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Note di rilascio 5.3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Note di rilascio per tutte le architetture.

Ryan Lerch

Red Hat Engineering Content Services

Sommario

Questo documento contiene le informazioni relative alle Note di rilascio per Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

1. Release Notes Updates

This section contains information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 that did not make it into the Release Notes included in the distribution.

1.1. Feature Updates

Aggiornamento audit
The audit packages contain user-space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
These updated packages upgrade the auditd daemon and its utilities to the newer upstream version 1.7.7, which provides the following enhancements over the previous version:
  • the auditctl program, which is used to control the behavior of the audit subsystem, now supports multiple keys in the audit rules.
  • a new utility, ausyscall, which is used to cross-reference syscall name and number information, is now provided in these updated packages.
  • the aureport program has been enhanced to provide reports about keys it sees in audit events.
  • event log parsing for the ausearch and aureport programs has been improved.
  • a sample STIG rules file, named "stig.rules", is newly provided in these updated packages. This file contains the auditctl rules which are loaded whenever the audit daemon is started by init scripts.
In addition to the listed enhancements, these updated audit packages also include a new feature to allow a server to aggregate the logs of remote systems. The following instructions can be followed to enable this feature:
  1. The audispd-plugins package should be installed on all clients (but need not be installed on the server), and the parameters for "remote_server" and "port" should be set in the /etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf configuration file.
  2. On the server, which aggregates the logs, the "tcp_listen_port" parameter in the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file must be set to the same port number as the clients.
  3. Because the auditd daemon is protected by SELinux, semanage (the SELinux policy management tool) must also have the same port listed in its database. If the server and client machines had all been configured to use port 1000, for example, then running this command would accomplish this: 
    semanage port -a -t audit_port_t -p tcp 1000
  4. The final step in configuring remote log aggregation is to edit the /etc/hosts.allow configuration file to inform tcp_wrappers which machines or subnets the auditd daemon should allow connections from.
wpa_supplicant re-base
wpa_supplicant has been re-based to the latest upstream stable version 0.5.10 and include backported fixes for a number of issues that may affect users of wireless drivers that depend on the kernel's mac80211 wireless stack. Specific fixes and enhancements include:
  • Support for a D-Bus control interface has been added. D-Bus is a popular lightweight Inter-Process Communication mechanism, and the addition of this control interface to wpa_supplicant allows applications (like NetworkManager) to more reliably control the supplicant.
  • Cisco Aironet 340/350 wireless cards were not able to successfully connect to 802.1x-enabled wireless networks, often used in security sensitive organizations. During the connection process at the 4-Way WPA handshake stage, sending encryption keys to the driver would clear the wireless card firmware's authentication state. With this update, the supplicant uses an alternate method of supplying encryption keys to the kernel driver, allowing authentication state to be preserved in the Aironet firmware and 802.1x connections to succeed.
  • Kernel drivers utilizing the new mac80211 wireless stack were sometimes unable to connect to wireless networks, either failing to find the requested network, or prematurely ending communication with the wireless access point during the connection process. Some drivers were prone to reporting multiple disconnection events during the association process, confusing the supplicant and causing long timeouts. The supplicant also did not sufficiently instruct the driver to disconnect when switching access points. This update fixes these issues and, in conjunction with kernel driver updates, allow more wireless hardware to successfully connect to wireless networks.
NetworkManager re-base
NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.7.0. This update provides the following fixes and enhancements:
  • NetworkManager would not display a LEAP password, even when the user selected the "show password" option. This has been fixed through a rebase to NetworkManager 0.7.
  • During the beta phase, a version of NetworkManager was unable to automatically start network interfaces for which "ONBOOT=no" was present in the ifcfg file. NetworkManager now ignores this value unless "NM_RESPECT_ONBOOT=yes" is also present.
  • a NetworkManager plug-in was named for its upstream repository. This could cause end-users to mistake the plug-in for an un-supported addition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This plug-in has been renamed to "ifcfg-rh".
  • with this update, support has been added to NetworkManager for wired 802.1x authentication. However, after creating an 802.1x-enabled wired connection in the NetworkManager connection editor, it may be necessary to log out, then log back in before the connection can be used from the NetworkManager applet menu.
  • NetworkManager attempted to set a hostname, but only after X had already done so. The user could not then open new windows because the authority files had been set by X with a different hostname. NetworkManager no longer sets hostnames.
  • an update for NetworkManager that was available in the beta phase would change the run level enablement of the package during installation, and thus prevent NetworkManager from starting. NetworkManager no longer changes run level enablements during installation.
  • on a system with more than one network adapter, network keys saved by the user while connecting with one adapter would not be available when the user attempted to connect with the other adapter. NetworkManager can now retrieve and use network keys saved for a different adapter on the same network.
  • previously, NetworkManager would not always prompt the user for a new network key if the protocol or key of a wireless network changed. Although NetworkManager would wait for a new key, it would not always open a dialog box and allow the user to provide one. NetworkManager will now open a dialog box when needed.
  • several bug fixes and enhancements for NetworkManager were available upstream. NetworkManager has been rebased to version 0.7 to incorporate these improvements, including mobile broadband functionality, Phase2 WPA support, and static IP functionality.
  • NetworkManager would would cause a segmentation fault when resuming a session. This was caused by the HAL dropping privileges before connecting to D-Bus, meaning that the HAL could not send signals to NetworkManager. NetworkManager now explicitly permits signals from the HAL.
  • sometimes, X would freeze if the NetworkManager menu and a keyring manager window were open at the same time. This updated package includes a patch from upstream that prevents this behavior.
  • if NetworkManager requires a network key from the user, it will open a pop-up window. However, the applet previously could not steal focus from metacity and would remain in the background. The window was therefore not obvious to the user. The applet now opens in the foreground, alerting the user to take action.
  • when resuming, NetworkManager could sometimes re-establish a wireless connection, but not a route. A fix for this problem from upstream has been included in this update.
  • NetworkManager did not previously support Cisco Airo Wi-Fi cards, as these devices did not respond to NetworkManager's attempts to detect them. NetworkManager can now detect and use these cards.
  • the NetworkManager applet would wake up and redraw its icon once per second, even when NetworkManager was not active. Now, the applet will not wake up unless NetworkManager is running.
  • NetworkManager 0.7 connects faster than libnotify can provide a notification bubble. When this happens, the bubble will appear at the top left corner of the screen, rather than under the taskbar. NetworkManager notification bubbles are now delayed for a few seconds, allowing libnotify to react.
dbus-glib re-base
The dbus-glib integration library has been re-based to version 0.73.8 This update provides support to updated versions of NetworkManager and also implements the following bugfix and enhancements
  • cleanup of the DBusGProxy objects treated pending remote method calls incorrectly and may have resulted in freeing invalid memory. Consequently, processes using DBusGProxy objects may have crashed when the DBusGProxy object was freed. With this update dbus-glib correctly handles the destruction of DBusGProxy objects, resolving this issue.
  • two new function calls, dbus_g_proxy_call_with_timeout and dbus_g_proxy_begin_call_with_timeout, have been added to dbus-glib providing the ability to specify a timeout when making a request to a remote service.
  • dbus-binding-tool now ignores namespaced Extensible Markup Language (XML) nodes when processing introspection definition files.
Aggiornamento di sudo
sudo è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream 1.6.9. Questa versione di sudo supporta ora LDAP, e permette una ricerca di alberi secondari invece di avere la sola ricerca di base (es. solo livello-albero) per i diritti di sudo. Ciò permette agli amministratori di categorizzare i diritti di sudo in un albero, rendendo i privilegi di un utente più facili da gestire.

Nota

the env_reset sudoers option from newer sudo will reset the PATH environment variable. This is different from the behaviour in sudo-1.9.8. To keep the old behaviour simply add PATH variable into env_keep in sudoers file.
LVM-based Cluster mirroring
With this update, the ability to create LVM mirrors in a cluster environment (i.e. while using CLVM) is now available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux It provides for simultaneous access from multiple cluster machines, like when using a cluster-aware file system. This solution is compatible with existing single-machine mirrors. When switching a mirrored logical volume between single-machine and cluster-aware, no resynchronization is necessary.

1.2. Resolved Issues

  • system-config-network requires the fonts provided with xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 in order to display. However, this fonts package was not previously set as a dependency for system-config-network and it was therefore possible (for example, in the case of a minimal installation) for system-config-network to be present on a system and yet unable to function because these fonts were missing. This update sets xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 as a dependency for system-config-network to ensure that these fonts will be available and that system-config-network will display correctly.
  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, a 64-bit version of httpd was included in addition to the existing 32-bit httpd in the PowerPC architecture. If a user installed both versions, an httpd conflict would occur, preventing httpd from functioning properly.
    To resolve this issue, the 64-bit version of httpd has been removed from this release. Any systems with the previous 64-bit version of httpd installed should remove the package before upgrade.

1.3. Driver Updates

  • the SCSI device handler infrastructure (scsi_dh) has been updated, providing added support for LSI RDAC SCSI based storage devices.
  • the tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices has been updated to version 3.93. This applies several upstream changes for new hardware. However, the 5785 hardware is not fully supported. This device may be detected by the driver, but lack of PHY support may cause these chips to not function correctly and may require the user disable any on-board 5785 cards in the system BIOS.
  • scsi-target-utils now features iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER), which is based on the Linux Target (tgt) framework. iSER is included in this release as a Technology Preview, and provides capabilities for both single and multiple portals on different subnets. Note, however, that there are known bugs with using multiple portals on the same subnet.
    To set up an iSER target component, install the scsi-target-utils and libibverbs-devel packages. The corresponding library package for your system's Infiniband hardware is also required. For example, in HCAs that use the cxgb3 driver the libcxgb3 package is needed, and for HCAs using the mthca driver the libmthca package is need.
  • The MPT Fusion driver has been updated to version 3.04.06, providing the following bugfixes and enhancements:
    • Previously, the MPT Fusion driver always allocated I/O resources, even if they were not required, which may have caused issues in low resource environments. With this update, the driver now uses the pci_enable_device_mem and pci_enable_device functions to differentiate the resource allocations.
    • Previously, the kernel would panic when the mptsas and mptcl modules were loaded in parallel. With this update, this issue has been resolved.
    • Previously, system power state changes (such as hibernation and standby) were not functioning correctly with 106XE controllers. With this update, the driver has been modified to free and allocate resources in power management entry points.

1.4. Virtualization

  • È stato corretto un bug in IDE/ATA driver stack il quale impediva l'avvio nell'ambiente kdump ad un sistema che utilizzava kernel-xen. Nelle versioni precedenti tale situazione si verificava se il sistema incontrava un kernel panic durante l'esecuzione di un I/O di un dispositivo IDE, e se lo stesso dispositivo veniva controllato da un driver del dispositivo diverso da libata.
  • A softlockup may have occurred when creating a guest with a large amount of memory. Consequently, a call trace of the error was displayed on both the dom0 and the other guest. In this update, this issue has been resolved.
  • On systems with large amounts of memory (ie 256GB or more), setting up the dom0 could exhaust the hypervisor memory heap. To work around this, the xenheap and dom0_size command line arguments had to be set to valid values for the system. In this update, the hypervisor has been updated to automatically set these values to a default of 32GB, which resolves this issue.
  • Due to technical problems with passing TX checksum offload information between paravirtual domains, the use of TX checksum offload in conjunction with NAT for traffic originating from another domain is not supported. TX checksum offload can be used together with NAT as long as the NAT rule is applied in the domain where the traffic originates.
    Note that this also applies to fully virtualised domains using paravirtual network drivers. Fully virtualised domains using fully virtualised drivers are not affected as they do not support TX checksum offload at all.

1.5. Known Issues

  • Previous versions of the 5.3 Release Notes stated that the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM unit on Dell PowerEdge R905 servers does not work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This note was included by error, and does not apply to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.
  • kdump now serializes drive creation registration with the rest of the kdump process. Consequently, kdump may hang waiting for IDE drives to be initialized. In these cases, it is recommended that IDE disks not be used with kdump.
  • Improvements have been made to the 'nv' driver, enhancing suspend and resume support on some systems equipped with nVidia GeForce 8000 and 9000 series devices. Due to technical limitations, this will not enable suspend/resume on all hardware.
  • pirut sorts some package lists using the textual representation of a package, which is inconsistent with the textual representation method used in yum. As such, some package lists (e.g. Optional Packages list) in pirut may not display names in alphabetical order.
  • The Hypervisor outputs messages regarding attempts by any guest to write to an MSR. Such messages contain the statement Domain attempted WRMSR. These messages can be safely ignored; furthermore, they are rate limited and should pose no performance risk.
  • When upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation to 5 Server, OpenOffice will no longer work correctly with SELinux. This is because the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of OpenOffice is built using an incorrect library. As a result, SELinux will prevent OpenOffice from accessing any shared libraries, causing OpenOffice to fail.
    To work around this, update the SELinux context to allow OpenOffice to access shared libraries. To do so, run the following commands:
    semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1(/.*)?'
    semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib64/ooo-1.1(/.*)?'
    restorecon -Rv /usr/lib/ooo-1.19
    restorecon -Rv /usr/lib64/ooo-1.19
    Alternatively, you can also upgrade your OpenOffice to a correct version compatible with SELinux in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. You can do this by subscribing to the "Productivity App" child channel in Red Hat Network and running the following command:
    yum install openoffice-{base,calc,draw,emailmerge,graphicfilter,headless,impress,javafilter,math,pyuno,writer,xsltfilter}
  • If jumbo frames are enabled on your system, a kernel panic will occur if you attempt to unload the bnx2 module.
  • Red Hat advises that you avoid removing a block device from a guest while the device is in use. Doing so causes Xend to lose domain information for the guest.
  • Accessing the right-click menu of the NetworkManager GNOME applet may cause the GNOME Keyring Unlock dialog to appear. When this occurs, no XII applications can receive keyboard or mouse input.
    To recover from this, switch to a virtual terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1. Log in as the affected user (or root) and run killall -9 nm-applet. Then, switch back to X11 using Ctrl+Alt+F7. Your system should be able to receive keyboard and mouse input, although Red Hat recommends that you logout and login again to allow the system to fully recover.
  • On Altix systems with an ATI FireMV graphics adapter, the GUI console may not display on one of the VGA connectors. To workaround this issue, switch to using the other VGA connector on the dongle.
  • It has been determined that 1024 byte objects in kernel slab may be lost when a call to pipe() fails. The problem occurs because pipe() allocates pipe files, and then tries to get free file descriptors for them. If the process is out of file descriptors, pipe() fails, but it does not clean up properly. A fix for this problem is planned for a forthcoming 5.3 kernel update.
    To workaround this issue, ensure that the process calling do_pipe has adequate file descriptors allocated.
    This issue has been observed with multipathd in particular. To avoid the problem with multipathd, calculate the number of file descriptors (FDs) required using the formula: "FDs = Number of Paths + 32". If the result is greater than the default value of 1024, then the max_fds value in the defaults section of multipath.conf should be set to the previously calculated value. For example, if there are 255 LUNs with 8 paths each, the line to be added to the defaults section of multipath.conf would be: 
    	max_fds  2072
  • The libcmpiutil-devel package depends on tog-pegasus-devel, which for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop product is only available from the Workstation option. Therefore, any attempt to install the libcmpiutil-devel package on a system that does not have a Subscription including the Workstation option or is not subscribed to the Workstation channel on the Red Hat Network, will fail with an unresolved dependency error.
  • It is possible in rare circumstances, for makedumpfile to produce erroneous results but not have them reported. This is due to the fact that makedumpfile processes its output data through a pipeline consisting of several stages. If makedumpfile fails, the other stages will still succeed, effectively masking the failure. Should a vmcore appear corrupt, and makedumpfile is in use, it is recommended that the core be recorded without makedumpfile and a bug be reported.
  • An issue may be encountered when using system-config-cluster to configure a Postgres 8 resource agent, resulting in the postgresql service failing to start. To include a Postgres resource agent in your cluster, please check the man page for the agent, and edit the cluster.conf file in an editor, then update the cluster with the new configuration file using the appropriate cman_tool command.
  • Due to outstanding driver issues with hardware encryption acceleration, users of Intel WiFi Link 4965, 5100, 5150, 5300, and 5350 wireless cards are advised to disable hardware accelerated encryption using module parameters. Failure to do so may result in the inability to connect to Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protected wireless networks after connecting to WiFi Protected Access (WPA) protected wireless networks.
    To do so, add the following options to /etc/modprobe.conf: 
    alias wlan0 iwlagn
options iwlagn swcrypto50=1 swcrypto=1
    (where wlan0 is the default interface name of the first Intel WiFi Link device)
  • kdump now restarts when CPUs or DIMMs are hot-added to a system. If multiple items are added at the same time, several sequential restarts may be encountered. This behavior is intentional, as it minimizes the time-frame where a crash may occur while memory or processors are not being tracked by kdump.

1.6. Technology Previews

Software based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) driver (fcoe.ko), along with libfc, provides the ability to run FCoE over a standard Ethernet card. This capability is provided as a technical preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.
To enable this feature, you must login by writing the network interface name to the /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/create file, for example: 
echo eth6 > /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/create
To logout, write the network interface name to the /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/destroy file, for example: 
echo eth6 > /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/destroy
For further information on software based FCoE refer to: http://www.open-fcoe.org/openfc/wiki/index.php/FCoE_Initiator_Quickstart.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 offre un supporto completo per FCoE su tre implementazioni hardware specializzate. Tali modalità sono: il driver Cisco fnic , il driver Emulex lpfc , e il driver Qlogic qla2xx .
iSER Support
iSER support, allowing for block storage transfer across a network, has been added to the scsi-target-utils package as a Technology Preview. In this release, single portal and multiple portals on different subnets are supported. There are known bugs when using multiple portals on the same subnet.
To set up the iSER target component install the scsi-target-utils and libibverbs-devel RPM. The library package for the InfiniBand hardware that is being used is also required. For example: host channel adapters that use the cxgb3 driver the libcxgb3 package is needed, and for host channel adapters using the mthca driver the libmthca package is needed.
There is also a known issue relating to connection timeouts in some situations. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla #470627 for more information on this issue.

3. Feature Updates

Cifratura del dispositivo a blocchi
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 include il supporto per la cifratura dei dispositivi a blocchi utilizzando le specifiche Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS). Con la cifratura di un dispositivo è possibile proteggere tutti i dati presenti su di un dispositivo a blocchi, impedendo gli accessi non autorizzati anche se il dispositivo è stato fisicamente rimosso da un sistema. Per accedere ai contenuti di un dispositivo cifrato l'utente deve fornire una frase segreta o una chiave per l'autenticazione.
Per informazioni su come impostare la cifratura del disco consultare il Capitolo 28 della la Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide: http://redhat.com/docs/
mac80211 802.11a/b/g WiFi stack protocollo (mac80211)
Lo stack mac80211 (precedentemente noto come stack devicescape/d80211 ) è ora una funzione supportata in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. Abilita il driver wireless iwlwifi 4965GN per l'hardware Intel® WiFi Link 4965 che consente a determinati dispositivi wireless di collegarsi a qualsiasi rete WiFi.
Anche se il componente mac80211 è supportato in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, i simboli non sono inclusi nel whitelist dei simboli del kernel.
Global File System 2 (GFS2)
GFS2 rappresenta un miglioramento di GFS. Questo aggiornamento implementa miglioramenti rilevanti che necessitano di una modifica al formato del file system sul disco. I file system GFS possono essere convertiti in GFS2 utilizzando l'utilità gfs2_convert, la quale aggiorna i metadati di un file system GFS.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, GFS2 è stato fornito come modulo del kernel per processi di valutazione. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, GFS2 è già parte del pacchetto del kernel. Il programma d'installazione rimuoverà automaticamente i moduli del kernel GFS2 precedenti durante il processo di aggiornamento.
Miglioramenti del supporto per il Driver Disk
Un driver disk, fornito da un OEM, è un file immagine singolo (*.img), esso contenente moduli potenziali del kernel e RPM del driver. I driver vengono utilizzati durante l'installazione per supportare l'hardware che altrimenti non verrebbe riconosciuto. Gli RPM sono installati sul sistema e posizionati nella initrd, in questo modo essi vengono supportati quando la macchina esegue il riavvio.
Con Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 l'installazione può rilevare automaticamente la presenza di un driver disk in base all'etichetta del suo file system, ed utilizzare il contenuto di quel disco durante l'installazione. Questo comportamento è controllato dall'opzione della linea di comando per l'installaizone dlabel=on, la quale permette una ricerca automatica. Tutti i dispositivi a blocchi con l'etichetta del file system OEMDRV vengono esaminati, ed i driver vengono caricati da dispositivi nell'ordine incontrato.
Tabella iSCSI Boot Firmware
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supporta ora la iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) la quale permette un avvio dai dispositivi iSCSI. Con questo supporto i dischi iSCSI (nodi) non vengono più contrassegnati in modo da avviarsi automaticamente; il sistema installato non si collegherà più automaticamente ai dischi iSCSI al momento dell'ingrasso nei runlevel 3 o 5.
iSCSI viene generalmente usato per il filesystem root, in questo caso la modifica non comporta alcuna differenza, poichè initrd eseguirà il login ed il collegamento ai dischi iSCSI necessari prima di entrare nel runlevel.
Tuttavia se i dischi iSCSI devono essere montati su directory non-root, per esempio /home o /srv, questa modifica avrà un suo impatto poichè il sistema installato non eseguirà più un collegamento automatico ed un login sui dischi iSCSI non usati per il filesystem root.
È ancora possibile usare i dischi iSCSI montati su directory non root, ma per fare questo sarà necessario usare una delle seguenti soluzioni:
  1. Installare il sistema senza utilizzare i dischi iSCSI montati sulle directory non root, e configurare successivamente i dischi rilevanti ed i mount point manualmente
  2. Avviare il sistema installato nel runlevel 1, e segnare ogni disco iSCSI non usati per il filesystem root per l'avvio automatico, utilizzando una sola volta il seguente comando per ogni disco:
    iscsiadm -m node -T target-name -p ip:port -o update -n node.startup -v automatic
rhythmbox
il riproduttore audio rhythmbox è stato aggiornato alla versione 0.11.6. Questo aggiornamento fornisce la possibilità di utilizzare plugin GStreamer proprietari.
Aggiornamento di lftp
lftp è stato aggiornato alla versione 3.7.1. Ciò applica numerosi bug fix ed aggiornamenti, incluso:
  • È stato corretto un precedente difetto relativo alla sicurezza nel modo in cui lftp quotava gli script generati da mirror --script (il quale poteva causare una escalation di privilegi non autorizzati).
  • L'utilizzo di lftp con l'opzione -c non causa più la sospensione di lftp.
  • lftp non corrompe più i file durante il trasferimento utilizzando sftp.
For more information on lftp updates applied in this release, refer to http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html.
TTY Input Auditing
Il TTY input auditing è ora supportato. Se un processo viene contrassegnato per il TTY input auditing, verrà eseguito l'audit dei dati letti da TTY; ciò verrà mostrato sui record di audit con tipoligia TTY.
È possibile utilizzare il modulo pam_tty_audit per contrassegnare un processo (insieme ai suoi processi figlio) per il TTY input auditing. Per informazioni su come eseguire tale processo consultare man pam_tty_audit(8).
I record di TTY audit contengono la sequenza dei tasti esatta letta dal processo sul quale è stato eseguito audit. Per facilitare la decodifica del dati, bash esegue l'audit della riga esatta del comando utilizzando il tipo di record USER_TTY.
The "TTY" audit records contain all data read by audited processes from the TTY. This includes data inserted into the input stream by the TIOCSTI ioctl system call.
Aggiornmento di SystemTap
SystemTap è stato aggiornato alla versione 0.7.2. Questo aggiornamento di SystemTap introduce numerosi piccoli aggiornamenti, insieme all'introduzione di alcune caratteristiche importanti. Queste nuove caratteristiche includono:
  • SystemTap supporta ora il probing simbolico su architetture x86, x86-64 e PowerPC. Questo permette agli script SystemTap di posizionare i probe nelle applicazioni dello spazio utente e nelle librerie condivise. Come risultato SystemTap può ora fornire lo stesso livello di debugger probing su alcune applicazioni dello spazio utente del kernel probing.
    Per esempio, se è stato installato coreutils-debuginfo sarà possibile stampare un callgraph del comando ls utilizzando /usr/share/doc/systemtap-version/examples/general/callgraph.stp:
    stap para-callgraph.stp 'process("ls").function("*")' -c 'ls -l'
    In order to reduce the likelihood of an undetected version mismatch between the binary and its debuginfo RPMs, Red Hat advises that you set the SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH environment variable to the value +:.debug:/usr/lib/debug:build.
    SystemTap's support for symbolic probes also extends to markers placed into the kernel of this release. To use these markers, load the kernel-trace kernel module in /etc/rc.local (using modprobe kernel-trace).
  • SystemTap supporta anche i servizi di compilazione remota. Questo permette ad un computer presente sulla rete, di comportarsi come un server debuginfo/compiler per client SystemTap locali. I client identificano automaticamente il server utilizzando mDNS (avahi), e necessita per funzionare solo dei pacchetti systemtap-client e systemtap-runtime.
    Al momento questa caratteristica non utilizza i meccanismi di sicurezza come la cifratura. Per questo motivo è consigliabile utilizzare i servizi di compilazione remota solo all'interno di reti fidate. Per maggiori informazioni consultare man stap-server.
  • Per questa release l'aggiornamento del kernel include una estensione API del kernel, la quale migliora sensibilmente l'arresto degli scirpt SystemTap. L'aggiunta di questa estensione API del kernel elimina la sincronizzazione non necessaria tra operazioni di rimozione probe individuali. Come risultato, gli script SystemTap che presentano centinaia di probe del kernel vengono processati molto più velocemente.
    Ciò è molto utile per gli amministratori che utilizzano script con probe contenenti wildcard in grado di catturare numerosi eventi del kernel, come ad esempio probe syscall.* {}.
Per un elenco completo di aggiornamenti SystemTap inclusi in questa release, consultare il seguente URL:
http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=rhel53
Aggiornamento del Cluster Manager
L'utilità del Cluster Manager (cman) è stato aggiornato alla versione 2.0.97. Questo aggiornamento contiene diversi bug fix e miglioramenti, ed in particolare:
  • cman ora utilizza le seguenti versioni di firmware: APC AOS v3.5.7 and APC rpdu v3.5.6. Questo corregge un bug che impediva a APC 7901 di utilizzare in modo corretto il simple network management protocol (SNMP).
  • fence_drac, fence_ilo, fence_egenera, e fence_bladecenter ora supportano ssh.
  • I file della chiave fence_xvmd possono essere ricaricati senza il riavvio.
  • Un metodo 'single fence' può ora supportare fino a 8 dispositivi fence.
Aggiornamento RPM
Il RedHat Package Manager (RPM) è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream di Fedora 9. rpm aggiunge i file macro specifici all'architettura secondari su sistemi con architetture multiple. In aggiunta, rpm soddisfa ora tutti i criteri di certificazione per la sua inclusione in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Questo aggiornamento applica diversi miglioramenti dell'upstream e bug fix per rpm, incluso:
  • rpm non genera più file .rpmnew e .rpmsave non necessari su sistemi con architetture multiple.
  • Un bug nella funzione rpmgiNext() di rpm impediva il riporto corretto degli errori. Questo aggiornamento applica le semantiche corrette per il riporto dell'errore, assicurando quindi un ritorno da parte di rpm, di un codice di uscita corretto in tutte le istanze.
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) / opensm
opensm è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream 3.2, incluso una modifica minore alle API della libreria opensm.
  • Il formato del file opensm.conf è stato modificato. Se avete eseguito una modifica personalizzata sul vostro opensm.conf, rpm installerà automaticamente il nuovo file opensm.conf come /etc/ofed/opensm.conf.rpmnew. A tal proposito sarà necessario migrare le modifiche apportate al file, e sostituire il file opensm.conf esistente con il risultato ottenuto.
  • Red Hat controlla attentamente la base del codice Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) dell'upstream, in modo da fornire un livello elevato di permessi per questa tecnologia in evoluzione. Di conseguenza Red Hat potrà solo conservare la compatibilità API/ABI tra versioni minori allo stesso modo dell'upstream. Ciò risulta essere una eccezione della prassi usata nello sviluppo di Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    Per questo motivo le applicazioni compilate al di sopra dello stack OFED (di seguito elencato), potrebbero richiedere una ricompilazione oppure una modifica del codice del livello-sorgente durante la migrazione da una versione minore di Red Hat Enterprise Linux ad una versione più recente.
    Questo processo generalmente non è necessario per altre applicazioni compilate sul Red Hat Enterprise Linux software stack. I componenti interessati sono:
    • dapl
    • compat-dapl
    • ibsim
    • ibutils
    • infiniband-diags
    • libcxgb3
    • libehca
    • libibcm
    • libibcommon
    • libibmad
    • libibumad
    • libibverbs
    • libipathverbs
    • libmlx4
    • libmthca
    • libnes
    • librmdacm
    • libsdp
    • mpi-selector
    • mpitests
    • mstflint
    • mvapich
    • mvapich2
    • ofed-docs
    • openib
    • openib-mstflint
    • openib-perftest
    • openib-tvflash
    • openmpi
    • opensm
    • perftest
    • qlvnictools
    • qperf
    • rds-tools (future)
    • srptools
    • tvflash
Aggiornamento di Net-SNMP
Net-SNMP has been re-based to upstream version 5.3.2.2. This update adds Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) support (as per RFC 3873, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3873.txt) and introduces two new configuration options (to be used in /etc/snmpd.conf):
  • dontLogTCPWrappersConnects — sopprime il login dei tentativi di collegamento.
  • v1trapaddress — enables administrators to set an agent's IP address inside outgoing SNMP traps.
Questo aggiornamento applica anche numerosi miglioramenti provenienti dall'upstream, incluso:
  • Il demone snmpd ora funziona correttamente sui sistemi con più di 255 interfacce di rete. In aggiunta, snmpd riporta anche un errore se configurato in modo da essere in ascolto su qualsiasi porta maggiore di 65535.
  • È stata corretta una condizione di corse critiche che causava la perdita dei descrittori del file da parte del demone snmpd, durante la lettura da /proc.
  • Il demone snmpd ora riporta correttamente gli hrProcessorLoad object ID (OID), anche su hardware con CPU multiple. Da notare tuttavia che sarà necessario attendere un minuto dall'avvio del demone, per calcolare il valore dell'OID.
  • Il pacchetto net-snmp-devel è ora dipendente dal pacchetto lm_sensors-devel.
Aggiornamento di OpenSSL per la certificazione FIPS
I pacchetti openssl aggiornano la libreria OpenSSL ad una versione nuova dell'upstream, la quale è attualmente sottoposta ad un proceso di convalida del Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS-140-2). La modalità FIPS è disabilitata per impostazione predefinita per assicurare il mantenimento, da parte della libreria OpenSSL, delle caratteristiche e della compatibilità ABI con le versioni precedenti dei pacchetti openssl in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Questo aggiornamento applica le seguenti correzioni dell'upstream:
  • Per default la compressione zlib viene usata per i collegamenti SSL e TLS. Su architetture IBM System z con il Central Processor Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF), il processo di compressione è diventato la parte principale (e non la velocità di cifratura). Quando la compressione risulta disabilitata, la prestazione totale è molto più elevata. In questi pacchetti aggiornati, la compressione zlib per i collegamenti SSL e TLS, può essere disabilitata con la variabile dell'ambiente OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB. Per collegamenti TLS su di una rete molto lenta è consigliato abilitare la compressione, in questo modo la quantità di dati da trasferire è più bassa.
  • Quando si utilizzava il comando openssl con le opzioni s_client e s_server, il file dei certificati CA predefiniti (/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt), non veniva letto. Tale tendenza risultava in un fallimento della verifica dei certificati. Per la verifica dei certificati era necessario utilizzare l'opzione -CAfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt. Con i pacchetti aggiornati il file dei certificati CA predefinito viene letto senza alcun problema, senza specificare l'opzione -CAfile.
Aggiornamento di yum
yum è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream 3.2.18. Questo aggiornamento migliora la velocità alla quale yum opera, alleviando quindi il problema posto dal crescente numero di pacchetti inclusi con ogni release minore. In aggiunta, questo aggiornamento introduce anche il comando reinstall, migliora l'interfaccia di diversi comandi ed applica numerosi bug fix incluso:
  • Qualsiasi comando di yum fallisce se l'opzione -c è stata usata per specificare un file di configurazione che risiede in un indirizzo web (http). Questo bug è stato ora corretto.
  • Una funzione checkSignal() in yum richiamava una funzione d'uscita incorretta; per questo, l'uscita da yum risultava in un messaggio di traceback. Con questa release yum esegue l'abbandono in modo corretto.
Aggiornamento del flash-plugin
Il pacchetto flash-plugin è stato aggiornato alla versione 10.0.12.36. Il suddetto aggiornamento applica numerose correzioni relative alla sicurezza incluse nel precedente aggiornamento ASYNC flash-plugin. Altresì, il suddetto plugin contiene anche Adobe Flash Player 10, il quale include i seguenti bug fix e miglioramenti:
  • Stabilità migliorata sulla piattaforma Linux attraverso la correzione di una corsa critica nell'output sonoro.
  • Nuovo supporto per i filtri personalizzati ed effeti, trasformazione 3D nativa e animazione, processazione audio avanzata ed un nuovo e più flessibile motore di testo e accelerazione hardware GPU.
Per maggiori informazioni su questo aggiornamento consultare le note di rilascio di Adobe Flash Player 10 al seguente link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/10/Flash_Player_10_Release_Notes.pdf
Aggiornamento di gdb
gdb è stato aggiornato alla versione 6.8. La nuova versione applica diversi aggiornamenti e bug fix, ed in particolare: un supporto per i breakpoint all'interno dei template C++, costruttori e funzioni inline.
For more information on gdb updates applied in this release, refer to http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/NEWS?rev=1.259.2.1&cvsroot=src.
Instruction Based Sampling sui processori AMD Family10h
È stato aggiunto un nuovo supporto dell'hardware profiling per i processori AMD Family10h con Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. I nuovi AMD CPU supportano l'Instruction Based Sampling (IBS). Il supporto IBS necessita di modifiche al driver oProfile per ottenere informazioni ed inizializzare i nuovi Model Specific Registers (MSR) associati con queste nuove caratteristiche.
Questo aggiornamento aggiunge i nuovi esempi di profiling IBS_FETCH e IBS_OP ai buffer CPU, e gli event buffer del driver oProfile. Sono state aggiunte altresì nuove voci su /dev/oprofile per il controllo dell'IBS sampling. Queste modifiche sono compatibili con le versioni precedenti di PMC del driver, ed un patch separato è disponibile per oProfile 0.9.3, per l'utilizzo dei nuovi dati.
Per maggiori informazioni su IBS consultare: Instruction-Based Sampling: Nuova tecnica per l'analisi delle prestazioni per i processori AMD Family 10h, 19 Novembre 2007
Aggiornamento di Squid
Squid è stato modificato alla ultimissima versione upstream stabile (STABLE21). Questo aggiornamento risolve diversi bug, incluso:
  • Lo script squid init ritornava sempre incorrettamente un codice d'uscita 0. Questo bug è stato corretto, ed ora rende squid conforme al Linux Standard Base.
  • L'utilizzo della direttiva refresh_stale_hit genera un messaggio d'errore Clock going backwards nel file di log squid.
  • Il processo d'installazione di squid non impostava correttamente l'ownership della directory /usr/local/squid. Con questa release l'utente di squid è ora il possessore predefinito di /usr/local/squid.
  • Ogni qualvolta squid tenta di utilizzare la funzione hash_lookup(), esso potrebbe abortire il processo generando un messaggio signal 6.
  • L'utilizzo di squid_unix_group potrebbe causare un arresto inaspettato di squid.
Event Multi-Processing Model in Apache
httpd, il pacchetto Apache HTTP Server ora include l'evento sperimentale Multi-Processing Model (MPM). Questo MPM migliora le prestazioni attraverso l'utilizzo di thread appositi per la gestione dei collegamenti keepalive.
Aggiornamento di libgomp
libgomp è stato aggiornato alla versione 4.3.2-7.el5. La nuova versione migliora le prestazioni di OpenMP ed aggiunge supporto per la versione 3.0 di OpenMP se usato con il compilatore gcc43.
iSCSI target capability
La iSCSI target capability presente come parte del framework Linux Target (tgt), da Technology Preview è ora completamente supportata con Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. Il linux target framework permette ad un sistema di servire un block-level SCSI storage ad altri sistemi che presentano un inizializzatore SCSI. Questa capacità è stata inizialmente implementata come un Linux iSCSI target, rendendo disponibile lo storage attraverso la rete a qualsiasi inizializzatore iSCSI.
Per impostare iSCSI target, installare l'RPM scsi-target-utils e consultare le istruzioni presenti in: /usr/share/doc/scsi-target-utils-[version]/README and /usr/share/doc/scsi-target-utils-[version]/README.iscsi

