RHEA-2012:1084 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated zlib packages that add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The zlib packages provide a general-purpose lossless data compression library
which is used by various programs.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• Prior to this update, zlib did not provide minizip packages. As a consequence,

there was no library available for extracting and creating zip archives. This
update adds the minizip packages to zlib to create and extract zip archives.
(BZ#690835)

• Prior to this update, zlib did not contain the pkgconfig files. As a

consequence, some applications that use pkgconfig to check dependencies could
not find the zlib library. This update adds the pkgconfig files to the zlib
packages. Now, applications can find the zlib library using the pkgconfig tool.
(BZ#803810)

All users of zlib are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add
these enhancements.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 690835 - Please enable minizip in zlib spec file

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)