Subject: [yellowdog-updates] Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Advisory: YDU-20010725-16
dburcaw@newhope.terraplex.com
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 17:41:59 MDT
Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement
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Package: wireless-tools
Issue Date: July 25, 2001
Priority: medium
Advisory ID: YDU-20010725-16
1. Topic:
Updated wireless-tools packages are available.
2. Problem:
"Some changes were made to the wireless interface in the 2.4.3 kernels that
were incompatible with the previous wireless-tools; this could cause the
tools to hang or crash."
(from Red Hat's bugfix advisory)
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 wireless-tools
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-2.0/ppc/RPMS/
rpm -Fvh wireless-tools-21-0a.ppc.rpm
4. Verification
MD5 checksum Package
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1936523228161ca52ed4483167dd0608 SRPMS/wireless-tools-21-0a.src.rpm
f06d932fbdb9fcdf2b8d057a9695743c ppc/RPMS/wireless-tools-21-0a.ppc.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://devel.yellowdoglinux.com/rp_yup.shtml
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