the /etc/pm/sleep.d/ directory prior to upgrading.
All Architectures • If your system uses the TSC timer, the gettimeofday system call may move backwards. This is because of an overflow issue that causes the TSC timer to jump forward significantly in some cases; when this occurs, the TSC timer will correct itself, but will ultimately register a movement backwards in time. This issue is particularly critical for time-sensitive systems, such as those used for transaction systems and databases.
Release Notes • If the edac module is loaded, BIOS memory reporting will not work. This is because the edac module clears the register that the BIOS uses for reporting memory errors. The current Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Update Model instructs the kernel to load all available modules (including the edac module) by default. If you wish to ensure BIOS memory reporting on your system, you need to manually blacklist the edac modules. To do so, add the following lines to /etc/modprobe.
x86 Architectures • Using the swap --grow parameter in a kickstart file without setting the --maxsize parameter at the same time makes anaconda impose a restriction on the maximum size of the swap partition. It does not allow it to grow to fill the device. For systems with less than 2GB of physical memory, the imposed limit is twice the amount of physical memory. For systems with more than 2GB, the imposed limit is the size of physical memory plus 2GB.
Release Notes This message can safely be ignored. 9.3. x86_64 Architectures • Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted graphics or fonts when using the graphical installer or during a graphical login. To work around this, switch to a virtual console and back to the original X host. • On an IBM T61 laptop, Red Hat recommends that you refrain from clicking the glxgears window (when glxgears is run). Doing so can lock the system.
s390x Architectures 4. To verify that recording is enabled, the text above the ADCMux field should display L R CAPTUR. • The size of the PPC kernel image is too large for OpenFirmware to support. Consequently, network booting will fail, resulting in the following error message: Please wait, loading kernel... /pci@8000000f8000000/ide@4,1/disk@0:2,vmlinux-anaconda: No such file or directory boot: To work around this: 1.
Release Notes 9.6. ia64 Architecture • Some Itanium systems cannot properly produce console output from the kexec purgatory code. This code contains instructions for backing up the first 640k of memory after a crash. While purgatory console output can be useful in diagnosing problems, it is not needed for kdump to properly function. As such, if your Itanium system resets during a kdump operation, disable console output in purgatory by adding --noio to the KEXEC_ARGS variable in /etc/ sysconfig/kdump.
Added Packages cmirror - Cluster Mirroring cmirror-kmod-0.1.21-10.el5 • Group: System Environment/Kernel • Summary: cmirror kernel modules • Description: cmirror-kmod - The Cluster Mirror kernel modules compat-libcom_err-1.0-7 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A libcom_err compatibility library • Description: The compat-libcom_err package contains libcom_err.so.3, which may be required by applications which were built against older packages of MIT Kerberos. crash-spu-commands-1.
Release Notes • Summary: Versatile resource statistics tool • Description: Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting. Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you can eg.
Added Packages • Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries • Description: eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in the Linux kernel. This package provides the mount helper and supporting libraries to perform key management and mount functions. Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs. fipscheck-1.0.3-1.
Release Notes The gcc43 package contains preview the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3. gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.el5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: A GTK widget for VNC clients • Description: gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK. It is built using coroutines allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded. ibsim-0.4-3.
Added Packages Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network. java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5 • Group: Development/Languages • Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment • Description: The OpenJDK runtime environment. ktune-0.2-3.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Server performance tuning service • Description: ktune provides settings for server performance tuning. Please have a look at /etc/sysconfig/ktune and /etc/sysctl.ktune for tuning parameters. libcmpiutil-0.4-2.
Release Notes library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices. libehca-1.2-2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: IBM InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver • Description: IBM hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access library. libibcm-1.0.3-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Userspace InfiniBand Communication Manager. • Description: libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library. libibcommon-1.1.1-1.
Added Packages • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library • Description: libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic and management tools, including OpenSM. libibverbs-1.1.2-1.
Release Notes libmthca-1.0.5-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver • Description: Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4 handles that hardware). libnes-0.5-4.
Added Packages $(sysconfdir) (usually /usr/local/etc or /etc). libsmi-0.4.5-2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A library to access SMI MIB information • Description: Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules.
Release Notes default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allow users to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding the site-wide default. The default can be changed easily via the mpi-selector command -editing of shell startup files is not required. mpitests-3.0-2.el5 • Group: Applications • Summary: MPI Benchmarks and tests • Description: Set of popular MPI benchmarks: IMB-2.3 Presta-1.4.0 OSU benchmarks ver 2.2 mstflint-1.3-1.
Added Packages This is an MPI-2 implementation which includes all MPI-1 features. It is based on MPICH2 and MVICH. nedit-5.5-21.el5 • Group: Applications/Editors • Summary: A GUI text editor for systems with X • Description: NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the Macintosh(TM) or Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) style of interface. nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-22.
Release Notes OpenSM is the OpenIB project's Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks. The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the machines in the infiniband fabric to manage the fabric's routing state. This package also contains various tools for diagnosing and testing Infiniband networks that can be used from any machine and do not need to be run on a machine running the opensm daemon. openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_2.
Added Packages read, and write Zip archive files. Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files. Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings. Members can be added, removed, extracted, replaced, rearranged, and enumerated. They can also be renamed or have their dates, comments, or other attributes queried or modified. Their data can be compressed or uncompressed as needed.
Release Notes passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. And it can be used for automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.
Added Packages VNIC ULP service qperf-0.4.1-2.el5 • Group: Networking/Diagnostic • Summary: Measure socket and RDMA performance • Description: Measure socket and RDMA performance. rsyslog-2.0.6-1.
Release Notes Intel SGPIO enclosure management utility This package contains (part of) a Technology Preview for Application for AHCI driver with SGPIO support. Please visit http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support policies. srptools-0.0.4-2.
Added Packages TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software state using cryptographic hashes and more. tvflash-0.9.0-2.
Release Notes • Description: Configuration utility to bind Wacom tablet's ExpressKeys and Touch Strips to generate other input events. wdaemon-0.14-2 • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support • Summary: Hotplug helper for Wacom X.org driver • Description: Helper application which emulates persistent input devices for Wacom tablets so they can be plugged and unplugged while X.org server is running. This should go away as soon X.org properly supports hotplugging. xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.
Dropped Packages The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that are that are used by network filesystems such a AFS and NFS to do persistent caching to the local disk. frysk-0.0.1.2007.06.21.rh2-4.el5 • Group: Development/System • Summary: Frysk execution analysis tool • Description: Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++.
