Yellow Dog Linux Security Advisory: YDU-20030612-1

[Terra Soft Security Team]

Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement
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Package:	foomatic
Issue Date:	Jun 12,2003
Priority:	medium
Advisory ID: 	YDU-20030612-1


1. 	Topic:

	Updated foomatic packages are available.


2. 	Problem:
	
	"A number of bugs are now fixed in the foomatic package. This package
	contains information about which printer drivers to use as well as what
	options are available for each printer model.

	Below are the issues corrected by this update:

	* Double-sided (duplex) printing now works correctly for PostScript
printers.

	* Some printer options are no longer erroneously discarded when using the
	LPRng print job spooler.

	* The default printer driver listed for the Canon S600, S630, and BJC 8200
	printers is now correct."
	
	(From Red Hat Advisory)

3. 	Solution:

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

		yum update foomatic

     	b) Updating manually...
	Download the updates below and then run the following rpm command.
     	(Please use a mirror site)

		rpm -Fvh [filenames]
		Yellow Dog Linux 3.0
		ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0/
			ppc/foomatic-2.0.2-15.1.ppc.rpm

4. Verification

MD5 checksum			  Package
--------------------------------  ----------------------------
[Yellow Dog Linux 3.0]
35507dfb5aa5af8ab07d21c1fdb70977  SRPMS/foomatic-2.0.2-15.1.src.rpm
44abb595dd46052c21510bba4f85a977  ppc/foomatic-2.0.2-15.1.ppc.rpm

If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: md5sum <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.terrasoftsolutions.com/ for more
information.

For information regarding the usage of yum, see:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yum.shtml