Synopsis

redhat-release enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.5.

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 5.5.

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 - 510643 - RFE: include yum repo for beta debuginfo packages
• BZ - 520466 - Possible indirect dependency conflict with samba3x Supplementary packages
• BZ - 522282 - Update anaconda group names and defaults for Virtualization
• BZ - 543897 - add iwl1000-firmware and iwl6000-firmware to supplementary comps
• BZ - 547767 - add python-dmidecode to comps
• BZ - 550034 - add gpxe to comps
• BZ - 550036 - add gsl to comps
• BZ - 550038 - add tunctl to comps
• BZ - 550167 - Update comps lists for postgres version 8.4.x
• BZ - 550838 - openoffice.org-core has unresolved deps: lucene
• BZ - 550840 - systemtap-testsuite has unresolved deps: systemtap-sdt-devel
• BZ - 558820 - Missing packages in Client + VT when upgrading from 5.4 via yum
• BZ - 564321 - add xz to distribution
• BZ - 567921 - remove gdb.ppc from Server/ppc
• BZ - 572152 - rebuild redhat-release for rhel-5.5
• BZ - 573861 - remove systemtap*.ppc RPMs

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 84c2575561479d34a5947a960ccfbb585733966a543a8f4c9d5fae2c9a22c5e5
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ea4386bfaf7363c22cd81b5b7bfb0ea3996b6383e18e20c1127f19f30ead4e2c
ia64
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 39dc2f522d59d7549a0963a4b033749a7b4b2b3d3897d1c6c0d69546170a253a
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 4298d52f69a940c35515043fee51aecfcf75a4d46c82e4137ba3e5600a3f2132

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1cabce0ae5ab6a40e6df0813ed56de604ab05df981cd305558ceb2ad9f25df8c
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9aab175f734e9f36ba950269d60d99eb399ca9aa4e77c6dad12cf4b635b3226f
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 3bb2bcac7a72930dadfd4947b94a50ffd7c42bb56ae297de2aa554845c295c31

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1cabce0ae5ab6a40e6df0813ed56de604ab05df981cd305558ceb2ad9f25df8c
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9aab175f734e9f36ba950269d60d99eb399ca9aa4e77c6dad12cf4b635b3226f
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.5.0.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 3bb2bcac7a72930dadfd4947b94a50ffd7c42bb56ae297de2aa554845c295c31

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 84c2575561479d34a5947a960ccfbb585733966a543a8f4c9d5fae2c9a22c5e5
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 1ef1e8c18f2d623951e8b04462992c9dce7bfdff0e840fff87faea9df35359b1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 84c2575561479d34a5947a960ccfbb585733966a543a8f4c9d5fae2c9a22c5e5
ppc
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: b3da98d586b05632c5c1af19bd98e3350c3052ef5be611fa3c99da37a11944fc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 84c2575561479d34a5947a960ccfbb585733966a543a8f4c9d5fae2c9a22c5e5
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ea4386bfaf7363c22cd81b5b7bfb0ea3996b6383e18e20c1127f19f30ead4e2c
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.5.0.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 4298d52f69a940c35515043fee51aecfcf75a4d46c82e4137ba3e5600a3f2132