4. Driver Updates

4.1. All Architectures

General Driver/Platform Updates

  • Il driver Intel High Definition Audio in ALSA è stato aggiornato.
  • È stato aggiornato il supporto audio High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) su chipset integrati AMD ATI.
  • Le seguenti tabelle grafiche Wacom sono ora supportate attraverso i driver linuxwacom:
    • Cintiq 20WSX
    • Intuos3 4x6
  • il driver lpfc per gli Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter è stato aggiornato alla versione 8.2.0.33.2p. Questo aggiornamento applica numerose modifiche dell'upstream, ed in particolare:
    • viene ora usato il socket NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT
    • Risolto l'accesso al nodo non inizializzato.
    • corretto un bug che causava il fallimento di echotest quando NPIV risultava abilitato.
    • fcauthd 1.19 è ora necessario per l'autenticazione del fibre channel.
  • dm-multipath ora presenta il supporto inbox per IBM DS4000.
  • Il driver ixgbe ora supporta l'adattatore dual-port 82598AT e l'adattatore 82598 CX4.
  • il driver jsm è stato aggiornato in modo da aggiungere un supporto per gli adattatori I/O Digi Neo PCI Express 4 HiProfile.
  • hp-ilo: aggiunto il driver, viene fornito così un supporto per la tecnologia HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO).
  • In questa release viene ora completamente supportato il driver radeon_tp. Il suddetto driver abilita i chipset ATI R500/R600.
    Questo driver presenta anche le seguenti capacità:
    • Modesetting su chipset R500/R600
    • Accelerazione 2D su chipset R500
    • Accelerazione shadow framebuffer su chipset R600
  • Il driver powernow-k8 è ora incluso in questa release come modulo caricabile. Ciò assicura che i framework esistenti del driver (come ad esempio il Red Hat Driver Update Model e Dell DKMS) siano in grado di garantire gli aggiornamenti del driver powernow-k8 agli utenti,come pacchetti RPM, senza la necessita di aggiornare il kernel.
  • Per questa release Red Hat aggiunge nuovamente pnm2ppa per un supporto delle stampanti legacy. Da notare tuttavia che questo supporto è deprecato e verrà interrotto nelle versioni future più importanti.
  • Il driver ccid è stato modificato per supportare le tastiere smartcard USB.
  • i driver uvcvideo per il dispositivo video USB sono stati aggiunti al kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

Network

  • Il driver bnx2 per le schede di rete Broadcom NetXtreme II è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.7.9. Questo aggiornamento corregge le opzioni dell'thernet ring buffer sui controllori che utilizzano bnx2, correggendo così un bug che causava il panic del sistema al momento dell'avvio.
  • Il driver e1000e per i dispositivi ethernet Intel PRO/1000 è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream 0.3.3.3-k2. Con questo aggiornamento, l'EEPROM e NVM dei dispositivi supportati sono ora protetti dai processi di scrittura.
  • igb: il driver per Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.2.45-k2, aggiungendo il supporto per i dispositivi basati su 82576.
  • il driver ixgbe per i dispositivi di rete Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.3.18-k4.
  • il driver niu è stato aggiunto al Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, aggiungendo così il supporto per i dispositivi ethernet 10Gbps sui sistemi Sun CP3220.
  • i driver ipw2100 e ipw2200 per i dispositivi wireless Intel PRO sono stati modificati e trasferiti su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
  • il driver bcm43xx per i dispositivi wireless Broadcom è stato modificato e trasferito su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
  • il componente per il supporto ieee80211 per i dispositivi wireless è stato modificato e trasferito su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
  • il driver zd1211rw per i dispositivi Wireless ZyDas è stato aggiornato in modo da corrispondere all'ultima versione non-mac80211 appena precedente a Linux 2.6.25.
  • i driver iwlwifi sono stati aggiornati dalla versione 2.6.26, con una aggiunta del supporto 802.11n ai dispositivi wireless iwl4965. Sono stati incorporati nel driver backported numerosi bug fix inclusi nelle versioni post-2.6.26 del driver.
  • il driver myri10ge per i dispositivi Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.3.2-1.269.
  • il driver netxen per le schede di rete NetXen è stato aggiornato alla versione 3.4.18.
  • Il driver bnx2 per i dispositivi di rete Broadcom Everest è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.45.23, aggiungendo così il supporto per l'hardware 57711.
  • il driver forcedeth-msi è stato aggiornato per correggere un bug che impediva il rilevamento corretto del link.
  • il driver ath5k per i dispositivi wireless Atheros è stato modificato e trasferito su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.26.
  • il driver rt2x00 per i dispositivi wireless Ralink è stato modificato e trasferito su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.26.
  • i driver rtl8180 e rtl8187 per i dispositivi wireless Realtek sono stati modificati e trasferiti su Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.26.

Storage

  • 3w-xxxx: driver per Controllori 3ware SATA RAID aggiornato alla versione 1.26.03. Ciò implementa diverse modifiche upstream, in particolare:
    • Corretto un bug che causava la corruzione dei dati durante l'utilizzo della scheda serie 3ware 7000 o 8000 in un sistema con una RAM maggiore di 2GB.
    • Anaconda non viene più sospeso sulle architetture a 64-bit durante l'utilizzo della scheda serie 3ware 8006 in un sistema con una RAM maggiore di 4GB.
    • Il gestore irq viene ora liberato quando __tw_shutdown() è inizializzato. Tale processo impedisce uno stato di null pointer de-reference se è stata condivisa una interruzione durante il processo di spegnimento.
    • RCD bit per la pagina caching mode è ora abilitato.
    • I resettaggi ioctl e scsi sono ora seriali e non sono più in contrasto tra loro.
  • 3w-9xxx: il driver per i 3ware SATA RAID Controller aggiornato alla versione 2.26.08. Questo aggiornamento implementa numerose modifiche dell'upstream, in particolare:
    • pci_unmap_single() chiama ora correttamente le funzioni sui sistemi con una RAM maggiore di 4GB
    • Corretto un bug che causava prestazioni lente di scrittura.
    • L'impostazione della maschera DMA torna su32-bit se fallisce quella a 64-bit.
    • Supporto aggiunto per il 3ware 9690SA SAS Controller Device.
  • megaraid_sas: driver aggiornato alla versione 4.01-rh1. Questo aggiornamento implementa numerose modifiche, in particolare:
    • MFI_POLL_TIMEOUT_SECS è ora 60 secondi.
    • Corretto un bug che causava continui resettaggi del chip e timeout del comando a causa del calcolo del conteggio dei fotogrammi.
    • Aggiunto il supporto per i Controllori LSI Generation 2 (0078, 0079).
    • Aggiunto un comando per l'arresto di DCMD nella routine di shutdown per migliorare l'arresto del firmware.
    • Corretto un bug che causava interruzioni inaspettate nel driver hardware di Linux.
  • è stato aggiornato il driver qla2xxx per i QLogic Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter, aggiungendo così il supporto per le schede di tipo ISP84XX.
  • i driver ibmvscsi per l'emulazione dei dispositivi virtual SCSI (vSCSI) è stato aggiornato, fornendo così un supporto per i dispositivi a nastro virtualizzati.
  • lpfc: driver aggiornato alla versione 8.2.0.30. Questo aggiornamento implementa numerosi bug fix e miglioramenti, in particolare:
    • Un Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) migliorato per gli adattatori PCI su architetture PowerPC
    • Aumentato il numero di porte virtuali NPIV supportate
    • Driver logic migliorato per il controllo della profondità delle code I/O
    • Aggiunto il supporto per gli adattatori Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
    • È ora supportato l'avvio da SAN per nuovi hardware
  • il driver cciss per i controllori HP Smart Array è stato aggiornato alla versione 3.6.20-RH2.

6. Virtualization

This section contains information about updates made to Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite of Virtualization tools.

6.1. Feature Updates

  • Il toolkit dello spazio utente blktap (blocktap) è stato aggiornato in modo da fornire la funzionalità di controllo delle statistiche di trasferimento dei blktap backed virtualized guest.
  • È stato aggiunto il supporto per la caratteristica Intel Extended Page Table (EPT), migliorando così le prestazioni di guest completamente virtualizzati su hardware che supporta EPT.
  • Con questo aggiornamento è stato aggiunto l'emulazione del dispositivo di rete e1000 per i guest, con il solo supporto dei guest Windows 2003 su architetture ia64. Per utilizzare l'emulazione e1000 è necessario usare il comando xm.
  • I driver per virtio, la piattaforma per la virtualizzazione I/O in KVM, sono stati modificati ed aggiornati a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 da Linux Kernel 2.6.27. I suddetti driver permetteranno ai guest KVM di ottenere livelli di prestazione I/O più elevati. Diversi componenti dello spazio utente come ad esempio: anaconda, kudzu, lvm, selinux e mkinitrd sono stati aggiornati per supportare i dispositivi virtio.
  • Il kernel nativo di Linux supporta vmcoreinfo automaticamente, ma per impostare kdump sui domini dom0 era necessario il pacchetto kernel-xen-debuginfo. Con questa release il kernel e l'ipervisore sono stati modificati ed ora supportano la lettura e la scrittura di kdump in modo nativo da parte di vmcoreinfo. Gli utenti che desiderano utilizzare kdump per debugging o altri processi investigativi sui domini dom0, possono espletare tali funzioni senza installare i pacchetti debuginfo o debuginfo-common.
  • Gli ospiti Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 completamente virtualizzati andavano incontro ad una prestazione substandard durante l'utilizzo di dispositivi di disco e rete emulati. In questo aggiornamento, è stato incluso il pacchetto kmod-xenpv per semplificare l'uso dei dischi e delle reti paravirtualizzati negli ospiti completamente virtualizzati.
    L'uso di questi driver negli ospiti completamente virtualizzati può migliorare significativamente le prestazioni e la funzionalità degli ospiti completamente virtualizzati. Le correzioni dei bug effettuate per driver netfront e block front vengono immediatamente realizzate e sincronizzate con il pacchetto kernel.
  • Ora gli ospiti hanno la possibilità di utilizzare le tabelle di memoria della pagina di supporto 2MB, che migliora le prestazioni del sistema.

6.2. Resolved Issues

6.2.1. All Architectures

  • Lo spegnimento di un guest paravirtualizzato poteva causare la sospensione di dom0 per un determinato periodo di tempo. Ritardi di diversi secondi erano previsti con guest con una quantità di memoria molto grande (es. 12GB o maggiore). Con questo aggiornamento il kernel virtualizzato permette di eseguire un arresto 'pre-emptible' di un guest paravirtualizzato molto grande risolvendo così questo problema.
  • crash was unable to read the relocation address of the hypervisor from a vmcore file. Consequently, opening a Virtualized kernel vmcore file with crash would fail, resulting in the error: 
    crash: cannot resolve "idle_pg_table_4"
    In this update, the hypervisor now saves the address correctly, which resolves this issue.
  • Precedentemente i guest paravirtualizzati potevano avere solo un massimo di 16 dispositivi a disco. Con questo aggiornamento il limite è stato aumentato fino ad un massimo di 256 dispositivi.
  • La memoria riservata per il kernel kdump era incorretta causando crash dump non utilizzabili. Con questo aggiornamento la prenotazione della memoria è ora corretta, permettendo così una generazione corretta dei crash dump.
  • Il collegamento di un disco con un nome specifico (es. /dev/xvdaa, /dev/xvdab, /dev/xvdbc ecc.) ad un guest paravirtualizzato, risultava in un dispositivo /dev corrotto all'interno del guest. Questo aggiornamento risolve il suddetto problema, ora il collegamento ai dischi con i nomi ad un guest paravirtualizzato crea il dispositivo /dev corretto all'interno del guest.
  • Precedentemente il numero di dispositivi loopback era limitato a 4. Di conseguenza questo limitava la possibilità di creare bridge sui sistemi con più di 4 interfacce di rete. Con questo aggiornamento il driver netloop ora è in grado di creare dispositivi di loopback aggiuntivi in base alla necessità.
  • Era possibile il verificarsi di corse critiche durante la creazione e la distruzione dei dispositivi di rete virtuali. In alcuni casi — ed in modo particolare in situazioni di carico elevato — questo poteva causare l'assenza di risposta da parte del dispositivo virtuale. Con questo aggiornamento lo stato del dispositivo virtuale viene controllato in modo da evitare qualsiasi condizione di corsa critica.
  • è possibile avere una perdita di memoria in virt-manager se l'applicazione è stata lasciata in esecuzione. Così facendo l'applicazione consumerebbe in modo costante più risorse con un conseguente stato di memory starvation. Con questo aggiornamento la perdita di memoria è stata corretta risolvendo così questo problema.
  • the crash utility could not analyze x86_64 vmcores from systems running kernel-xen because the Red Hat Enterprise Linux hypervisor was relocatable and the relocated physical base address is not passed in the vmcore file's ELF header. The new --xen_phys_start command line option for the crash utility allows the user to pass crash the relocated base physical address.
  • Non tutti gli eventi del mouse venivano catturati e processati dal Paravirtual Frame Buffer (PVFB). In questa situazione la rotella di scorrimento non funzionava durante l'interazione con un guest paravirtualizzato con la Virtual Machine Console. Con questo aggiornamento gli eventi della rotella di scorrimento vengono gestiti correttamente risolvendo così questo problema.
  • L'utilizzo della virtualizzazione su di una macchina con un numero molto grande di CPU poteva causare l'arresto inaspettato dell'ipervisore durante l'installazione del guest. Con questo aggiornamento la suddetta problematica è stata risolta.
  • Sui processori Intel che restituiscono un valore famiglia CPUID di 6, solo un registro del contatore di prestazione è stato abilitato in kernel-xen. Di conseguenza, solo il contatore 0 ha fornito campioni. In questo aggiornamento, questo problema è stato risolto.

6.2.2. x86 Architectures

  • On systems with newer CPU's, the CPU APIC ID differs from the CPU ID. Consequently, the virtualized kernel was unable to initialize CPU frequency scaling. In this update, the virtualized kernel now retrieves CPU APIC ID from the hypervisor, allowing CPU frequency scaling to be initialized properly.
  • Durante l'esecuzione di un guest paravirtualizzato x86, se un processo era in grado di accedere una memoria invalida esso entrava in uno stato di loop invece di ottenere un segnale SEGV. Tale comportamento causava un errore durante i controlli execshield con l'ipervisore. Con questo aggiornamento il suddetto problema è stato risolto.

6.2.3. ia64 Architecture

  • A xend bug that previously caused guest installation failures is now fixed.
  • il dispositivo canale evento evtchn mancava di blocchi e barriere di memoria. Questo portava a una mancanza di riposta da xenstore . In questo aggiornamento, questo problema è stato risolto.
  • Le informazioni Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) non venivano mostrate dal comando xm info. Di conseguenza il valore node_to_cpu per ogni nodo veniva ritornato incorrettamente come no cpus. In questo aggiornamento la suddetta problematica viene risolta.
  • In precedenza, la creazione di un ospite sulla Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) falliva sui processori con tecnologia VT-i2 in dotazione. In questo aggiornamento, questo problema è stato risolto.

6.2.4. x86_64 Architectures

  • Quando i Dynamic IRQ disponibili per le macchine virtuali del guest venivano terminati, il kernel dom0 poteva arrestarsi inaspettatamente. Con questo aggiornamento la condizione di crash è stata corretta, ed il numero di IRQ disponibili è stato aumentato risolvendo così il problema.
  • On systems with newer CPU's, the CPU APIC ID differs from the CPU ID. Consequently, the virtualized kernel was unable to initialize CPU frequency scaling. In this update, the virtualized kernel now retrieves CPU APIC ID from the hypervisor, allowing CPU frequency scaling to be initialized properly.

6.3. Known Issues

6.3.1. All Architectures

  • Il media dell'unità disco non risulterà accessibile se si utilizza il kernel virtualizzato. Per risolvere questo problema utilizzare invece una unità disco collegata alla porta USB.
    Da notare che il media dell'unità disco funziona bene con altri kernel non virtualizzati.
  • In live migrations of paravirtualized guests, time-dependent guest processes may function improperly if the corresponding hosts' (dom0) times are not synchronized. Use NTP to synchronize system times for all corresponding hosts before migration.
  • La ripetuta migrazione live dei guest paravirtualizzati tra due host potrebbe causare il panic di un host. Se riavviate un host dopo la migrazione del guest fuori dal sistema, e prima di reintegrarlo al suo interno, potrete evitare il virificarsi di tale errore.
  • La formattazione di un disco durante l'esecuzione di Windows 2008 o Windows Vista come guest, potrebbe arrestarsi inaspettatamente quando il guest è stato avviato con CPU virtuali multiple. Per risolvere questo problema avviare il guest con una CPU virtuale singola durante la formattazione.
  • I guest completamente virtualizzati creati attraverso virt-manager, potrebbero impedire talvolta il movimento libero del mouse sulla schermata. Per risolvere questo problema utilizzare virt-manager per configurare un dispositivo USB per il guest.
  • Il numero di CPU massimo deve essere minore di 128 su sistemi con 128 o più CPU. Il numero massimo supportato è di 126. A tale scopo utilizzare l'argomento dell'ipervisore maxcpus=125 per limitare l'Ipervisore a 126
  • Gli ospiti pienamente virtualizzati non possono recuperare il tempo perduto a causa della messa in pausa e successiva ripresa del dominio. Riuscire a monitorare correttamente il tempo durante gli eventi di messa in pausa e di ripresa è uno dei vantaggi dei kernel paravirtualizzati. Si sta affrontando il problema a monte con timer sostituibili, pertanto gli ospiti virtualizzati disporranno di timer paravirtualizzati. Al momento, questo codice è in via di sviluppo a monte e dovrebbe essere disponibile in versioni successive di Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • La migrazione ripetuta degli ospiti paravirtualizzati può risultare in messaggi bad mpa sulla console dom0 . In alcuni casi, anche l'hypervisor potrebbe panicare.
    Per impedire il panico del kernel di un hypervisor, riavviare gli ospiti migrati una volta comparsi i messaggi bad mpa.
  • Durante l'impostazione dell'interface bonding su dom0, lo script predefinito network-bridge poteva causare lo smistamento alternato su unavailable e available da parte delle interfacce interessate. Tale comportamento è comunemente conosciuto come flapping.
    Per evitare questo tipo di comportamento sostituire la riga standard network-script in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp con la seguente: 
    			
(network-script network-bridge-bonding netdev=bond0)
    Così facendo verrà disabilitato il dispositivo netloop, impedendo una condizione d'errore dell'Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) monitoring durante il processo di trasferimento dell'indirizzo.
  • When running multiple guest domains, guest networking may temporarily stop working, resulting in the following error being reported in the dom0 logs: 
    Memory squeeze in netback driver
    To work around this, raise the amount of memory available to the dom0 with the dom0_mem hypervisor command line option.

6.3.2. x86 Architectures

  • Migrating paravirtualized guests through xm migrate [domain] [dom0 IP address] does not work.
  • When installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on a fully virtualized SMP guest, the installation may freeze. This can occur when the host (dom0) is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.
    Per evitare questo tipo di comportamento impostate il guest per l'utilizzo di un processore singolo utilizzando il processo d'installazione. Per fare ciò utilizzate l'opzione --vcpus=1 in virt-install. Una volta completato il processo d'installazione potrete impostare il guest su SMP, modificando vcpus in virt-manager.

6.3.3. x86_64 Architectures

  • Migrating paravirtualized guests through xm migrate [domain] [dom0 IP address] does not work.
  • Installing the Virtualization feature may cause a time went backwards warning on HP systems with model numbers xw9300 and xw9400.
    Per risolvere questo problema sulle macchine xw9400, configurate le impostazioni del BIOS in modo da abilitare il timer HPET. Da notare che questa opzione non è disponibile su macchine xw9300.
  • Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.9 on a fully virtualized guest may be extremely slow. In addition, booting up the guest after installation may result in hda: lost interrupt errors.
    Per evitare questo errore configurate il guest in modo da utilizzare il kernel SMP.
  • Upgrading a host (dom0) system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 may render existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 SMP paravirtualized guests unbootable. This is more likely to occur when the host system has more than 4GB of RAM.
    Per risolvere questo problema, avviate ogni guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 in modalità CPU singola, e aggiornate il rispettivo kernel all'ultimissima versione (per Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5.z).

6.3.4. ia64 Architecture

  • Migrating paravirtualized guests through xm migrate [domain] [dom0 IP address] does not work.
  • On some Itanium systems configured for console output to VGA, the dom0 virtualized kernel may fail to boot. This is because the virtualized kernel failed to properly detect the default console device from the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) settings.
    Quando si verifica tale comportamento, aggiungete il parametro d'avvio console=tty alle opzioni d'avvio del kernel in /boot/efi/elilo.conf.
  • On some Itanium systems (such as the Hitachi Cold Fusion 3e), the serial port cannot be detected in dom0 when VGA is enabled by the EFI Maintenance Manager. As such, you need to supply the following serial port information to the dom0 kernel:
    • Velocità in bit/secondi
    • Numero di bit dei dati
    • Parità
    • indirizzo io_base
    Queste informazioni devono essere specificate nella riga append= del kernel dom0 in /boot/efi/elilo.conf. Per esempio:
    append="com1=19200,8n1,0x3f8 -- quiet rhgb console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8"
    In questo esempio com1 è la porta seriale, 19200 è la velocità (in bit/secondi), 8n1 specifica il numero delle impostazioni bit/parità dei dati, e 0x3f8 è l'indirizzo io_base.
  • Virtualization does not work on some architectures that use Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). As such, installing the virtualized kernel on systems that use NUMA will result in a boot failure.
    Alcuni numeri d'installazione installano il kernel virtualizzato per default. Se siete in possesso di uno dei suddetti numeri e se il vostro sistema utilizza NUMA e non funziona con kernel-xen, deselezionate l'opzione di Virtualizzazione durante il processo di installazione.
  • Currently, live migration of fully virtualized guests is not supported on this architecture. In addition, kexec and kdump are also not supported for virtualization on this architecture.

7. Technology Previews

Technology Preview features are currently not supported under Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription services, may not be functionally complete, and are generally not suitable for production use. However, these features are included as a customer convenience and to provide the feature with wider exposure.
Customers may find these features useful in a non-production environment. Customers are also free to provide feedback and functionality suggestions for a Technology Preview feature before it becomes fully supported. Erratas will be provided for high-severity security issues.
During the development of a Technology Preview feature, additional components may become available to the public for testing. It is the intention of Red Hat to fully support Technology Preview features in a future release.
Modalità ALUA su EMC Clariion
La modalità Explicit active-passive failover (ALUA) che utilizza dm-multipath sullo storage EMC Clariion è ora disponibile. Questa modalità è fornita come specifiche per T10, ma risulta essere una technology preview in questa release.
For more information about T10, refer to http://www.t10.org.
ext4
L'ultimissima generazione di filesystem ext, ext4, è disponibile in questa release come Technology Preview. Ext4 è un miglioramento del filesystem ext3 sviluppato da Red Hat e dalla comunità di Linux. Il nome della release del file system per la Technology Preview è ext4dev.
Il file system viene fornito dal modulo del kernel ext4dev.ko, insieme al nuovo pacchetto e4fsprogs, il quale contiene le versioni aggiornate dei tool di amministrazione e2fsprogs per l'utilizzo con ext4. Per l'utilizzo installare e4fsprogs e successivamente usare i comandi come ad esempio mkfs.ext4dev dal programma e4fsprogs, per creare un file system basato su ext4. Se si riferisce ad un filesystem su di una lina di comando mount o file fstab, usare il nome del filesystem ext4dev.
FreeIPMI
È stato incluso FreeIPMI in questo aggiornamento come Technology Preview. FreeIPMI rappresenta una raccolta di software del sistema Intelligent Platform Management IPMI. Esso fornisce software in-band e out-of-band, insieme ad una libreria di sviluppo conforme agli standard di Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI v1.5 e v2.0).
For more information about FreeIPMI, refer to http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/
Tool tmp e TrouSerS
TrouSerS e tpm-tools sono inclusi in questa release in modo da permettere l'utilizzo di hardware Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Le caratteristiche dell'hardware TPM includono anche:
  • Creazione, storage ed utilizzo sicuro di chiavi RSA (senza essere esposti in memoria)
  • Verifica dello stato software di una piattaforma utilizzando i cancelletti crittografici
TrouSerS è una implementazione della specifica Software Stack (TSS) del Trusted Computing Group. È possibile utilizzare TrouSerS per scrivere applicazioni che utilizzano hardware TPM. tpm-tools è una suite di tool usati per gestire e utilizzare hardware TPM.
For more information about TrouSerS, refer to http://trousers.sourceforge.net/.
eCryptfs
eCryptfs è un file system crittografico in pila per Linux. Esso viene montato su directory individuali come file system EXT3; per poter utilizzare eCryptfs non vi è alcuna necessità di modificare le partizioni esistenti o i file system.
Con questa release eCryptfs è stato aggiornato alla versione 56 dell'upstream la quale fornisce diversi bug fix e miglioramenti. In aggiunta, questo aggiornamento fornisce un programma grafico per assistere alla configurazione di eCryptfs (ecryptfs-mount-helper-gui).
Il suddetto aggiornamento modifica anche la sintassi di alcune opzioni di montaggio di eCryptfs. Se si desidera eseguire un aggiornamento a questa versione di eCryptfs, aggiornare qualsiasi script di montaggio interessato insieme alle voci di /etc/fstab. Per maggiori informazioni sulle modifiche consultare la man ecryptfs.
A questa release di eCryptfs valgono i seguenti avvertimenti:
  • Da notare che il file system eCryptfs funzionerà correttamente solo se il file system cifrato è stato montato una sola volta sulla directory sottostante dello stesso nome. Per esempio: 
    mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/secret /mnt/secret
    La sezione sicura del file system non dovrebbe essere esposta, es. non dovrebbe essere montata su altri mount point, bind mount e simili.
  • I montaggi di eCryptfs su file system presenti sulla rete (es. NFS, Samba) non funzionerà correttamente.
  • Questa versione del driver del kernel eCryptfs necessita di uno spazio utente aggiornato il quale è fornito da ecryptfs-utils-56-4.el5 o versioni più recenti.
For more information about eCryptfs, refer to http://ecryptfs.sf.net. You can also refer to http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/README and http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/ecryptfs-faq.html for basic setup information.
Stateless Linux
Stateless Linux rappresenta una nuova concezione su come eseguire e gestire un sistema, ideato per semplificare il provisioning e la gestione di un numero esteso di sistemi tramite una loro semplice sostituzione. È possibile eseguire tale procedimento creando alcune immagini del sistema pronte all'uso, le quali verranno replicate e gestite attraverso un numero esteso di sistemi stateless, in grado di eseguire il sistema operativo in modalità di sola lettura (per maggiori informazioni consultate /etc/sysconfig/readonly-root).
Nel suo stato attuale di sviluppo le caratteristiche Stateless rappresentano i sottoinsiemi degli obiettivi desiderati. Per questo, esse sono state denominate Technology Preview.
Red Hat consiglia vivamente a coloro che desiderano testare il codice stateless, di leggere HOWTO su http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux/HOWTO e registrarsi su stateless-list@redhat.com.
L'infrastruttura necessaria per abilitare lo Stateless Linux è stata introdotta originariamente in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
AIGLX
AIGLX è una Technology Preview del server X supportato. La sua funzione è quella di abilitare gli effetti GL-accelerati su di un desktop standard. Il progetto consiste in:
  • Un server X leggermente modificato.
  • Un pacchetto Mesa aggiornato in grado di aggiungere un nuovo supporto del protocollo.
Installando questi componenti è possibile ottenere effetti GL-accelerati sul vostro desktop con poche modifiche, abilitandoli e disabilitandoli a vostro piacimento senza sostituire il vostro server X. AIGLX abilita altresì applicazioni GLX remote, in modo da trarre vantaggio dall'accelerazione GLX hardware.
FireWire
Il modulo firewire-sbp2 è inlcuso in questo aggiornamento come Technology Preview. Questo modulo permette il collegamento con scanner e dispositivi di storage FireWire.
Al momento FireWire non supporta:
  • IPv4
  • controllori host pcilynx
  • dispositivi di storage multi-LUN
  • accesso non-esclusivo ai dispositivi di storage
In aggiunta, le seguenti problematiche sono ancora presenti in FireWire:
  • una perdita di memoria nel driver SBP2 potrebbe causare la mancanza di reattività della macchina.
  • un codice presente in questa versione non funziona correttamente in macchine big-endian. In questo caso potrebbe verificarsi un comportamento inaspettato in PowerPC.
ktune
Questa release include ktune (dal pacchetto ktune), un servizio che imposta diversi parametri di regolazione del kernel su valori adatti per profili specifici del sistema. Attualmente ktune fornisce solo un profilo per sistemi con memoria molto grande i quali eseguono applicazioni network-intensive e disk-intensive.
Le impostazioni fornite da ktune non annullano quelle impostate su /etc/sysctl.conf o attraverso la linea di comando del kernel. ktune potrebbe non essere adatto su alcuni sistemi e carichi di lavoro; per questo motivo è consigliato eseguire un test completo prima d'impiegarlo in ambienti di produzione.
È possibile disabilitare qualsiasi configurazione impostata da ktune e adottare nuovamente le impostazioni normali, attraverso l'arresto del servizio ktune utilizzando service ktune stop (come utente root).
Supporto SGPIO per dmraid
Serial General Purpose Input Output (SGPIO) è un metodo di comunicazione standard del settore usato tra la mainboard ed una varietà di allegati hard disk drive bay esterni ed interni. È possibile usare questo metodo per controllare le luci LED in un allegato attraverso l'interfaccia del driver AHCI.
In questa release il supporto SGPIO in dmraid è stato incluso come una technology preview. Ciò permetterà a dmraid di funzionare correttamente con gli allegati del disco.
GCC 4.3
La Collezione Compilatori Gnu versione 4.3 (GCC4.3) è ora compresa in questa uscita come Anteprima Teconologica. Questa collezione di compilatori comprende i compilatori C, C++, e Fortran 95 insieme alle librerie di supporto.
Notare che nei pacchetti gcc43 , il default per l'opzione gnu89-inline è stato cambiato in -fgnu89-inline, mentre gli aggiornamenti upstream e futuri di Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 saranno impostati di default su -fno-gnu89-inline. Questo è necessario perché molte intestazioni spedite come parte di Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 prevedono la semantica in linea GNU invece della semantica ISO C99. Queste intestazioni non sono state regolate per richiedere la semantica in linea GNU tramite gli attributi.
Funzionalità Kernel Tracepoint
In questo aggiornamento, una nuova funzionalità kernel marker/tracepoint è stata implementata come Anteprima Tecnologica. Questa interfaccia aggiunge punti sonda statici, per l'uso con strumenti come SystemTap.
Set del Device Failure Monitoring of RAID
Il Monitoraggio dei guasti ai dispositivi, tramite gli strumenti dmraid and dmevent_tool, è compreso in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 come Anteprima Tecnologica. Esso offre la possibilità di osservare e segnalare i guasti dei dispositivi sui dispositivi dei componenti dei set RAID.

