Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: perl-Archive-Tar Issue Date: Mar 29, 2007 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2007-03-29-132 1. Topic Updated perl-Archive-Tar packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to perl-Archive-Tar. 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/perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.noarch.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 5.0] 131d784c133cff2ad4a666a97d6a2c0b perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.noarch.rpm 02c7aa59ad83a6661b4b3e8f6f8485ac perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.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.