Release Notes 12. Updated Packages Cluster_Administration-5.1.0-7 - Cluster_Administration-5.2-1 • Group: Documentation • Summary: Red Hat Cluster for Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Description: Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster describes the configuration and management of Red Hat cluster systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 It does not include information about Red Hat Linux Virtual Servers (LVS). Information about installing and configuring LVS is in a separate document.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 - ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1 • Group: Applications/Multimedia • Summary: An X application for displaying and manipulating images. • Description: ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats.
Release Notes • dbus-devel >= 1.1 • dbus-glib-devel >= 0.73-6 • dhclient • doxygen • gtk-doc • intltool • libdaemon-devel • libnotify-devel >= 0.4.2 • libtool • nss-devel >= 3.11.7 • perl(XML::Parser) • ppp >= 2.2.4 • wireless-tools-devel >= 1:28-2 • Removed Dependencies: • dbus-devel >= 0.90 • dbus-glib-devel >= 0.70 • dhcdbd • gnome-panel-devel • libgnomeui-devel • libnl-devel • libnotify-devel >= 0.3 • perl-XML-Parser • wireless-tools-devel >= 1:28-0pre9 ORBit2-2.14.3-4.el5 - ORBit2-2.14.3-5.
Updated Packages send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they're written in or the operating system they run on. You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to write programs that use CORBA technology. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies OpenIPMI-2.0.6-5.el5.4 - OpenIPMI-2.0.6-11.
Release Notes • Summary: Virtualization Guide • Description: The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Guide contains information on installation, configuring, administering, tips, tricks and troubleshooting virtualization technologies used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies a2ps-4.13b-57.1.el5 - a2ps-4.13b-57.2.el5 • Group: Applications/Publishing • Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM).
Updated Packages • Summary: ACPI Event Daemon • Description: acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 - alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library. • Description: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system.
Release Notes amtu-1.0.4-4 - amtu-1.0.6-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) • Description: Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) is an administrative utility to check whether the underlying protection mechanism of the hardware are still being enforced. This is a requirement of the Controlled Access Protection Profile FPT_AMT.1, see http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/protection_profiles/ CAPP-1.d.
Updated Packages apr-util-1.2.7-6 - apr-util-1.2.7-7.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Apache Portable Runtime Utility library • Description: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines. This library contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies at-spi-1.7.11-2.fc6 - at-spi-1.7.11-3.
Release Notes authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5 - authconfig-5.3.21-5.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Command line tool for setting up authentication from network services • Description: Authconfig is a command line utility which can configure a workstation to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes. • Added Dependencies: • python >= 2.4.1 • Removed Dependencies: • python autofs-5.0.
Updated Packages • Added Dependencies: • autoconf • gettext • No removed dependencies bind-9.3.3-10.el5 - bind-9.3.4-10.P1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server. • Description: BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols.
Release Notes • Summary: Bluetooth libraries • Description: Libraries for use in Bluetooth applications. The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies bluez-utils-3.7-2 - bluez-utils-3.7-2.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies busybox-1.2.0-3 - busybox-1.2.0-4.el5 • Group: System Environment/Shells • Summary: Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands • Description: Busybox is a single binary which includes versions of a large number of system commands, including a shell. This package can be very useful for recovering from certain types of system failures, particularly those involving broken shared libraries.
Release Notes Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, OpenGL (via glitz), in-memory image buffers, and image files (PDF, PostScript, and SVG). Cairo is designed to produce identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension or OpenGL). • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies ccid-1.0.1-6.
Updated Packages of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.
Release Notes cman-2.0.73-1.el5 - cman-2.0.98-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: cman - The Cluster Manager • Description: cman - The Cluster Manager • Added Dependencies: • kernel-headers • No removed dependencies conga-0.10.0-6.el5 - conga-0.12.1-7.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Remote Management System • Description: Conga is a project developing management system for remote stations.
Updated Packages • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies coolkey-1.1.0-5.el5 - coolkey-1.1.0-6.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: CoolKey PKCS #11 module • Description: Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5 - coreutils-5.97-19.
Release Notes • Summary: CPU frequency adjusting daemon • Description: cpuspeed is a daemon that dynamically changes the speed of your processor(s) depending upon its current workload if it is capable (needs Intel Speedstep, AMD PowerNow!, or similar support). This package also supports enabling cpu frequency scaling via in-kernel governors on Intel Centrino and AMD Athlon64/Opteron platforms. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies crash-4.0-4.6.1 - crash-4.0-7.2.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies crypto-utils-2.3-1 - crypto-utils-2.3-2.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: SSL certificate and key management utilities • Description: This package provides tools for managing and generating SSL certificates and keys. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-2.2.el5 - cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-4.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: A high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP and SIEVE support • Description: The cyrus-imapd package contains the core of the Cyrus IMAP server. It is a scaleable enterprise mail system designed for use from small to large enterprise environments using standards-based internet mail technologies.
Updated Packages D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the systemwide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. • Added Dependencies: • doxygen • libxslt • xmlto • No removed dependencies dbus-glib-0.70-5 - dbus-glib-0.73-8.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: GLib bindings for D-Bus • Description: D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop.
Release Notes • Description: An API document browser for GNOME 2. • Added Dependencies: • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9 • Removed Dependencies: • gecko-devel = 1.8.0.12 device-mapper-1.02.20-1.el5 - device-mapper-1.02.28-2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: device mapper library • Description: This package contains the supporting userspace files (libdevmapper and dmsetup) for the device-mapper. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-12.
Updated Packages • Summary: DHCP D-BUS daemon (dhcdbd) controls dhclient sessions with DBUS, stores and presents DHCP options. • Description: dhcdbd provides a D-BUS interface to the ISC dhclient software. The daemon provides access to DHCP configuration operations and stores those options persistently. Other D-BUS applications can receive notifications of changes in the client's DHCP configuration. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies dhcp-3.0.5-7.el5 - dhcp-3.0.5-18.
Release Notes Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). Consists of dhcp6s(8), the server DHCP daemon, and dhcp6r(8), the DHCPv6 relay agent. Install this package if you want to support dynamic configuration of IPv6 addresses and parameters on your IPv6 network. • Added Dependencies: • kernel-headers • Removed Dependencies: • openssl-devel diffstat-1.41-1.2.2 - diffstat-1.41-1.2.3.el5 • Group: Development/Tools • Summary: A utility which provides statistics based on the output of diff.