8. Resolved Issues

8.1. All Architectures

  • La generazione dei dati per i riporti sulle attività del dispositivo TTY non era corretta. Di conseguenza il comando sar -y falliva ritornando il seguente errore: 
    Requested activities not available in file
    Con il pacchetto aggiornato sar è stato corretto, ora l'opzione -y genera l'attività del dispositivo TTY.
  • Precedentemente l'impstazione di max_fds su unlimited in /etc/multipath.conf impediva l'avvio del demone multipathd. Se è necessario impostare un numero di descrittori open file sul valore massimo del sistema, max_fds deve essere impostato su max.
  • mod_perl è stato aggiornato alla versione 2.0.4, l'ultimissima versione dell'upstream. Questa versione applica diversi aggiornamenti i quali includono un bug fix che permette ora a mod_perl, di operare correttamente con Bugzilla 3.0.
  • cups è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.3.7. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi bug fix e miglioramenti, incluso:
    • è ora supportata l'autenticazione di Kerberos.
    • Vengono ora caricate correttamente le policy dei lavori e della stampante specificate dall'utente.
    • Le remote queue cache non vengono più caricate quando il browsing è disabilitato.
    • Il file di configurazione classes.conf ora presenta i permessi corretti.
  • lm_sensors è stato aggiornato alla versione 2.10.7. Questo aggiornamento apporta numerosi miglioramenti upstream e bug fix, incluso una correzione che impedisce ai libsensor di arrestarsi inaspettatamente con un messaggio General parse error quando k8temp risulta esser stato caricato.
  • elfutils è stato aggiornato in questa release per risolvere i seguenti bug:
    • La utilità eu-readelf poteva arrestarsi inaspettatamente durante la lettura di alcuni file d'input.
    • La utilità eu-strip viene usata nelle procedure rpmbuild le quali creano nuovi pacchetti binari. Essa separa le informazioni di debug dal codice eseguibile per compilare i pacchetti -debuginfo. Un bug in questa utilità causava l'impossibilità di usare le informazioni di debug per i file ET_REL sulla piattaforma s390; ciò interessa i file del modulo del kernel di Linux (.ko.debug), e causa l'impossibilità di funzionare con Systemtap su s390 da parte dei pacchetti kernel-debuginfo generati.
  • vnc-server è stato aggiornato alla versione 4.1.2-14.el5. Questo aggiornamento applica le seguenti correzioni:
    • È stato corretto un bug che impediva a vncserver di mostrare i messaggi d'errore se Xvnc falliva il processo d'avvio.
    • Xvnc non utilizza più la profondita errata della finestra root; Viene utilizzato ora la profondità corretta della finestra specificata dall'opzione -depth.
    • È stato corretto un bug che causava l'arresto inaspettato del server X da parte del modulo libvnc.so.
    • Xvnc supporta ora le estensioni GLX e RENDER su tutte le architetture.
  • smartmontools è stato aggiornato alla versione 5.38. Questo aggiornamento migliora l'auto-rilevamento dei dispositivi hardware, il supporto per gli array CCISS RAID, e presenta un database più grande di dispositivi supportati.
    Questo aggiornamento corregge un bug a causa del quale SELinux impediva a smartmontools di controllare i dispositivi RAID 3ware. smartmontools può ora controllare correttamente tali dispositivi.
  • python-urlgrabber è stato aggiornato alla versione 3.1.0-5. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi bug fix dell'upstream, incluso:
    • yum può ora scaricare nuovamente ed in modo corretto da un repositorio yum che non supporta i download parziali.
    • yum può ora riprendere un download interrotto anche se il repositorio di yum è basato su FTP con una specifica porta.
    • La dimensione delle barre di progresso sono ora dinamiche alla larghezza del terminale. In aggiunta, le barre di progresso sono più chiare e mostrano una percentuale totale dei dati scaricati.
    • Il segnale keepalive di python-urlgrabber è stato ora corretto. Precedentemente un bug presente in questo segnale aumentava in modo incorretto l'utilizzo della memoria durante i download; in aggiunta, questo bug impediva a reposync e yumdownloader di funzionare correttamente durante il download di un numero molto grande di pacchetti.
  • yum-utils è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.1.16. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi bug fix, incluso:
    • yum update --security è ora in grado di localizzare correttamete vecchi aggiornamenti relativi alla sicurezza.
    • yum-versionlock ora funziona correttamente con i pacchetti obsoleti.
    Questo aggiornamento include anche il plugin yum-fastestmirror, il quale permette a yum di scegliere il repositorio più veloce all'interno di un mirrorlist.
  • Samba è stato aggiornato alla versione upstream 3.2.0. Questo aggiornamento corregge numerosi bug, incluso un bug il quale impediva agli utenti di usare i domini usati da Windows 2003 come proprio server dei nomi. Tale aggiornamento corregge anche un bug che causava la rottura del samba domain membership, dopo aver cambiato la password del sistema utilizzando net rpc changetrustpw.
    For a more comprehensive list of upstream samba updates included this release, refer to http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.32.html
  • OpenLDAP è stato aggiornato alla versione 2.3.43. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi bug fix, incluso:
    • Lo script init riporta ora un messaggio di avvertimento se il demone slapd non è in grado di leggere un file del certificato TLS.
    • Tutte le librerie nel pacchetto openldap-debuginfo sono ora 'unstripped'.
    • Il processo di rimozione del pacchetto openldap-devel non interrompe più la libreria OpenLDAP.
    Red Hat offre ora overlay aggiuntivi per il server OpenLDAP. Ad eccezione di syncprov, tutti gli overlay sono disponibili in pacchetti openldap-servers-overlays separati, compilati come moduli caricabili dinamicamente. L'overlay syncprov viene collegato staticamente al server OpenLDAP per conservare una compatibilità con le vecchie versioni di OpenLDAP.
  • Poichè il binario xterm presentava un bit set group ID (setgid) configurato, alcune variabili dell'ambiente (come ad esempio LD_LIBRARY_PATH e TMPDIR) non erano attivati. In questa release il binario xterm ora presenta i permessi 0755 che risolvono questo problema.
  • The recommended method for balancing the load on NIS servers when multiple machines are connecting with ypbind has changed with this release. The ypbind daemon's behavior has not changed: it still pings all NIS servers listed in the /etc/ypbind configuration file and then binds to the single fastest-responding server. Before, it was recommended to list all available NIS servers in each machine's /etc/ypbind.conf configuration file. However, because even servers under high load can respond quickly to this ping, thus inadvertently increasing their own load, it is now recommended for administrators to list a smaller number of available NIS servers in each machine's ypbind.conf, and to vary this list across machines. In this way, NIS servers are automatically load-balanced due to not every NIS server being listed as being available to every machine.
  • OpenMotif è stato aggiornato alla versione 2.3.1. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi diversi bug fix, incluso:
    • È stato corretto un bug nella gestione degli eventi Grab e Ungrab da parte di OpenMotif. Nelle versioni precedenti il suddetto bug poteva causare il bloccaggio del display.
    • Un bug in nedit poteva causarne il suo arresto inaspettato durante l'utilizzo dell'interfaccia utente grafica nedit. Tale problema era causato da una funzione del codice che causava un errore nella segmentazione in alcuni casi di selezione dell'oggetto. Questo problema è stato ora corretto.
  • dbus è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.1.2. Questo aggiornamento corregge un bug dove i programmi 'multi-threaded' potevano causare un blocco critico in dbus. Nelle precedenti release se un thread era in ascolto di dbus e processava i messaggi, il secondo thread inviava i messaggi a dbus.
  • strace è stato aggiornato alla versione 4.5.18. Essa corregge diversi bug incluso:
    • È stato corretto un bug che causava l'arresto inaspettato di strace quando l'opzione -f veniva usata su alcuni programmi 'multi-threaded' (in particolare su sistemi a 64-bit).
    • È stato corretto un bug che impediva alla versione a 64-bit di strace, di eseguire una chiamata della funzione vfork() su di un processo a 32-bit.
  • cpuspeed è stato aggiornato alla versione 1.2.1-5. Con questo aggiornamento lo script cpuspeed init ora carica il modulo speedstep-centrino se il caricamento degli altri moduli fallisce. In aggiunta un bug dello spazio utente che impediva il caricamento del modulo Powernow-k8 è stato corretto.
  • La suite frysk di tool è stata rimossa completamente da questa distribuzione. frysk è stata originariamente introdotta come technology preview in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.
  • Precedentemente le statistiche I/O della partizione fornite dal comando iostat -x erano incomplete. Con questo aggiornamento le statistiche sono calcolate allo stesso modo delle statistiche del disco, fornendo così informazioni complete al livello della partizione.
  • È stato rilevato un guasto nella divulgazione della password con il file di configurazione per il server mail Dovecot . Se un sistema aveva l'opzione ssl_key_password definita, qualsiasi utente locale potrebbe visualizzare la password chiave SSL. (CVE-2008-4870)

    Nota

    Questo guasto non ha consentito all'aggressore di acquisire i contenuti della chiave SSL. La password non ha alcun valore senza il file chiave al quale gli utenti arbitrari non avrebbero dovuto accedere.
    To better protect even this value, however, the dovecot.conf file now supports the "!include_try" directive. The ssl_key_password option should be moved from dovecot.conf to a new file owned by, and only readable and writable by, root (ie 0600). This file should be referenced from dovecot.conf by setting the !include_try /path/to/password/file option.

8.2. x86_64 Architectures

  • ksh è stato aggiornato alla versione 2008-02-02. Questo aggiornamento aggiunge un agestione del carattere multi-byte, risolve numerosi problemi relativi al controllo dei lavori ed applica diversi bug fix dell'upstream. Da notare che il suddetto aggiornamento di ksh conserva una compatibilità per gli script esistenti.

8.3. s390x Architectures

  • Un bug di vmconvert impediva un suo funzionamento corretto sul nodo del dispositivo vmur (/dev/0.0.000c). Ciò causava il fallimento di vmconvert durante il tentativo di accedere ai dump sul dispositivo vmur, con un messaggio d'errore vmconvert: Open dump file failed! (Permission denied). Un aggiornamento presente in questa release a s390utils corregge questo problema.
  • Lo script init ed il file config per il demone mon_procd e mon_fsstatd non erano presenti nel pacchetto s390utils. Di conseguenza i suddetti demoni non potevano essere compilati ed usati. I file mancanti sono stati aggiunti in questo aggiornamento il quale risolve ora questa problematica.

8.4. PowerPC Architectures

  • È stato corretto un bug che impediva al modulo ehci_hcd di eseguire il ricaricamento su questa architettura. Ciò assicura che l'adattatore Belkin 4-port PCI-Express USB Lily (ed altri dispositivi simili), ora funzioni correttamente con il Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 se si utilizza il modulo ehci_hcd.
  • La libreria libhugetlbfs è stata aggiornata alla versione 1.3. Questo aggiornamento applica diversi miglioramenti dell'upstream alla libreria, e migliora le prestazioni delle applicazioni che utilizzano le pagine Huge.
    Per un elenco completo degli aggiornamenti per libhugetlbfs, consultare il seguente link:
    http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080515170754.GA1830%40us.ibm.com

9. Known Issues

9.1. All Architectures

  • Durante l'utilizzo della nuova funzione di cifratura del disco per cifrare il filesystem root, sarà possibile visualizzare il seguente messaggio d'errore sulla console durante lo spegnimento del sistema: 
    Stopping disk encryption [FAILED]
    Questo messaggio può essere ignorato, il processo di spegnimento verrà completato con successo.
  • When using an encrypted device, the following error message may be reported during bootup: 
    insmod: error inserting '/lib/aes_generic.ko': -1 File exists
    This message can safely be ignored.
  • L'installazione utilizzando un Multiple Device (MD) RAID insieme a multipath risulterà in un fallimento della procedura d'avvio della macchina. I dispositivi Multipath to Storage Area Network (SAN) che forniscono RAID internamente non vengono interessati.
  • When a large number of LUNs are added to a node, multipath can significantly increase the time it takes for udev to create device nodes for them. If you experience this problem, you can correct it by deleting the following line in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-multipath.rules: 
    KERNEL!="dm-[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", PROGRAM=="/bin/bash -c '/sbin/lsmod | /bin/grep ^dm_multipath'", RUN+="/sbin/multipath -v0 %M:%m"
    This line causes udev to run multipath every time a block device is added to the node. Even with this line removed, multipathd will still automatically create multipath devices, and multipath will still be called during the boot process, for nodes with multipathed root filesystems. The only change is that multipath devices will not be automatically created when multipathd is not running, which should not be a problem for the vast majority of multipath users.
  • Quando si esegue l'aggiornamento da una versione precedente di Red Hat Enterprise Linux a 5.3, è possibile incontrare il seguente errore: 
    Updating  : mypackage                 ################### [ 472/1655]
rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument
    Il blocco si genera poichè il futex locking condiviso in glibc è stato migliorato in un futex per processo tra 5.2 e 5.3. Come risultato, i programmi in esecuzione con il 5.2 glibc non sono in grado di eseguire correttamente il futex locking condiviso nei confronti dei programmi in esecuzione con il 5.3 glibc.
    Questo messaggio d'errore in particolare è un effetto collaterale di un pacchetto che richiama un rpm come parte dei propri script d'installazione. L'istanza rpm che esegue l'aggiornamento utilizza il glibc precedente attraverso il processo di aggiornamento, ma l'istanza rpm lanciata dall'interno dello script utilizza il nuovo glibc.
    To avoid this error, upgrade glibc first in a separate run: 
    # yum update glibc
# yum update
    You will also see this error if you downgrade glibc to an earlier version on an installed 5.3 system.
  • mvapich e mvapich2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sono compilati per supportare solo gli interconnettori InfiniBand/iWARP. Di conseguenza essi non potranno essere eseguiti su ethernet o altri interconnettori di rete.
  • Sui sistemi con più di due dispositivi a blocchi cifrati, anaconda presenta una opzione per fornire una frase segreta globale. Gli script init tuttavia, non supportano questa caratteristica. Quando si avvia il sistema sarà richiesto l'inserimento di ogni singola frase segreta per tutti i dispositivi cifrati.
  • When upgrading openmpi using yum, the following warning may be returned: 
    cannot open `/tmp/openmpi-upgrade-version.*' for reading: No such file or directory
    The message is harmless and can be safely ignored.
  • La configurazione dell'affinità IRQ SMP non ha alcun effetto su alcuni dispositivi che utilizzano il message signalled interrupts (MSI) senza alcuna capacità MSI per-vector masking. Esempi dei suddetti dispositivi includono i dispositivi ethernet Broadcom NetXtreme che utilizzano il driver bnx2.
    Se è necessario configurare l'affinità IRQ per questi dispositivi, disabilitare MSI tramite la creazione di un file in /etc/modprobe.d/ contenente la seguente riga: 
    		  options bnx2 disable_msi=1
    Alterntivamente è possibile disabilitare completamente MSI utilizzando il parametro d'avvio del kernel pci=nomsi.
  • Un bug presente nel file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules aggiornato, impedisce la creazione dei nomi persistenti per i dispositivi a nastro, con numeri maggiori di 9 nei propri nomi. Per esempio, per un dispositivo a nastro con un nome nst12, non verrà creato un nome persistente.
    Per risolvere questo problema aggiungete un asterisco (*) dopo ogni stringa nst[0-9] in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.
  • Il tool smartctl non è in grado di leggere correttamente i parametri SMART dei dispositivi SATA.
  • Un bug presente nelle versioni precedenti di openmpi e lam potrebbe inpedire l'aggiornamento di questi pacchetti. Il suddetto bug si manifesta tramite il seguente errore (durante il tentativo di aggiornamento di openmpi o lam: 
    error: %preun(openmpi-[version]) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
    Per questo motivo sarà necessario rimuovere manualmente le versioni più vecchie di openmpi e lam per installare le ultimissime versioni corrispondenti. Per fare questo utilizzate il seguente comando rpm:
    rpm -qa | grep '^openmpi-\|^lam-' | xargs rpm -e --noscripts --allmatches
  • When using dm-multipath, if features "1 queue_if_no_path" is specified in /etc/multipath.conf then any process that issues I/O will hang until one or more paths are restored.
    To avoid this, set no_path_retry [N] in /etc/multipath.conf (where [N] is the number of times the system should retry a path). When you do, remove the features "1 queue_if_no_path" option from /etc/multipath.conf as well.
    If you need to use "1 queue_if_no_path" and experience the issue noted here, use dmsetup to edit the policy at runtime for a particular LUN (i.e. for which all the paths are unavailable).
    To illustrate: run dmsetup message [device] 0 "fail_if_no_path", where [device] is the multipath device name (e.g. mpath2; do not specify the path) for which you want to change the policy from "queue_if_no_path" to "fail_if_no_path".
  • Non è supportata l'abilitazione di versioni multiple installate dello stesso modulo del kernel. In aggiunta, la presenza di un bug nel modo in cui i moduli del kernel sono analizzati, può talvolta risultare nell'abilitazione di una vecchia versione dello stesso modulo del kernel.
    Red Hat consiglia durante l'installazione di una versione più recente di un modulo del kernel installato, di cancellare prima la versione più vecchia.
  • L'esecuzione di kdump su di un IBM Bladecenter QS21 o QS22 configurato con NFS root fallirà. Per evitare ciò specificate un target per l'NFS dump in /etc/kdump.conf.
  • I portatili IBM T60 si spegneranno completamente quando sospesi e connessi ad una docking station. Per evitare questo comportamento avviate il sistema con l'argomento acpi_sleep=s3_bios.
  • La Scheda di espansione iSCSI di QLogic per IBM Bladecenter fornisce le funzioni iSCSI ed ethernet. Alcune parti presenti sulla scheda sono condivise da entrambe le funzioni. Tuttavia i driver correnti qla3xxx e qla4xxx supportano in modo individuale le funzioni ethernet e iSCSI. I suddetti driver non supportano l'utilizzo simultaneo delle funzioni ethernet e iSCSI.
    A causa di questa limitazione i successivi resettaggi (tramite comandi ifdown/ifup consecutivi), potrebbero sospendere il dispositivo. Per evitare questa sospensione fate trascorrere un intervallo di 10 secondi dopo ifup, prima di emettere ifdown. Altresì, fate trascorrere lo stesso intervallo di 10 secondi dopo un ifdown, prima di emettere ifup. Il suddetto intervallo permette di stabilizzare e inizializzare nuovamente tutte le funzioni quando viene emesso un ifup.
  • I laptop con scheda wireless Cisco Aironet MPI-350, possono entrare in una fase di sospensione nel tentativo di ottenere un indirizzo DHCP durante qualsiasi installazione basata sulla rete, utilizzando una porta ethernet cablata.
    Per risolvere questo problema utilizzate per la vostra installazione il media locale. Alternativamente disabilitate la scheda wireless nel BIOS del laptop prima di eseguire l'installazione (è possibile riabilitare la scheda wireless dopo aver completato l'installazione).
  • Con Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 il Boot-time logging su /var/log/boot.log non è disponibile.
  • Il sistema potrebbe non eseguire correttamente il riavvio nel kernel kexec/kdump, se X risulta essere in esecuzione ed utilizza un driver diverso da vesa. Questo problema esiste solo con i chpset grafici ATI Rage XL.
    Se X è in esecuzione su di un sistema equipaggiato con ATI Rage XL, assicuratevi che esso stia utilizzando il driver vesa in modo da poter eseguire correttamente un processo di riavvio in un kernel kexec/kdump.
  • Se utilizzate Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 su di una macchina con chipset nVidia CK804, è possibile visualizzare i seguenti messaggi del kernel: 
    kernel: assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
kernel: pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[005d:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
    I suddetti messaggi indicano che porte PCI-E specifiche non richiedono IRQ. Altresì essi non interessano in alcun modo la normale funzionalità della macchina.
  • I dispositivi di storage estraibili (come ad esempio CD e DVD), non vengono montati automaticamente se siete registrati come utenti root. Per questo motivo sarà necessario montarli manualmente attraverso il file manager grafico.
    Alternativamente è possibile eseguire il seguente comando per montare un dispositivo su /media: 
    mount /dev/[device name] /media
  • Se cancellate il LUN su di un sistema di storage configurato, questa modifica non verrà riportata sull'host. In questi casi i comandi lvm verranno sospesi in modo indeterminato se si utilizza dm-multipath, poichè il LUN è divenuto stale.
    Per risolvere questo problema cancellate tutti i dispositivi e le entry del link mpath in /etc/lvm/.cache, specifiche al LUN in questione.
    Per sapere quali sono queste entry eseguite il seguente comando :
    ls -l /dev/mpath | grep [stale LUN]
    Per esempio, se [stale LUN] è 3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00, il risultato potrebbe essere: 
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug  2 10:33 /3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00 -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug  2 10:33 /3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00p1 -> ../dm-5
    Ciò significa che 3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00 viene mappato su due link mpath: dm-4 e dm-5.
    Per questo motivo le seguenti righe dovrebbero essere cancellate da /etc/lvm/.cache: 
    /dev/dm-4 
/dev/dm-5 
/dev/mapper/3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00
/dev/mapper/3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00p1
/dev/mpath/3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00
/dev/mpath/3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00p1
  • L'esecuzione del comando multipath con l'opzione -ll, può causare la sospensione del comando se uno dei percorsi si trova su di un dispositivo bloccante. Da notare che il driver non causa il fallimento della richiesta, se il dispositivo non risponde dopo un certo periodo di tempo.
    Ciò è causato da un cleanup code, il quale attende fino a quando la richiesta del controllore del percorso viene completata o fallisce. Per visualizzare lo stato corrente di multipath senza sospendere il comando, utilizzare multipath -l.
  • L'aggiornamento di pm-utils da una versione Beta di Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 di pm-utils fallirà generando il seguente errore: 
    error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/pm/sleep.d: cpio: rename
    Per evitare questo tipo di errore cancellate la directory /etc/pm/sleep.d/ prima di eseguire l'aggiornamento. Se /etc/pm/sleep.d contiene alcuni file, spostateli su /etc/pm/hooks/.
  • Prove hardware per Mellanox MT25204 hanno rivelato la presenza di un errore interno sotto carichi di lavoro molto elevati. Quando il driver di ib_mthca riporta un errore catastrofico per questo hardware, esso si riferisce ad un completamento insufficiente della coda, relativo al numero di richieste pendenti generate dall'applicazione dell'utente.
    Anche se il driver resetterà l'hardware e sarà in grado di ripristinare le proprie funzioni dopo tale evento, durante questo errore tutti i collegamenti esistenti verranno persi. Ciò risulterà in un errore di segmentazione nell'applicazione dell'utente. Altresì, se opensm è in esecuzione al momento dell'errore, sarà necessario riavviarlo manualmente per ripristinare le funzioni corrette.
  • Durante l'installazione di Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 su di un guest, il guest viene configurato in modo da usare esplicitamente un kernel d'installazione temporaneo fornito da dom0. Una volta terminata l'installazione, esso potrà utilizzare il proprio bootloader. Tuttavia è possibile eseguire questo processo forzando il primo riavvio del guest in modo da risultare uno spegnimento.
    Quindi, se si visualizza il pulsante Reboot al termine dell'installazione del guest, la sua selezione comporterà un arresto del guest senza riavviarlo. Questo è un comportamento previsto.
    Se si desidera riavviare il guest dopo questo processo, esso utilizzerà il proprio bootloader.
  • L'esecuzione di rpmbuild sull'RPM sorgente compiz fallirà se qualsiasi KDE o pacchetto di sviluppo qt (per esempio qt-devel) sono installati. Tale comportamento è causato da un bug nello script di configurazione compiz.
    Per risolvere questo problema rimuovere qualsiasi pacchetto di sviluppo qt o KDE, prima di compilare il pacchetto compiz dal proprio RPM sorgente.
  • Se il sistema possiede una scheda grafica ATI Radeon R500 o R600, firstboot non verrà eseguito dopo l'installazione. Il sistema andrà direttamente sulla schermata di login grafica saltando firstboot. Se si cercherà di eseguire manualmente firstboot (es. da un terminale failsafe), la sessione di X si arresterà inaspettatamente.
    Questo problema si verifica a causa dell'impiego del driver usato dall'hardware ATI Radeon R500/R600. Il driver predefinito usato dalle schede grafiche risulta essere ancora una technology preview. Per risolvere questo problema eseguire il backup del file /etc/X11/xorg.conf; successivamente configurare X in modo da usare il driver vesa supportato invece di utilizzare il seguente comando:
    system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa
    Ora è possibile eseguire firstboot. Per smistarsi sulle vecchie impostazioni ripristinare /etc/X11/xorg.conf originale.
  • Se il vostro sistema utilizza il TSC timer, la chiamata del sistema gettimeofday potrebbe subire uno spostamento all'indietro. Tale comportamento si verifica a causa di un overflow il quale causerà un salto da parte del TSC timer in avanti in presenza di alcuni casi; Se si verifica tale situazione, il TSC timer sarà in grado di correggersi da solo registrando però un movimento indietro nel tempo.
    Questo problema è particolarmente critico per sistemi time-sensitive, come ad esempio i sistemi di transizione e i database. Per questo motivo se il vostro sistema necessita di tempi precisi, Red Hat consiglia fortemente una impostazione del kernel in modo da utilizzare un timer diverso (per esempio HPET).
  • Il tentativo di esecuzione di sniff potrebbe generare un errore. Tale comportamento è causato poichè alcuni pacchetti essenziali non sono stati installati con dogtail.
    Per evitare una situazione simile installate manualmente i seguenti pacchetti:
    • librsvg2
    • ghostscript-fonts
    • pygtk2-libglade
  • Thin Provisioning (also known as "virtual provisioning") will be first released with EMC Symmetrix DMX3 and DMX4. Please refer to the EMC Support Matrix and Symmetrix Enginuity code release notes for further details.
  • In /etc/multipath.conf, l'impostazione di max_fds su unlimited impedirà l'avvio corretto del demone multipathd. Per questo motivo è consigliato usare un valore sufficientemente alto per questa impostazione.
  • SystemTap utilizza attualmente GCC per analizzare gli eventi dello spazio utente. Tuttavia GCC non è in grado di fornire ai debugger le informazioni esatte sull'elenco delle posizioni dei parametri. In alcuni casi GCC non è in grado di fornire la visibilità di alcuni parametri. Come conseguenza gli script di SystemTap che analizzano lo spazio utente potrebbero ritornare delle letture non accurate.
  • Il portatile IBM T41 non inserisce correttamente il Suspend Mode; per questo motivo Suspend Mode continuerà a consumare normalmente la batteria. Tale comportamento si verifica poichè Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 non include ancora il modulo radeonfb.
    Per risolvere questo problema aggiungere lo script hal-system-power-suspend su /usr/share/hal/scripts/ che contiene le seguenti righe: 
    	
chvt 1
radeontool light off
radeontool dac off
    Questo script assicura che il portatile IBM T41 sia in grado di inserire correttamente il Suspend Mode. Per assicurare che il sistema riprenda correttamente le normali funzioni, aggiungere lo script restore-after-standby anche alla stessa directory che contiene le seguenti righe: 
    	
radeontool dac on
radeontool light on
chvt 7
  • Se il modulo edac è stato caricato, il riporto sulla memoria del BIOS non funzionerà. Tale comportamento si verifica poichè il modulo edac ripulisce il registro usato dal BIOS per il riporto degli errori sulla memoria.
    Il Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Update Model corrente indica al kernel di caricare tutti i moduli disponibili (incluso il modulo edac) per default. Se si desidera assicurare un riporto della memoria del BIOS sul proprio sistema, sarà necessario inserire manualmente nella blacklist i moduli edac. Per fare questo aggiungere le seguenti righe su /etc/modprobe.conf: 
    	
blacklist edac_mc
blacklist i5000_edac
blacklist i3000_edac
blacklist e752x_edac
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 è in grado di rilevare l'aumento o la diminuzione di un dispositivo a blocchi. Tuttavia non vi è alcun metodo per rilevare automaticamente il cambiamento della dimensione di un dispositivo, per questo motivo saranno necessarie alcune fasi manuali per riconoscere il cambiamento, e ridimensionare qualsiasi file system che risiede sul dispositivo interessato. Una volta rilevata la modifica di un dispositivo a blocchi, un messaggio simile al seguente apparirà nei log del sistema: 
    VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sdi
    Se il dispositivo a blocchi è aumentato in dimensione allora sarà possibile ignorare questo messaggio. Tuttavia se la dimensione del dispositivo a blocchi è diminuita senza però rimpicciolire i dati impostati sul dispositivo a blocchi, i dati presenti sul dispositivo in questione potrebbero essere corrotti.
    È possibile eseguire solo un ridimensionamento di un file system creato sull'intero LUN (o dispositivo a blocchi). Se è presente una tabella delle partizioni sul dispositivo a blocchi, allora il file system devrà essere smontato per poter aggiornare la tabella delle partizioni.
  • Se è stato montato un file system GFS2 sul sistema, un nodo potrebbe entrare in uno stato di sospensione se un inode salvato sulla cache viene accesso in un nodo e rimosso dal link di un altro nodo. Se si verifica una situazione simile il nodo sospeso non sarà disponibile fino a quando non verrà isolato e ripristinato tramite un meccanismo normale di recupero del cluster. La funzione richiama gfs2_dinode_dealloc e shrink_dcache_memory apparirà nelle tracce dello stack di qualsiasi processo presente nel nodo sospeso.
    Questo problema non interesserà alcun file system GFS2 con un solo nodo.
  • The following message may be encountered during system boot: 
    Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds.
Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
    This delay (which may be up to 10 seconds, dependant on the hardware configuration) is necessary to ensure that the kernel has completed scanning the disks.
  • L'implementazione corrente di User Payload Access in ipmitool permette di configurare i dispositivi ma non il ripristino delle impostazioni correnti dei suddetti dispositivi.
  • L'utilizzo del parametro swap --grow in un file kickstart senza l'impostazione del parametro --maxsize, permette ad anaconda di imporre una restrizione sulla dimensione massima della partizione di swap, non permettendogli un aumento della dimensione in modo da riempire il dispositivo.
    Per sistemi con meno di 2GB di memoria fisica, il limite imposto è due volte la quantità di memoria fisica. Per sistemi con più di 2GB, il limite imposto è la dimensione di memoria fisica più 2GB.
  • The gfs2_convert program may not free up all blocks from the GFS metadata that are no longer used under GFS2. These unused metadata blocks will be discovered and freed the next time gfs2_fsck is run on the file system. It is recommended that gfs2_fsck be run after the filesystem has been converted to free the unused blocks. These unused blocks will be flagged by gfs2_fsck with messages such as: 
    Ondisk and fsck bitmaps differ at block 137 (0x89) 
Ondisk status is 1 (Data) but FSCK thinks it should be 0 (Free)
Metadata type is 0 (free)
    These messages do not indicate corruption in the GFS2 file system, they indicate blocks that should have been freed, but were not. The number of blocks needing to be freed will vary depending on the size of the file system and block size. Many file systems will not encounter this issue at all. Large file systems may have a small number of blocks (typically less than 100).

9.2. x86 Architectures

  • When running the bare-metal (non-Virtualized) kernel, the X server may not be able to retrieve EDID information from the monitor. When this occurs, the graphics driver will be unable to display resolutions highers than 800x600.
    Per risolvere questo problema aggiungete la seguente riga alla sezione ServerLayout di /etc/X11/xorg.conf: 
    Option "Int10Backend" "x86emu"
  • Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the following steps:
    1. Aprire alsamixer.
    2. Premere Tab per attivare [Capture] nel campo Visualizza (posizionato nella parte alta sinistra del menu).
    3. Premere la barra Spaziatrice.
    4. Per verificare se la registrazione è stata abilitata il testo sopra il campo ADCMux dovrebbe riportare L R CAPTUR.
  • If encryption is enabled on the boot device during system installation, the following message will be logged during system boot: 
    padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
    This message can safely be ignored.

