Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Advisory: YDU-20020522-1

[Dan Burcaw]

Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement
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Package:	glibc	
Issue Date: 	May 22, 2002	
Priority:	high		
Advisory ID: 	YDU-20020522-1


1. 	Topic:

	Updated glibc packages are available.


2. 	Problem:

	The glibc package the shipped with Yellow Dog Linux 2.2
	have a bug that may cause programs to seg fault.  This
	has been fixed in these errata packages.

	Details of the bug can be found at the following URL:
 	http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-05/msg00052.html 

3. 	Solution:

   	a) Updating via yup...
   	We suggest that you use the Yellow Dog Update Program (yup)
   	to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will
   	automatically retrieve and install the fixed version of
   	this update onto your system:

		yup update glibc 

   	b) Updating manually...
   	The update can also be retrieved manually from our ftp site
   	below along with the rpm command that should be used to install
   	the update.  (Please use a mirror site)

   		ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.2/ppc/
		rpm -Fvh glibc-*2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm

4. Verification

MD5 checksum			  Package
--------------------------------  ----------------------------
289592c5f05dbd5abe1e40a473122b79  ppc/glibc-2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm
755e67ef52615cbf12bdcd0b713f91cc  ppc/glibc-common-2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm
c7d4b72398a7e9dc89cc60128a0db0f9  ppc/glibc-devel-2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm
36311ee17dc2e655d6a9cd4519eacb2b  ppc/glibc-profile-2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm
160b739be7170958562175eb315ae964  ppc/nscd-2.2.5-0.19b.ppc.rpm
3be2f66ef46d4cbb846f67b725697167  SRPMS/glibc-2.2.5-0.19b.src.rpm

If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename


5. Misc.

Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package
enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ for more
information.

For information regarding the usage of yup, the Yellow Dog Update Program, see 
http://http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yup.shtml