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reposync and yumdownloader from performing properly when downloading a large number of
packages.
yum-utils is now re-based to upstream version 1.1.16. T his applies several bug fixes, including:
yum update --security can now properly locate old relevant security updates.
yum -versionlock now works properly against package obsoletes.
This update also includes the yum -fastestm irror plugin, which enables yum to choose the
fastest repository in a mirrorlist.
Samba has been re-based to upstream version 3.2.0. T his fixes several bugs, including one that
prevented users from joining domains that used Windows 2003 as their name server. T his update
also fixes a bug that caused samba domain membership to break after changing the system
password using net rpc changetrustpw.
For a more comprehensive list of upstream samba updates included this release, refer to
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.32.html
OpenLDAP has been re-based to upstream version 2.3.43. This applies several upstream bug
fixes, including:
The init script now reports a warning if the slapd daemon cannot read a T LS certificate file.
All libraries in openldap-debuginfo package are now unstripped.
Uninstalling the openldap-devel package no longer breaks OpenLDAP libraries.
Red Hat now distributes additional overlays for OpenLDAP server. Except for syncprov, all overlays
can be found in separate openldap-servers-overlays packages, compiled as dynamically
loadable modules. The syncprov overlay is statically linked to the OpenLDAP server to maintain
compatibility with older OpenLDAP releases.
Because the xterm binary had the set group ID (setgid) bit configured, certain environmental
variables (such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH and T MPDIR) 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. The ypbind daemon's behavior has not
changed: it still pings all NIS servers listed in the /etc/ypbind configuration file and then binds to
the single fastest-responding server. Before, it was recommended to list all available NIS servers in
each machine's /etc/ypbind.conf configuration file. However, because even servers under high
load can respond quickly to this ping, thus inadvertently increasing their own load, it is now
recommended for administrators to list a smaller number of available NIS servers in each machine's
ypbind.conf, and to vary this list across machines. In this way, NIS servers are automatically load-
balanced due to not every NIS server being listed as being available to every machine.
OpenMot if has been re-based to upstream version 2.3.1. This update applies several bug fixes,
including:
A bug in the way OpenMotif handled the Grab and Ungrab events is now fixed. In previous
releases, this bug could cause the display to lock.
A bug in nedit could cause it to crash when using the nedit graphical user interface. This was
caused by a function in the code that causes a segmentation fault in some cases of item
selection, which is now fixed.
dbus has been re-based to version 1.1.2. T his update fixes a bug wherein multi-threaded programs
could cause a deadlock in dbus. In previous releases, as one thread listened to dbus and
processed messages, the second thread would send messages to dbus.
st race has been re-based to version 4.5.18. T his fixes several bugs, including:
A bug that caused strace to crash when the -f option was used on some multi-threaded
programs (particularly on 64-bit systems) is now fixed.
A bug that prevented the 64-bit version of strace from executing a vfork() function call on a
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