9.3. x86_64 Architectures

  • Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted graphics or fonts when using the graphical installer or during a graphical login. To work around this, switch to a virtual console and back to the original X host.
  • On an IBM T61 laptop, Red Hat recommends that you refrain from clicking the glxgears window (when glxgears is run). Doing so can lock the system.
    Per evitare questo tipo di comportamento disabilitare la caratteristica di tiling. Per fare questo aggiungere la seguente riga nella sezione Dispositivo di /etc/X11/xorg.conf: 
    Option "Tiling" "0"
  • Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the following steps:
    1. Aprire alsamixer.
    2. Premere Tab per attivare [Capture] nel campo Visualizza (posizionato nella parte alta sinistra del menu).
    3. Premere la barra Spaziatrice.
    4. Per verificare se la registrazione è stata abilitata il testo sopra il campo ADCMux dovrebbe riportare L R CAPTUR.
  • Se il sistema utilizza una scheda grafica Intel 945GM, non utilizzare il driver i810, utilizzare invece il driver predefinito intel.
  • Sui portatili dual-GPU, se uno dei chip grafici è basato su Intel allora la modalità grafica di Intel non è in grado di eseguire alcun collegamento digitale esterno (incluso HDMI, DVI, e DisplayPort). Tale comportamento è una limitazione hardware di Intel GPU. Se l'utente necessita di un collegamento digitale esterno, configurare il sistema in modo da utilizzare il discrete graphics chip (nel BIOS).

9.4. PowerPC Architectures

  • When using Alt-SysRq-W to debug, the following warning message will appear: 
    Badness in smp_call_function at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:223
    Subito dopo il sistema avviserà l'utente del suo immeninte stato di sospensione. Ignorate questo messaggio poichè il sistema continuerà il suo normale funzionamento.
  • Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the following steps:
    1. Aprire alsamixer.
    2. Premere Tab per attivare [Capture] nel campo Visualizza (posizionato nella parte alta sinistra del menu).
    3. Premere la barra Spaziatrice.
    4. Per verificare se la registrazione è stata abilitata il testo sopra il campo ADCMux dovrebbe riportare L R CAPTUR.
  • The size of the PPC kernel image is too large for OpenFirmware to support. Consequently, network booting will fail, resulting in the following error message: 
    Please wait, loading kernel...
/pci@8000000f8000000/ide@4,1/disk@0:2,vmlinux-anaconda: No such file or directory
boot:
    To work around this:
    1. Boot to the OpenFirmware prompt, by pressing the '8' key when the IBM splash screen is displayed.
    2. Eseguire il seguente comando: 
      setenv real-base 2000000
    3. Eseguire l'avvio nel System Managment Services (SMS) con il seguente comando: 
      0> dev /packages/gui obe

9.5. s390x Architectures

  • When running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on a z/VM that has more than 2GB of guest storage defined, invalid data can be read from and written to any FCP and OSA device attached in QDIO mode with the Queued-I/O assist (QIOASSIST) option enabled. If your system has any such devices attached, Red Hat recommends that you download and install the corresponding z/VM Program Temporary Fix (PTF) from the following link:
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1VM64306
  • It is not possible to directly read and convert a z/VM dump into a file. Instead, you should first copy the dump from the z/VM reader into a Linux file system using vmur and convert the dump into a Linux-readable file using vmconvert.
  • The IBM System z does not provide a traditional Unix-style physical console. As such, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 for the IBM System z does not support the firstboot functionality during initial program load.
    Per inizializzare correttamente l'impostazione di Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 su IBM System z, eseguire i seguenti comandi dopo il processo d'installazione:
    • /usr/bin/setup — fornito dal pacchetto setuptool.
    • /usr/bin/rhn_register — fornito dal pacchetto rhn-setup.

9.6. ia64 Architecture

  • Some Itanium systems cannot properly produce console output from the kexec purgatory code. This code contains instructions for backing up the first 640k of memory after a crash.
    Mentre un output della console purgatory può essere utile durante problemi diagnostici, esso non è necessario per il funzionamento corretto di kdump. Per questo motivo se il vostro sistema Itanium viene resettato durante una operazione di kdump, disabilitate l'output della console in purgatory attraverso l'aggiunta di --noio alla variabile KEXEC_ARGS in /etc/sysconfig/kdump.
  • Running perftest will fail if different CPU speeds are detected. As such, you should disable CPU speed scaling before running perftest.
  • When the kdump kernel is booted, the following error will appear in the boot log: 
    mknod: /tmp/initrd.[numbers]/dev/efirtc: No such file or directory
    Questo errore è il risultato di una richiesta malformata per la creazione di efirtc in un percorso incorretto. Tuttavia il percorso del dispositivo in questione viene creato anche in modo statico in initramfs, all'avvio del servizio kdump. Per questo motivo il runtime della creazione del nodo del dispositivo è ridondante e non dovrebbe interessare le prestazioni di kdump.
  • Some systems may be unable to boot the kdump kernel properly. In such cases, use the machvec=dig kernel parameter.
  • Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300. To do this, perform the following steps:
    1. Aprire alsamixer.
    2. Premere Tab per attivare [Capture] nel campo Visualizza (posizionato nella parte alta sinistra del menu).
    3. Premere la barra Spaziatrice.
    4. Per verificare se la registrazione è stata abilitata il testo sopra il campo ADCMux dovrebbe riportare L R CAPTUR.
  • Sui sistemi Intel Itanium che eseguono SELinux in modalità di controllo, una delle due booleane allow_unconfined_execmem_dyntrans o allow_execmem deve essere attivata per consentire il funzionamento corretto del Layer di Esecuzione IA-32 (il servizio ia32el ). Se la booleana allow_unconfined_execmem_dyntrans è disattivata, ma la booleana allow_execmem è attivata, per default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, il servizio ia32el supporta l'emulazione 32-bit; tuttavia, se entrambe le booleane sono disattivate, l'emulazione fallisce.

10.  Added Packages

cmirror-1.1.36-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: cmirror - The Cluster Mirror Package
  • Description: 
    cmirror - Cluster Mirroring
cmirror-kmod-0.1.21-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: cmirror kernel modules
  • Description: 
    cmirror-kmod - The Cluster Mirror kernel modules
compat-libcom_err-1.0-7
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A libcom_err compatibility library
  • Description: 
    The compat-libcom_err package contains libcom_err.so.3, which may be required
by applications which were built against older packages of MIT Kerberos.
crash-spu-commands-1.1-1
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: Cell/B.E. SPU commands extension for crash
  • Description: 
    Specific commands for debugging SPU run control data using crash.
dapl-2.0.13-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 APIs
  • Description: 
    libdat and libdapl provide a userspace implementation of the DAT 1.2 and 2.0
API that is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology.
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Versatile resource statistics tool
  • Description: 
    Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features,
more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems
during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you
can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your
IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly
with the disk throughput (in the same interval).

Dstat gives you detailed selective information in columns and clearly
indicates in what magnitude and unit the output is displayed. Less
confusion, less mistakes.
e4fsprogs-1.41.1-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Utilities for managing the fourth extended (ext4) filesystem
  • Description: 
    The e4fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in the
fourth extended (ext4) filesystem. E4fsprogs contains
e4fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean
shutdown), mke4fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an
empty ext4 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal
structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted
filesystem, or to create test cases for e4fsck), tune4fs (used to
modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext4fs
filesystem utilities.

Please note that "e4fsprogs" simply contains renamed static binaries
from the equivalent upstream e2fsprogs release; it is packaged this
way for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to ensure that the many changes
included for ext4 do not destabilize the core e2fsprogs in RHEL5.

You should install the e4fsprogs package if you need to manage the
performance of an ext4 filesystem.
ecryptfs-utils-56-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries
  • Description: 
    eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in the
Linux kernel. This package provides the mount helper and supporting
libraries to perform key management and mount functions.

Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs.
fipscheck-1.0.3-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules
  • Description: 
    FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated
modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and
verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.
freeipmi-0.5.1-6.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: FreeIPMI
  • Description: 
    The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and
"System Management Software" (in-band) based on Intelligent
Platform Management Interface specification.

This package contains a Technology Preview for FreeIPMI. Please visit
http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support
policies.
gcc43-4.3.2-7.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Preview of GCC version 4.3
  • Description: 
    The gcc43 package contains preview the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.3.
gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A GTK widget for VNC clients
  • Description: 
    gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK. It is built using coroutines
allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.
ibsim-0.4-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: InfiniBand fabric simulator for management
  • Description: 
    ibsim provides simulation of infiniband fabric for using with OFA OpenSM,
diagnostic and management tools.
infiniband-diags-1.4.1-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools
  • Description: 
    This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to
diagnose an IB subnet.
isns-utils-0.91-0.1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The iSNS daemon and utility programs
  • Description: 
    The iSNS package contains the daemon and tools to setup a iSNS server,
and iSNS client tools. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol
allows automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and
Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network.
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment
  • Description: 
    The OpenJDK runtime environment.
ktune-0.2-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Server performance tuning service
  • Description: 
    ktune provides settings for server performance tuning. Please have a look at
/etc/sysconfig/ktune and /etc/sysctl.ktune for tuning
parameters.
libcmpiutil-0.4-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: CMPI Utility Library
  • Description: 
    Libcmpiutil is a library of utility functions for CMPI providers.
The goal is to reduce the amount of repetitive work done in
most CMPI providers by encapsulating common procedures with more
"normal" APIs. This extends from operations like getting typed
instance properties to standardizing method dispatch and argument checking.
libcxgb3-1.2.2-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Chelsio T3 iWARP HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices.
libehca-1.2-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: IBM InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    IBM hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library.
libibcm-1.0.3-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Userspace InfiniBand Communication Manager.
  • Description: 
    libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library.
libibcommon-1.1.1-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library
  • Description: 
    libibcommon provides common utility functions for the OFA diagnostic and
management tools.
libibmad-1.2.1-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand MAD library
  • Description: 
    libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic
and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic
IB functions.
libibumad-1.2.1-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library
  • Description: 
    libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of
the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic
and management tools, including OpenSM.
libibverbs-1.1.2-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing access to InfiniBand/iWARP hardware verbs protocol
  • Description: 
    libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use
InfiniBand/iWARP "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture
Specification. This includes direct hardware access for fast path
operations.

For this library to be useful, a device-specific plug-in module should
also be installed.
libipathverbs-1.1-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: QLogic InfiniPath HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    QLogic hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports QLogic InfiniPath based cards.
libmlx4-1.0-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports Mellanox ConnectX architecture cards.
libmthca-1.0.5-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data
Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does
not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4
handles that hardware).
libnes-0.5-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: NetEffect RNIC Userspace Driver
  • Description: 
    Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
library. This driver enables NetEffect iWARP capable ethernet devices.
librdmacm-1.0.8-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Userspace RDMA Connection Manager.
  • Description: 
    librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API.
libsdp-1.1.99-10.el5_2
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library for direct userspace use of Sockets Direct Protocol
  • Description: 
    libsdp is an LD_PRELOAD-able library that can be used to have existing
applications use InfiniBand Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) instead of
TCP sockets, transparently and without recompilation. For information
on how to configure libsdp, see libsdp.conf, which is installed in
$(sysconfdir) (usually /usr/local/etc or /etc).
libsmi-0.4.5-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library to access SMI MIB information
  • Description: 
    Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through
a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating
and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules.

This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB
definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive
of all IETF and IANA maintained standard MIB modules.
libspe2-2.2.80.121-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: SPE Runtime Management Library
  • Description: 
    SPE Runtime Management Library for the
Cell Broadband Engine Architecture.
libvirt-cim-0.5.1-4.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A CIM provider for libvirt
  • Description: 
    Libvirt-cim is a CMPI CIM provider that implements the DMTF SVPC
virtualization model. The goal is to support most of the features
exported by libvirt itself, enabling management of multiple
platforms with a single provider.
mpi-selector-1.0.1-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Provides site-wide and per-user MPI implementation selection
  • Description: 
    A simple tool that allows system administrators to set a site-wide
default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allow
users to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding
the site-wide default.

The default can be changed easily via the mpi-selector command --
editing of shell startup files is not required.
mpitests-3.0-2.el5
  • Group: Applications
  • Summary: MPI Benchmarks and tests
  • Description: 
    Set of popular MPI benchmarks:
IMB-2.3
Presta-1.4.0
OSU benchmarks ver 2.2
mstflint-1.3-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Mellanox firmware burning tool
  • Description: 
    This package contains a burning tool for Mellanox manufactured HCA cards.
It also provides access to the relevant source code.
mvapich-1.1.0-0.2931.3.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: MPI implementation over Infiniband RDMA-enabled interconnect
  • Description: 
    This is high performance and scalable MPI-1 implementation over Infiniband and RDMA-enabled interconnect.
This implementation is based on MPICH and MVICH. MVAPICH is pronounced as `em-vah-pich''.
mvapich2-1.0.3-3.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: OSU MVAPICH2 MPI package
  • Description: 
    This is an MPI-2 implementation which includes all MPI-1 features. It is
based on MPICH2 and MVICH.
nedit-5.5-21.el5
  • Group: Applications/Editors
  • Summary: A GUI text editor for systems with X
  • Description: 
    NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is
very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the
Macintosh(TM) or Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) style of interface.
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-22.el5
  • Group: Networking/WWW
  • Summary: A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins
  • Description: 
    nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use Netscape 4 compatible plugins
compiled for ppc into Mozilla for another architecture, e.g. x86_64.

This package consists in:
* npviewer: the plugin viewer
* npwrapper.so: the browser-side plugin
* mozilla-plugin-config: a tool to manage plugins installation and update
ofed-docs-1.3.2-0.20080728.0355.1.el5
  • Group: Documentation/Man
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution documentation
  • Description: 
    Documentation from OFED 1.3
opensm-3.2.2-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities
  • Description: 
    OpenSM is the OpenIB project's Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks.
The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the machines in
the infiniband fabric to manage the fabric's routing state. This package
also contains various tools for diagnosing and testing Infiniband networks
that can be used from any machine and do not need to be run on a machine
running the opensm daemon.
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_2.1
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Openswan IPSEC implementation
  • Description: 
    Openswan is a free implementation of IPSEC & IKE for Linux. IPSEC is
the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide
both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you
to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing
through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and
decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel. The resulting
tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN.

This package contains the daemons and userland tools for setting up
Openswan on a freeswan enabled kernel.
perftest-1.2-11.el5
  • Group: Productivity/Networking/Diagnostic
  • Summary: IB Performance tests
  • Description: 
    gen2 uverbs microbenchmarks
perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Perl library for accessing Zip archives
  • Description: 
    The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate,
read, and write Zip archive files.
Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files.
Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings.
Members can be added, removed, extracted, replaced, rearranged, and
enumerated. They can also be renamed or have their dates, comments,
or other attributes queried or modified. Their data can be compressed
or uncompressed as needed. Members can be created from members in
existing Zip files, or from existing directories, files, or strings.
perl-Config-General-2.40-1.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Generic configuration module for Perl
  • Description: 
    This module opens a config file and parses it's contents for
you. After parsing the module returns a hash structure which contains
the representation of the config file.
The format of config files supported by Config::General is inspired by
the well known apache config format, in fact, this module is 100%
read-compatible to apache configs, but you can also just use simple
name/value pairs in your config files.
In addition to the capabilities of a apache config file it supports
some enhancements such as here-documents, C- style comments or
multiline options. It is also possible to save the config back to
disk, which makes the module a perfect backend for configuration
interfaces.
It is possible to use variables in config files and there exists also
support for object oriented access to the configuration.
pexpect-2.3-1.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Pure Python Expect-like module
  • Description: 
    Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling
them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like
Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and
control it as if a human were typing commands.

Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp,
passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating
software package installations on different servers. And it can be used for
automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but
Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect
does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled.
It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module.
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Python Module for Accessing and Modifying Configuration Data in INI files
  • Description: 
    iniparse is an INI parser for Python which is API compatible
with the standard library's ConfigParser, preserves structure of INI
files (order of sections & options, indentation, comments, and blank
lines are preserved when data is updated), and is more convenient to
use.
python-setuptools-0.6c5-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
  • Description: 
    setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow
you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that
have dependencies on other packages.
qlvnictools-0.0.1-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: VNIC ULP service
  • Description: 
    VNIC ULP service
qperf-0.4.1-2.el5
  • Group: Networking/Diagnostic
  • Summary: Measure socket and RDMA performance
  • Description: 
    Measure socket and RDMA performance.
rsyslog-2.0.6-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons
  • Description: 
    Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,
syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part,
and fine grain output format control. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd
and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it
suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while
at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.
setroubleshoot-plugins-2.0.4-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Analysis plugins for use with setroubleshoot
  • Description: 
    This package provides a set of analysis plugins for use with
setroubleshoot. Each plugin has the capacity to analyze SELinux AVC
data and system data to provide user friendly reports describing how
to interpret SELinux AVC denials.
sgpio-1.2.0_10-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: SGPIO captive backplane tool
  • Description: 
    Intel SGPIO enclosure management utility
This package contains (part of) a Technology Preview for
Application for AHCI driver with SGPIO support.
Please visit http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the
Red Hat support policies.
srptools-0.0.4-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for using the InfiniBand SRP protocol devices
  • Description: 
    In conjunction with the kernel ib_srp driver, srptools allows you to
discover and use SCSI devices via the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand.
system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: network booting/install configuration utility (GUI)
  • Description: 
    system-config-netboot is a utility which allows you to configure
diskless environments and network installations.
tpm-tools-1.3.1-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Management tools for the TPM hardware
  • Description: 
    tpm-tools is a group of tools to manage and utilize the Trusted Computing
Group's TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's
software state using cryptographic hashes and more.
trousers-0.3.1-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: TCG's Software Stack v1.2
  • Description: 
    TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack
(TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use
of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software
state using cryptographic hashes and more.
tvflash-0.9.0-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Tool to manage Mellanox HCA firmware flash memory
  • Description: 
    tvflash is used to query and update the firmware flash memory attached
to Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs.
udftools-1.0.0b3-0.1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Archiving
  • Summary: Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities
  • Description: 
    Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities.
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Virtual Machine Viewer
  • Description: 
    Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting
to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC widget to provide the display,
and libvirt for looking up VNC server details.
wacomexpresskeys-0.4.1-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Wacom ExpressKeys and Touch Strips configuration utility
  • Description: 
    Configuration utility to bind Wacom tablet's ExpressKeys and Touch Strips to
generate other input events.
wdaemon-0.14-2
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Hotplug helper for Wacom X.org driver
  • Description: 
    Helper application which emulates persistent input devices for Wacom tablets
so they can be plugged and unplugged while X.org server is running. This should
go away as soon X.org properly supports hotplugging.
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications
  • Description: 
    XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Update notification daemon
  • Description: 
    yum-updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates and
can notify you when they are available via email, syslog or dbus.

11.  Dropped Packages

cachefilesd-0.8-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: CacheFiles userspace management daemon
  • Description: 
    The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that are
that are used by network filesystems such a AFS and NFS to
do persistent caching to the local disk.
frysk-0.0.1.2007.06.21.rh2-4.el5
  • Group: Development/System
  • Summary: Frysk execution analysis tool
  • Description: 
    Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++.
It is aimed at providing developers and sysadmins with the ability to both
examine and analyze running multi-host, multi-process, multi-threaded systems.
Frysk allows the monitoring of running processes and threads, of locking
primitives and will also expose deadlocks, gather data and debug any given
process in the system.
gfs2-kmod-1.52-1.16.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: gfs2 kernel module
  • Description: 
    GFS2 - The GFS2 filesystem provided for RHEL5.
sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: Gathers system hardware and configuration information.
  • Description: 
    Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's
hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
system's current layout.

12.  Updated Packages

Cluster_Administration-5.1.0-7 - Cluster_Administration-5.2-1
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Red Hat Cluster for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Description: 
    Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster describes the configuration and management of Red Hat cluster systems
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 It does not include information about Red Hat Linux
Virtual Servers (LVS). Information about installing and configuring
LVS is in a separate document.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
Deployment_Guide-5.1.0-11 - Deployment_Guide-5.2-11
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Deployment Guide
  • Description: 
    This Deployment Guide documents relevant information regarding the
deployment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.2.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
Global_File_System-5.1.0-6 - Global_File_System-5.2-1
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Red Hat Global File System
  • Description: 
    This book provides information about installing, configuring, and
maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System) for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.2.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 - ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4.el5_1.1
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: An X application for displaying and manipulating images.
  • Description: 
    ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X
Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF,
and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color
reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can
either save the completed work in the original format or a different
one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating
animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating
thumbnail images, and more.

ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate
and dis play images. If you want to develop your own applications
which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install
ImageMagick-devel as well.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
NetworkManager-0.6.4-6.el5 - NetworkManager-0.7.0-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Network connection manager and user applications
  • Description: 
    NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all
times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for
usage on servers.  The point of NetworkManager is to make networking
configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP,
NetworkManager is intended to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses
from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • dbus-devel >= 1.1
    • dbus-glib-devel >= 0.73-6
    • dhclient
    • doxygen
    • gtk-doc
    • intltool
    • libdaemon-devel
    • libnotify-devel >= 0.4.2
    • libtool
    • nss-devel >= 3.11.7
    • perl(XML::Parser)
    • ppp >= 2.2.4
    • wireless-tools-devel >= 1:28-2
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • dbus-devel >= 0.90
    • dbus-glib-devel >= 0.70
    • dhcdbd
    • gnome-panel-devel
    • libgnomeui-devel
    • libnl-devel
    • libnotify-devel >= 0.3
    • perl-XML-Parser
    • wireless-tools-devel >= 1:28-0pre9
ORBit2-2.14.3-4.el5 - ORBit2-2.14.3-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker
  • Description: 
    ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker
Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to
send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless
of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that
enables communication between program objects, regardless of the
programming language they're written in or the operating system they
run on.

You will need to install this package and ORBit-devel if you want to
write programs that use CORBA technology.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
OpenIPMI-2.0.6-5.el5.4 - OpenIPMI-2.0.6-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: OpenIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools
  • Description: 
    The Open IPMI project aims to develop an open code base to allow access to
platform information using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
This package contains the tools of the OpenIPMI project.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
SysVinit-2.86-14 - SysVinit-2.86-15.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Programs which control basic system processes.
  • Description: 
    The SysVinit package contains a group of processes that control
the very basic functions of your system. SysVinit includes the init
program, the first program started by the Linux kernel when the
system boots. Init then controls the startup, running, and shutdown
of all other programs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
Virtualization-5.1.0-12 - Virtualization-5.2-11
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Virtualization Guide
  • Description: 
    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Guide contains
information on installation, configuring, administering, tips,
tricks and troubleshooting virtualization technologies used in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
a2ps-4.13b-57.1.el5 - a2ps-4.13b-57.2.el5
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM).
  • Description: 
    The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM).
A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide
number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.),
and medias.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • psutils
  • No removed dependencies
acl-2.2.39-2.1.el5 - acl-2.2.39-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Access control list utilities.
  • Description: 
    This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for
manipulating access control lists.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
acpid-1.0.4-5 - acpid-1.0.4-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: ACPI Event Daemon
  • Description: 
    acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI events to user-space programs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5 - alsa-lib-1.0.17-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library.
  • Description: 
    The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI
functionality to the Linux operating system.

This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application
programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for
the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
alsa-utils-1.0.14-2.rc4.el5 - alsa-utils-1.0.17-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) utilities
  • Description: 
    This package contains command line utilities for the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA).
  • Added Dependencies:
    • alsa-lib-devel >= 1.0.17
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • alsa-lib-devel >= 1.0.14
amtu-1.0.4-4 - amtu-1.0.6-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU)
  • Description: 
    Abstract Machine Test Utility (AMTU) is an administrative utility to check
whether the underlying protection mechanism of the hardware are still being
enforced. This is a requirement of the Controlled Access Protection Profile
FPT_AMT.1, see
http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/protection_profiles/CAPP-1.d.pdf
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
anaconda-11.1.2.87-1 - anaconda-11.1.2.168-1
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Graphical system installer
  • Description: 
    The anaconda package contains the program which was used to install your
system. These files are of little use on an already installed system.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • iscsi-initiator-utils >= 6.2.0.868-0.9
    • kudzu-devel >= 1.2.57.1.18
    • libdhcp-devel >= 1.20-5
    • libnl-devel >= 1.0-0.10.pre5.5
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • glib2-devel >= 2.11.1-5
    • kudzu-devel >= 1.2.57.1.15
    • libdhcp-devel >= 1.16
apr-util-1.2.7-6 - apr-util-1.2.7-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Apache Portable Runtime Utility library
  • Description: 
    The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a
free library of C data structures and routines. This library
contains additional utility interfaces for APR; including support
for XML, LDAP, database interfaces, URI parsing and more.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
at-spi-1.7.11-2.fc6 - at-spi-1.7.11-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface
  • Description: 
    at-spi allows assistive technologies to access GTK-based
applications. Essentially it exposes the internals of applications for
automation, so tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, or even
scripting interfaces can query and interact with GUI controls.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
audit-1.5.5-7.el5 - audit-1.7.7-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing
  • Description: 
    The audit package contains the user space utilities for
storing and searching the audit records generate by
the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • openldap-devel
    • tcp_wrappers
  • No removed dependencies
authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5 - authconfig-5.3.21-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Command line tool for setting up authentication from network services
  • Description: 
    Authconfig is a command line utility which can configure a workstation
to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig can also configure a
system to be a client for certain networked user information and
authentication schemes.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • python >= 2.4.1
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • python
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55 - autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.102
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A tool for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.
  • Description: 
    autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when you use
them, and unmounts them later when you are not using them. This can
include network filesystems, CD-ROMs, floppies, and so forth.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
bash-3.1-16.1 - bash-3.2-24.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Shells
  • Summary: The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.2
  • Description: 
    The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language
interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash
incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell
(csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. This
package (bash) contains bash version 3.2, which improves POSIX
compliance over previous versions.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • gettext
  • No removed dependencies
bind-9.3.3-10.el5 - bind-9.3.4-10.P1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server.
  • Description: 
    BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS
(Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named),
which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library
(routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and
tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
binutils-2.17.50.0.6-5.el5 - binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: A GNU collection of binary utilities.
  • Description: 
    Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an
object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from
files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting
addresses to file and line).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
bluez-libs-3.7-1 - bluez-libs-3.7-1.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Bluetooth libraries
  • Description: 
    Libraries for use in Bluetooth applications.

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
bluez-utils-3.7-2 - bluez-utils-3.7-2.2
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Bluetooth utilities
  • Description: 
    Bluetooth utilities (bluez-utils):
- hcitool
- hciattach
- hciconfig
- hcid
- l2ping
- start scripts (Red Hat)
- pcmcia configuration files

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • bluez-libs-devel >= 3.7-1.1
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • bluez-libs-devel >= 3.7
booty-0.80.4-5 - booty-0.80.6-5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: simple python bootloader config lib
  • Description: 
    Small python library for use with bootloader configuration by anaconda
and up2date.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
busybox-1.2.0-3 - busybox-1.2.0-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Shells
  • Summary: Statically linked binary providing simplified versions of system commands
  • Description: 
    Busybox is a single binary which includes versions of a large number
of system commands, including a shell. This package can be very
useful for recovering from certain types of system failures,
particularly those involving broken shared libraries.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
bzip2-1.0.3-3 - bzip2-1.0.3-4.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/File
  • Summary: A file compression utility.
  • Description: 
    Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor.
Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities
of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit
of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times
faster at decompression than those techniques. Bzip2 is not the
fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed
and compression capability.

Install bzip2 if you need a compression utility.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
cairo-1.2.4-2.el5 - cairo-1.2.4-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A vector graphics library
  • Description: 
    Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality
display and print output. Currently supported output targets include
the X Window System, OpenGL (via glitz), in-memory image buffers, and
image files (PDF, PostScript, and SVG). Cairo is designed to produce
identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display
hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render
Extension or OpenGL).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ccid-1.0.1-6.el5 - ccid-1.3.8-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver
  • Description: 
    Generic USB CCID (Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices) driver.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • pcsc-lite-devel >= 1.3.3
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • pcsc-lite-devel >= %{pcsc-lite_ver}
cdrtools-2.01-10 - cdrtools-2.01-10.7.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A collection of CD/DVD utilities.
  • Description: 
    cdrtools is a collection of CD/DVD utilities.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
checkpolicy-1.33.1-2.el5 - checkpolicy-1.33.1-4.el5
  • Group: Development/System
  • Summary: SELinux policy compiler
  • Description: 
    Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

This package contains checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler.
Only required for building policies.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
chkconfig-1.3.30.1-1 - chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A system tool for maintaining the /etc/rc*.d hierarchy.
  • Description: 
    Chkconfig is a basic system utility. It updates and queries runlevel
information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous
symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to relieve system administrators of some
of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
clustermon-0.10.0-5.el5 - clustermon-0.12.1-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Monitoring and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite
  • Description: 
    This package contains Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite
SNMP/CIM module/agent/provider.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • cman-devel
  • No removed dependencies
cman-2.0.73-1.el5 - cman-2.0.98-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: cman - The Cluster Manager
  • Description: 
    cman - The Cluster Manager
  • Added Dependencies:
    • kernel-headers
  • No removed dependencies
conga-0.10.0-6.el5 - conga-0.12.1-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Remote Management System
  • Description: 
    Conga is a project developing management system for remote stations.
It consists of luci, https frontend, and ricci, secure daemon that dispatches
incoming messages to underlying management modules.
  • No added dependencies
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • cman-devel
control-center-2.16.0-14.el5 - control-center-2.16.0-16.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: GNOME Control Center
  • Description: 
    GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment) is an attractive and
easy-to-use GUI desktop environment. The control-center package
provides the GNOME Control Center utilities that allow you to setup
and configure your system's GNOME environment (things like the desktop
background and theme, the screensaver, system sounds, and mouse
behavior).

If you install GNOME, you need to install control-center.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
coolkey-1.1.0-5.el5 - coolkey-1.1.0-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: CoolKey PKCS #11 module
  • Description: 
    Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5 - coreutils-5.97-19.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
  • Description: 
    These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
cpufreq-utils-002-1.1.43.el5 - cpufreq-utils-005-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: CPU Frequency changing related utilities
  • Description: 
    cpufreq-utils contains several utilities that can be used to control
the cpufreq interface provided by the kernel on hardware that
supports CPU frequency scaling.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
cpuspeed-1.2.1-1.48.el5 - cpuspeed-1.2.1-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: CPU frequency adjusting daemon
  • Description: 
    cpuspeed is a daemon that dynamically changes the speed
of your processor(s) depending upon its current workload
if it is capable (needs Intel Speedstep, AMD PowerNow!,
or similar support).

This package also supports enabling cpu frequency scaling
via in-kernel governors on Intel Centrino and AMD
Athlon64/Opteron platforms.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
crash-4.0-4.6.1 - crash-4.0-7.2.3
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: crash utility for live systems; netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles
  • Description: 
    The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to
investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the
netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch
offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
createrepo-0.4.4-2.fc6 - createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Creates a common metadata repository
  • Description: 
    This utility will generate a common metadata repository from a directory of rpm
packages.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • python
  • No removed dependencies
crypto-utils-2.3-1 - crypto-utils-2.3-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: SSL certificate and key management utilities
  • Description: 
    This package provides tools for managing and generating
SSL certificates and keys.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-2.2.el5 - cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A utility for setting up encrypted filesystems
  • Description: 
    This package contains cryptsetup, a utility for setting up
encrypted filesystems using Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
cups-1.2.4-11.14.el5 - cups-1.3.7-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Common Unix Printing System
  • Description: 
    The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products
to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users.
CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel
    • krb5-devel
  • No removed dependencies
cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP and SIEVE support
  • Description: 
    The cyrus-imapd package contains the core of the Cyrus IMAP server.
It is a scaleable enterprise mail system designed for use from
small to large enterprise environments using standards-based
internet mail technologies.

A full Cyrus IMAP implementation allows a seamless mail and bulletin
board environment to be set up across multiple servers. It differs from
other IMAP server implementations in that it is run on "sealed"
servers, where users are not normally permitted to log in and have no
system account on the server. The mailbox database is stored in parts
of the filesystem that are private to the Cyrus IMAP server. All user
access to mail is through software using the IMAP, POP3 or KPOP
protocols. It also includes support for virtual domains, NNTP,
mailbox annotations, and much more. The private mailbox database design
gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability and
administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the
same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on
mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies.

