Yellow Dog Linux Bugfix Announcement ------------------------------------ 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 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