Updated Packages changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. Install diffutils if you need to compare text files. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-4.el5 - dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-33.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library) • Description: DMRAID supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation and display of properties for ATARAID on Linux >= 2.4 using device-mapper.
Release Notes dosfstools-2.11-6.2.el5 - dosfstools-2.11-7.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux. • Description: The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard drives or on floppies. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 - dovecot-1.0.7-7.
Updated Packages e2fsprogs-1.39-10.el5 - e2fsprogs-1.39-20.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Utilities for managing the second and third extended (ext2/ ext3) filesystems • Description: The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended (ext2/ext3) filesystems.
Release Notes • Description: Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably won't use it. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies edac-utils-0.9-5.el5 - edac-utils-0.9-6.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies emacs-21.4-19.el5 - emacs-21.4-20.el5 • Group: Applications/Editors • Summary: GNU Emacs text editor • Description: Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.
Release Notes GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and includes many options for customizing printouts. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies esc-1.0.0-32.el5 - esc-1.0.0-39.
Updated Packages The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for programs that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information. It was originally developed for Evolution (hence the name), but is now used by other packages. • Added Dependencies: • gtk-doc • intltool >= 0.35.0 • openldap-evolution-devel • openssl-devel • Removed Dependencies: • intltool • openldap-devel >= 2.0.11 file-4.17-9.0.1.el5 - file-4.
Release Notes • Description: The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed on a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions for the directories. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies findutils-4.2.27-4.1 - findutils-4.2.27-5.el5 • Group: Applications/File • Summary: The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs).
Updated Packages • Removed Dependencies: • cairo-devel >= 0.5 • libjpeg-devel • libpng-devel • nspr-devel >= 4.6 • nss-devel >= 3.11.1 • zlib-devel firstboot-1.4.27.3-1.el5 - firstboot-1.4.27.7-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Initial system configuration utility • Description: The firstboot utility runs after installation. It guides the user through a series of steps that allows for easier configuration of the machine. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies flac-1.1.
Release Notes • Summary: Font configuration and customization library • Description: Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the system and select them according to requirements specified by applications. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies fonts-indic-2.0.13-1.el5 - fonts-indic-2.3.1-1.
Updated Packages also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and more. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be done when adding or deleting new users. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies freetype-2.2.1-19.el5 - freetype-2.2.1-20.
Release Notes • Summary: Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...) • Description: The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.1. You'll need this package in order to compile C code. • Added Dependencies: • xulrunner-devel • Removed Dependencies: • firefox-devel gd-2.0.33-9.3.fc6 - gd-2.0.33-9.4.el5_1.
Updated Packages • Removed Dependencies: • /lib/libc.so.6 • /lib64/libc.so.6 • /usr/lib/libc.so • /usr/lib64/libc.so gdm-2.16.0-31.0.1.el5 - gdm-2.16.0-46.el5 • Group: User Interface/X • Summary: The GNOME Display Manager. • Description: Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.
Release Notes gfs - The Global File System is a symmetric, shared-disk, cluster file system. • Added Dependencies: • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-128.el5 • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-128.el5 • Removed Dependencies: • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5 • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5 gfs-utils-0.1.12-1.el5 - gfs-utils-0.1.18-1.
Updated Packages • Description: Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen.
Release Notes library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gnbd-1.1.5-1.el5 - gnbd-1.1.7-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Kernel • Summary: GFS's Network Block Device • Description: gnbd - GFS's Network Block Device • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gnbd-kmod-0.1.4-12.el5 - gnbd-kmod-0.1.5-2.
Updated Packages features for the GNOME desktop. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-8.el5 - gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-10.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: GNOME Power Manager • Description: GNOME Power Manager uses the information and facilities provided by HAL displaying icons and handling user callbacks in an interactive GNOME session. GNOME Power Preferences allows authorised users to set policy and change preferences.
Release Notes The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnomepython. • Added Dependencies: • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9 • Removed Dependencies: • firefox-devel >= 1.5.0.5 gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5 - gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-8.
Updated Packages GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package includes a set of small "desk accessory" utility applications for GNOME. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gnome-volume-manager-2.15.0-4.el5 - gnome-volume-manager-2.15.0-5.
Release Notes capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide). • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gnuplot-4.0.0-12 - gnuplot-4.0.0-14.el5 • Group: Applications/Engineering • Summary: A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data.
Updated Packages • Description: GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies gstreamer-0.10.9-3.el5 - gstreamer-0.10.20-3.
Release Notes • openjade • python2 • tetex-dvips • transfig • xfig • No removed dependencies gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.9-6.el5 - gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.el5 • Group: Applications/Multimedia • Summary: GStreamer streaming media framework base plug-ins • Description: GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data.
Updated Packages • Description: GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.
Release Notes gtkhtml3-3.12.0-1.fc6 - gtkhtml3-3.16.3-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: gtkhtml library • Description: GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine. It was originally based on KHTMLW, but is now being developed independently of it. • Added Dependencies: • intltool >= 0.35.0 • Removed Dependencies: • intltool • libgnomeprint22-devel >= 2.7.1 • libgnomeprintui22-devel >= 2.7.1 gzip-1.3.5-9.el5 - gzip-1.3.5-10.
Updated Packages list through D-BUS. • Added Dependencies: • gperf >= 3.0.1 • No removed dependencies hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5 - hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5.2.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: Halified CUPS utilities • Description: Halified utilities for CUPS: - hal_lpadmin - hal CUPS backend • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5 - hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.
Release Notes the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht:// Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies hwbrowser-0.30-1.el5 - hwbrowser-0.30-2.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: A hardware browser. • Description: A browser for your current hardware configuration. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies hwdata-0.211-1 - hwdata-0.213.11-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Hardware identification and configuration data • Description: hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.
Release Notes • opensm-devel >= 3.0.3 icu-3.6-5.11 - icu-3.6-5.11.1 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: International Components for Unicode • Description: The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support).
Updated Packages Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for each client. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol, but not in ways that are easily noticed. Install the inn package if you need a complete system for serving and reading Usenet news. You may also need to install inn-devel, if you are going to use a separate program which interfaces to INN, like newsgate or tin. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies iproute-2.6.18-4.el5 - iproute-2.6.18-9.
