Yellow Dog Linux Update Announcement ------------------------------------ Package: libxml2 Issue Date: Jan 13, 2009 Priority: low Advisory-ID: YDU-2009-01-13-6 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/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm yellowdog-6.0/RPMS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm 5. Verification MD5 checksum Package -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Yellow Dog Linux 6.0] 77c6044bc0f45af03ed61dfbd6704c32 libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm 52908ae6b111198ab74c07e2c77f364c libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm 8f40943cc01854b1fbc3e8ac1270cc54 libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.ppc.rpm 5598264c0c887b9ac2a37387d3466c63 libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.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 Fixstars has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.fixstars.com/ for more information.