RHEA-2007:0854 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.

Description

The redhat-release package identifies the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This new package reflects changes made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 should upgrade to this updated package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat Network to download
and update your packages. To do so, run the following command (as root):

pup

Alternatively, for a command-line interface, run the following command instead:

yum update

To register your system to RHN, use the following command:

rhn_register

For information on how to manually install or remove packages, refer to the
following link:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_11223.shtm

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 235944 - libacl package missing on RHEL5 ia64 compat-layer CD
• BZ - 245992 - need new crash-devel package
• BZ - 246240 - Need multilib keyutils-libs
• BZ - 246253 - We would like to include the RHX public key in to the redhat-release package.
• BZ - 323171 - DomHVM hungs by guest firmware regression

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)