Release Notes This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order to really use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. This package builds: - setkey, a program to directly manipulate policies and SAs - racoon, an IKEv1 keying daemon • Added Dependencies: • kernel-headers >= 2.6.18-92 • No removed dependencies iptables-1.3.5-1.2.1 - iptables-1.3.5-4.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities.
Updated Packages irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.865-0.8.el5 - iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.18.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: iSCSI daemon and utility programs • Description: The iscsi package provides the server daemon for the iSCSI protocol, as well as the utility programs used to manage it.
Release Notes The introduction of the Collections API by Sun in JDK 1.2 has been a boon to quick and effective Java programming. Ready access to powerful data structures has accelerated development by reducing the need for custom container classes around each core object. Most Java2 APIs are significantly easier to use because of the Collections API. However, there are certain holes left unfilled by Sun's implementations, and the Jakarta-Commons Collections Component strives to fulfill them.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies kdeadmin-3.5.4-2.fc6 - kdeadmin-3.5.4-3.el5 • Group: User Interface/Desktops • Summary: Administrative tools for KDE. • Description: The kdeadmin package includes administrative tools for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) including: kcron - Crontab editor kdat - Tape backup tool kuser - Frontend for configuring users and user groups • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5 - kdebase-3.5.4-19.
Release Notes KDE/DCOP bindings to non-C++ languages • Added Dependencies: • libutempter-devel • perl >= 5.8.8 • Removed Dependencies: • perl >= 5.8 kdelibs-3.5.4-13.el5 - kdelibs-3.5.4-18.
Updated Packages • Description: The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies kexec-tools-1.101-194.4.el5 - kexec-tools-1.102pre-56.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: The kexec/kdump userspace component.
Release Notes • Description: KSH-93 is AT&T Bell KornShell with "sh" the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of Laboratories. is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible (the Bourne Shell). • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies kudzu-1.2.57.1.15-1 - kudzu-1.2.57.1.21-1 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: The Red Hat Linux hardware probing tool.
Updated Packages the hooks to allow a snapshot of a process and message status to be taken at any time during an application run. The status includes all aspects of synchronization plus datatype map/signature, communicator group membership and message contents (see the XMPI application on the main LAM website). On the second level, the MPI library can produce a cumulative record of communication, which can be visualized either at runtime or post-mortem.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies libchewing-0.3.0-7.el5 - libchewing-0.3.0-8.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Intelligent phonetic input method library for Traditional Chinese • Description: libchewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library for Chinese. It provides the core algorithm and logic that can be used by various input methods. The Chewing input method is a smart bopomofo phonetics input method that is useful for inputting Mandarin Chinese.
Updated Packages • libdhcp6client-devel liberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 - liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5 • Group: User Interface/X • Summary: Fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Windows Fonts • Description: The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies libexif-0.6.13-4.0.2.el5 - libexif-0.6.13-4.0.2.el5_1.
Release Notes • Summary: Printing library for GNOME. • Description: GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package contains libraries and fonts needed by GNOME applications for printing. You should install the gnome-print package if you intend to use any of the GNOME applications that can print.
Updated Packages • libtool • No removed dependencies libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.4 - libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets • Description: This package contains a convenience library to simplify using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for network manipulation • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2 - libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_0.
Release Notes the Linux 1394 subsystem's raw1394 user space interface. • Added Dependencies: • autoconf • automake • libtool • No removed dependencies librtas-1.2.4-3.el5 - librtas-1.3.3-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Libraries to provide access to RTAS calls and RTAS events • Description: The librtas shared library provides userspace with an interface through which certain RTAS calls can be made.
Updated Packages decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5 - libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files • Description: The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images.
Release Notes This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies libvirt-0.2.3-9.el5 - libvirt-0.3.3-14.el5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: Library providing a simple API virtualization • Description: Libvirt is a C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2 - libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support • Description: This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified.
Release Notes documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets under the Linux operating system. It contains diagnostic applications as well as X.org XInput drivers. • Added Dependencies: • desktop-file-utils • tcl-devel • tk-devel • No removed dependencies lm_sensors-2.10.0-3.1 - lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: Hardware monitoring tools. • Description: The lm_sensors package includes a collection of modules for general SMBus access and hardware monitoring.
Updated Packages logwatch-7.3-5 - logwatch-7.3-6.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: A log file analysis program • Description: Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out of the package on many systems. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies ltrace-0.5-6.45svn.fc6 - ltrace-0.5-7.45svn.
Release Notes multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes (kind of logical partitions) in volume groups. • Added Dependencies: • device-mapper >= 1.02.28-2 • Removed Dependencies: • device-mapper >= 1.02.20-1 lvm2-cluster-2.02.26-1.el5 - lvm2-cluster-2.02.40-7.
Updated Packages • Description: This package contains multilingualization (m17n) datafiles for m17nlib which describe input maps, encoding maps, and OpenType font data for many languages. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1 - m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.3 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Support for using OpenSSL in python scripts • Description: This package allows you to call OpenSSL functions from python scripts.
Release Notes make-3.81-1.1 - make-3.81-3.el5 • Group: Development/Tools • Summary: A GNU tool which simplifies the build process for users. • Description: A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about how the program should be built are provided for make in the program's makefile.
Updated Packages mcstrans-0.2.6-1.el5 - mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: SELinux Translation Daemon • Description: Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system.
Release Notes Mesa • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies metacity-2.16.0-8.el5 - metacity-2.16.0-12.el5 • Group: User Interface/Desktops • Summary: Metacity window manager • Description: Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies microcode_ctl-1.17-1.42.el5 - microcode_ctl-1.17-1.47.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode.
Updated Packages kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5 - mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: An embedded Perl interpreter for the Apache HTTP Server • Description: Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server, so that the Apache web server can directly execute Perl code. Mod_perl links the Perl runtime library into the Apache web server and provides an object-oriented Perl interface for Apache's C language API.
Updated Packages The Mozilla LDAP C SDK is a set of libraries that allow applications to communicate with LDAP directory servers. These libraries are derived from the University of Michigan and Netscape LDAP libraries. They use Mozilla NSPR and NSS for crypto. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies mysql-5.0.22-2.1.0.1 - mysql-5.0.45-7.el5 • Group: Applications/Databases • Summary: MySQL client programs and shared libraries.