The Cyrus IMAP server supports the IMAP4rev1 protocol described
in RFC 3501. IMAP4rev1 has been approved as a proposed standard.
It supports any authentication mechanism available from the SASL
library, imaps/pop3s/nntps (IMAP/POP3/NNTP encrypted using SSL and
TLSv1) can be used for security. The server supports single instance
store where possible when an email message is addressed to multiple
recipients, SIEVE provides server side email filtering.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dbus-1.0.0-6.el5 - dbus-1.1.2-12.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: D-BUS message bus
  • Description: 
    
D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is
used both for the systemwide message bus service, and as a
per-user-login-session messaging facility.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • doxygen
    • libxslt
    • xmlto
  • No removed dependencies
dbus-glib-0.70-5 - dbus-glib-0.73-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: GLib bindings for D-Bus
  • Description: 
    
D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with
the GLib thread abstraction and main loop.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
desktop-printing-0.19-20.el5 - desktop-printing-0.19-20.2.el5
  • Group: Applications/File
  • Summary: Desktop print icon
  • Description: 
    Desktop-printing contains eggcups, a program for user print job
notification and control.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
devhelp-0.12-11.el5 - devhelp-0.12-20.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: API document browser
  • Description: 
    An API document browser for GNOME 2.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel = 1.8.0.12
device-mapper-1.02.20-1.el5 - device-mapper-1.02.28-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: device mapper library
  • Description: 
    This package contains the supporting userspace files (libdevmapper and
dmsetup) for the device-mapper.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-12.el5 - device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-23.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools to manage multipath devices using device-mapper.
  • Description: 
    device-mapper-multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by instructing the
device-mapper multipath kernel module what to do.
The tools are :
* multipath :  Scan the system for multipath devices and assemble them.
* multipathd : Detects when paths fail and execs multipath to update things.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dhcdbd-2.2-1.el5 - dhcdbd-2.2-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: DHCP D-BUS daemon (dhcdbd) controls dhclient sessions with D-BUS, stores and presents DHCP options.
  • Description: 
    dhcdbd provides a D-BUS interface to the ISC dhclient software. The
daemon provides access to DHCP configuration operations and stores those
options persistently. Other D-BUS applications can receive notifications
of changes in the client's DHCP configuration.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dhcp-3.0.5-7.el5 - dhcp-3.0.5-18.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent.
  • Description: 
    DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows
individual devices on an IP network to get their own network
configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address,
etc.) from a DHCP server. The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it
easier to administer a large network. The dhcp package includes the
ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

To use DHCP on your network, install a DHCP service (or relay agent),
and on clients run a DHCP client daemon. The dhcp package provides
the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dhcpv6-0.10-33.el5 - dhcpv6-1.0.10-16.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: DHCPv6 - DHCP server and client for IPv6
  • Description: 
    Implements the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networks in accordance with RFC 3315: Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6). Consists of dhcp6s(8), the server
DHCP daemon, and dhcp6r(8), the DHCPv6 relay agent.

Install this package if you want to support dynamic configuration of IPv6
addresses and parameters on your IPv6 network.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • kernel-headers
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • openssl-devel
diffstat-1.41-1.2.2 - diffstat-1.41-1.2.3.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: A utility which provides statistics based on the output of diff.
  • Description: 
    The diff command compares files line by line. Diffstat reads the
output of the diff command and displays a histogram of the insertions,
deletions and modifications in each file. Diffstat is commonly used
to provide a summary of the changes in large, complex patch files.

Install diffstat if you need a program which provides a summary of the
diff command's output. You'll need to also install diffutils.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
diffutils-2.8.1-15.2.2 - diffutils-2.8.1-15.2.3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Text
  • Summary: A GNU collection of diff utilities.
  • Description: 
    Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff
compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp
command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or
cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The
diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be
used when two people have made independent changes to a common
original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of
changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used
to merge two files interactively.

Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-4.el5 - dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-33.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: dmraid (Device-mapper RAID tool and library)
  • Description: 
    DMRAID supports RAID device discovery, RAID set activation and display of
properties for ATARAID on Linux >= 2.4 using device-mapper.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dnsmasq-2.39-2.el5 - dnsmasq-2.45-1.el5_2.1
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A lightweight DHCP/caching DNS server
  • Description: 
    Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server.
It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network.
It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global
DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines
with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured
either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports
static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless
machines.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dosfstools-2.11-6.2.el5 - dosfstools-2.11-7.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux.
  • Description: 
    The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities,
which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard
drives or on floppies.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dovecot-1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 - dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Dovecot Secure imap server
  • Description: 
    Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security
primarily in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server. It supports mail
in either of maildir or mbox formats.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
dvgrab-2.0-1.2.2 - dvgrab-3.0-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: Utility to capture video from a DV camera
  • Description: 
    The dvgrab utility will capture digital video from a DV source on the firewire
(IEEE-1394) bus.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
e2fsprogs-1.39-10.el5 - e2fsprogs-1.39-20.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Utilities for managing the second and third extended (ext2/ext3) filesystems
  • Description: 
    The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second
and third extended (ext2/ext3) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains
e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean
shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an
empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal
structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted
filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to
modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs
filesystem utilities.

You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the
performance of an ext2 and/or ext3 filesystem.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
eclipse-3.2.1-18.el5 - eclipse-3.2.1-19.el5
  • Group: Text Editors/Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
  • Summary: An open, extensible IDE
  • Description: 
    The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development
environments (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse
as web sites, embedded Java(tm) programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise
JavaBeans(tm).
  • No added dependencies
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • firefox-devel
    • nspr-devel
ed-0.2-38.2.2 - ed-0.2-39.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/Text
  • Summary: The GNU line editor.
  • Description: 
    Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify
text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most
purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors
(emacs and vi, for example).

Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In
general, however, you probably don't need to install it and you probably
won't use it.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
edac-utils-0.9-5.el5 - edac-utils-0.9-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Userspace helper for kernel EDAC drivers
  • Description: 
    EDAC is the current set of drivers in the Linux kernel that handle
detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets
on i386 and x86_64 architectures. This userspace component consists
of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels
are loaded at system startup, as well as a library and utility
for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
elfutils-0.125-3.el5 - elfutils-0.137-3.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects
  • Description: 
    Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker),
nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the
section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding
symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint
(to check for well-formed ELF files).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
emacs-21.4-19.el5 - emacs-21.4-20.el5
  • Group: Applications/Editors
  • Summary: GNU Emacs text editor
  • Description: 
    Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
emacspeak-23.0-2.1 - emacspeak-23.0-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Editors
  • Summary: emacspeak -- The Complete Audio Desktop
  • Description: 
    Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to
interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Emacspeak has
dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually
impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and
the Internet. A rich suite of task-oriented speech-enabled tools provides
efficient speech-enabled access to the evolving semantic WWW.
When combined with Linux running on low-cost PC hardware,
Emacspeak/Linux provides a reliable, stable speech-friendly solution that
opens up the Internet to visually impaired users around the world.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.el5 - enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: A plain ASCII to PostScript converter.
  • Description: 
    GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript
program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools
generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a
file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and
includes many options for customizing printouts.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
esc-1.0.0-32.el5 - esc-1.0.0-39.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Enterprise Security Client Smart Card Client
  • Description: 
    Enterprise Security Client allows the user to enroll and manage their
cryptographic smartcards.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • xulrunner
    • xulrunner-devel
  • No removed dependencies
ethtool-5-1.el5 - ethtool-6-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Ethernet settings tool for PCI ethernet cards
  • Description: 
    This utility allows querying and changing of ethernet
card settings, such as speed, port, autonegotiation,
and PCI locations.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
evolution-data-server-1.8.0-25.el5 - evolution-data-server-1.12.3-6.el5_2.3
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Backend data server for Evolution
  • Description: 
    The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for programs
that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information.

It was originally developed for Evolution (hence the name), but is now used
by other packages.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gtk-doc
    • intltool >= 0.35.0
    • openldap-evolution-devel
    • openssl-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • intltool
    • openldap-devel >= 2.0.11
file-4.17-9.0.1.el5 - file-4.17-15
  • Group: Applications/File
  • Summary: A utility for determining file types.
  • Description: 
    The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the
type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different
file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and
different graphics formats.

You should install the file package, since the file command is such a
useful utility.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
filesystem-2.4.0-1 - filesystem-2.4.0-2
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The basic directory layout for a Linux system.
  • Description: 
    The filesystem package is one of the basic packages that is installed
on a Red Hat Linux system. Filesystem contains the basic directory
layout for a Linux operating system, including the correct permissions
for the directories.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
findutils-4.2.27-4.1 - findutils-4.2.27-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/File
  • Summary: The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs).
  • Description: 
    The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate
files on your system. The find utility searches through a hierarchy
of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria
(such as a filename pattern). The xargs utility builds and executes
command lines from standard input arguments (usually lists of file
names generated by the find command).

You should install findutils because it includes tools that are very
useful for finding things on your system.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
firefox-1.5.0.12-3.el5 - firefox-3.0.5-1.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser
  • Description: 
    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • startup-notification-devel
    • xulrunner-devel >= 1.9.0.5-1
    • xulrunner-devel-unstable >= 1.9.0.5-1
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • cairo-devel >= 0.5
    • libjpeg-devel
    • libpng-devel
    • nspr-devel >= 4.6
    • nss-devel >= 3.11.1
    • zlib-devel
firstboot-1.4.27.3-1.el5 - firstboot-1.4.27.7-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Initial system configuration utility
  • Description: 
    The firstboot utility runs after installation. It guides the
user through a series of steps that allows for easier
configuration of the machine.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
flac-1.1.2-27 - flac-1.1.2-28.el5_0.1
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec.
  • Description: 
    FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC
is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of
the stream format, reference encoders and decoders in library form,
flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files, metaflac,
a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files and input plugins for
various music players.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
fontconfig-2.4.1-6.el5 - fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Font configuration and customization library
  • Description: 
    Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
system and select them according to requirements specified by
applications.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
fonts-indic-2.0.13-1.el5 - fonts-indic-2.3.1-1.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: Free Indian truetype/opentype fonts
  • Description: 
    This package provides the Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Telugu TrueType/Opentype fonts.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
freeradius-1.1.3-1.2.el5 - freeradius-1.1.3-1.4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: High-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server.
  • Description: 
    The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable
GPL'd free RADIUS server. The server is similar in some respects to
Livingston's 2.0 server. While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the
Cistron RADIUS server, they don't share a lot in common any more. It now has
many more features than Cistron or Livingston, and is much more configurable.

FreeRADIUS is an Internet authentication daemon, which implements the RADIUS
protocol, as defined in RFC 2865 (and others). It allows Network Access
Servers (NAS boxes) to perform authentication for dial-up users. There are
also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and
more. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to
be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be
done when adding or deleting new users.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
freetype-2.2.1-19.el5 - freetype-2.2.1-20.el5_2
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine
  • Description: 
    The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
text-rendering library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ftp-0.17-33.fc6 - ftp-0.17-35.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client.
  • Description: 
    The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) client. FTP is a widely used protocol for
transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files.

If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do
file transfers.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gcc-4.1.2-14.el5 - gcc-4.1.2-44.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...)
  • Description: 
    The gcc package contains the GNU Compiler Collection version 4.1.
You'll need this package in order to compile C code.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • xulrunner-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • firefox-devel
gd-2.0.33-9.3.fc6 - gd-2.0.33-9.4.el5_1.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images
  • Description: 
    The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images
complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from
other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or
JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG
and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most
browsers. Note that gd is not a paint program.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gdb-6.5-25.el5 - gdb-6.8-27.el5
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages
  • Description: 
    GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • expat-devel
    • readline-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • /lib/libc.so.6
    • /lib64/libc.so.6
    • /usr/lib/libc.so
    • /usr/lib64/libc.so
gdm-2.16.0-31.0.1.el5 - gdm-2.16.0-46.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: The GNOME Display Manager.
  • Description: 
    Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable
reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log
into your system with the X Window System running and supports running
several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gedit-2.16.0-5.el5 - gedit-2.16.0-9.el5
  • Group: Applications/Editors
  • Summary: gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME
  • Description: 
    gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for
the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports
extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for
editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text
editor functions.

You'll need to have GNOME and GTK+ installed to use gEdit.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gfs-kmod-0.1.19-7.el5 - gfs-kmod-0.1.31-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: gfs kernel modules
  • Description: 
    gfs - The Global File System is a symmetric, shared-disk, cluster file
system.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-128.el5
    • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-128.el5
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5
    • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5
gfs-utils-0.1.12-1.el5 - gfs-utils-0.1.18-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: Utilities for managing the global filesystem (GFS)
  • Description: 
    The gfs-utils package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in GFS
filesystems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gfs2-utils-0.1.38-1.el5 - gfs2-utils-0.1.53-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: Utilities for managing the global filesystem (GFS)
  • Description: 
    The gfs2-utils package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in GFS
filesystems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.1.el5 - ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer.
  • Description: 
    Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)
interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which
implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and
an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript
translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like
those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally
used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to
non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to
non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you
install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts
package.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gimp-print-4.2.7-22 - gimp-print-4.2.7-22.2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A collection of high-quality printer drivers.
  • Description: 
    These drivers provide printing quality for UNIX/Linux in many cases equal
to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for
many of the most demanding printing tasks.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
glibc-2.5-18 - glibc-2.5-34
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The GNU libc libraries.
  • Description: 
    The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnbd-1.1.5-1.el5 - gnbd-1.1.7-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: GFS's Network Block Device
  • Description: 
    gnbd - GFS's Network Block Device
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnbd-kmod-0.1.4-12.el5 - gnbd-kmod-0.1.5-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: gnbd kernel modules
  • Description: 
    gnbd - The Global Network Block Device
  • Added Dependencies:
    • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-98.el5
    • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-98.el5
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5
    • kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5
gnome-panel-2.16.1-6.el5 - gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: GNOME panel
  • Description: 
    The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other
features for the GNOME desktop.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-8.el5 - gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-10.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: GNOME Power Manager
  • Description: 
    GNOME Power Manager uses the information and facilities provided by HAL
displaying icons and handling user callbacks in an interactive GNOME session.
GNOME Power Preferences allows authorised users to set policy and
change preferences.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-python2-desktop-2.16.0-1.fc6 - gnome-python2-desktop-2.16.0-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: The sources for additional PyGNOME Python extension modules for the GNOME desktop
  • Description: 
    The gnome-python-desktop package contains the source packages for additional
Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-python2-extras-2.14.2-4.fc6 - gnome-python2-extras-2.14.2-6.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: The sources for additional. PyGNOME Python extension modules.
  • Description: 
    The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional
Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • firefox-devel >= 1.5.0.5
gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5 - gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-8.el5
  • Group: Amusements/Graphics
  • Summary: GNOME Screensaver
  • Description: 
    gnome-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have
simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libXxf86misc-devel
    • libXxf86vm-devel
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-terminal-2.16.0-3.el5 - gnome-terminal-2.16.0-5.3.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: GNOME Terminal
  • Description: 
    
GNOME terminal emulator application.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-utils-2.16.0-3.el5 - gnome-utils-2.16.0-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: GNOME utility programs
  • Description: 
    GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of
GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a
window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package
includes a set of small "desk accessory" utility applications for GNOME.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnome-volume-manager-2.15.0-4.el5 - gnome-volume-manager-2.15.0-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The GNOME Volume Manager
  • Description: 
    The GNOME Volume Manager monitors volume-related events and responds with
user-specified policy. The GNOME Volume Manager can automount hot-plugged
drives, automount inserted removable media, autorun programs, automatically
play audio CDs and video DVDs, and automatically import photos from a digital
camera. The GNOME Volume Manager does this entirely in user-space and without
polling.

The GNOME Voume Manager sits at the top end of a larger picture that aims to
integrate the Linux system from the kernel on up through the desktop and its
applications.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnupg-1.4.5-13 - gnupg-1.4.5-14
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A GNU utility for secure communication and data storage.
  • Description: 
    GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and
creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management
capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet
standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented
algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses
only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gnuplot-4.0.0-12 - gnuplot-4.0.0-14.el5
  • Group: Applications/Engineering
  • Summary: A program for plotting mathematical expressions and data.
  • Description: 
    Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting
program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot
can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three
dimensions and in many different formats.

Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data
representation.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gd-devel
  • No removed dependencies
gnutls-1.4.1-2 - gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A TLS protocol implementation.
  • Description: 
    GnuTLS is a project that aims to develop a library which provides a secure
layer, over a reliable transport layer. Currently the GnuTLS library implements
the proposed standards by the IETF's TLS working group.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
grub-0.97-13 - grub-0.97-13.2
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: GRUB - the Grand Unified Boot Loader.
  • Description: 
    GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is an experimental boot loader
capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating
systems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gstreamer-0.10.9-3.el5 - gstreamer-0.10.20-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: GStreamer streaming media framework runtime
  • Description: 
    GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which
operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything
from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything
else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data
types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new
plugins.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • PyXML
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • docbook-style-dsssl
    • docbook-style-xsl
    • docbook-utils
    • gettext-devel
    • ghostscript
    • jadetex
    • libtool
    • libxslt
    • netpbm-progs
    • openjade
    • python2
    • tetex-dvips
    • transfig
    • xfig
  • No removed dependencies
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.9-6.el5 - gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: GStreamer streaming media framework base plug-ins
  • Description: 
    GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which
operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything
from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything
else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data
types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new
plug-ins.

This package contains a set of well-maintained base plug-ins.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • gnome-vfs2-devel
    • gstreamer-devel >= 0.10.20
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • gnome-vfs2-devel > 1.9.4.00
    • gstreamer-devel >= 0.10.6
    • liboil-devel >= 0.3.2
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.4-4.el5 - gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: GStreamer plug-ins with good code and licensing
  • Description: 
    GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which
operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything
from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything
else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data
types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new
plug-ins.

GStreamer Good Plug-ins is a collection of well-supported plug-ins of
good quality and under the LGPL license.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gthumb-2.7.8-5.el5 - gthumb-2.7.8-8.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: Image viewer, editor, organizer
  • Description: 
    gthumb is an application for viewing, editing, and organizing
collections of images.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gtk2-2.10.4-19.el5 - gtk2-2.10.4-20.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creating GUIs for X
  • Description: 
    GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
gtkhtml3-3.12.0-1.fc6 - gtkhtml3-3.16.3-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: gtkhtml library
  • Description: 
    GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine. It
was originally based on KHTMLW, but is now being developed
independently of it.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • intltool >= 0.35.0
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • intltool
    • libgnomeprint22-devel >= 2.7.1
    • libgnomeprintui22-devel >= 2.7.1
gzip-1.3.5-9.el5 - gzip-1.3.5-10.el5
  • Group: Applications/File
  • Summary: The GNU data compression program.
  • Description: 
    The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
hal-0.5.8.1-25.el5 - hal-0.5.8.1-38.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Hardware Abstraction Layer
  • Description: 
    
HAL is daemon for collection and maintaining information from several
sources about the hardware on the system. It provides a live device
list through D-BUS.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gperf >= 3.0.1
  • No removed dependencies
hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5 - hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5.2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Halified CUPS utilities
  • Description: 
    Halified utilities for CUPS:
- hal_lpadmin
- hal CUPS backend
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5 - hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project
  • Description: 
    The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides
drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • openssl-devel
  • No removed dependencies
htdig-3.2.0b6-9.el5 - htdig-3.2.0b6-9.0.1.el5_1
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: ht://Dig - Web search engine
  • Description: 
    The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching
system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace
the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek,
Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for
a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As
opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can
span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers
doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
ht://Dig is also used by KDE to search KDE's HTML documentation.

ht://Dig was developed at San Diego State University as a way to search the
various web servers on the campus network.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
htmlview-4.0.0-1.el5 - htmlview-4.0.0-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Launcher of Preferred Web Browser
  • Description: 
    htmlview and launchmail are tools for launching Preferred Applications.
This package exists for compatibility reasons and is likely to be removed
later when equivalent functionality is implemented elsewhere.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
httpd-2.2.3-11.el5 - httpd-2.2.3-22.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Apache HTTP Server
  • Description: 
    The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful, efficient, and extensible
web server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
hwbrowser-0.30-1.el5 - hwbrowser-0.30-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A hardware browser.
  • Description: 
    A browser for your current hardware configuration.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
hwdata-0.211-1 - hwdata-0.213.11-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Hardware identification and configuration data
  • Description: 
    hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data,
such as the pci.ids database and MonitorsDb databases.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ibutils-1.2-2.el5 - ibutils-1.2-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools
  • Description: 
    ibutils provides IB network and path diagnostics.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • libibumad-devel
    • libtool
    • opensm-devel >= 3.2.0
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • opensm-devel >= 3.0.3
icu-3.6-5.11 - icu-3.6-5.11.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: International Components for Unicode
  • Description: 
    The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide
robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of
platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode
standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode
characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support).
As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software
portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same
results across all the various platforms you support, without
sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and
customize the supplied services.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
initscripts-8.45.17.EL-1 - initscripts-8.45.25-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts.
  • Description: 
    The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot
your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down
cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and
deactivate most network interfaces.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
inn-2.4.3-6.fc6 - inn-2.4.3-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The InterNetNews (INN) system, an Usenet news server.
  • Description: 
    INN (InterNetNews) is a complete system for serving Usenet news and/or
private newsfeeds. INN includes innd, an NNTP (NetNews Transport
Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for each
client. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol, but
not in ways that are easily noticed.

Install the inn package if you need a complete system for serving and
reading Usenet news. You may also need to install inn-devel, if you
are going to use a separate program which interfaces to INN, like
newsgate or tin.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
iproute-2.6.18-4.el5 - iproute-2.6.18-9.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools.
  • Description: 
    The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for
example) which are designed to use the advanced networking
capabilities of the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
iprutils-2.2.6-1.el5 - iprutils-2.2.8-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Utilities for the IBM Power Linux RAID adapters
  • Description: 
    Provides a suite of utilities to manage and configure SCSI devices
supported by the ipr SCSI storage device driver.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.el5 - ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for configuring and using IPSEC
  • Description: 
    This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order to
really use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. This
package builds:

- setkey, a program to directly manipulate policies and SAs
- racoon, an IKEv1 keying daemon
  • Added Dependencies:
    • kernel-headers >= 2.6.18-92
  • No removed dependencies
iptables-1.3.5-1.2.1 - iptables-1.3.5-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities.
  • Description: 
    The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the
Linux kernel. If you need to set up firewalls and/or IP masquerading,
you should install this package.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
iputils-20020927-43.el5 - iputils-20020927-45.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Network monitoring tools including ping.
  • Description: 
    The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
irqbalance-0.55-6.el5 - irqbalance-0.55-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: IRQ balancing daemon.
  • Description: 
    irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across
multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.865-0.8.el5 - iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.18.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: iSCSI daemon and utility programs
  • Description: 
    The iscsi package provides the server daemon for the iSCSI protocol,
as well as the utility programs used to manage it. iSCSI is a protocol
for distributed disk access using SCSI commands sent over Internet
Protocol networks.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • bison
    • flex
  • No removed dependencies
isdn4k-utils-3.2-50.1 - isdn4k-utils-3.2-51.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Utilities for configuring an ISDN subsystem.
  • Description: 
    The isdn4k-utils package contains a collection of utilities needed for
configuring an ISDN subsystem.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
jakarta-commons-collections-3.1-6jpp.1 - jakarta-commons-collections-3.2-2jpp.3
  • Group: Development/Libraries/Java
  • Summary: Jakarta Commons Collections Package
  • Description: 
    The introduction of the Collections API by Sun in JDK 1.2 has been a
boon to quick and effective Java programming. Ready access to powerful
data structures has accelerated development by reducing the need for
custom container classes around each core object. Most Java2 APIs are
significantly easier to use because of the Collections API.
However, there are certain holes left unfilled by Sun's
implementations, and the Jakarta-Commons Collections Component strives
to fulfill them. Among the features of this package are:
- special-purpose implementations of Lists and Maps for fast access
- adapter classes from Java1-style containers (arrays, enumerations) to
Java2-style collections.
- methods to test or create typical set-theory properties of collections
such as union, intersection, and closure.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • xml-commons-apis >= 1.3
  • No removed dependencies
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.112 - java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: JPackage runtime scripts for GCJ
  • Description: 
    This package installs directory structures, shell scripts and symbolic
links to simulate a JPackage-compatible runtime environment with GCJ.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kbd-1.12-19.el5 - kbd-1.12-21.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for configuring the console (keyboard, virtual terminals, etc.)
  • Description: 
    The kbd package contains tools for managing a Linux
system's console's behavior, including the keyboard, the screen
fonts, the virtual terminals and font files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kdeadmin-3.5.4-2.fc6 - kdeadmin-3.5.4-3.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: Administrative tools for KDE.
  • Description: 
    The kdeadmin package includes administrative tools for the K Desktop
Environment (KDE) including:

kcron - Crontab editor
kdat - Tape backup tool
kuser - Frontend for configuring users and user groups
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5 - kdebase-3.5.4-19.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: K Desktop Environment - core files
  • Description: 
    Core applications for the K Desktop Environment. Included are: kdm
(replacement for xdm), kwin (window manager), konqueror (filemanager,
web browser, ftp client, ...), konsole (xterm replacement), kpanel
(application starter and desktop pager), kaudio (audio server),
kdehelp (viewer for kde help files, info and man pages), kthememgr
(system for managing alternate theme packages) plus other KDE
components (kcheckpass, kikbd, kscreensaver, kcontrol, kfind,
kfontmanager, kmenuedit).
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libutempter-devel
  • No removed dependencies
kdebindings-3.5.4-1.fc6 - kdebindings-3.5.4-6.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: KDE bindings to non-C++ languages
  • Description: 
    KDE/DCOP bindings to non-C++ languages
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libutempter-devel
    • perl >= 5.8.8
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • perl >= 5.8
kdelibs-3.5.4-13.el5 - kdelibs-3.5.4-18.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: K Desktop Environment - Libraries
  • Description: 
    Libraries for the K Desktop Environment:
KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface),
kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking),
kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook),
kimgio (image manipulation).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kdenetwork-3.5.4-4.fc6 - kdenetwork-3.5.4-8.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: K Desktop Environment - Network Applications
  • Description: 
    Networking applications for the K Desktop Environment.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libutempter-devel
  • No removed dependencies
kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 - kernel-2.6.18-128.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
  • Description: 
    The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kexec-tools-1.101-194.4.el5 - kexec-tools-1.102pre-56.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The kexec/kdump userspace component.
  • Description: 
    kexec-tools provides /sbin/kexec binary that facilitates a new
kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a
normal or a panic reboot. This package contains the /sbin/kexec
binary and ancillary utilities that together form the userspace
component of the kernel's kexec feature.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
krb5-1.6.1-17.el5 - krb5-1.6.1-31.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system.
  • Description: 
    Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of cleartext passwords.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ksh-20060214-1.4 - ksh-20080202-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/Shells
  • Summary: The Original ATT Korn Shell
  • Description: 
    KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
KornShell is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible
with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
kudzu-1.2.57.1.15-1 - kudzu-1.2.57.1.21-1
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The Red Hat Linux hardware probing tool.
  • Description: 
    Kudzu is a hardware probing tool run at system boot time to determine
what hardware has been added or removed from the system.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
lam-7.1.2-8.fc6 - lam-7.1.2-14.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: The LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) programming environment.
  • Description: 
    LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) is an Message-Passing Interface (MPI)
programming environment and development system for heterogeneous
computers on a network. With LAM/MPI, a dedicated cluster or an
existing network computing infrastructure can act as one parallel
computer to solve one problem. LAM/MPI is considered to be "cluster
friendly" because it offers daemon-based process startup/control as
well as fast client-to-client message passing protocols. LAM/MPI can
use TCP/IP and/or shared memory for message passing (different RPMs
are supplied for this -- see the main LAM website at
http://www.mpi.nd.edu/lam/ for details).<

LAM features a full implementation of MPI version 1 (with the
exception that LAM does not support cancelling of sends), and much of
version 2. Compliant applications are source code portable between LAM
and any other implementation of MPI. In addition to meeting the
standard, LAM/MPI offers extensive monitoring capabilities to support
debugging. Monitoring happens on two levels: On one level, LAM/MPI has
the hooks to allow a snapshot of a process and message status to be
taken at any time during an application run. The status includes all
aspects of synchronization plus datatype map/signature, communicator
group membership and message contents (see the XMPI application on the
main LAM website). On the second level, the MPI library can produce a
cumulative record of communication, which can be visualized either at
runtime or post-mortem.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libX11-1.0.3-8.0.1.el5 - libX11-1.0.3-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: X.Org X11 libX11 runtime library
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 libX11 runtime library
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.2.el5 - libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libao-0.8.6-5 - libao-0.8.6-7
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Cross Platform Audio Output Library.
  • Description: 
    Libao is a cross platform audio output library. It currently supports
ESD, OSS, Solaris, and IRIX.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libchewing-0.3.0-7.el5 - libchewing-0.3.0-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Intelligent phonetic input method library for Traditional Chinese
  • Description: 
    libchewing is an intelligent phonetic input method library for Chinese.

It provides the core algorithm and logic that can be used by various
input methods. The Chewing input method is a smart bopomofo phonetics
input method that is useful for inputting Mandarin Chinese.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libdhcp-1.20-2.el5 - libdhcp-1.20-6.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A library for network interface configuration with DHCP
  • Description: 
    libdhcp enables programs to invoke and control the Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP) clients: the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) IPv4 DHCP
client library, libdhcp4client, and the IPv6 DHCPv6 client library,
libdhcp6client, and provides Network Interface Configuration (NIC) services
for network parameter autoconfiguration with DHCP.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • dhcp-devel >= 12:3.0.5-13
    • libdhcp4client-devel >= 12:3.0.5-13
    • libdhcp6client-devel >= 1.0.9-1
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • dhcp-devel
    • libdhcp4client-devel >= 12:3.0.4-17
    • libdhcp6client-devel
liberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 - liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: Fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Windows Fonts
  • Description: 
    The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three
most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman,
Arial, and Courier New.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libexif-0.6.13-4.0.2.el5 - libexif-0.6.13-4.0.2.el5_1.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files
  • Description: 
    Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with
extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library
allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libgcrypt-1.2.3-1 - libgcrypt-1.2.4-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A general-purpose cryptography library.
  • Description: 
    Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used
in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libgnomeprint22-2.12.1-9.el5 - libgnomeprint22-2.12.1-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Printing library for GNOME.
  • Description: 
    GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of
applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window
manager for the X Window System. The gnome-print package contains
libraries and fonts needed by GNOME applications for printing.

You should install the gnome-print package if you intend to use any of
the GNOME applications that can print. If you would like to develop
GNOME applications that can print you will also need to install the
gnome-print devel package.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libhugetlbfs-1.0.1-1.el5 - libhugetlbfs-1.3-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library to access the Huge TLB Filesystem
  • Description: 
    The libhugetlbfs library interacts with the Linux hugetlbfs to make large pages
available to applications in a transparent manner.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libica-1.3.7-5.el5 - libica-1.3.7-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library of functions for accessing ICA hardware crypto on IBM zSeries
  • Description: 
    A library of functions for accessing ICA hardware crypto on IBM zSeries
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libtool
  • No removed dependencies
libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.4 - libnl-1.0-0.10.pre5.5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Convenience library for kernel netlink sockets
  • Description: 
    This package contains a convenience library to simplify
using the Linux kernel's netlink sockets interface for
network manipulation
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2 - libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_0.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files
  • Description: 
    The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.

Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libraw1394-1.2.1-1.fc6 - libraw1394-1.3.0-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing low-level IEEE-1394 access
  • Description: 
    The libraw1394 library provides direct access to the IEEE-1394 bus through
the Linux 1394 subsystem's raw1394 user space interface.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libtool
  • No removed dependencies
librtas-1.2.4-3.el5 - librtas-1.3.3-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Libraries to provide access to RTAS calls and RTAS events
  • Description: 
    The librtas shared library provides userspace with an interface
through which certain RTAS calls can be made. The library uses
either of the RTAS User Module or the RTAS system call to direct
the kernel in making these calls.

The librtasevent shared library provides users with a set of
definitions and common routines useful in parsing and dumping
the contents of RTAS events.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libselinux-1.33.4-4.el5 - libselinux-1.33.4-5.1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: SELinux library and simple utilities
  • Description: 
    Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set
process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy
decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5 - libtiff-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files
  • Description: 
    The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely
used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the
.tif extension and they are often quite large.

The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF
format image files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libuser-0.54.7-2.el5.2 - libuser-0.54.7-2.el5.5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A user and group account administration library.
  • Description: 
    The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating
and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable
back-ends to interface to its data sources.

Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password
suite are included.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libutempter-1.1.4-3.fc6 - libutempter-1.1.4-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp updates
  • Description: 
    This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as
screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libvirt-0.2.3-9.el5 - libvirt-0.3.3-14.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing a simple API virtualization
  • Description: 
    Libvirt is a C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes).
  • Added Dependencies:
    • avahi-devel
    • bridge-utils
    • dnsmasq
    • gnutls-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • /sbin/iptables
    • libsysfs-devel
libvorbis-1.1.2-3.el5.0 - libvorbis-1.1.2-3.el5_1.2
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec.
  • Description: 
    Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and royalty-free,
general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed
and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel.

The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in programs
that support Ogg Voribs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2 - libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.7
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support
  • Description: 
    This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support
to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support
this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either
at parse time or later once the document has been modified. The output
can be a simple SAX stream or and in-memory DOM like representations.
In this case one can use the built-in XPath and XPointer implementation
to select subnodes or ranges. A flexible Input/Output mechanism is
available, with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an
URI library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
libxslt-1.1.17-2 - libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine
  • Description: 
    This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files
(or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation
mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.25
installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
linuxwacom-0.7.4.3-2.el5 - linuxwacom-0.7.8.3-5.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Wacom Drivers from Linux Wacom Project
  • Description: 
    The Linux Wacom Project manages the drivers, libraries, and
documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets under the
Linux operating system. It contains diagnostic applications as well as
X.org XInput drivers.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • desktop-file-utils
    • tcl-devel
    • tk-devel
  • No removed dependencies
lm_sensors-2.10.0-3.1 - lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Hardware monitoring tools.
  • Description: 
    The lm_sensors package includes a collection of modules for general SMBus
access and hardware monitoring. NOTE: this requires special support which
is not in standard 2.2-vintage kernels.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
logrotate-3.7.4-7 - logrotate-3.7.4-9
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files.
  • Description: 
    The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate
allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of
log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,
monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally,
logrotate runs as a daily cron job.

Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the
log files on your system.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
logwatch-7.3-5 - logwatch-7.3-6.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A log file analysis program
  • Description: 
    Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go
through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas
that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out
of the package on many systems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ltrace-0.5-6.45svn.fc6 - ltrace-0.5-7.45svn.el5
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: Tracks runtime library calls from dynamically linked executables.
  • Description: 
    Ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until the
command exits. While the command is executing, ltrace intercepts and
records both the dynamic library calls called by the executed process
and the signals received by the executed process. Ltrace can also
intercept and print system calls executed by the process.

You should install ltrace if you need a sysadmin tool for tracking the
execution of processes.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
lvm2-2.02.26-3.el5 - lvm2-2.02.40-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Userland logical volume management tools
  • Description: 
    LVM2 includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on
physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc.,
multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) or even loop devices, see
losetup(8)), creating volume groups (kind of virtual disks) from one
or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes
(kind of logical partitions) in volume groups.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • device-mapper >= 1.02.28-2
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • device-mapper >= 1.02.20-1
lvm2-cluster-2.02.26-1.el5 - lvm2-cluster-2.02.40-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Cluster extensions for userland logical volume management tools
  • Description: 
    Extensions to LVM2 to support clusters.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • device-mapper >= 1.02.28-2
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • device-mapper >= 1.02.20-1
lynx-2.8.5-28.1 - lynx-2.8.5-28.1.el5_2.1
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: A text-based Web browser.
  • Description: 
    Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images,
but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One
advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and
exits quickly and swiftly displays webpages.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
m17n-db-1.3.3-46.el5 - m17n-db-1.3.3-48.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Multilingualization datafiles for m17n-lib
  • Description: 
    This package contains multilingualization (m17n) datafiles for m17n-lib
which describe input maps, encoding maps, and OpenType font data
for many languages.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1 - m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.3
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Support for using OpenSSL in python scripts
  • Description: 
    This package allows you to call OpenSSL functions from python scripts.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mailman-2.1.9-2 - mailman-2.1.9-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Mailing list manager with built in Web access.
  • Description: 
    Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like
Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives
each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe,
unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer
his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most
things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail
<-> news gateways, and so on.

Documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9

When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform some
additional installation steps, these are described in:
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.9/INSTALL.REDHAT
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
make-3.81-1.1 - make-3.81-3.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: A GNU tool which simplifies the build process for users.
  • Description: 
    A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other
non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make
allows users to build and install packages without any significant
knowledge about the details of the build process. The details about
how the program should be built are provided for make in the program's
makefile.

The GNU make tool should be installed on your system because it is
commonly used to simplify the process of installing programs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
man-pages-2.39-10.el5 - man-pages-2.39-12.el5
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project.
  • Description: 
    A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
man-pages-ja-20060815-5 - man-pages-ja-20060815-9.el5
  • Group: Documentation
  • Summary: Japanese man (manual) pages from the Japanese Manual Project
  • Description: 
    Japanese Manual pages, translated by JM-Project (Japanese Manual Project).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mcstrans-0.2.6-1.el5 - mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: SELinux Translation Daemon
  • Description: 
    Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

mcstrans provides an translation daemon to translate SELinux categories
from internal representations to user defined representation.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mdadm-2.5.4-3.el5 - mdadm-2.6.4-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: mdadm controls Linux md devices (software RAID arrays)
  • Description: 
    mdadm is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID)
devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools
package. However, mdadm is a single program, and it can perform
almost all functions without a configuration file, though a configuration
file can be used to help with some common tasks.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mesa-6.5.1-7.5.el5 - mesa-6.5.1-7.7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mesa graphics libraries
  • Description: 
    Mesa
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
metacity-2.16.0-8.el5 - metacity-2.16.0-12.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: Metacity window manager
  • Description: 
    
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with
GNOME 2.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
microcode_ctl-1.17-1.42.el5 - microcode_ctl-1.17-1.47.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode.
  • Description: 
    microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel x86/x86-64 CPU's
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-19 - mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
  • Description: 
    Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)
images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block
device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem.

In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any
SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the
kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to
address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The initial
ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and
is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The
ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to
mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a
ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libdhcp-devel >= 1.20-6
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • libdhcp-devel >= 1.9
mlocate-0.15-1.el5 - mlocate-0.15-1.el5.1
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: An utility for finding files by name
  • Description: 
    mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation. It keeps a database of
all existing files and allows you to lookup files by name.

The 'm' stands for "merging": updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid
rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not
trash the system caches as much as traditional locate implementations.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mod_nss-1.0.3-4.el5 - mod_nss-1.0.3-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server
  • Description: 
    The mod_nss module provides strong cryptography for the Apache Web
server via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer
Security (TLS) protocols using the Network Security Services (NSS)
security library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5 - mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: An embedded Perl interpreter for the Apache HTTP Server
  • Description: 
    Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server,
so that the Apache web server can directly execute Perl code.
Mod_perl links the Perl runtime library into the Apache web server and
provides an object-oriented Perl interface for Apache's C language
API. The end result is a quicker CGI script turnaround process, since
no external Perl interpreter has to be started.

Install mod_perl if you're installing the Apache web server and you'd
like for it to directly incorporate a Perl interpreter.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • perl
    • perl(ExtUtils::Embed)
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • perl >= 1:5.6.1
module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.34.el5 - module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Kernel
  • Summary: Kernel module management utilities.
  • Description: 
    The modutils package includes various programs needed for automatic
loading and unloading of modules under 2.6 and later kernels, as well
as other module management programs. Device drivers and filesystems
are two examples of loaded and unloaded modules.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mozldap-6.0.4-1.el5 - mozldap-6.0.5-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mozilla LDAP C SDK
  • Description: 
    The Mozilla LDAP C SDK is a set of libraries that
allow applications to communicate with LDAP directory
servers. These libraries are derived from the University
of Michigan and Netscape LDAP libraries. They use Mozilla
NSPR and NSS for crypto.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
mysql-5.0.22-2.1.0.1 - mysql-5.0.45-7.el5
  • Group: Applications/Databases
  • Summary: MySQL client programs and shared libraries.
  • Description: 
    MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a
client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs and libraries. The base package
contains the MySQL client programs, the client shared libraries, and
generic MySQL files.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gawk
  • No removed dependencies
nautilus-2.16.2-6.el5 - nautilus-2.16.2-7.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: Nautilus is a file manager for GNOME.
  • Description: 
    Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media,
Internet-based resources and the Web. Nautilus delivers a dynamic and
rich user experience. Nautilus is an free software project developed
under the GNU General Public License and is a core component of the
GNOME desktop project.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
neon-0.25.5-5.1 - neon-0.25.5-10.el5
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: An HTTP and WebDAV client library
  • Description: 
    neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface;
providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along
with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon
supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and
Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
net-snmp-5.3.1-19.el5 - net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries.
  • Description: 
    SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for
network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting
information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP
traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl
mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons,
documentation, etc.

You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package,
which contains NET-SNMP utilities.

Building option:
--without tcp_wrappers : disable tcp_wrappers support
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
net-tools-1.60-73 - net-tools-1.60-78.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Basic networking tools.
  • Description: 
    The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including
ifconfig, netstat, route, and others.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
newt-0.52.2-9 - newt-0.52.2-12.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A development library for text mode user interfaces.
  • Description: 
    Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user
interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets,
checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars,
etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the
shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a
/usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the
slang library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
nfs-utils-1.0.9-24.el5 - nfs-utils-1.0.9-40.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS server.
  • Description: 
    The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and
related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the
traditional Linux NFS server used by most users.

This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the
mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File
System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the
clients which are mounted on that host.

This package also contains the mount.nfs and umount.nfs program.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • tcp_wrappers
  • No removed dependencies
notification-daemon-0.3.5-8.el5 - notification-daemon-0.3.5-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Notification Daemon
  • Description: 
    notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop
notification specification.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
nspr-4.6.5-3.el5 - nspr-4.7.3-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Netscape Portable Runtime
  • Description: 
    NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,
normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
nss-3.11.7-1.3.el5 - nss-3.12.2.0-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Network Security Services
  • Description: 
    Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
v3 certificates, and other security standards.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • nspr-devel >= 4.6.99
    • zlib-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • nspr-devel >= 4.6.2
nss_db-2.2-35.1 - nss_db-2.2-35.3
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: An NSS library for the Berkeley DB.
  • Description: 
    Nss_db is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley Databases
to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts,
networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords
(instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS). Install nss_db
if your flat name service files are too large and lookups are slow.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
nss_ldap-253-5.el5 - nss_ldap-253-17.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: NSS library and PAM module for LDAP.
  • Description: 
    This package includes two LDAP access clients: nss_ldap and pam_ldap.
Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X.500 and LDAP
directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers,
groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow
passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS).

Pam_ldap is a module for Linux-PAM that supports password changes, V2
clients, Netscape's SSL, ypldapd, Netscape Directory Server password
policies, access authorization, and crypted hashes.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • fipscheck-devel
    • keyutils-libs-devel
    • libselinux-devel
  • No removed dependencies
ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5 - ntp-4.2.2p1-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Synchronizes system time using the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
  • Description: 
    The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with another reference time source. The ntp package contains
utilities and daemons that will synchronize your computer's time to
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via the NTP protocol and NTP servers.
The ntp package includes ntpdate (a program for retrieving the date
and time from remote machines via a network) and ntpd (a daemon which
continuously adjusts system time).

Install the ntp package if you need tools for keeping your system's
time synchronized via the NTP protocol.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • perl-HTML-Parser
  • No removed dependencies
numactl-0.9.8-2.el5 - numactl-0.9.8-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines
  • Description: 
    Simple NUMA policy support. It consists of a numactl program to run
other programs with a specific NUMA policy and a libnuma to do
allocations with NUMA policy in applications.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
oddjob-0.27-7 - oddjob-0.27-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A D-BUS service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications
  • Description: 
    oddjob is a D-BUS service which performs particular tasks for clients which
connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
openCryptoki-2.2.4-16.el5 - openCryptoki-2.2.4-22.el5
  • Group: Productivity/Security
  • Summary: Implementation of Cryptoki v2.11 for IBM Crypto Hardware
  • Description: 
    The PKCS#11 Version 2.11 api implemented for the IBM Crypto cards.
This package includes support for the IBM 4758 Cryptographic
CoProcessor (with the PKCS#11 firmware loaded) and the IBM eServer
Cryptographic Accelerator (FC 4960 on pSeries)
  • Added Dependencies:
    • trousers-devel
  • No removed dependencies
openais-0.80.3-7.el5 - openais-0.80.3-22.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The openais Standards-Based Cluster Framework executive and APIs
  • Description: 
    This package contains the openais executive, openais service handlers,
default configuration files and init script.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
openhpi-2.8.1-2.el5.7 - openhpi-2.10.2-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: openhpi Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) library and tools
  • Description: 
    OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing an
implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI
provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for
chassis and rack based servers. HPI includes resource modeling; access to and
control over sensor, control, watchdog, and inventory data associated with
resources; abstracted System Event Log interfaces; hardware events and alerts;
and a managed hotswap interface.

OpenHPI provides a modular mechanism for adding new hardware and device support
easily. Many plugins exist in the OpenHPI source tree to provide access to
various types of hardware. This includes, but is not limited to, IPMI based
servers, Blade Center, and machines which export data via sysfs.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
openib-1.2-6.el5 - openib-1.3.2-0.20080728.0355.3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: OpenIB Infiniband Driver Stack
  • Description: 
    User space initialization scripts for the kernel InfiniBand drivers
  • No added dependencies
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libsysfs-devel
    • libtool
    • pciutils-devel
    • zlib-devel
openldap-2.3.27-8 - openldap-2.3.43-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP.
  • Description: 
    OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of
protocols for accessing directory services (usually phone book style
information, but other information is possible) over the Internet,
similar to the way DNS (Domain Name System) information is propagated
over the Internet. The openldap package contains configuration files,
libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
openmotif-2.3.0-0.3.el5 - openmotif-2.3.1-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Open Motif runtime libraries and executables.
  • Description: 
    This is the Open Motif 2.3.1 runtime environment. It includes the
Motif shared libraries, needed to run applications which are dynamically
linked against Motif, and the Motif Window Manager "mwm".
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
openmpi-1.2.3-4.el5 - openmpi-1.2.7-6.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Open Message Passing Interface
  • Description: 
    Open MPI is an open source, freely available implementation of both the
MPI-1 and MPI-2 standards, combining technologies and resources from
several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in
order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-2
compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and
software vendors, application developers, and computer science
researchers. For more information, see http://www.open-mpi.org/ .
  • Added Dependencies:
    • compat-dapl-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • dapl-devel
    • libsysfs-devel
openssh-4.3p2-24.el5 - openssh-4.3p2-29.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2
  • Description: 
    SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing
commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and
rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two
untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and
arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

OpenSSH is OpenBSD's version of the last free version of SSH, bringing
it up to date in terms of security and features, as well as removing
all patented algorithms to separate libraries.

This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH
client and server. To make this package useful, you should also
install openssh-clients, openssh-server, or both.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • openssl-devel >= 0.9.8e
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • openssl-devel
openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5_0.2 - openssl-0.9.8e-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit
  • Description: 
    The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • fipscheck
  • No removed dependencies
openssl097a-0.9.7a-9 - openssl097a-0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit
  • Description: 
    The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between
machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared
libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and
protocols.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
oprofile-0.9.2-6.el5 - oprofile-0.9.3-18.el5
  • Group: Development/System
  • Summary: System wide profiler
  • Description: 
    OProfile is a profiling system for systems running Linux. The
profiling runs transparently during the background, and profile data
can be collected at any time. OProfile makes use of the hardware performance
counters provided on Intel P6, and AMD Athlon family processors, and can use
the RTC for profiling on other x86 processor types.

See the HTML documentation for further details.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pam-0.99.6.2-3.26.el5 - pam-0.99.6.2-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A security tool which provides authentication for applications
  • Description: 
    PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that
allows system administrators to set authentication policy without
having to recompile programs that handle authentication.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • audit-libs-devel >= 1.6.5
    • kernel-headers >= 2.6.18-114
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • audit-libs-devel >= 1.0.8
pam_krb5-2.2.14-1 - pam_krb5-2.2.14-10
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5.
  • Description: 
    This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with
Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket
creation, and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets.
The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libtool
  • No removed dependencies
paps-0.6.6-17.el5 - paps-0.6.6-18.el5
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: Plain Text to PostScript converter
  • Description: 
    paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
parted-1.8.1-12.el5 - parted-1.8.1-23.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The GNU disk partition manipulation program
  • Description: 
    The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move,
and copy hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space
for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data
to new hard disks.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
patch-2.5.4-29.2.2 - patch-2.5.4-29.2.3.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: The GNU patch command, for modifying/upgrading files.
  • Description: 
    The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command
is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the
changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then
use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their
original file (patching the file).

Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading
applications.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pciutils-2.2.3-4 - pciutils-2.2.3-5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: PCI bus related utilities.
  • Description: 
    The pciutils package contains various utilities for inspecting and
setting devices connected to the PCI bus. The utilities provided
require kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (which support the
/proc/bus/pci interface).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pcre-6.6-1.1 - pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Perl-compatible regular expression library
  • Description: 
    Perl-compatible regular expression library.
PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on
the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this
just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions
themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file
for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pcsc-lite-1.3.1-7 - pcsc-lite-1.4.4-0.1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: PC/SC Lite smart card framework and applications
  • Description: 
    The purpose of PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface
in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and
readers. PC/SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under
Windows(R). This package includes the PC/SC Lite daemon, a resource
manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and
smart cards that are connected to the system, as well as other command
line tools.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
perl-5.8.8-10 - perl-5.8.8-18.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: The Perl programming language
  • Description: 
    Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk
and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files,
and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are
practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of
different things, Perl's most common applications are system
administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of
the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl
package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl
scripts.

Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your
system to handle Perl scripts.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-1.fc6 - perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A MySQL interface for perl
  • Description: 
    An implementation of DBI for MySQL for Perl.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • perl-DBI >= 1.52-2
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • perl(DBI)
perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-1.fc6 - perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A PostgresSQL interface for perl
  • Description: 
    An implementation of DBI for PostgreSQL for Perl.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • perl-DBI >= 1.52-2
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • perl-DBI >= 1.38
perl-DBI-1.52-1.fc6 - perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A database access API for perl
  • Description: 
    DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for
the Perl Language. The DBI API Specification defines a set of
functions, variables and conventions that provide a consistent
database interface independent of the actual database being used.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.4.el5 - pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: a performance monitoring tool for Linux/ia64
  • Description: 
    This package contains pfmon 3.x, a tool to monitor performance using
the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU). Pfmon can monitor
standalone programs or the entire system on both UP and SMP Linux systems.
This version
of pfmon requires a kernel perfmon-2.x (found in 2.6 kernels) subsystem to
function properly.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
php-5.1.6-15.el5 - php-5.1.6-23.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)
  • Description: 
    PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it
easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. PHP also
offers built-in database integration for several commercial and
non-commercial database management systems, so writing a
database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common
use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

The php package contains the module which adds support for the PHP
language to Apache HTTP Server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
php-pear-1.4.9-4 - php-pear-1.4.9-4.el5.1
  • Group: System
  • Summary: PHP Extension and Application Repository framework
  • Description: 
    PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP
components. This package contains the basic PEAR components.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
piranha-0.8.4-7.el5 - piranha-0.8.4-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Cluster administation tools
  • Description: 
    Various tools to administer and configure the Linux Virtual Server as well as
heartbeating and failover components. The LVS is a dynamically adjusted
kernel routing mechanism that provides load balancing primarily for web
and ftp servers though other services are supported.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pirut-1.2.10-1.el5 - pirut-1.3.28-13.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Package Installation, Removal and Update Tools
  • Description: 
    pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managing
software.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pkgconfig-0.21-1.fc6 - pkgconfig-0.21-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: A tool for determining compilation options.
  • Description: 
    The pkgconfig tool determines compilation options. For each required
library, it reads the configuration file and outputs the necessary
compiler and linker flags.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pkinit-nss-0.7.3-1.el5 - pkinit-nss-0.7.6-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: PKINIT for MIT Kerberos
  • Description: 
    The pkinit-nss package implements the PKINIT standard for MIT Kerberos. It
does so using the Mozilla NSS library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pm-utils-0.99.3-6.el5.17 - pm-utils-0.99.3-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Power management utilities and scripts for Fedora Core
  • Description: 
    The pm-utils package contains utilities and scripts for Fedora Core
useful for power management.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
policycoreutils-1.33.12-12.el5 - policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: SELinux policy core utilities.
  • Description: 
    Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required
for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include
load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole
to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper
context.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
poppler-0.5.4-4.1.el5 - poppler-0.5.4-4.4.el5_1
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: PDF rendering library
  • Description: 
    Poppler, a PDF rendering library, it's a fork of the xpdf PDF
viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
postfix-2.3.3-2 - postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Postfix Mail Transport Agent
  • Description: 
    Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL),
TLS
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5 - postgresql-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1
  • Group: Applications/Databases
  • Summary: PostgreSQL client programs and libraries.
  • Description: 
    PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system
(DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including
transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions). The
postgresql package includes the client programs and libraries that
you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server. These PostgreSQL
client programs are programs that directly manipulate the internal
structure of PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server. These client
programs can be located on the same machine with the PostgreSQL
server, or may be on a remote machine which accesses a PostgreSQL
server over a network connection. This package contains the docs
in HTML for the whole package, as well as command-line utilities for
managing PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server.

If you want to manipulate a PostgreSQL database on a remote PostgreSQL
server, you need this package. You also need to install this package
if you're installing the postgresql-server package.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ppc64-utils-0.11-2 - ppc64-utils-0.11-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Linux/PPC64 specific utilities
  • Description: 
    A collection of utilities for Linux on PPC64 platforms.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • db4-devel
    • librtas-devel >= 1.3.3
    • libstdc++-devel
    • libtool
    • sg3_utils-devel
    • zlib-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • librtas-devel
ppp-2.4.4-1.el5 - ppp-2.4.4-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon.
  • Description: 
    The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon and
documentation for PPP support. The PPP protocol provides a method for
transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links. PPP is
usually used to dial in to an ISP (Internet Service Provider) or other
organization over a modem and phone line.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
prelink-0.3.9-2.1 - prelink-0.4.0-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: An ELF prelinking utility
  • Description: 
    The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries
and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at runtime
and thus programs come up faster.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
privoxy-3.0.3-9.2.2 - privoxy-3.0.3-9.3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Privoxy - privacy enhancing proxy
  • Description: 
    Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for
protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies,
controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and
can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application
for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Privoxy is based on the Internet Junkbuster.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • pcre-devel
  • No removed dependencies
procps-3.2.7-8.1.el5 - procps-3.2.7-11.1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: System and process monitoring utilities.
  • Description: 
    The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide
system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep,
snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pdwx. The ps command
displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides
a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free
command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your
system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another
specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice
command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified
processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system
load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the
current time, how long the system has been running, how many users
are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five,
and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users
who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch
program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays
virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block
I/O, traps, and CPU activity. The pwdx command reports the current
working directory of a process or processes.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
psacct-6.3.2-41.1 - psacct-6.3.2-44.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Utilities for monitoring process activities.
  • Description: 
    The psacct package contains several utilities for monitoring process
activities, including ac, lastcomm, accton and sa. The ac command
displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The
lastcomm command displays information about previous executed
commands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off. The
sa command summarizes information about previously executed
commands.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
psmisc-22.2-5 - psmisc-22.2-6
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Utilities for managing processes on your system.
  • Description: 
    The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your
system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree
structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall
command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to
processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs
of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pygtk2-2.10.1-8.el5 - pygtk2-2.10.1-12.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set.
  • Description: 
    PyGTK is an extension module for python that gives you access to the GTK+
widget set. Just about anything you can write in C with GTK+ you can write
in python with PyGTK (within reason), but with all the benefits of python.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
pykickstart-0.43-1.el5 - pykickstart-0.43.3-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A python library for manipulating kickstart files
  • Description: 
    The pykickstart package is a python library for manipulating kickstart
files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
python-2.4.3-19.el5 - python-2.4.3-24.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
  • Description: 
    Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes
modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and
dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and
libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk,
Mac and MFC).

Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need
a programmable interface. This package contains most of the standard
Python modules, as well as modules for interfacing to the Tix widget
set for Tk and RPM.

Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs
package.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
python-pyblock-0.26-1.el5 - python-pyblock-0.26-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Python modules for dealing with block devices
  • Description: 
    The pyblock contains Python modules for dealing with block devices.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • dmraid-devel >= 1.0.0.rc13-14
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • dmraid-devel >= 1.0.0.rc11-FC6.3
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2 - python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber
  • Description: 
    A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber for python supporting HTTP, FTP
and file locations. Features include keepalive, byte ranges, throttling,
authentication, proxies and more.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
python-virtinst-0.103.0-3.el5 - python-virtinst-0.300.2-12.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Python modules for starting Xen guest installations
  • Description: 
    virtinst is a module to help in starting installations of Fedora/Red
Hat Enterprise Linux related distributions inside of virtual machines. It
supports both paravirt guests (for which only FC and RHEL guests are
currently supported) as well as fully virtualized guests. It uses
libvirt (http://www.libvirt.org) for starting things.

Also contained is a simple script virt-install which uses
virtinst in a command line mode.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gettext
    • python
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • python-devel
quota-3.13-1.2.3.2.el5 - quota-3.13-1.2.5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage.
  • Description: 
    The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring
and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rdate-1.4-6 - rdate-1.4-8.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Tool for getting the date/time from a remote machine.
  • Description: 
    The rdate utility retrieves the date and time from another machine on
your network, using the protocol described in RFC 868. If you run
rdate as root, it will set your machine's local time to the time of
the machine that you queried.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rdesktop-1.4.1-4 - rdesktop-1.4.1-6
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server
  • Description: 
    rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT
desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
redhat-menus-6.7.8-2.el5 - redhat-menus-6.7.8-3.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: Configuration and data files for the desktop menus
  • Description: 
    
This package contains the XML files that describe the menu layout for
GNOME and KDE, and the .desktop files that define the names and icons
of "subdirectories" in the menus.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
redhat-release-5Server-5.1.0.2 - redhat-release-5Server-5.3.0.3
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release file
  • Description: 
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux release files
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
redhat-release-notes-5Server-9 - redhat-release-notes-5Server-25
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release notes files
  • Description: 
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux release notes files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-22.el5 - redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-29.el5
  • Group: Development/System
  • Summary: Red Hat specific rpm configuration files.
  • Description: 
    Red Hat specific rpm configuration files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rgmanager-2.0.31-1.el5 - rgmanager-2.0.46-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Open Source HA Resource Group Failover for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Description: 
    Red Hat Resource Group Manager provides high availability of critical server
applications in the event of planned or unplanned system downtime.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • slang-devel
  • No removed dependencies
rhel-instnum-1.0.7-1.el5 - rhel-instnum-1.0.9-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A library for decoding RHEL installation numbers
  • Description: 
    rhel-instnum provides methods for decoding RHEL installation numbers
  • No added dependencies
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • python
rhn-client-tools-0.4.16-1.el5 - rhn-client-tools-0.4.19-17.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Support programs and libraries for Red Hat Network
  • Description: 
    Red Hat Network Client Tools provides programs and libraries to allow your
system to receive software updates from Red Hat Network.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rhnlib-2.2.5-1.el5 - rhnlib-2.2.6-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Python libraries for the RHN project
  • Description: 
    rhnlib is a collection of python modules used by the
Red Hat Network (http://rhn.redhat.com) software.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rhpxl-0.41.1-1.el5 - rhpxl-0.41.1-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Python library for configuring and running X.
  • Description: 
    The rhpxl (pronounced 'rapunzel') package contains a Python library for
configuring and running X.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
rpm-4.4.2-47.el5 - rpm-4.4.2.3-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The RPM package management system
  • Description: 
    The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • doxygen
    • gawk
    • nss-devel
    • redhat-rpm-config
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • beecrypt-devel >= 4.1.2
    • sed
rsh-0.17-37.el5 - rsh-0.17-38.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Clients for remote access commands (rsh, rlogin, rcp).
  • Description: 
    The rsh package contains a set of programs which allow users to run
commands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files
between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands
use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the clients
needed for all of these services.
The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other
machines.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ruby-1.8.5-5.el5 - ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_2.6
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
  • Description: 
    Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
s390utils-1.5.3-10.el5.14 - s390utils-1.5.3-21.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Linux/390 specific utilities.
  • Description: 
    This package contains utilities related to Linux for S/390.
The most important programs contained in this package are:

- The cmstools suite to list, check, copy and cat files from a CMS volume.
- chccwdev, a script to generically change attributes of a ccw device.
- dasdfmt, which is used to low-level format eckd-dasds with
either the classic linux disk layout or the new z/OS
compatible disk layout.
- dasdview, which displays DASD and VTOC information and dumps the content
of a DASD to the console.
- fdasd, which is used to create or modify partitions on
eckd-dasds formatted with the z/OS compatible disk layout.
- osasnmpd, a subagent for net-snmp to access the OSA hardware.
- qetharp to query and purge address data in the OSA and HiperSockets hardware
- qethconf to configure IBM QETH function IPA, VIPA and Proxy ARP.
- src_vipa.sh to start applications using VIPA capabilities
- tunedasd, a tool to adjust tunable parameters on DASD devices
- vmconvert, a tool to convert vm dumps to lkcd compatible dumps.
- vmcp, a tool to send CP commands from a Linux guest to the VM.
- zipl, which is used to make either dasds or tapes bootable
for system IPL or system dump.
- zdump, which is used to retrieve system dumps from either
tapes or dasds.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
sabayon-2.12.4-5.el5 - sabayon-2.12.4-6.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Tool to maintain user profiles in a GNOME desktop
  • Description: 
    Sabayon is a tool to help sysadmins and user change and maintain the
default behaviour of the GNOME desktop. This package contains the
graphical tools which a sysadmin use to manage Sabayon profiles.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
salinfo-1.1-3.el5 - salinfo-1.1-4.el5
  • Group: Utilities/System
  • Summary: Sal info tool.
  • Description: 
    The IA64 Linux kernel has a Software Abstraction Layer (SAL). One of
SAL's tasks is to record machine problems such as CMC (correctable
machine checks), CPE (correctable platform errors), MCA (machine check
architecture) and INIT (cpu initialized after boot). These records are
provided by SAL to user space. salinfo saves and decodes CMC/CPE/MCA
and INIT records.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
samba-3.0.25b-0.el5.4 - samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The Samba SMB server.
  • Description: 
    
Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of PC-related machines
share files, printers, and other information (such as lists of
available files and printers). The Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux
operating systems support this natively, and add-on packages can
enable the same thing for DOS, Windows, VMS, UNIX of all kinds, MVS,
and more. This package provides an SMB server that can be used to
provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager")
clients. Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT
need the NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
sblim-1-29.EL5 - sblim-1-31.el5_2.1
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability
  • Description: 
    SBLIM stands for Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability,
and consists of a set of standards based Web Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) modules that use the Common Information Model (CIM) standard to
gather and provide systems management information, events, and methods
to local or networked consumers via an CIM object services broker using
the CMPI (Common Manageability Programming Interface) standard.
This package provides a set of core providers and development tools
for systems management applications.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • sed
  • No removed dependencies
scim-1.4.4-39.el5 - scim-1.4.4-41.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Smart Common Input Method platform
  • Description: 
    SCIM is a user friendly and full featured input method user interface and
also a development platform to make life easier for Input Method developers.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
scim-anthy-1.2.0-5.el5 - scim-anthy-1.2.0-6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: SCIM IMEngine for anthy for Japanese input
  • Description: 
    Scim-anthy is a SCIM IMEngine module for anthy to support Japanese input.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
scim-bridge-0.4.5-7.el5 - scim-bridge-0.4.5-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: SCIM Bridge Gtk IM module
  • Description: 
    SCIM Bridge is a C implementation of a Gtk IM module for SCIM.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
scim-chewing-0.3.1-10.el5 - scim-chewing-0.3.1-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Chewing Chinese input method for SCIM
  • Description: 
    This package provides Chewing Chinese input method for SCIM.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
scim-pinyin-0.5.91-15.el5 - scim-pinyin-0.5.91-16.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Smart Pinyin IMEngine for Smart Common Input Method platform
  • Description: 
    Simplified Chinese Smart Pinyin IMEngine for SCIM.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
scsi-target-utils-0.0-0.20070620snap.el5 - scsi-target-utils-0.0-5.20080917snap.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The SCSI target daemon and utility programs
  • Description: 
    The SCSI target package contains the daemon and tools to setup a SCSI targets.
Currently, software iSCSI targets are supported.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libibverbs-devel
    • librdmacm-devel
  • No removed dependencies
selinux-policy-2.4.6-104.el5 - selinux-policy-2.4.6-203.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: SELinux policy configuration
  • Description: 
    SELinux Reference Policy - modular.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
setroubleshoot-1.8.11-4.el5 - setroubleshoot-2.0.5-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Helps troubleshoot SELinux problems
  • Description: 
    setroubleshoot gui. Application that allows you to view setroubleshoot-server
messages.
Provides tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When AVC messages
are generated an alert can be generated that will give information
about the problem and help track its resolution. Alerts can be configured
to user preference. The same tools can be run on existing log files.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • desktop-file-utils
    • htmlview
  • No removed dependencies
setup-2.5.58-1.el5 - setup-2.5.58-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A set of system configuration and setup files.
  • Description: 
    The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and
setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
sg3_utils-1.20-2.1 - sg3_utils-1.25-1.el5
  • Group: Utilities/System
  • Summary: Utils for Linux's SCSI generic driver devices + raw devices
  • Description: 
    Collection of Linux utilities for devices that use the SCSI command set.
Includes utilities to copy data based on "dd" syntax and semantics (called
sg_dd, sgp_dd and sgm_dd); check INQUIRY data and VPD pages (sg_inq); check
mode and log pages (sginfo, sg_modes and sg_logs); spin up and down
disks (sg_start); do self tests (sg_senddiag); and various other functions.
See the README, CHANGELOG and COVERAGE files. Requires the linux kernel 2.4
series or later. In the 2.4 series SCSI generic device names (e.g. /dev/sg0)
must be used. In the 2.6 series other device names may be used as
well (e.g. /dev/sda).

Warning: Some of these tools access the internals of your system
and the incorrect usage of them may render your system inoperable.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
shadow-utils-4.0.17-12.el5 - shadow-utils-4.0.17-14.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files.
  • Description: 
    The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for
converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus
programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command
converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command
unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard
UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password
and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times
for all users. The useradd, userdel, and usermod commands are used for
managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel, and groupmod commands
are used for managing group accounts.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
shared-mime-info-0.19-3.el5 - shared-mime-info-0.19-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Shared MIME information database
  • Description: 
    This is the freedesktop.org shared MIME info database.

Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of
files. Frequently, it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for
a file. This is generally done by examining the file's name or contents,
and looking up the correct MIME type in a database.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
smartmontools-5.36-3.1.el5 - smartmontools-5.38-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for monitoring SMART capable hard disks
  • Description: 
    The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl
and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-
Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built
into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these
utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and
failure.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libselinux-devel
  • No removed dependencies
sos-1.7-9.1.el5 - sos-1.7-9.16.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A set of tools to gather troubleshooting information from a system
  • Description: 
    Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system
hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help
support technicians and developers.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
spamassassin-3.1.9-1.el5 - spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Spam filter for email which can be invoked from mail delivery agents.
  • Description: 
    SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate
Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It can
be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix, or can be called from
a procmail script, .forward file, etc. It uses a genetic-algorithm
evolved scoring system to identify messages which look spammy, then
adds headers to the message so they can be filtered by the user's mail
reading software. This distribution includes the spamd/spamc components
which create a server that considerably speeds processing of mail.

To enable spamassassin, if you are receiving mail locally, simply add
this line to your ~/.procmailrc:
INCLUDERC=/etc/mail/spamassassin/spamassassin-default.rc

To filter spam for all users, add that line to /etc/procmailrc
(creating if necessary).
  • Added Dependencies:
    • perl-HTML-Parser >= 3.43
  • No removed dependencies
speex-1.0.5-4 - speex-1.0.5-4.el5_1.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A voice compression format (codec)
  • Description: 
    Speex is a patent-free compression format designed especially for
speech. It is specialized for voice communications at low bit-rates in
the 2-45 kbps range. Possible applications include Voice over IP
(VoIP), Internet audio streaming, audio books, and archiving of speech
data (e.g. voice mail).
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
squid-2.6.STABLE6-4.el5 - squid-2.6.STABLE21-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The Squid proxy caching server.
  • Description: 
    Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients,
supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional
caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single,
non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially
hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking
DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.

Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System
lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data
(ftpget), and some management and client tools.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
strace-4.5.16-1.el5.1 - strace-4.5.18-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Debuggers
  • Summary: Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process
  • Description: 
    The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and
received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each
system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for
diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional
purposes.

Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and
received by a process.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libacl-devel
    • libaio-devel
  • No removed dependencies
stunnel-4.15-2 - stunnel-4.15-2.el5.1
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: An SSL-encrypting socket wrapper.
  • Description: 
    Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide SSL (Secure Sockets
Layer) support to ordinary applications. For example, it can be used
in conjunction with imapd to create an SSL secure IMAP server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
subversion-1.4.2-2.el5 - subversion-1.4.2-4.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: Modern Version Control System designed to replace CVS
  • Description: 
    Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one
or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a
hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all
changes. Subversion only stores the differences between versions,
instead of every complete file. Subversion is intended to be a
compelling replacement for CVS.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • neon-devel >= 0:0.25.5-6.el5
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • neon-devel >= 0:0.24.7-1
sudo-1.6.8p12-10 - sudo-1.6.9p17-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Allows restricted root access for specified users.
  • Description: 
    Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain
users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands
as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a
per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell. Features
include: the ability to restrict what commands a user may run on a
per-host basis, copious logging of each command (providing a clear
audit trail of who did what), a configurable timeout of the sudo
command, and the ability to use the same configuration file (sudoers)
on many different machines.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • audit-libs-devel
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libcap-devel
    • libtool
  • No removed dependencies
sysklogd-1.4.1-40.el5 - sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: System logging and kernel message trapping daemons.
  • Description: 
    The sysklogd package contains two system utilities (syslogd and klogd)
which provide support for system logging. Syslogd and klogd run as
daemons (background processes) and log system messages to different
places, like sendmail logs, security logs, error logs, etc.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5 - sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The sar and iostat system monitoring commands.
  • Description: 
    This package provides the sar and iostat commands for Linux. Sar and
iostat enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other IO
activity.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-bind-4.0.3-2.el5 - system-config-bind-4.0.3-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The Red Hat BIND DNS Configuration Tool.
  • Description: 
    The system-config-bind package provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to
configure the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Domain Name System (DNS)
server, "named", with a set of python modules.
Users new to BIND configuration can use this tool to quickly set up a working
DNS server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-cluster-1.0.50-1.3 - system-config-cluster-1.0.55-1.0
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: system-config-cluster is a utility which allows you to manage cluster configuration in a graphical setting.
  • Description: 
    system-config-cluster is a utility which allows you to manage cluster configuuration in a graphical setting.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-date-1.8.12-1.el5 - system-config-date-1.8.12-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A graphical interface for modifying system date and time
  • Description: 
    system-config-date is a graphical interface for changing the system date and
time, configuring the system time zone, and setting up the NTP daemon to
synchronize the time of the system with an NTP time server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-httpd-1.3.3.1-1.el5 - system-config-httpd-1.3.3.3-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Apache configuration tool
  • Description: 
    A RHN configuration tool for apache.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gettext
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5 - system-config-kdump-1.0.14-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A graphical interface for configuring kernel crash dumping
  • Description: 
    system-config-kdump is a graphical tool for configuring kernel crash
dumping via kdump and kexec.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-kickstart-2.6.19.1-1.el5 - system-config-kickstart-2.6.19.8-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A graphical interface for making kickstart files.
  • Description: 
    Kickstart Configurator is a graphical tool for creating kickstart files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-language-1.1.18-1.el5 - system-config-language-1.1.18-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A graphical interface for modifying the system language
  • Description: 
    system-config-language is a graphical user interface that
allows the user to change the default language of the system.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-lvm-1.0.22-1.0.el5 - system-config-lvm-1.1.5-1.0.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A utility for graphically configuring Logical Volumes
  • Description: 
    system-config-lvm is a utility for graphically configuring Logical Volumes
  • Added Dependencies:
    • intltool
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-network-1.3.99-2.el5 - system-config-network-1.3.99.12-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: The GUI of the NEtwork Adminstration Tool
  • Description: 
    This is the GUI of the network configuration tool,
supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-printer-0.7.32.5-1.el5 - system-config-printer-0.7.32.10-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A printer administration tool
  • Description: 
    system-config-printer is a graphical user interface that allows
the user to configure a CUPS print server.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-samba-1.2.39-1.el5 - system-config-samba-1.2.41-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Samba server configuration tool
  • Description: 
    system-config-samba is a graphical user interface for creating,
modifying, and deleting samba shares.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-securitylevel-1.6.29.1-1.el5 - system-config-securitylevel-1.6.29.1-2.1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A graphical interface for modifying the system security level
  • Description: 
    system-config-securitylevel is a graphical user interface for
setting basic firewall rules.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
system-config-users-1.2.51-1.el5 - system-config-users-1.2.51-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A graphical interface for administering users and groups
  • Description: 
    system-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating
users and groups. It depends on the libuser library.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
systemtap-0.5.14-1.el5 - systemtap-0.7.2-2.el5
  • Group: Development/System
  • Summary: Instrumentation System
  • Description: 
    SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2.6.
Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation
of the system.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • /usr/bin/dvips
    • /usr/bin/latex
    • /usr/bin/ps2pdf
    • crash-devel
    • elfutils-devel >= 0.127
    • latex2html
    • zlib-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • dejagnu
    • glib2-devel >= 2.0.0
tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.4.el5 - tcp_wrappers-7.6-40.6.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: A security tool which acts as a wrapper for TCP daemons.
  • Description: 
    The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can
monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, FTP, telnet,
rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services.

Install the tcp_wrappers program if you need a security tool for
filtering incoming network services requests.

This version also supports IPv6.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tcpdump-3.9.4-11.el5 - tcpdump-3.9.4-14.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: A network traffic monitoring tool.
  • Description: 
    Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.
Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular
network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of
the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.

Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • /usr/sbin/sendmail
  • No removed dependencies
tcsh-6.14-12.el5 - tcsh-6.14-14.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Shells
  • Summary: An enhanced version of csh, the C shell.
  • Description: 
    Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C
shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both
as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor.
Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion,
spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language
like syntax.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
telnet-0.17-38.el5 - telnet-0.17-39.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: The client program for the telnet remote login protocol.
  • Description: 
    Telnet is a popular protocol for logging into remote systems over the
Internet. The telnet package provides a command line telnet client.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tetex-3.0-33.1.el5 - tetex-3.0-33.2.el5_1.2
  • Group: Applications/Publishing
  • Summary: The TeX text formatting system.
  • Description: 
    TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takes
a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and creates a
typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as output.
Usually, TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting
package like LaTeX or PlainTeX, since TeX by itself is not very
user-friendly. The output format needn't to be DVI, but also PDF,
when using pdflatex or similar tools.

Install tetex if you want to use the TeX text formatting system. Consider
to install tetex-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides
an easier-to-use interface for TeX). Unless you are an expert at using TeX,
you should also install the tetex-doc package, which includes the
documentation for TeX.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tk-8.4.13-3.fc6 - tk-8.4.13-5.el5_1.1
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Tk graphical toolkit for the Tcl scripting language
  • Description: 
    When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful
way to create cross-platform GUI applications.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.1 - tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.2
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A utility for removing files based on when they were last accessed.
  • Description: 
    The tmpwatch utility recursively searches through specified
directories and removes files which have not been accessed in a
specified period of time. Tmpwatch is normally used to clean up
directories which are used for temporarily holding files (for example,
/tmp). Tmpwatch ignores symlinks, won't switch filesystems and only
removes empty directories and regular files.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tog-pegasus-2.6.1-2.el5 - tog-pegasus-2.7.1-2.el5
  • Group: Systems Management/Base
  • Summary: OpenPegasus WBEM Services for Linux
  • Description: 
    OpenPegasus WBEM Services for Linux enables management solutions that deliver
increased control of enterprise resources. WBEM is a platform and resource
independent DMTF standard that defines a common information model and
communication protocol for monitoring and controlling resources from diverse
sources.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • net-snmp-devel
  • No removed dependencies
tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.3.0.2.el5 - tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_2.1
  • Group: Networking/Daemons
  • Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 API
  • Description: 
    Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference
Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by
Sun under the Java Community Process.

Tomcat is developed in an open and participatory environment and
released under the Apache Software License. Tomcat is intended to be
a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
We invite you to participate in this open development project. To
learn more about getting involved, click here.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
totem-2.16.7-1.el5 - totem-2.16.7-4.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: Movie player for GNOME 2
  • Description: 
    Totem is simple movie player for the Gnome desktop. It features a
simple playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as
a pretty complete keyboard navigation.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • firefox-devel
traceroute-2.0.1-2.el5 - traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Traces the route taken by packets over an IPv4/IPv6 network
  • Description: 
    The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their
way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays
the IP number and host name (if possible) of the machines along the
route taken by the packets. Traceroute is used as a network debugging
tool. If you're having network connectivity problems, traceroute will
show you where the trouble is coming from along the route.

Install traceroute if you need a tool for diagnosing network connectivity
problems.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
tzdata-2007d-1.el5 - tzdata-2008i-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Timezone data
  • Description: 
    This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around
the world.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
udev-095-14.9.el5 - udev-095-14.19.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A userspace implementation of devfs
  • Description: 
    The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in
userspace using sysfs and netlink.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
unzip-5.52-2.2.1 - unzip-5.52-3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Archiving
  • Summary: A utility for unpacking zip files.
  • Description: 
    The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip
archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip
utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and
unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)'s PKZIP
for MS-DOS, but the programs' options and default behaviors do differ
in some respects.

Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from
a zip archive.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
usermode-1.88-3.el5 - usermode-1.88-3.el5.2
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Tools for certain user account management tasks.
  • Description: 
    The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be
used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges
by ordinary users.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5 - util-linux-2.13-0.50.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: A collection of basic system utilities.
  • Description: 
    The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system
utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among
others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login
program.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
vim-7.0.109-3.el5.3 - vim-7.0.109-4.el5_2.4z
  • Group: Applications/Editors
  • Summary: The VIM editor.
  • Description: 
    VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the
vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is
still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features:
multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
virt-manager-0.4.0-3.el5 - virt-manager-0.5.3-10.el5
  • Group: Applications/Emulators
  • Summary: Virtual Machine Manager
  • Description: 
    Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering
virtual machines such as Xen. It uses libvirt as the backend management
API.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
vixie-cron-4.1-72.el5 - vixie-cron-4.1-76.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times.
  • Description: 
    The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a
standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.
Vixie cron adds better security and more powerful configuration
options to the standard version of cron.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
vnc-4.1.2-9.el5 - vnc-4.1.2-14.el5
  • Group: User Interface/Desktops
  • Summary: A remote display system.
  • Description: 
    Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which
allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the
machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and
from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains a
client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC
server.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • libselinux-devel
    • mesa-source
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • libdrm-devel
vsftpd-2.0.5-10.el5 - vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: vsftpd - Very Secure Ftp Daemon
  • Description: 
    vsftpd is a Very Secure FTP daemon. It was written completely from
scratch.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
wireshark-0.99.6-1.el5 - wireshark-1.0.3-4.el5_2
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: Network traffic analyzer
  • Description: 
    Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • bison
    • flex
    • libsmi-devel
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • net-snmp-devel >= 5.3
    • net-snmp-utils >= 5.3
words-3.0-9 - words-3.0-9.1
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory.
  • Description: 
    The words file is a dictionary of English words for the
/usr/share/dict directory. Some programs use this database of
words to check spelling. Password checkers use it to look for bad
passwords.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.1.fc6 - wpa_supplicant-0.5.10-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant
  • Description: 
    wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support
for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA
component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation
with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11
authentication/association of the wlan driver.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • dbus-devel
  • No removed dependencies
x3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.1 - x3270-3.3.4p7-3.el5.4
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: An X Window System based IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator
  • Description: 
    The x3270 package contains files needed for emulating the IBM 3278/3279
terminals, commonly used with mainframe applications.

You will also need to install a frontend for x3270. Available frontends
are x3270-x11 (for the X Window System) and x3270-text (for text mode).
  • Added Dependencies:
    • /usr/bin/makeconv
    • libicu-devel
  • No removed dependencies
xen-3.0.3-41.el5 - xen-3.0.3-80.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor
  • Description: 
    This package contains the Xen tools and management daemons needed
to run virtual machines on x86, x86_64, and ia64 systems.
Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages.

The Xen system also requires the Xen hypervisor and domain-0
kernel, which can be found in the kernel-xen* package.

Virtualization can be used to run multiple operating systems on one
physical system, for purposes of hardware consolidation, hardware
abstraction, or to test untrusted applications in a sandboxed
environment.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xfig-3.2.4-21.2.el5 - xfig-3.2.4-21.3.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: An X Window System tool for drawing basic vector graphics.
  • Description: 
    Xfig is an X Window System tool for creating basic vector graphics,
including bezier curves, lines, rulers and more. The resulting
graphics can be saved, printed on PostScript printers or converted to
a variety of other formats (e.g., X11 bitmaps, Encapsulated
PostScript, LaTeX).

You should install xfig if you need a simple program to create vector
graphics.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.2.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.22.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 ati video driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 ati video driver.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • autoconf
    • automake
    • libtool
    • xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.52.el5
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.6.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.21.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 i810 video driver(s)
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 i810 video driver.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-2.1 - xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.1.0-3
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 keyboard input driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 keyboard input driver.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-6.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.2-10.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 mga video driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 mga video driver.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.1.0-2 - xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.1.0-3
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 mutouch input driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 mutouch input driver.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.2-1.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.12-3.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 nv video driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 nv video driver.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.46.el5
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7 - xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7.1.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Xorg X11 sis video driver
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 sis video driver.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.26.el5 - xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.52.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: X.Org X11 X server
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 X server
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-13.el5 - xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-15.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: X.Org X11 X Window System xinit startup scripts
  • Description: 
    X.Org X11 X Window System xinit startup scripts
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xsane-0.991-4.el5 - xsane-0.991-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/Multimedia
  • Summary: An X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface.
  • Description: 
    XSane is an X based interface for the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
library, which provides access to scanners, digital cameras, and other
capture devices. XSane is written in GTK+ and provides control for
performing the scan and then manipulating the captured image.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
xterm-215-5.el5 - xterm-215-8.el5
  • Group: User Interface/X
  • Summary: xterm terminal emulator for the X Window System
  • Description: 
    The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It
provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for
programs that can't use the window system directly.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
yaboot-1.3.13-5.el5 - yaboot-1.3.13-7.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Linux bootloader for Power Macintosh "New World" computers.
  • Description: 
    yaboot is a bootloader for PowerPC machines which works on New World ROM
machines (Rev. A iMac and newer) and runs directly from Open Firmware,
eliminating the need for Mac OS.
yaboot can also bootload IBM pSeries machines.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • e2fsprogs-devel
  • No removed dependencies
yelp-2.16.0-15.el5 - yelp-2.16.0-22.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: A system documentation reader from the Gnome project
  • Description: 
    Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed
to help you browse all the documentation on your system in
one central tool.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9
  • Removed Dependencies:
    • gecko-devel >= 1.8.0.12
ypbind-1.19-8.el5 - ypbind-1.19-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain.
  • Description: 
    The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users
to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has
the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in
the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages
(YP).

This package provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS
clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines
running NIS client programs.

Install the ypbind package on any machines running NIS client programs
(included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS server, you
also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on your network.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
ypserv-2.19-3 - ypserv-2.19-5.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The NIS (Network Information Service) server.
  • Description: 
    The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users
to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has
the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in
the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages
(YP).

This package provides the NIS server, which will need to be running on
your network. NIS clients do not need to be running the server.

Install ypserv if you need an NIS server for your network. You also
need to install the yp-tools and ypbind packages on any NIS client
machines.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
yum-3.0.1-5.el5 - yum-3.2.19-18.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: RPM installer/updater
  • Description: 
    Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and
install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded
automatically prompting the user as necessary.
  • Added Dependencies:
    • intltool
  • No removed dependencies
yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6 - yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A fast metadata parser for yum
  • Description: 
    Fast metadata parser for yum implemented in C.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5 - yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-30.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: RHN support for yum
  • Description: 
    This yum plugin provides support for yum to access a Red Hat Network server for
software updates.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5 - yum-utils-1.1.16-13.el5
  • Group: Development/Tools
  • Summary: Utilities based around the yum package manager
  • Description: 
    yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package
manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and
more powerful to use. These tools include: debuginfo-install, package-cleanup,
repoclosure, repodiff, repo-graph, repomanage, repoquery, repo-rss, reposync,
repotrack, verifytree, yum-builddep, yum-complete-transaction, yumdownloader,
yum-debug-dump and yum-groups-manager.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies
zip-2.31-1.2.2 - zip-2.31-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/Archiving
  • Summary: A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP.
  • Description: 
    The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is
analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and
is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for
MS-DOS systems).

Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip
program.
  • No added dependencies
  • No removed dependencies

13.  Configuration Changes From Previous Release 

			iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.7.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/iscsid
---  
+++  
@@ -59,9 +59,7 @@
 
 	echo -n $"Stopping iSCSI daemon: "
 
-	# iscsid does not have a nice shutdown process.
-	# It really should never be stopped
-	pkill -KILL iscsid
+	iscsiadm -k 0
 	echo
 
 	modprobe -r ib_iser 2>/dev/null
ypbind-1.19-8.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind
---  
+++  
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         [ -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled ] && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled || return
 	allow_ypbind=0
 	.  /etc/selinux/config
-	if [ -e /etc/selinux/${SELINUXTYPE}/modules1/active/booleans.local ]; then
+	if [ -e /etc/selinux/${SELINUXTYPE}/modules/active/booleans.local ]; then
 		. /etc/selinux/${SELINUXTYPE}/modules/active/booleans.local
 	fi
 	if [ $allow_ypbind == 0 ]; then
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 	   if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then
 		action $"Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN: " domainname $NISDOMAIN
 	   else
+		action $"Error: NIS domain name is not set." false
 	        exit 1
 	   fi
 	fi
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@
 	  fi
 	fi
 	echo
-       	selinux_off
+       	#selinux_off
 	return $RETVAL
 }
 
udev-095-14.16.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules
---  
+++  
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-for i in nvram floppy parport lp snd-powermac;do
+MODULES="nvram floppy parport lp snd-powermac"
+[ -f /etc/sysconfig/udev-stw ] && . /etc/sysconfig/udev-stw
+for i in $MODULES ; do
         modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1
 done
dhcp-3.0.5-13.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd
---  
+++  
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
     [ -f $conf ] || return 6
     $dhcpd -q -t -cf $conf
     RETVAL=$?
+    if [ $RETVAL -eq 1 ]; then
+        $dhcpd -t -cf $conf
+    else
+        echo "Syntax: OK" >&2
+    fi
     return $RETVAL
 }
 
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/netconsole
---  
+++  
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 
 	SYSLOGOPTS="netconsole=$LOCALPORT@$LOCALADDR/$DEV,$SYSLOGPORT@$SYSLOGADDR/$SYSLOGMACADDR "
 
-	logger -p daemon.info -t netconsole: inserting netconsole module with arguments \
+	/usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t netconsole: inserting netconsole module with arguments \
 	$SYSLOGOPTS
 	if [ -n "$SYSLOGOPTS" ]; then
 		action $"Initializing netconsole" modprobe netconsole \
bind-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/named
---  
+++  
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
         fi
 	[ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] && success $"$named reload" || failure $"$named reload"
         echo
-	return $?
+	return $RETVAL
 }
 probe() {
 	# named knows how to reload intelligently; we don't want linuxconf
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ippp
---  
+++  
@@ -30,20 +30,20 @@
 # check that ipppd is available for syncppp 
 if [ "$ENCAP" = "syncppp" ]; then
     if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/ipppd -a ! -x /sbin/ipppd ] ; then
-        logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ipppd does not exist or is not executable"
+        /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ipppd does not exist or is not executable"
         exit 1
     fi
 fi
 
 # check that isdnctrl is available
 if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/isdnctrl -a ! -x /sbin/isdnctrl ] ; then
-    logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "isdnctrl does not exist or is not executable"
+    /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "isdnctrl does not exist or is not executable"
     exit 1
 fi
 
 # check all ISDN devices
 if ! isdnctrl list all >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-    logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "cannot list ISDN devices"
+    /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "cannot list ISDN devices"
     exit 1
 fi
 		
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@
 
 function log_echo()
 {
-    logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp $"$*"
+    /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp $"$*"
 }
 
 function log_isdnctrl()
 {
-    logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp isdnctrl $*
+    /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp isdnctrl $*
     isdnctrl $* >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
 }
 
@@ -338,12 +338,12 @@
     [ -n "$NETMASK" ] && netmask="netmask $NETMASK"
 
     # activate ISDN device
-    logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ifconfig $DEVICE $IPADDR pointopoint $GATEWAY $netmask up"
+    /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ifconfig $DEVICE $IPADDR pointopoint $GATEWAY $netmask up"
     ifconfig $DEVICE $IPADDR pointopoint $GATEWAY $netmask up >/dev/null 2>&1
 
     if [ "$ENCAP" = "syncppp" ]; then
         # start ipppd daemon
-        logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ipppd $options $netmask"
+        /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ippp "ipppd $options $netmask"
         ipppd $options $netmask >/dev/null 2>&1
 
         # start ibod daemon
lynx-2.8.5-28.1.i386.rpm: /etc/lynx.cfg
---  
+++  
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@
 # ====
 # Do not define this.
 #
-#TRUSTED_LYNXCGI:none
+TRUSTED_LYNXCGI:none
 
 
 .h2 LYNXCGI_ENVIRONMENT
nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcgssd
---  
+++  
@@ -28,19 +28,23 @@
 case "$1" in
   start|condstart)
 	# Check that networking is up.
-	[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6
+	[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 	[ ! -x /usr/sbin/rpc.gssd ] && exit 5
-
-	# List of kernel modules to load
-	[ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5"
 
 	# Make sure the daemon is not already running.
 	if status $prog > /dev/null ; then
 		exit 0
 	fi
+
+	# During condstart need to check again to see
+	# if we are configured to start
+	[ "${SECURE_NFS}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
+
 	rm -f $LOCKFILE
+	echo -n $"Starting RPC gssd: "
 
-	echo -n $"Starting RPC gssd: "
+	# List of kernel modules to load
+	[ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5"
 
 	# Make sure the rpc_pipefs filesystem is available
 	[ "${RPCMTAB}" != "noload" ] && {
dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot
---  
+++  
@@ -7,27 +7,61 @@
 # chkconfig: - 65 35
 # description: Dovecot Imap Server
 # processname: dovecot
+# config: /etc/dovecot.conf
+# config: /etc/sysconfig/dovecot
+# pidfile: /var/run/dovecot/master.pid
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: dovecot
+# Required-Start: $local_fs $network
+# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network
+# Should-Start: $remote_fs
+# Should-Stop: $remote_fs
+# Default-Start: 
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
+# Short-Description: start and stop Dovecot Imap server
+# Description: Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux/UNIX-like systems,
+#              written with security primarily in mind.  It also contains
+#              a small POP3 server.
+### END INIT INFO
+
 # Source function library.
 . /etc/init.d/functions
 
-test -x /usr/sbin/dovecot || exit 0
+if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/dovecot ]; then
+    . /etc/sysconfig/dovecot
+fi
 
 RETVAL=0
 prog="Dovecot Imap"
+exec="/usr/sbin/dovecot"
+config="/etc/dovecot.conf"
+pidfile="/var/run/dovecot/master.pid"
+lockfile="/var/lock/subsys/dovecot"
 
 start() {
+	[ -x $exec ] || exit 5
+	[ -f $config ] || exit 6
+
         echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
-	daemon /usr/sbin/dovecot
+	daemon --pidfile $pidfile $exec $OPTIONS
 	RETVAL=$?
-	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/dovecot
+	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch  $lockfile
 	echo
 }
 
 stop() {
 	echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
-	killproc /usr/sbin/dovecot
+	killproc -p $pidfile $exec
 	RETVAL=$?
-	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot
+	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
+	echo
+}
+
+reload() {
+	echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
+	killproc -p $pidfile $exec -HUP
+	RETVAL=$?
 	echo
 }
 
@@ -41,24 +75,27 @@
   stop)
 	stop
 	;;
-  reload|restart)
+  reload)
+	reload
+	;;
+  force-reload|restart)
 	stop
 	start
 	RETVAL=$?
 	;;
-  condrestart)
-	if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/dovecot ]; then
+  condrestart|try-restart)
+	if [ -f $lockfile ]; then
 	    stop
 	    start
 	fi
 	;;
   status)
-	status /usr/sbin/dovecot
+	status -p $pidfile $exec
 	RETVAL=$?
 	;;
   *)
-	echo $"Usage: $0 {condrestart|start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
-	exit 1
+	echo $"Usage: $0 {condrestart|try-restart|start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
+	exit 2
 esac
 
 exit $RETVAL
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-17.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/multipathd
---  
+++  
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # Starts the multipath daemon
 #
-# chkconfig: - 13 87
+# chkconfig: - 06 87
 # description: Manage device-mapper multipath devices
 # processname: multipathd
 
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 initdir=/etc/rc.d/init.d
 lockdir=/var/lock/subsys
 sysconfig=/etc/sysconfig
+syspath=/sys/block
 
  
 system=redhat
@@ -25,6 +26,35 @@
 test -r $sysconfig/$prog && . $sysconfig/$prog
 
 RETVAL=0
+
+teardown_slaves()
+{
+cd $1; 
+if [ -d "slaves" ]; then
+for slave in slaves/*;
+do
+	if [ "$slave" = "slaves/*" ]; then
+		read dev <  $1/dev
+		tablename=`dmsetup table --target multipath | sed -n "s/\(.*\): .* $dev .*/\1/p"`
+		if ! [ -z $tablename ]; then
+			echo "Root is on a multipathed device, multipathd can not be stopped"
+			exit 1
+		fi
+	else
+		local_slave=`readlink -f $slave`;
+		teardown_slaves $local_slave;
+	fi
+	done
+		
+else
+		read dev <  $1/dev
+		tablename=`dmsetup table --target multipath | sed -n "s/\(.*\): .* $dev .*/\1/p"`
+		if ! [ -z $tablename ]; then
+			echo "Root is on a multipathed device, multipathd can not be stopped"
+			exit 1
+		fi
+fi
+}
 
 #
 # See how we were called.
@@ -40,6 +70,11 @@
 }
 
 stop() {
+        root_dev=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $1; }}' /etc/mtab)
+	dm_num=`dmsetup info -c --noheadings -o minor $root_dev`
+	root_dm_device="dm-$dm_num"
+	[ -d $syspath/$root_dm_device ] && teardown_slaves $syspath/$root_dm_device
+
 	echo -n $"Stopping $prog daemon: "
 	killproc $DAEMON
 	RETVAL=$?
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/S01reboot
---  
+++  
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 NOLOCALE=1
 . /etc/init.d/functions
+
+UMOUNT="umount"
+[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n"
 
 action() {
    echo -n "$1 "
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@
 # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in.  Ignore failures.
 tmpfs=$(awk '$2 ~ /^\/($|proc|dev)/ { next; }
 	     $3 == "tmpfs" { print $2; }' /proc/mounts | sort -r)
-[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode umount $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
+[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode $UMOUNT $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
 
 # Turn off swap, then unmount file systems.
 [ -f /proc/swaps ] && SWAPS=`awk '! /^Filename/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps`
@@ -143,8 +146,6 @@
 	    backdev=$(/sbin/cryptsetup status "$dst" \
 		| awk '$1 == "device:" { print $2 }')
 	    /sbin/cryptsetup remove "$dst"
-	    # Leave partition with a blank plain-text swap
-	    mkswap "$backdev" > /dev/null
 	fi
     done
 fi
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@
 	$"Unmounting file systems (retry): " \
 	-f
 
-[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && umount /proc/bus/usb
+[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && $UMOUNT /proc/bus/usb
 
 [ -f /etc/crypttab ] && \
     LANG=C action $"Stopping disk encryption: " halt_crypto
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
 awk '$2 !~ /\/(|dev|proc|selinux)$/ && $1 !~ /^\/dev\/ram/ { print $2 }' \
     /proc/mounts | sort -r | \
   while read line; do
-    fstab-decode umount -f $line
+    fstab-decode $UMOUNT -f $line
 done
 
 if [ -x /sbin/halt.local ]; then
alsa-lib-1.0.14-1.rc4.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/alsa/alsa.conf
---  
+++  
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 defaults.pcm.ipc_perm 0600
 defaults.pcm.dmix.max_periods 0
 defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 48000
-defaults.pcm.dmix.format S16_LE
+defaults.pcm.dmix.format "unchanged"
 defaults.pcm.dmix.card defaults.pcm.card
 defaults.pcm.dmix.device defaults.pcm.device
 defaults.pcm.dsnoop.card defaults.pcm.card
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
 defaults.pcm.iec958.device defaults.pcm.device
 defaults.pcm.modem.card defaults.pcm.card
 defaults.pcm.modem.device defaults.pcm.device
+# truncate files via file or tee PCM
+defaults.pcm.file_format	"raw"
+defaults.pcm.file_truncate	true
 defaults.rawmidi.card 0
 defaults.rawmidi.device 0
 defaults.rawmidi.subdevice -1
@@ -124,6 +127,7 @@
 pcm.surround71 cards.pcm.surround71
 pcm.iec958 cards.pcm.iec958
 pcm.spdif iec958
+pcm.hdmi cards.pcm.hdmi
 pcm.dmix cards.pcm.dmix
 pcm.dsnoop cards.pcm.dsnoop
 pcm.modem cards.pcm.modem
@@ -262,12 +266,19 @@
 	}
 	@args.FORMAT {
 		type string
-		default raw
+		default {
+			@func refer
+			name defaults.pcm.file_format
+		}
 	}
 	type file
 	slave.pcm $SLAVE
 	file $FILE
 	format $FORMAT
+	truncate {
+		@func refer
+		name defaults.pcm.file_truncate
+	}
 }
 
 pcm.file {
@@ -277,12 +288,19 @@
 	}
 	@args.FORMAT {
 		type string
-		default raw
+		default {
+			@func refer
+			name defaults.pcm.file_format
+		}
 	}
 	type file
 	slave.pcm null
 	file $FILE
 	format $FORMAT
+	truncate {
+		@func refer
+		name defaults.pcm.file_truncate
+	}
 }
 
 pcm.null {
@@ -316,7 +334,7 @@
 }
 
 ctl.hw {
-	@args[ CARD ]
+	@args [ CARD ]
 	@args.CARD {
 		type string
 		default {
caching-nameserver-9.3.4-6.P1.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf
---  
+++  
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@
 	dump-file 	"/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
         memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
-	query-source    port 53;	
-	query-source-v6 port 53;
+
+	// Those options should be used carefully because they disable port
+	// randomization
+	// query-source    port 53;	
+	// query-source-v6 port 53;
+
 	allow-query     { localhost; };
 };
 logging {
kexec-tools-1.102pre-21.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/kdump
---  
+++  
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 KDUMP_KERNELVER=""
 KDUMP_INITRDEXT=""
 KDUMP_COMMANDLINE=""
+KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE=""
 KEXEC_ARGS=""
 KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/kdump.conf"
 
