Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: gzip Issue Date: Mar 27, 2006 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2006-03-27-28 1. Topic Updated gzip packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to gzip. 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/gzip-1.3.3-12.2.legacy.ydl.1.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 4.0] 8143c41710cbe9dddafb5759e4932cd7 gzip-1.3.3-12.2.legacy.ydl.1.ppc.rpm 9cbcabf710fcd31095a6624228245759 gzip-1.3.3-12.2.legacy.ydl.1.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.