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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:32:29 -0600 Reply-To: Troy DawsonSender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux From: Troy Dawson Subject: ERRATA for "yum" on SL 40,41 i386,x86_64 now available Comments: To: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The following ERRATA for SL 40,41 i386,x86_64,ia64 are now available from: Synopsis: Updated yum packages are now available for Scientific Linux 40 and 41 Severity: moderate Issued on: 2006-01-26 Description: Because of lack for certain specialized packages it was deemed that for security reasons yum and yum-conf needed to be updated. These only affect the yum found in Scientific Linux 4.0 and 4.1 1) There is no kernel-module support in yum 2.2, this affects openafs 2) There is no exclusions for cluster kernel modules in the yum-conf SRPMS python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.src.rpm python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.src.rpm sqlite-3.1.2-3.src.rpm urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.src.rpm yum-2.4.0-2.SL.src.rpm yum-conf-40-9.SL.src.rpm yum-conf-41-9.SL.src.rpm yumex-0.42-1.0.src.rpm yumex-applet-2.1-1.src.rpm i386 python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm sqlite-3.1.2-3.i386.rpm sqlite-devel-3.1.2-3.i386.rpm urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm yum-2.4.0-3.SL.noarch.rpm yum-changelog-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-conf-40-9.SL.noarch.rpm yum-conf-41-9.SL.noarch.rpm yumex-0.42-9.0.SL.noarch.rpm yumex-applet-2.1-2.i386.rpm yum-installonlyn-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-protectbase-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-tsflags-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-updateonboot-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-utils-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-versionlock-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm x86_64 python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.x86_64.rpm python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm sqlite-3.1.2-3.x86_64.rpm sqlite-devel-3.1.2-3.x86_64.rpm urlgrabber-2.9.6-1.noarch.rpm yum-2.4.0-3.SL.noarch.rpm yum-changelog-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-conf-40-9.SL.noarch.rpm yum-conf-41-9.SL.noarch.rpm yumex-0.42-9.0.SL.noarch.rpm yumex-applet-2.1-2.x86_64.rpm yum-installonlyn-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-protectbase-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-tsflags-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-updateonboot-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-utils-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm yum-versionlock-0.3.1-1.SL.2.noarch.rpm --Troy Dawson --Connie Sieh lastline