@@ -107,8 +108,15 @@
 	#check to see if config file or kdump post has been modified
 	#since last build of the image file
 	image_time=`stat -c "%Y" $kdump_initrd`
-	KDUMP_POST=`grep ^kdump_post $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\  -f2`
-	files="$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE $kdump_kernel $KDUMP_POST"
+	EXTRA_FILES=`grep ^kdump_post $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\  -f2`
+	CHECK_FILE=`grep ^kdump_pre $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\  -f2`
+	EXTRA_FILES="$EXTRA_FILES $CHECK_FILE"
+	CHECK_FILE=`grep ^extra_modules $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\  -f2-`
+	EXTRA_FILES="$EXTRA_FILES $CHECK_FILE"
+	CHECK_FILE=`grep ^extra_bins $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | cut -d\  -f2-`
+	EXTRA_FILES="$EXTRA_FILES $CHECK_FILE"
+	FORCE_REBUILD=`grep ^extra_modules $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE`
+	files="$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE $kdump_kernel $EXTRA_FILES"
 	modified_files=""
 	for file in $files; do
 		time_stamp=0
@@ -123,9 +131,17 @@
 		fi
 	done
 
-	if [ -n "$modified_files" -a "$modified_files" != " " ]; then
-		echo "Detected change(s) the following file(s):"
-		echo -n "  "; echo "$modified_files" | sed 's/\s/\n  /g'
+	if [ -n "$FORCE_REBUILD" -a "$modified_files"!=" " ]
+	then
+		modified_files="force_rebuild"
+	fi
+
+	if [ -n "$modified_files" -a "$modified_files"!=" " ]; then
+		if [ "$modified_files" != "force_rebuild" ]
+		then
+			echo "Detected change(s) the following file(s):"
+			echo -n "  "; echo "$modified_files" | sed 's/\s/\n  /g'
+		fi
 		echo "Rebuilding $kdump_initrd"
 		/sbin/mkdumprd -d -f $kdump_initrd $kdump_kver
 		if [ $? != 0 ]; then
@@ -174,6 +190,33 @@
 		return 1
 	fi
 	return 0
+}
+
+function avoid_cdrom_drive()
+{
+	local DRIVE=""
+	local MEDIA=""
+	local IDE_DRIVES=(`echo hd{a,b,c,d}`)
+	local COUNTER="0"
+
+	for DRIVE in ${IDE_DRIVES[@]}
+	do
+		if ! $(echo "$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" |grep -q "$DRIVE=");then
+			if [ -f /proc/ide/$DRIVE/media ];then
+				MEDIA=$(cat /proc/ide/$DRIVE/media)
+				if [ x"$MEDIA" == x"cdrom" ]; then
+					KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE="$KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE $DRIVE=cdrom"
+					COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))
+				fi
+			fi
+		else
+			KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE="$KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE $DRIVE=noprobe"
+		fi
+	done
+	# We don't find cdrom drive.
+	if [ $COUNTER -eq 0 ]; then
+		KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE=""
+	fi
 }
 
 # Load the kdump kerel specified in /etc/sysconfig/kdump
@@ -226,6 +269,8 @@
 
 	KDUMP_COMMANDLINE=`echo $KDUMP_COMMANDLINE | sed -e 's/crashkernel=[0-9]\+[MmKkGg]@[0-9]\+[MmGgKk]//'`
 	KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE} ${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND}"
+	avoid_cdrom_drive
+	KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="${KDUMP_COMMANDLINE} ${KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE}"
 
 	KEXEC_OUTPUT=`$KEXEC $KEXEC_ARGS $standard_kexec_args \
 		--command-line="$KDUMP_COMMANDLINE" \
@@ -364,13 +409,7 @@
 
 function do_final_action()
 {
-	FINAL_ACTION=`grep default $KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE | grep -vm1 ^\# \
-			| cut -d\  -f2`
-	if [[ $FINAL_ACTION != "halt" ]]; then
-		FINAL_ACTION="reboot"
-	fi
-
-	$FINAL_ACTION
+	reboot
 }
 
 case "$1" in
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
---  
+++  
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
   stop)
   	# Don't shut the network down if root is on NFS or a network
 	# block device.
-        rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $3; }}' /etc/mtab)
+        rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/" && $3 != "rootfs") { print $3; }}' /proc/mounts)
         rootopts=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $4; }}' /etc/mtab)
 	
 	if [[ "$rootfs" =~ "^nfs" ]] || [[ "$rootopts" =~ "_netdev|_rnetdev" ]] ; then
nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcidmapd
---  
+++  
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 case "$1" in
   start|condstart)
 	# Check that networking is up.
-	[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6
+	[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 
 	[ ! -x /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd ] && exit 5
 
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@
 	[ "$1" = "condstart" -a -n "`pidofproc $prog`" ] && {
 		killproc $prog "-SIGHUP" > /dev/null
 		exit 0
+	}
+	[ "$1" = "start" ] && {	
+		if status $prog > /dev/null ; then
+			exit 0
+		fi
 	}
 	rm -f $LOCKFILE
 
@@ -55,8 +60,6 @@
 			}
 		}
 	}
-
-	# Make sure the mount worked.
 
 	# Start daemon.
 	daemon $prog ${RPCIDMAPDARGS}
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-sl
---  
+++  
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 [ -x /usr/sbin/dip ] || {
   echo $"/usr/sbin/dip does not exist or is not executable"
   echo $"ifup-sl for $DEVICE exiting"
-  logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
+  /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
     $"/usr/sbin/dip does not exist or is not executable for $DEVICE"
   exit 1
 }
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@
 [ -f $DIPSCRIPT ] || {
   echo $"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/dip-$DEVICE does not exist"
   echo $"ifup-sl for $DEVICE exiting"
-  logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
+  /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
     $"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/dip-$DEVICE does not exist for $DEVICE"
   exit 1
 }
 
 while : ; do
   echo > /var/run/sl-$DEVICE.dev
-  (logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
+  (/usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-sl \
     $"dip started for $DEVICE on $MODEMPORT at $LINESPEED" &)&
   doexec /usr/sbin/dip dip-$DEVICE $DIPSCRIPT
   if [ "$PERSIST" != "yes" -o ! -f /var/run/sl-$DEVICE.dev ] ; then
ypserv-2.19-3.i386.rpm: /var/yp/Makefile
---  
+++  
@@ -98,10 +98,18 @@
 YPSERVERS = $(YPDIR)/ypservers	# List of all NIS servers for a domain
 
 target: Makefile
+ifeq ($(shell /bin/domainname), (none))
+	@echo "Domain name cannot be (none)"
+else
+ifeq ($(shell /bin/domainname), )
+	@echo "Domain name must be set"
+else
 	@test ! -d $(LOCALDOMAIN) && mkdir $(LOCALDOMAIN) ; \
 	cd $(LOCALDOMAIN)  ; \
 	$(NOPUSH) || $(MAKE) -f ../Makefile ypservers; \
 	$(MAKE) -f ../Makefile all
+endif
+endif
 
 # If you don't want some of these maps built, feel free to comment
 # them out from this list.
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs
---  
+++  
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 # See how we were called.
 case "$1" in
   start)
+	# Let udev handle any backlog before trying to mount file systems
+	/sbin/udevsettle --timeout=30
         [ -n "$NFSFSTAB" ] && 
 	  {
 	    [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/portmap ] && service portmap start
nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/rpcsvcgssd
---  
+++  
@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@
 case "$1" in
   start|condstart)
 	# Check that networking is up.
-	[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6
+	[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 	[ "${SECURE_NFS}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 	[ ! -x /usr/sbin/rpc.svcgssd ] && exit 5
-
-	# List of kernel modules to load
-	[ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5"
 
 	# Make sure the daemon is not already running.
 	if status $prog > /dev/null ; then
@@ -41,6 +38,9 @@
 	rm -f $LOCKFILE
 
 	echo -n $"Starting RPC svcgssd: "
+	# List of kernel modules to load
+	[ -z "${SECURE_NFS_MODS}" ] && SECURE_NFS_MODS="des rpcsec_gss_krb5"
+
 
 	# Make sure the rpc_pipefs filesystem is available
 	[ "${RPCMTAB}" != "noload" ] && {
openldap-servers-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap
---  
+++  
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 # Source an auxiliary options file if we have one, and pick up OPTIONS,
 # SLAPD_OPTIONS, SLURPD_OPTIONS, SLAPD_LDAPS, SLAPD_LDAPI, and maybe
-# KRB5_KTNAME.
+# KRB5_KTNAME and SLURPD_KRB5CCNAME.
 if [ -r /etc/sysconfig/ldap ] ; then
 	. /etc/sysconfig/ldap
 fi
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 		echo -n $"$file is not readable by \"$user\"" ; warning ; echo
 	fi
 	# Unaccessible TLS configuration files.
-	tlsconfigs=`LANG=C egrep '^(TLSCACertificateFile|TLSCertificateFile|TLSCertificateKeyFile)[[:space:]]' /etc/openldap/slapd.conf | awk '{print $2}'`
+	tlsconfigs=`LANG=C egrep '^(TLS_CACERT|TLSCACertificateFile|TLSCertificateFile|TLSCertificateKeyFile)[[:space:]]' /etc/openldap/slapd.conf /etc/openldap/ldap.conf | awk '{print $2}'`
 	for file in $tlsconfigs ; do
 		if ! testasuser $user -r $file ; then
 			echo -n $"$file is not readable by \"$user\"" ; warning ; echo
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@
 	    if grep -q "^replogfile" /etc/openldap/slapd.conf; then
 		prog=`basename ${slurpd}`
 		echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
+		if [ -n "$SLURPD_KRB5CCNAME" ]; then
+			export KRB5CCNAME="$SLURPD_KRB5CCNAME";
+		fi
 		daemon ${slurpd} $OPTIONS $SLURPD_OPTIONS
 		RETVAL=$?
 		echo
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
---  
+++  
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
 	skip=""
 	# Parse the src field for UUID= and convert to real device names
 	if [ "${src%%=*}" == "UUID" ]; then
-		src=`/sbin/blkid -t "$src" -o device|(read oneline;echo $oneline)`
+		src=$(/sbin/blkid -t "$src" -l -o device)
 	elif [ "${src/^\/dev\/disk\/by-uuid\/}" != "$src" ]; then
 		src=$(__readlink $src)
 	fi
@@ -458,6 +458,13 @@
 	fi
 fi
 
+if [ -f /etc/crypttab ]; then
+	s=$"Starting disk encryption:"
+	echo "$s"
+	init_crypto 0 && success "$s" || failure "$s"
+	echo
+fi
+
 if [ -f /fastboot ] || strstr "$cmdline" fastboot ; then
 	fastboot=yes
 fi
@@ -533,7 +540,7 @@
 	mountopts=
 
 	# Scan partitions for local scratch storage
-	rw_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$RW_LABEL" -o device | awk '{ print ; exit }')
+	rw_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$RW_LABEL" -l -o device)
 
 	# First try to mount scratch storage from /etc/fstab, then any
 	# partition with the proper label.  If either succeeds, be sure
@@ -590,12 +597,12 @@
 
 	# First try to mount persistent data from /etc/fstab, then any
 	# partition with the proper label, then fallback to NFS
-	state_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$STATE_LABEL" -o device | awk '{ print ; exit }')
-	if mount $mountopts "$STATE_MOUNT" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+	state_mount_dev=$(blkid -t LABEL="$STATE_LABEL" -l -o device)
+	if mount $mountopts $STATE_OPTIONS "$STATE_MOUNT" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 		/bin/true
 	elif [ x$state_mount_dev != x ] && mount $state_mount_dev $mountopts "$STATE_MOUNT" > /dev/null 2>&1;  then
 		/bin/true
-	elif [ -n "$CLIENTSTATE" ]; then
+	elif [ ! -z "$CLIENTSTATE" ]; then
 		# No local storage was found.  Make a final attempt to find 
 		# state on an NFS server.
 
@@ -730,23 +737,29 @@
    restorecon /etc/mtab /etc/ld.so.cache /etc/blkid/blkid.tab /etc/resolv.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
 fi
 
-# Clear mtab
-(> /etc/mtab) &> /dev/null
-
-# Remove stale backups
-rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/mtab~~
-
-# Enter mounted filesystems into /etc/mtab
-mount -f /
-mount -f /proc >/dev/null 2>&1
-mount -f /sys >/dev/null 2>&1
-mount -f /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
-mount -f /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&1
+if [ "$READONLY" != "yes" ] ; then
+	# Clear mtab
+	(> /etc/mtab) &> /dev/null
+
+	# Remove stale backups
+	rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/mtab~~
+
+	# Enter mounted filesystems into /etc/mtab
+	mount -f /
+	mount -f /proc >/dev/null 2>&1
+	mount -f /sys >/dev/null 2>&1
+	mount -f /dev/pts >/dev/null 2>&1
+	mount -f /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&1
+fi
 
 # Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already
 # mounted). Contrary to standard usage,
 # filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
-action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs -O no_netdev
+if [ "$READONLY" != "yes" ] ; then
+	action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs -O no_netdev
+else
+	action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -n -t nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs -O no_netdev
+fi
 
 if [ -x /sbin/quotaon ]; then
     action $"Enabling local filesystem quotas: " /sbin/quotaon -aug
@@ -898,7 +911,7 @@
 action $"Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: " swapon -a -e
 if [ "$AUTOSWAP" = "yes" ]; then
 	curswap=$(awk '/^\/dev/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps | while read x; do get_numeric_dev dec $x ; echo -n " "; done)
-	swappartitions=`blkid -t TYPE=swap -o device`
+	swappartitions=$(blkid -t TYPE=swap -o device)
 	if [ x"$swappartitions" != x ]; then
 		for partition in $swappartitions ; do
 			[ ! -e $partition ] && continue
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-sl
---  
+++  
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 kill -KILL $PID > /dev/null 2>&1
 if [ -d /proc/$PID ]; then
-  logger -p daemon.info -t ifdown-ppp "ifdown-ppp unable to kill pppd-$DEVICE" &
+  /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifdown-ppp "ifdown-ppp unable to kill pppd-$DEVICE" &
 else
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post $1
 fi
NetworkManager-0.6.4-8.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/NetworkManager
---  
+++  
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # chkconfig: - 98 02
 # description:  This is a daemon for automatically switching network \
-#               connections to the best available connection. \
+#               connections to the best available connection.
 #
 # processname: NetworkManager
 # pidfile: /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 # Sanity checks.
 [ -x $NETWORKMANAGER_BIN ] || exit 1
 
-# We need /sbin/ip
-[ -x /sbin/ip ] || exit 1
-
 # Source function library.
 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
+
+# Source network configuration
+. /etc/sysconfig/network
 
 # so we can rearrange this easily
 processname=NetworkManager
@@ -34,17 +34,23 @@
 
 start()
 {
-	echo $"Setting network parameters... "
+	echo -n $"Setting network parameters... "
 	sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf >/dev/null 2>&1
-
-	if [ ! -e /var/lock/subsys/dhcdbd ]; then
-		service dhcdbd start
-	fi
+	success
+	echo
 
 	echo -n $"Starting NetworkManager daemon: "
-	daemon --check $servicename $processname --pid-file=$pidfile
+	daemon --check $servicename $processname --pid-file=$pidfile --ppp-dns-workaround
 	RETVAL=$?
 	echo
+	if [ -n "${NETWORKWAIT}" ]; then 
+		[ -z "${LINKDELAY}" ] && LINKDELAY=10
+		echo -n $"Waiting for network..."
+		nm-online -q --timeout=$LINKDELAY || nm-online -q -x --timeout=30
+		[ "$?" = "0" ] && success "network startup" || failure "network startup"
+		echo
+		[ -n "${NETWORKDELAY}" ] && /bin/sleep ${NETWORKDELAY}
+	fi
 	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$servicename
 }
 
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions-ipv6
---  
+++  
@@ -138,14 +138,14 @@
 		;;
 	    'syslog')
 		# note: logger resides in /usr/bin, but not used by default
-		if ! [ -x logger ]; then
+		if ! [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then
 			echo $"ERROR: [ipv6_log] Syslog is chosen, but binary 'logger' doesn't exist or isn't executable" >/dev/stderr
 			return 3
 		fi
 		if [ -z "$txt_name" ]; then
-			logger -p $facility.$priority $message
+			/usr/bin/logger -p $facility.$priority $message
 		else
-			logger -p $facility.$priority -t "$txt_name" "$message"
+			/usr/bin/logger -p $facility.$priority -t "$txt_name" "$message"
 		fi
 		;;
 	    *)
nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs
---  
+++  
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 # Check for and source configuration file otherwise set defaults
 [ -f /etc/sysconfig/nfs ] && . /etc/sysconfig/nfs
 
+# Remote quota server
+[ -z "$RQUOTAD" ] && RQUOTAD=`type -path rpc.rquotad`
+
 RETVAL=0
 
 # See how we were called.
@@ -26,11 +29,16 @@
   start)
 
 	# Check that networking is up.
-	[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6
+	[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 
 	[ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd ] || exit 5
 	[ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd ] || exit 5
 	[ -x /usr/sbin/exportfs ] || exit 5
+
+	# Make sure the rpc.mountd is not already running.
+	if status rpc.mountd > /dev/null ; then
+		exit 0
+	fi
 
 	# Don't fail if /etc/exports doesn't exist; create a bare-bones 
 	# version and continue.
@@ -42,9 +50,6 @@
 
 	# Number of servers to be started by default
 	[ -z "$RPCNFSDCOUNT" ] && RPCNFSDCOUNT=8
-
-	# Remote quota server
-	[ -z "$RQUOTAD" ] && RQUOTAD=`type -path rpc.rquotad`
 
 	# Start daemons.
 	[ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.svcgssd ] && /sbin/service rpcsvcgssd start
@@ -67,6 +72,12 @@
 		RETVAL=$?
 	    echo
 	fi
+
+	# Load preload module so arguments to rpc.nfsd will take effect
+	[ -n "$RPCNFSDARGS" -a "$NFSD_MODULE" != "noload" ] && {
+		[ -x /sbin/modprobe ] && /sbin/modprobe nfsd
+	}
+
 	echo -n $"Starting NFS daemon: "
 	daemon rpc.nfsd $RPCNFSDARGS $RPCNFSDCOUNT
 	RETVAL=$?
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions
---  
+++  
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 get_config_by_subchannel ()
 {
-    LANG=C grep -il "^[[:space:]]*SUBCHANNELS=${1}\([[:space:]#]\|$\|,\)" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* \
+    LANG=C egrep -i -l  "^[[:space:]]*SUBCHANNELS=([0-9]\.[0-9]\.[a-f0-9]+,){0,2}${1}(,[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[a-f0-9]+){0,2}([[:space:]]+#|[[:space:]]*$)" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* \
 	| LC_ALL=C sed -e "$__sed_discard_ignored_files"
 }
 
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
     (echo "$s" > /etc/resolv.conf;) >/dev/null 2>&1;
     r=$?
     if [ $r -eq 0 ]; then
-	logger -p local7.notice -t "NET" -i "$0 : updated /etc/resolv.conf";
+	/usr/bin/logger -p local7.notice -t "NET" -i "$0 : updated /etc/resolv.conf";
 	[ -e /var/lock/subsys/nscd ] && /usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts; # invalidate cache
     fi;
     return $r;
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt
---  
+++  
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 NOLOCALE=1
 . /etc/init.d/functions
+
+UMOUNT="umount"
+[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n"
 
 action() {
    echo -n "$1 "
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@
 # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in.  Ignore failures.
 tmpfs=$(awk '$2 ~ /^\/($|proc|dev)/ { next; }
 	     $3 == "tmpfs" { print $2; }' /proc/mounts | sort -r)
-[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode umount $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
+[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode $UMOUNT $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
 
 # Turn off swap, then unmount file systems.
 [ -f /proc/swaps ] && SWAPS=`awk '! /^Filename/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps`
@@ -143,8 +146,6 @@
 	    backdev=$(/sbin/cryptsetup status "$dst" \
 		| awk '$1 == "device:" { print $2 }')
 	    /sbin/cryptsetup remove "$dst"
-	    # Leave partition with a blank plain-text swap
-	    mkswap "$backdev" > /dev/null
 	fi
     done
 fi
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@
 	$"Unmounting file systems (retry): " \
 	-f
 
-[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && umount /proc/bus/usb
+[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && $UMOUNT /proc/bus/usb
 
 [ -f /etc/crypttab ] && \
     LANG=C action $"Stopping disk encryption: " halt_crypto
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
 awk '$2 !~ /\/(|dev|proc|selinux)$/ && $1 !~ /^\/dev\/ram/ { print $2 }' \
     /proc/mounts | sort -r | \
   while read line; do
-    fstab-decode umount -f $line
+    fstab-decode $UMOUNT -f $line
 done
 
 if [ -x /sbin/halt.local ]; then
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
---  
+++  
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 NOLOCALE=1
 . /etc/init.d/functions
+
+UMOUNT="umount"
+[ ! -w /etc ] && UMOUNT="umount -n"
 
 action() {
    echo -n "$1 "
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@
 # Try to unmount tmpfs filesystems to avoid swapping them in.  Ignore failures.
 tmpfs=$(awk '$2 ~ /^\/($|proc|dev)/ { next; }
 	     $3 == "tmpfs" { print $2; }' /proc/mounts | sort -r)
-[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode umount $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
+[ -n "$tmpfs" ] && fstab-decode $UMOUNT $tmpfs 2>/dev/null
 
 # Turn off swap, then unmount file systems.
 [ -f /proc/swaps ] && SWAPS=`awk '! /^Filename/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps`
@@ -143,8 +146,6 @@
 	    backdev=$(/sbin/cryptsetup status "$dst" \
 		| awk '$1 == "device:" { print $2 }')
 	    /sbin/cryptsetup remove "$dst"
-	    # Leave partition with a blank plain-text swap
-	    mkswap "$backdev" > /dev/null
 	fi
     done
 fi
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@
 	$"Unmounting file systems (retry): " \
 	-f
 
-[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && umount /proc/bus/usb
+[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && $UMOUNT /proc/bus/usb
 
 [ -f /etc/crypttab ] && \
     LANG=C action $"Stopping disk encryption: " halt_crypto
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@
 awk '$2 !~ /\/(|dev|proc|selinux)$/ && $1 !~ /^\/dev\/ram/ { print $2 }' \
     /proc/mounts | sort -r | \
   while read line; do
-    fstab-decode umount -f $line
+    fstab-decode $UMOUNT -f $line
 done
 
 if [ -x /sbin/halt.local ]; then
nfs-utils-1.0.9-33.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock
---  
+++  
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 RETVAL=0
 start() {
 	# Check that networking is up.
-	[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 6
+	[ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ] && exit 6
 
 	if [ "$USERLAND_LOCKD" ] ; then
     	[ -x /sbin/rpc.lockd ] || exit 5
@@ -46,9 +46,12 @@
     	STATDARG=""
 	fi
 
-	if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/nfslock ]; then
-		return $RETVAL
+	# Make sure the rpc.statd is not already running.
+	if status rpc.statd > /dev/null ; then
+		exit 0
 	fi
+	rm -f /var/lock/subsys/nfslock
+
 	# Start daemons.
 	if [ "$USERLAND_LOCKD" ]; then
 	  echo -n $"Starting NFS locking: "
@@ -64,10 +67,14 @@
 			/sbin/sysctl -w fs.nfs.nlm_udpport=$LOCKD_UDPPORT >/dev/null 2>&1
 	fi  
 	echo -n $"Starting NFS statd: "
+	# Set statd's local hostname if defined
+	[ -n "${STATD_HOSTNAME}" ] && STATDARG="$STATDARG -n ${STATD_HOSTNAME}"
+
 	# See if a statd's ports has been defined
 	[ -n "$STATD_PORT" ] && STATDARG="$STATDARG -p $STATD_PORT"
 	[ -n "$STATD_OUTGOING_PORT" ] \
 		&& STATDARG="$STATDARG -o $STATD_OUTGOING_PORT"
+
 	# See if we have an HA-callout program specified
 	[ -n "$STATD_HA_CALLOUT" ] \
 		&& STATDARG="$STATDARG -H $STATD_HA_CALLOUT"
@@ -91,6 +98,7 @@
 	RETVAL=$?
 	echo
 	rm -f /var/lock/subsys/nfslock
+	rm -f /var/run/sm-notify.pid
 	return $RETVAL
 }
 
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/dbus-1/system.conf
---  
+++  
@@ -15,10 +15,16 @@
   <type>system</type>
 
   <!-- Run as special user -->
-  <user>81</user>
+  <user>dbus</user>
 
   <!-- Fork into daemon mode -->
   <fork/>
+
+  <!-- We use system service launching using a helper -->
+  <standard_system_servicedirs/>
+
+  <!-- This is a setuid helper that is used to launch system services -->
+  <servicehelper>/lib/dbus-1/dbus-daemon-launch-helper</servicehelper>
 
   <!-- Write a pid file -->
   <pidfile>/var/run/messagebus.pid</pidfile>
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth
---  
+++  
@@ -105,9 +105,10 @@
 
 # slave device?
 if [ "${SLAVE}" = yes -a "${ISALIAS}" = no -a "${MASTER}" != "" ]; then
-    /sbin/ip link set dev ${DEVICE} down
-    echo "+${DEVICE}" > /sys/class/net/${MASTER}/bonding/slaves 2>/dev/null
-
+    grep -wq "${DEVICE}" /sys/class/net/${MASTER}/bonding/slaves || {
+	/sbin/ip link set dev ${DEVICE} down
+	echo "+${DEVICE}" > /sys/class/net/${MASTER}/bonding/slaves 2>/dev/null
+    }
     if [ -n "$ETHTOOL_OPTS" ] ; then
         /sbin/ethtool -s ${REALDEVICE} $ETHTOOL_OPTS
     fi
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@
     for arg in $BONDING_OPTS ; do   
         key=${arg%%=*};
         value=${arg##*=};
-        if [ "${key}" = "arp_ip_target" ]; then
+        if [ "${key}" = "arp_ip_target" -a "${value:0:1}" != "+" ]; then
             OLDIFS=$IFS;
             IFS=',';
             for arp_ip in $value; do
initscripts-8.45.19.EL-1.i386.rpm: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp
---  
+++  
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 [ -x /sbin/pppd -o -x /usr/sbin/pppd ] || {
   echo $"pppd does not exist or is not executable"
   echo $"ifup-ppp for ${DEVICE} exiting"
-  logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
+  /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
     $"pppd does not exist or is not executable for ${DEVICE}"
   exit 1
 }
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
         adsl-start /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/$CONFIG
         exit $?
     else
-        logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
+        /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
             $"adsl-start does not exist or is not executable for ${DEVICE}"
         exit 1
     fi
@@ -76,12 +76,12 @@
     [ -f ${CHATSCRIPT} ] || {
      echo $"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-${DEVNAME} does not exist"
      echo $"ifup-ppp for ${DEVNAME} exiting"
-     logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
+     /usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
        $"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-${DEVNAME} does not exist for ${DEVICE}"
      exit 1
     }
   fi
-  logger -s -p daemon.notice -t ifup-ppp \
+  /usr/bin/logger -s -p daemon.notice -t ifup-ppp \
     $"Setting up a new ${PEERCONF} config file"
   if [ -f /etc/ppp/peers/${DEVICE} ]; then
     cp -f /etc/ppp/peers/${DEVICE} ${PEERCONF}
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
   exec=exec
 fi
 
-(logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
+(/usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
   $"pppd started for ${DEVNAME} on ${MODEMPORT} at ${LINESPEED}" &)&
 
 $exec pppd $opts ${MODEMPORT} ${LINESPEED} \
tog-pegasus-2.7.0-2.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/rc.d/init.d/tog-pegasus
---  
+++  
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 CIMSERVER_BIN=/usr/sbin/cimserver
 prog=cimserver
 LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/tog-pegasus
+LOCKFILE2=/var/run/tog-pegasus/cimserver_start.lock
+PIDFILE=/var/run/tog-pegasus/cimserver.pid
 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 
 [ -e /etc/sysconfig/tog-pegasus ] && . /etc/sysconfig/tog-pegasus;
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@
 	    success;
 	else
 	    failure;
+	    RETVAL=7
 	fi
 	echo
 	;;
@@ -86,8 +89,16 @@
 	    echo -n $"CIM server ($pid) is running";
 	    RETVAL=0
 	else
-	    echo -n $"CIM server is not running";
-	    RETVAL=3
+	    if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
+                echo -n $"CIM server is not running and pid file exists";
+                RETVAL=1
+            elif [ -e $LOCKFILE ] || [ -e $LOCKFILE2 ]; then
+                echo -n $"CIM server is not running and lock file exists";
+                RETVAL=2
+            else
+              echo -n $"CIM server is not running";
+              RETVAL=3
+            fi
 	fi
 	echo
 	;;
udev-095-14.16.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
---  
+++  
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 KERNEL=="mice",			NAME="input/%k"
 KERNEL=="mouse*",		NAME="input/%k"
 
-KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03f0", SYSFS{device/interface}=="Virtual Mouse", SYSFS{device/bInterfaceProtocol}=="02", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK+="input/hp_ilo_mouse"
+KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03f0", SYSFS{device/interface}=="Virtual Mouse", SYSFS{device/bInterfaceProtocol}=="02", SYMLINK+="input/hp_ilo_mouse"
 
 KERNEL=="event*",		NAME="input/%k"
 KERNEL=="js*",			NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK+="%k"
@@ -220,13 +220,6 @@
 KERNEL=="pcd[0-9]*",		SYMLINK+="cdrom cdrom-%k"
 KERNEL=="fd[0-9]*",		SYMLINK+="floppy floppy-%k"
 
-# Section for zaptel device
-KERNEL=="zapctl",     		NAME="zap/ctl"
-KERNEL=="zaptimer",   		NAME="zap/timer"
-KERNEL=="zapchannel", 		NAME="zap/channel"
-KERNEL=="zappseudo",  		NAME="zap/pseudo"
-KERNEL=="zap[0-9]*",  		NAME="zap/%n"
-
 KERNEL=="pktcdvd", NAME="%k/control"
 
 KERNEL=="hd[a-z]", BUS=="ide", SYSFS{removable}=="1", \
@@ -291,12 +284,14 @@
 KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/scsi_id -g -x -a -s %p -d $tempnode"
 KERNEL=="dasd*[!0-9]", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/dasd_id --export $tempnode"
 KERNEL=="nst[0-9]*|st*|sd*[!0-9]|sr*|dasd*[!0-9]|cciss?c", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}"
+KERNEL=="nst[0-9]*|st*|sd*[!0-9]|sr*|dasd*[!0-9]|cciss?c", ENV{ID_UID}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_UID}"
 
 # for partitions import parent information
 KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]|dasd*[0-9]", IMPORT{parent}=="ID_*"
 KERNEL=="cciss?c[0-9]d[0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}!="?*", IMPORT{program}="scsi_id -g -x -s %p -d $tempnode", ENV{ID_BUS}="cciss"
 KERNEL=="cciss?c[0-9]d[0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}!="?*", IMPORT{program}="scsi_id -g -x -a -s %p -d $tempnode", ENV{ID_BUS}="cciss"
 KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]|dasd*[0-9]|cciss*p[0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}-part%n"
+KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]|dasd*[0-9]|cciss*p[0-9]", ENV{ID_UID}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_UID}-part%n"
 
 # by-path (shortest physical path)
 KERNEL=="*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_TYPE}=="?*", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/path_id %p", SYMLINK+="disk/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}"
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5.i386.rpm: /etc/dbus-1/session.conf
---  
+++  
@@ -14,12 +14,16 @@
 
   <policy context="default">
     <!-- Allow everything to be sent -->
-    <allow send_destination="*"/>
+    <allow send_destination="*" eavesdrop="true"/>
     <!-- Allow everything to be received -->
     <allow eavesdrop="true"/>
     <!-- Allow anyone to own anything -->
     <allow own="*"/>
   </policy>
+
+  <!-- Config files are placed here that among other things, 
+       further restrict the above policy for specific services. -->
+  <includedir>session.d</includedir>
 
   <!-- This is included last so local configuration can override what's 
        in this standard file -->
@@ -27,4 +31,27 @@
 
   <include if_selinux_enabled="yes" selinux_root_relative="yes">contexts/dbus_contexts</include>
 
+  <!-- For the session bus, override the default relatively-low limits 
+       with essentially infinite limits, since the bus is just running 
+       as the user anyway, using up bus resources is not something we need 
+       to worry about. In some cases, we do set the limits lower than 
+       "all available memory" if exceeding the limit is almost certainly a bug, 
+       having the bus enforce a limit is nicer than a huge memory leak. But the 
+       intent is that these limits should never be hit. -->
+
+  <!-- the memory limits are 1G instead of say 4G because they can't exceed 32-bit signed int max -->
+  <limit name="max_incoming_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_outgoing_bytes">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_message_size">1000000000</limit>
+  <limit name="service_start_timeout">120000</limit>  
+  <limit name="auth_timeout">240000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_completed_connections">100000</limit>  
+  <limit name="max_incomplete_connections">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_connections_per_user">100000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_pending_service_starts">10000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_names_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="max_replies_per_connection">50000</limit>
+  <limit name="reply_timeout">300000</limit>
+
 </busconfig>

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