Release Notes • Summary: An HTTP and WebDAV client library • Description: neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies net-snmp-5.3.1-19.el5 - net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.
Updated Packages • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies newt-0.52.2-9 - newt-0.52.2-12.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A development library for text mode user interfaces. • Description: Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies notification-daemon-0.3.5-8.el5 - notification-daemon-0.3.5-9.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Notification Daemon • Description: notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop notification specification. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies nspr-4.6.5-3.el5 - nspr-4.7.3-2.
Updated Packages • zlib-devel • Removed Dependencies: • nspr-devel >= 4.6.2 nss_db-2.2-35.1 - nss_db-2.2-35.3 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: An NSS library for the Berkeley DB. • Description: Nss_db is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley Databases to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS).
Release Notes ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5 - ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: Synchronizes system time using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). • Description: The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time with another reference time source. The ntp package contains utilities and daemons that will synchronize your computer's time to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via the NTP protocol and NTP servers.
Updated Packages oddjob is a D-BUS service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies openCryptoki-2.2.4-16.el5 - openCryptoki-2.2.4-22.el5 • Group: Productivity/Security • Summary: Implementation of Cryptoki v2.11 for IBM Crypto Hardware • Description: The PKCS#11 Version 2.11 api implemented for the IBM Crypto cards.
Release Notes implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers. HPI includes resource modeling; access to and control over sensor, control, watchdog, and inventory data associated with resources; abstracted System Event Log interfaces; hardware events and alerts; and a managed hotswap interface. OpenHPI provides a modular device support easily.
Updated Packages • Summary: The configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP. • Description: OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services (usually phone book style information, but other information is possible) over the Internet, similar to the way DNS (Domain Name System) information is propagated over the Internet.
Release Notes • Added Dependencies: • compat-dapl-devel • Removed Dependencies: • dapl-devel • libsysfs-devel openssh-4.3p2-24.el5 - openssh-4.3p2-29.el5 • Group: Applications/Internet • Summary: The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 • Description: SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network.
Updated Packages • Added Dependencies: • fipscheck • No removed dependencies openssl097a-0.9.7a-9 - openssl097a-0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit • Description: The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies oprofile-0.9.2-6.el5 - oprofile-0.9.
Release Notes PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. • Added Dependencies: • audit-libs-devel >= 1.6.5 • kernel-headers >= 2.6.18-114 • Removed Dependencies: • audit-libs-devel >= 1.0.8 pam_krb5-2.2.14-1 - pam_krb5-2.2.14-10 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies parted-1.8.1-12.el5 - parted-1.8.1-23.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: The GNU disk partition manipulation program • Description: The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies patch-2.5.4-29.2.2 - patch-2.5.4-29.2.3.
Release Notes • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies pcre-6.6-1.1 - pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Perl-compatible regular expression library • Description: Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix.
Updated Packages Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl.
Release Notes • perl-DBI >= 1.38 perl-DBI-1.52-1.fc6 - perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: A database access API for perl • Description: DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for the Perl Language. The DBI API Specification defines a set of functions, variables and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual database being used. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies pfmon-3.2-0.060926.4.el5 - pfmon-3.
Updated Packages non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. The php package contains the module which adds support for the PHP language to Apache HTTP Server. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies php-pear-1.4.9-4 - php-pear-1.4.9-4.el5.
Release Notes pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managing software. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies pkgconfig-0.21-1.fc6 - pkgconfig-0.21-2.el5 • Group: Development/Tools • Summary: A tool for determining compilation options. • Description: The pkgconfig tool determines compilation options. For each required library, it reads the configuration file and outputs the necessary compiler and linker flags.
Updated Packages • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies policycoreutils-1.33.12-12.el5 - policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: SELinux policy core utilities. • Description: Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux.
Release Notes Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), TLS • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5 - postgresql-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1 • Group: Applications/Databases • Summary: PostgreSQL client programs and libraries. • Description: PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions).
Updated Packages • librtas-devel >= 1.3.3 • libstdc++-devel • libtool • sg3_utils-devel • zlib-devel • Removed Dependencies: • librtas-devel ppp-2.4.4-1.el5 - ppp-2.4.4-2.el5 • Group: System Environment/Daemons • Summary: The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon. • Description: The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon and documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links.
Release Notes • Summary: Privoxy - privacy enhancing proxy • Description: Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Updated Packages psacct-6.3.2-41.1 - psacct-6.3.2-44.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: Utilities for monitoring process activities. • Description: The psacct package contains several utilities for monitoring process activities, including ac, lastcomm, accton and sa. The ac command displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The lastcomm command displays information about previous executed commands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off.
Release Notes in python with PyGTK (within reason), but with all the benefits of python. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies pykickstart-0.43-1.el5 - pykickstart-0.43.3-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A python library for manipulating kickstart files • Description: The pykickstart package is a python library for manipulating kickstart files. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies python-2.4.3-19.el5 - python-2.4.3-24.
Updated Packages python-pyblock-0.26-1.el5 - python-pyblock-0.26-3.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: Python modules for dealing with block devices • Description: The pyblock contains Python modules for dealing with block devices. • Added Dependencies: • dmraid-devel >= 1.0.0.rc13-14 • Removed Dependencies: • dmraid-devel >= 1.0.0.rc11-FC6.3 python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2 - python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.
Release Notes virtinst in a command line mode. • Added Dependencies: • gettext • python • Removed Dependencies: • python-devel quota-3.13-1.2.3.2.el5 - quota-3.13-1.2.5.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage. • Description: The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies rdate-1.4-6 - rdate-1.4-8.
Updated Packages Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies redhat-menus-6.7.8-2.el5 - redhat-menus-6.7.8-3.
Release Notes redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-22.el5 - redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-29.el5 • Group: Development/System • Summary: Red Hat specific rpm configuration files. • Description: Red Hat specific rpm configuration files. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies rgmanager-2.0.31-1.el5 - rgmanager-2.0.46-1.
Updated Packages • Description: Red Hat Network Client Tools provides programs and libraries to allow your system to receive software updates from Red Hat Network. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies rhnlib-2.2.5-1.el5 - rhnlib-2.2.6-2.el5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: Python libraries for the RHN project • Description: rhnlib is a collection of python modules used by the Red Hat Network (http://rhn.redhat.com) software. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies rhpxl-0.
