Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: pcre Issue Date: May 12, 2008 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2008-05-12-48 1. Topic Updated pcre packages are available. 2. Problem There were various issues related to pcre. 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/pcre-6.6-2.7.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/pcre-devel-6.6-2.7.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 6.0] 37ec66ae84f8bc1479c8896a815bb439 pcre-6.6-2.7.ppc.rpm e1f0793e3511063f01ece5bb5fc8e2d0 pcre-devel-6.6-2.7.ppc.rpm 7bb4cb96ef7064677ef3e8c58c1ceee3 pcre-6.6-2.7.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.