Synopsis

redhat-release bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.4.

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 5.4.

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.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 241379 - Add System z compatibility section
• BZ - 363101 - RHEL comps.xml files are not arch-specific
• BZ - 463425 - .discinfo version and .treeinfo version do not match
• BZ - 467721 - redhat-release contains empty debuginfo packages
• BZ - 475611 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Update to latest level of Java 1.4.2 SR12 for RHEL 5.4 [201782]
• BZ - 475612 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Java 6 SR2 for RHEL 5.4 [201784]
• BZ - 475613 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Java 1.5 SR8 for RHEL 5.4 [201783]
• BZ - 482800 - i386 versions of openssl097a and compat-readline43 for x86_64 channel
• BZ - 483565 - xenpv-win should not be shipped on the {ia64,ppc,s390} Supplementary isos
• BZ - 488933 - add pdksh to comps
• BZ - 500414 - RFE: produce a list of empty debuginfo rpms
• BZ - 502048 - redhat-release needs to be updated for 5.4
• BZ - 502051 - Add virtio-win package to comps
• BZ - 503472 - systemtap subpackages missing on ppc
• BZ - 506481 - fipscheck-lib-1.2.0-1.el5.i386.rpm on rhel5.4 compat is missing
• BZ - 511161 - yum groupinstall KVM shouldn't pull in gnome-applet-vm (and xen)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 041a80e7d6d96d41d95b890127010644a0e19173533eb06cc2bbd6c9dc844862
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a3610ba876c59a9f782d836851a66cc729d138757d99edb42413436e0931913f
ia64
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 133bdd749358182617de763449675afb5cf78d678dd03d7e4b73b63b186c0437
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 575790abff8f14e6ee937b00426a42211b7e955f2d0a355359ceef914b8e4a87

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: f24cc15b0dddf3c59002cbd8249d8089d002bee3c51ce764ae5a9fe362d1cde5
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c1b2b1b88e6b5fae1b7c8e88bdd570d35322c08499e81cba515d4f7d55b862b2
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 4036eb1eae0b9b04c079ac18d9fb296b251745b1fe1b2f239e44d3a5c07aafa7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: f24cc15b0dddf3c59002cbd8249d8089d002bee3c51ce764ae5a9fe362d1cde5
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c1b2b1b88e6b5fae1b7c8e88bdd570d35322c08499e81cba515d4f7d55b862b2
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.4.0.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 4036eb1eae0b9b04c079ac18d9fb296b251745b1fe1b2f239e44d3a5c07aafa7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 041a80e7d6d96d41d95b890127010644a0e19173533eb06cc2bbd6c9dc844862
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: c5ea7dda797afa8594bb6464bf16affdd89b00caf17363e40fe9739b66b0c320

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 041a80e7d6d96d41d95b890127010644a0e19173533eb06cc2bbd6c9dc844862
ppc
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: a80af7837345f6d0b8792f1dce741bf9d1871f95ef6d78c12a7852199422148a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.src.rpm	SHA-256: 041a80e7d6d96d41d95b890127010644a0e19173533eb06cc2bbd6c9dc844862
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a3610ba876c59a9f782d836851a66cc729d138757d99edb42413436e0931913f
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 575790abff8f14e6ee937b00426a42211b7e955f2d0a355359ceef914b8e4a87