Release Notes verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. • Added Dependencies: • doxygen • gawk • nss-devel • redhat-rpm-config • Removed Dependencies: • autoconf • beecrypt-devel >= 4.1.2 • sed rsh-0.17-37.el5 - rsh-0.17-38.el5 • Group: Applications/Internet • Summary: Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp).
Updated Packages straight-forward, and extensible. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies s390utils-1.5.3-10.el5.14 - s390utils-1.5.3-21.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: Linux/390 specific utilities. • Description: This package contains utilities related to Linux for S/390. The most important programs contained in this package are: - The cmstools suite to list, check, copy and cat files from a CMS volume. - chccwdev, a script to generically change attributes of a ccw device.
Release Notes Sabayon is a tool to help sysadmins and user change and maintain the default behaviour of the GNOME desktop. This package contains the graphical tools which a sysadmin use to manage Sabayon profiles. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies salinfo-1.1-3.el5 - salinfo-1.1-4.el5 • Group: Utilities/System • Summary: Sal info tool. • Description: The IA64 Linux kernel has a Software Abstraction Layer (SAL).
Updated Packages sblim-1-29.EL5 - sblim-1-31.el5_2.
Release Notes Scim-anthy is a SCIM IMEngine module for anthy to support Japanese input. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies scim-bridge-0.4.5-7.el5 - scim-bridge-0.4.5-8.el5 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: SCIM Bridge Gtk IM module • Description: SCIM Bridge is a C implementation of a Gtk IM module for SCIM. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies scim-chewing-0.3.1-10.el5 - scim-chewing-0.3.1-11.
Updated Packages • Description: The SCSI target package contains the daemon and tools to setup a SCSI targets. Currently, software iSCSI targets are supported. • Added Dependencies: • libibverbs-devel • librdmacm-devel • No removed dependencies selinux-policy-2.4.6-104.el5 - selinux-policy-2.4.6-203.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: SELinux policy configuration • Description: SELinux Reference Policy - modular. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies setroubleshoot-1.8.11-4.
Release Notes setup-2.5.58-1.el5 - setup-2.5.58-4.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: A set of system configuration and setup files. • Description: The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies sg3_utils-1.20-2.1 - sg3_utils-1.25-1.
Updated Packages The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times for all users.
Release Notes failure. • Added Dependencies: • libselinux-devel • No removed dependencies sos-1.7-9.1.el5 - sos-1.7-9.16.el5 • Group: Development/Libraries • Summary: A set of tools to gather troubleshooting information from a system • Description: Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers.
Updated Packages • Added Dependencies: • perl-HTML-Parser >= 3.43 • No removed dependencies speex-1.0.5-4 - speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A voice compression format (codec) • Description: Speex is a patent-free compression format designed speech. It is specialized for voice communications the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include (VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and data (e.g. voice mail).
Release Notes • Description: The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional purposes. Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and received by a process. • Added Dependencies: • libacl-devel • libaio-devel • No removed dependencies stunnel-4.15-2 - stunnel-4.15-2.
Updated Packages • neon-devel >= 0:0.25.5-6.el5 • Removed Dependencies: • neon-devel >= 0:0.24.7-1 sudo-1.6.8p12-10 - sudo-1.6.9p17-3.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: Allows restricted root access for specified users. • Description: Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5 - sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: The sar and iostat system monitoring commands. • Description: This package provides the sar and iostat commands for Linux. Sar and iostat enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other IO activity. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies system-config-bind-4.0.3-2.el5 - system-config-bind-4.0.3-4.
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies system-config-date-1.8.12-1.el5 - system-config-date-1.8.12-3.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: A graphical interface for modifying system date and time • Description: system-config-date is a graphical interface for changing the system date and time, configuring the system time zone, and setting up the NTP daemon to synchronize the time of the system with an NTP time server. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies system-config-httpd-1.3.
Release Notes • Summary: A graphical interface for making kickstart files. • Description: Kickstart Configurator is a graphical tool for creating kickstart files. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies system-config-language-1.1.18-1.el5 - system-config-language-1.1.18-2.
Updated Packages supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies system-config-printer-0.7.32.5-1.el5 - system-config-printer-0.7.32.10-1.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: A printer administration tool • Description: system-config-printer is a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure a CUPS print server. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies system-config-samba-1.2.39-1.el5 - system-config-samba-1.
Release Notes system-config-users-1.2.51-1.el5 - system-config-users-1.2.51-4.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: A graphical interface for administering users and groups • Description: system-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating users and groups. It depends on the libuser library. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies systemtap-0.5.14-1.el5 - systemtap-0.7.2-2.
Updated Packages • Description: The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, FTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services. Install the tcp_wrappers program if you need a security tool for filtering incoming network services requests. This version also supports IPv6. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies tcpdump-3.9.4-11.el5 - tcpdump-3.9.4-14.
Release Notes • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies telnet-0.17-38.el5 - telnet-0.17-39.el5 • Group: Applications/Internet • Summary: The client program for the telnet remote login protocol. • Description: Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies tetex-3.0-33.1.el5 - tetex-3.0-33.2.el5_1.
Updated Packages • Description: When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.1 - tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.2 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed.
Release Notes • No removed dependencies tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5 - tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_2.1 • Group: Networking/Daemons • Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 API • Description: Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.
Updated Packages The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays the IP number and host name (if possible) of the machines along the route taken by the packets. Traceroute is used as a network debugging tool. If you're having network connectivity problems, traceroute will show you where the trouble is coming from along the route. Install traceroute if you need a tool for diagnosing network connectivity problems.
Release Notes • Description: The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ in some respects. Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from a zip archive.
Updated Packages vim-7.0.109-3.el5.3 - vim-7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z • Group: Applications/Editors • Summary: The VIM editor. • Description: VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5 - virt-manager-0.5.3-10.
Release Notes vnc-4.1.2-9.el5 - vnc-4.1.2-14.el5 • Group: User Interface/Desktops • Summary: A remote display system. • Description: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.
Updated Packages documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. • Added Dependencies: • bison • flex • libsmi-devel • Removed Dependencies: • net-snmp-devel >= 5.3 • net-snmp-utils >= 5.3 words-3.0-9 - words-3.0-9.1 • Group: System Environment/Libraries • Summary: A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory. • Description: The words file is a dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory.
