Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: gdm Issue Date: Nov 19, 2004 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2004-11-19 1. Topic Updated gdm packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to gdm. 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 b) Updating manually rpm -Fvu [filenames] ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/ yellowdog-4.0/ppc/gdm-2.6.0.0-5.ydl.3.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 4.0] 59519c655a5525e43369f06bc8968456 gdm-2.6.0.0-5.ydl.3.ppc.rpm 744cdda560af876d819d5e926298fd3b gdm-2.6.0.0-5.ydl.3.src.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. Miscellaneous 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.