Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: cpio Issue Date: Nov 27, 2007 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2007-11-27-1 1. Topic Updated cpio packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to cpio. 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/cpio-2.6-22.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 5.0] 7defcbfa23aac4b1488b60db1e7a7aec cpio-2.6-22.ppc.rpm c67c07b055071079598b2d0734b507fb cpio-2.6-22.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.