Release Notes • dbus-devel • No removed dependencies x3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.1 - x3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.4 • Group: Applications/Internet • Summary: An X Window System based IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator • Description: The x3270 package contains files needed for emulating the IBM 3278/3279 terminals, commonly used with mainframe applications. You will also need to install a frontend for x3270. Available frontends are x3270-x11 (for the X Window System) and x3270-text (for text mode).
Updated Packages xfig-3.2.4-21.2.el5 - xfig-3.2.4-21.3.el5 • Group: Applications/Multimedia • Summary: An X Window System tool for drawing basic vector graphics. • Description: Xfig is an X Window System tool for creating basic vector graphics, including bezier curves, lines, rulers and more. The resulting graphics can be saved, printed on PostScript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g., X11 bitmaps, Encapsulated PostScript, LaTeX).
Release Notes • Added Dependencies: • xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5 • No removed dependencies xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-2.1 - xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-3 • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support • Summary: Xorg X11 keyboard input driver • Description: X.Org X11 keyboard input driver. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-6.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-10.
Updated Packages • Description: X.Org X11 nv video driver. • Added Dependencies: • xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5 • No removed dependencies xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7 - xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7.1.el5 • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support • Summary: Xorg X11 sis video driver • Description: X.Org X11 sis video driver. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.26.el5 - xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.52.el5 • Group: User Interface/X • Summary: X.
Release Notes xsane-0.991-4.el5 - xsane-0.991-5.el5 • Group: Applications/Multimedia • Summary: An X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface. • Description: XSane is an X based interface for the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) library, which provides access to scanners, digital cameras, and other capture devices. XSane is written in GTK+ and provides control for performing the scan and then manipulating the captured image. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies xterm-215-5.
Updated Packages yelp-2.16.0-15.el5 - yelp-2.16.0-22.el5 • Group: Applications/System • Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project • Description: Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed to help you browse all the documentation on your system in one central tool. • Added Dependencies: • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9 • Removed Dependencies: • gecko-devel >= 1.8.0.12 ypbind-1.19-8.el5 - ypbind-1.19-11.
Release Notes • Description: The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).
Updated Packages • No removed dependencies yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5 - yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-30.el5 • Group: System Environment/Base • Summary: RHN support for yum • Description: This yum plugin provides support for yum to access a Red Hat Network server for software updates. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5 - yum-utils-1.1.16-13.
Release Notes analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program. • No added dependencies • No removed dependencies 13. Configuration Changes From Previous Release iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.7.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release fi @@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ fi fi echo selinux_off + #selinux_off return $RETVAL } udev-095-14.16.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules --+++ @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ #!/bin/sh -for i in nvram floppy parport lp snd-powermac;do +MODULES="nvram floppy parport lp snd-powermac" +[ -f /etc/sysconfig/udev-stw ] && . /etc/sysconfig/udev-stw +for i in $MODULES ; do modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1 done dhcp-3.0.5-13.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.
Release Notes bind-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named --+++ @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ fi [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] && success $"$named reload" || failure $"$named reload" echo - return $? + return $RETVAL } probe() { # named knows how to reload intelligently; we don't want linuxconf initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release function log_isdnctrl() { logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp isdnctrl $* + /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp isdnctrl $* isdnctrl $* >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1 } @@ -338,12 +338,12 @@ [ -n "$NETMASK" ] && netmask="netmask $NETMASK" # activate ISDN device logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ifconfig $DEVICE $IPADDR pointopoint $GATEWAY $netmask up" + /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.
Release Notes - [ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5" # Make sure the daemon is not already running.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release +fi RETVAL=0 prog="Dovecot Imap" +exec="/usr/sbin/dovecot" +config="/etc/dovecot.conf" +pidfile="/var/run/dovecot/master.
Release Notes ;; - condrestart) - if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot ]; then + condrestart|try-restart) + if [ -f $lockfile ]; then stop start fi ;; status) - status /usr/sbin/dovecot + status -p $pidfile $exec RETVAL=$? ;; *) - echo $"Usage: $0 {condrestart|start|stop|restart|reload|status}" - exit 1 + echo $"Usage: $0 {condrestart|try-restart|start|stop|restart|reload| force-reload|status}" + exit 2 esac exit $RETVAL device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-17.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release +if [ -d "slaves" ]; then +for slave in slaves/*; +do + if [ "$slave" = "slaves/*" ]; then + read dev < $1/dev + tablename=`dmsetup table --target multipath | sed -n "s/\(.*\): .* $dev .
Release Notes + +UMOUNT="umount" +[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n" action() { echo -n "$1 " @@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in. failures. tmpfs=$(awk '$2 ~ /^\/($|proc|dev)/ { next; } $3 == "tmpfs" { print $2; }' /proc/mounts | sort -r) -[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode umount $tmpfs 2>/dev/null +[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode $UMOUNT $tmpfs 2>/dev/null Ignore # Turn off swap, then unmount file systems.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release +defaults.pcm.dmix.format "unchanged" defaults.pcm.dmix.card defaults.pcm.card defaults.pcm.dmix.device defaults.pcm.device defaults.pcm.dsnoop.card defaults.pcm.card @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ defaults.pcm.iec958.device defaults.pcm.device defaults.pcm.modem.card defaults.pcm.card defaults.pcm.modem.device defaults.pcm.device +# truncate files via file or tee PCM +defaults.pcm.file_format "raw" +defaults.pcm.file_truncate true defaults.rawmidi.card 0 defaults.rawmidi.
