Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: kernel Issue Date: Feb 22, 2005 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2005-02-22-2 1. Topic Updated kernel packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to kernel. 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/kernel-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm yellowdog-4.0/ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm yellowdog-4.0/ppc/kernel-g5-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm yellowdog-4.0/ppc/kernel-g5-smp-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm yellowdog-4.0/ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm yellowdog-4.0/ppc/kernel-source-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 4.0] 33d97c98fc1391f6ea9a388fc0abcdc3 kernel-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm fb07a9133bbb7835c280c79a804e63bc kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm 371247980aa72d2a182dc396a47b4df1 kernel-g5-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm 708ad7dadcbbe13312417c5c163f031e kernel-g5-smp-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm 07df17eebb202981a9c96c8940f3f673 kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm b382b7abbba6db85f1f1931a5c2a6488 kernel-source-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.ppc.rpm a79e4b607ebf85efda52416566b45aa8 kernel-2.6.9-1.ydl.8.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.