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Fedora Core 4 db4 Update: Moderate Severity Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2006
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Fedora Core 4 brings a powerful update to the db4 database library, boosting performance and stability with better concurrency for multi-user access
Updated package.

Summary

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that

provides embedded database support for both traditional and

client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended

Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods,

transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database

recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is

used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should

be installed on all systems.

- don't package /usr/share/doc/images in the main db4 package

and move it to db4-devel (#33328)

- move db4-devel, db4-tcl, db4-java to Development/Libraries

group instead of System Environment/Libraries (#54320)

- BuildPrereq -> BuildRequires, don't use RPM_SOURCE_DIR,

Obsoletes db3, db2

- apply x86_64 fix from Henrik Nordstrom (#184588)

- package libraries, don't list files twice in filelist (#184595)

- add fno-strict-aliasing (#168965)

* Tue May 17 2005 Paul Nasrat 4.3.27-4

- /usr/lib/tls/ix86 dirs (#151371)

ef05957a9a2bf27b87873fb83124f11eb069f271 SRPMS/db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.src.rpm

7a36a4fc3f9147000c2d43b5ed1ca31b98506469 ppc/db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.ppc.rpm

66825fa6e004947a5c57831a07cf6a0006250543 ppc/db4-utils-4.3.27-5.fc4.ppc.rpm

beb235265f7ee45e5d0136157ba5716204ee5d46 ppc/db4-devel-4.3.27-5.fc4.ppc.rpm

06eb51876282ac41b53335a052c38d13ac70a610 ppc/db4-tcl-4.3.27-5.fc4.ppc.rpm

922786e56a3b27a9c41d68cc8f599b07457b808e ppc/debug/db4-debuginfo-4.3.27-5.fc4.ppc.rpm

708bcf9d944b03bccc329e54af0bfdcd8a29e79e x86_64/db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.x86_64.rpm

72d1daec0462605210e6b3a64998bd5961f9674f x86_64/db4-utils-4.3.27-5.fc4.x86_64.rpm

08bdffa5efcaf862b0edb009cbde027944291366 x86_64/db4-devel-4.3.27-5.fc4.x86_64.rpm

b5f0a19a700f39c3a462052a61e1a54cd0585a47 x86_64/db4-tcl-4.3.27-5.fc4.x86_64.rpm

10a7e79643c9d538507f1bcc30d18bea3fc229c3 x86_64/debug/db4-debuginfo-4.3.27-5.fc4.x86_64.rpm

e30e74ce28c7be2f158b18c3d0f77888fd65aa7c i386/db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386.rpm

914e7737dff53a3f58a828b2252755fd4dffe49d i386/db4-utils-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386.rpm

55f1f8576add0ada6c7353dc3eb977f873072b7f i386/db4-devel-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386.rpm

ec6066285faa80910a4aa89375ffd5499afb8e17 i386/db4-tcl-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386.rpm

a30c5e8233e2861fbdc1be0707657627b919838f i386/debug/db4-debuginfo-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: db4
Version: 4.3.27
Release: 5.fc4
Summary: The Berkeley DB database library (version 4) for C.

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