RHEA-2008:0436 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.2.

Description

The redhat-release package contains licensing information regarding, and
identifies the installed version of, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This new package reflects changes made for the release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.2.

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 - 216069 - Many of 'language support's are not translated.
• BZ - 222086 - missing 32-bit libraries on RHEL 5 beta2
• BZ - 255981 - ntp not available in package selection
• BZ - 413001 - redhat-release needs to be updated for 5.2
• BZ - 426280 - Ship Server applications in PPC64 as well (vs. just 32bit)
• BZ - 437258 - Flash not working with Firefox 3 beta
• BZ - 440301 - Unresolved dependencies for compat-dapl-1.2.5-2.0.7-1
• BZ - 441469 - File conflict in dapl 32/64bit packages
• BZ - 445397 - Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: extracdinstaller.

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)