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

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References

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