Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: libxml2 Issue Date: May 12, 2008 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2008-05-12-39 1. Topic Updated libxml2 packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to libxml2. 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-6.0/RPMS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 6.0] 13550c59d93c2171c347b5eb70d90150 libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm 6f7d4c2ecf9604822d9baacf7a3a746b libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm 67aec413ceb538b9a1b92198595f0079 libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.ppc.rpm 7debb64a0d520ebe776e9d67934b4dfd libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1.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.