Release Notes + } } type file slave.pcm null file $FILE format $FORMAT truncate { @func refer name defaults.pcm.file_truncate } + + + + } pcm.null { @@ -316,7 +334,7 @@ } ctl.hw { - @args[ CARD ] + @args [ CARD ] @args.CARD { type string default { caching-nameserver-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/named.cachingnameserver.conf --+++ @@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release @@ -107,8 +108,15 @@ #check to see if config file or kdump post has been modified #since last build of the image file image_time=`stat -c "%Y" $kdump_initrd` - KDUMP_POST=`grep ^kdump_post $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\ -f2` - files="$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE $kdump_kernel $KDUMP_POST" + EXTRA_FILES=`grep ^kdump_post $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\ -f2` + CHECK_FILE=`grep ^kdump_pre $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\ -f2` + EXTRA_FILES="$EXTRA_FILES $CHECK_FILE" + CHECK_FILE=`grep
Release Notes + local COUNTER="0" + + for DRIVE in ${IDE_DRIVES[@]} + do + if ! $(echo "$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" |grep -q "$DRIVE=");then + if [ -f /proc/ide/$DRIVE/media ];then + MEDIA=$(cat /proc/ide/$DRIVE/media) + if [ x"$MEDIA" == x"cdrom" ]; then + KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE="$KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE $DRIVE=cdrom" + COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1)) + fi + fi + else + KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE="$KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE $DRIVE=noprobe" + fi + done + # We don't find cdrom drive.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release --+++ @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ stop) # Don't shut the network down if root is on NFS or a network # block device. rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $3; }}' /etc/mtab) + rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/" && $3 != "rootfs") { print $3; }}' /proc/mounts) rootopts=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $4; }}' /etc/mtab) if [[ "$rootfs" =~ "^nfs" ]] || [[ "$rootopts" =~ "_netdev|_rnetdev" ]] ; then nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.
Release Notes @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ [ -x /usr/sbin/dip ] || { echo $"/usr/sbin/dip does not exist or is not executable" echo $"ifup-sl for $DEVICE exiting" - logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \ + /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \ $"/usr/sbin/dip does not exist or is not executable for $DEVICE" exit 1 } @@ -43,14 +43,14 @@ [ -f $DIPSCRIPT ] || { echo $"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/dip-$DEVICE does not exist" echo $"ifup-sl for $DEVICE exiting" - logger -p daemon.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release +++ @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ # See how we were called. case "$1" in start) + # Let udev handle any backlog before trying to mount file systems + /sbin/udevsettle --timeout=30 [ -n "$NFSFSTAB" ] && { [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/portmap ] && service portmap start nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcsvcgssd --+++ @@ -27,12 +27,9 @@ case "$1" in start|condstart) # Check that networking is up.
Release Notes fi # Unaccessible TLS configuration files. - tlsconfigs=`LANG=C egrep '^(TLSCACertificateFile|TLSCertificateFile| TLSCertificateKeyFile)[[:space:]]' /etc/openldap/slapd.conf | awk '{print $2}'` + tlsconfigs=`LANG=C egrep '^(TLS_CACERT|TLSCACertificateFile| TLSCertificateFile|TLSCertificateKeyFile)[[:space:]]' /etc/openldap/ slapd.conf /etc/openldap/ldap.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release - rw_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$RW_LABEL" -o device | awk '{ print ; exit }') + rw_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$RW_LABEL" -l -o device) # First try to mount scratch storage from /etc/fstab, then any # partition with the proper label.
Release Notes + mount -f /sys >/dev/null 2>&1 + mount -f /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1 + mount -f /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&1 +fi # Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already # mounted). Contrary to standard usage, # filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release -# +# # # # @@ # [ -# -[ # . + +# +. connections to the best available connection. \ connections to the best available connection. processname: NetworkManager pidfile: /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid -19,11 +19,11 @@ Sanity checks. -x $NETWORKMANAGER_BIN ] || exit 1 We need /sbin/ip -x /sbin/ip ] || exit 1 Source function library. /etc/rc.d/init.
Release Notes initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/networkfunctions-ipv6 --+++ @@ -138,14 +138,14 @@ ;; 'syslog') # note: logger resides in /usr/bin, but not used by default - if ! [ -x logger ]; then + if ! [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then echo $"ERROR: [ipv6_log] Syslog is chosen, but binary 'logger' doesn't exist or isn't executable" >/dev/stderr return 3 fi if [ -z "$txt_name" ]; then logger -p $facility.$priority $message + /usr/bin/logger -p $facility.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release # Don't fail if /etc/exports doesn't exist; create a bare-bones # version and continue. @@ -42,9 +50,6 @@ # Number of servers to be started by default [ -z "$RPCNFSDCOUNT" ] && RPCNFSDCOUNT=8 - # Remote quota server - [ -z "$RQUOTAD" ] && RQUOTAD=`type -path rpc.rquotad` # Start daemons. [ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.svcgssd ] && /sbin/service rpcsvcgssd start @@ -67,6 +72,12 @@ RETVAL=$? echo fi + + # Load preload module so arguments to rpc.
Release Notes fi; return $r; initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt --+++ @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ NOLOCALE=1 . /etc/init.d/functions + +UMOUNT="umount" +[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n" action() { echo -n "$1 " @@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in. failures.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release if [ -x /sbin/halt.local ]; then initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt --+++ @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ NOLOCALE=1 . /etc/init.d/functions + +UMOUNT="umount" +[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n" action() { echo -n "$1 " @@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in. failures.
Release Notes nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock --+++ @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ RETVAL=0 start() { # Check that networking is up. - [ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6 + [ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6 if [ "$USERLAND_LOCKD" ] ; then [ -x /sbin/rpc.lockd ] || exit 5 @@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ STATDARG="" fi - if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/nfslock ]; then - return $RETVAL + # Make sure the rpc.statd is not already running. + if status rpc.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release --+++ @@ -15,10 +15,16 @@ system + 81 dbus + + + + + + /lib/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper /var/run/messagebus.
Release Notes [ -x /sbin/pppd -o -x /usr/sbin/pppd ] || { echo $"pppd does not exist or is not executable" echo $"ifup-ppp for ${DEVICE} exiting" - logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ + /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ $"pppd does not exist or is not executable for ${DEVICE}" exit 1 } @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ adsl-start /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/$CONFIG exit $? else logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \ + /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.
Configuration Changes From Previous Release +PIDFILE=/var/run/tog-pegasus/cimserver.pid . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions [ -e /etc/sysconfig/tog-pegasus ] && .
Release Notes -# Section for zaptel device -KERNEL=="zapctl", NAME="zap/ctl" -KERNEL=="zaptimer", NAME="zap/timer" -KERNEL=="zapchannel", NAME="zap/channel" -KERNEL=="zappseudo", NAME="zap/pseudo" -KERNEL=="zap[0-9]*", NAME="zap/%n" KERNEL=="pktcdvd", NAME="%k/control" KERNEL=="hd[a-z]", BUS=="ide", SYSFS{removable}=="1", \ @@ -291,12 +284,14 @@ KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/ scsi_id -g -x -a -s %p -d $tempnode" KERNEL=="dasd*[!0-9]", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/das
Revision History + session.d @@ -27,4 +31,27 @@ contexts/ dbus_contexts + + +
