RHEA-2011:0540 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.1.

Description

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

This updated redhat-release package reflects changes made for the release of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are advised to upgrade to this updated
redhat-release package, which adds this enhancement.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 587692 - Expand image descriptions in images/README
• BZ - 619719 - [comps] [ALL_LANG] Translation updates
• BZ - 640085 - hunspell-en should be installed with hunspell
• BZ - 642356 - .treeinfo on DVDs says, that there should be boot.iso, but it's missing
• BZ - 646914 - Add rh-amazon-rhui-client to cloud images
• BZ - 651357 - RHEL6 doesn't provide installation media for USB flash drives
• BZ - 652659 - pexpect is not found in RHEL6-repository
• BZ - 652783 - provide yum repository for accessing rhel source rpms
• BZ - 658039 - File conflicts between ocaml multilib packages in Optional repo
• BZ - 658065 - File conflicts between dovecot-devel multilib packages in Optional repo
• BZ - 659731 - Build and include kexec-tools on System z
• BZ - 663053 - add omping to comps
• BZ - 664840 - add iwl6000g2a-firmware to comps
• BZ - 667145 - Update redhat-release-client for RHEL 6.1
• BZ - 667195 - Update redhat-release-computenode for RHEL 6.1
• BZ - 667196 - Update redhat-release-server for RHEL 6.1
• BZ - 667200 - Update redhat-release-workstation for RHEL 6.1
• BZ - 674169 - Remove ffmpeg-spice from RHEL
• BZ - 674170 - remove spice-common from RHEL
• BZ - 679134 - Include firefox 32-bit on x86_64 platform
• BZ - 681036 - add python-simplejson to Client and ComputeNode
• BZ - 684209 - include abrt-plugin-mailx in @base
• BZ - 684661 - Java-Ibm package missing on RHEL 6.1-Alpha
• BZ - 685127 - Matahari should not be in the Minimal install
• BZ - 685151 - Remove pixman-spice cairo-spice packages from distribution
• BZ - 688611 - Inconsistent RPM-GPG-KEY-* on Supplementary
• BZ - 688695 - BOOTX64.efi is missing from /EFI/BOOT/
• BZ - 692205 - Cluster ccs package needs to be included with Cluster bits, not Optional
• BZ - 692224 - The image creation process puts the first partition on sector 1 instead of cylinder 1
• BZ - 693486 - qpid-tests and qpid-tools should not be built/included on ppc64 and s390x
• BZ - 695347 - Remove gfs2-utils from base channels
• BZ - 695390 - Resilient Storage Add On should include all packages in High Availability Add On
• BZ - 699894 - Remove ruby-qpid from comps in rhel 6 and beyond
• BZ - 700188 - Update redhat-release-client for RHEL 6.1 GA

CVEs

(none)

References

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