RHEA-2011:1743 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.2.

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 6.2.

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 all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the 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 - 645130 - Core group contains mandatory firmware packages
• BZ - 677360 - [RFE] Provide tdb-tools in base channel
• BZ - 678089 - RHEL6 install with GNOME, X (but without KDE) runs text setup only
• BZ - 696294 - Add yum-plugin-security to default install
• BZ - 705572 - EC2 missing /etc/sysconfig/kernel
• BZ - 708304 - RFE: Fix confusing option in package selection screen
• BZ - 708569 - Move s390utils-cmsfs-fuse from optional to default channels
• BZ - 714163 - 32-bit SPICE packages missing from Supplementary repo
• BZ - 725454 - Include the new package spice-gtk in composes
• BZ - 725478 - Rename libvirt-qpid to be libvirt-qmf in comps.xml
• BZ - 725532 - add libvirt-snmp package to comps.xml
• BZ - 725815 - add vios-proxy to comps.xml
• BZ - 726550 - add wdaemon to comps.xml for RHEL6.2
• BZ - 727554 - fake-build-provides provides lm_sensors-devel on x86_64
• BZ - 729281 - Update redhat-release-client for RHEL 6.2
• BZ - 729282 - Update redhat-release-server for RHEL 6.2
• BZ - 729284 - Update redhat-release-workstation for RHEL 6.2
• BZ - 729285 - Update redhat-release-computenode for RHEL 6.2
• BZ - 740934 - Weird problem with RHSM CDN updateinfo data for at least qt

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)