Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: parted Issue Date: Mar 29, 2007 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2007-03-29-128 1. Topic Updated parted packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to parted. 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-5.0/RPMS/ppc/parted-1.8.1-1.ppc.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/parted-devel-1.8.1-1.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 5.0] 694c12ac4229755440940f2c2212d847 parted-1.8.1-1.ppc.rpm ff47b86780ae619f7611a07eaae4b0cb parted-devel-1.8.1-1.ppc.rpm b0e7c9107f54724ed3537707306f5d4d parted-1.8.1-1.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.