Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: kernel Issue Date: Mar 29, 2007 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2007-03-29-83 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-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-doc-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-source-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/ppc/kernel-source-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 5.0] 2c20f68b08d0410c3966bceeee316fff kernel-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm 2ffd683eac4007470ad9b3d5d1764c94 kernel-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm e4823d411f14880f3ed9c52c8192880e kernel-doc-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm cb7ea7ec8ded74a4c9ac3c2d86a25789 kernel-doc-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm aea1a4c2aeba62e304d42a09c02eb660 kernel-source-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc64.rpm 336b375dcbcda611bd4179bdd17ff7d6 kernel-source-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.ppc.rpm ff3f1fe3df507ccd1857acf68d7da3af kernel-2.6.20-3.ydl.2.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.