Subject: [RHBA-2000:138-03] New, enhanced Update Agent for Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.0 available Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:38 -0500 To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com From: redhat-watch-list-admin@redhat.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory Synopsis: New, enhanced Update Agent for Red Hat Linux 6.x, 7.0 available Advisory ID: RHBA-2000:138-03 Issue date: 2000-12-21 Updated on: 2000-12-21 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: up2date dependencies rpm automatic update Cross references: Obsoletes RHBA-2000:081, RHEA-1999:049 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: A new version of Update Agent is available which has more features and fixes many bugs present in the existing Agent. Additionally, the "new" Red Hat Network-aware Update Agent that first shipped with Red Hat Linux 7.0 is now available for Red Hat Linux 6.2. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha, i386, noarch, sparc Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, i386 3. Problem description: Versions of Update Agent prior to 2.1.7 have several small bugs which can hamper functionality in a number of ways. These bugs have been fixed. In addition, a large number of new features have been added, including but not limited to proxy support, improved dependency resolution, and better command line functionality. This new Update Agent is also being made available for Red Hat Linux 6.2, and replaces the previous 1.x version available for that platform. This release brings Red Hat Network functionality to Red Hat Linux 6.2. 4. Solution: For all RPMs for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Uvh [filenames] where filenames are the name of the RPMs. 5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): 8581 - Update Agent Can't Resolve Dependencies 10792 - Update Agent doesn't connect in GUI, fine in text 11098 - up2date-1.13-1 problems 11508 - up2date fails: could not resolve dependencies 11942 - Problems with transparent proxies 12418 - Fails during "Building web page" 13201 - Generates bogus "From" email addresses 14536 - deptries default 15365 - Swedish up2date .desktop file translation 17581 - up2date dependencies when not running gui 17669 - /usr/bin/up2date fails to run on console 17931 - unclear $INTERVAL comment in rhsnd init script 17933 - Bogus syslog messages from rhn_check 17934 - rhnsd should not run by default 18543 - --anonymous command line options don't work 18817 - RHN Configuration with http proxy 18846 - Clarification to no-selected-packages dialog 18950 - up2date's "Packages Marked to be Skipped" is vague 19300 - Can not launched Apdate Agent after Netscape crushed when selecting packeges. 19528 - 2 syntax errors in the up2date script 19668 - up2date chokes on unmet dependencies 20442 - up2date console requires /var/www/html/index.html 20472 - up2date.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The message was: 21877 - up2date-gnome requires pygnome-libglade 21903 - /var/spool/up2date is contained in wrong rpm 21905 - Deleted filehandles are kept open in up2date 21924 - up2date -r shouldn't use X 22003 - up2date fails to "Get Header for Avail Packages" 22041 - Error updating Netscape. 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 6.2: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.src.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.src.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.src.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.src.rpm alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.i386.rpm noarch: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/noarch/rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/noarch/rhn_register-gnome-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm sparc: ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.sparc.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.sparc.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.sparc.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.sparc.rpm Red Hat Linux 7.0: SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/up2date-2.1.7-1.src.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.src.rpm alpha: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/up2date-2.1.7-1.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1.alpha.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.alpha.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/up2date-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name -------------------------------------------------------------------------- e7b68601960b39d5760835b7e4d7bd60 6.2/alpha/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.alpha.rpm 91e0c974f732b856b061fc1dae4381e9 6.2/alpha/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.alpha.rpm 5afc82b8ba539340ffdaa3a0dfe2015d 6.2/alpha/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.alpha.rpm fbe56e7f40f9ff767c770e2a455841f3 6.2/alpha/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.alpha.rpm 0a939a72d6bd3bdada058e85e447465e 6.2/i386/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm 7e2fafebb7c2adc138bf875de4107335 6.2/i386/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.i386.rpm aaa69d54931adde087595fc6b626ee38 6.2/i386/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.i386.rpm 64f73dca514faec56c08319f33cffca6 6.2/i386/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.i386.rpm 3a4375ab95d56f221b4199f7337dd200 6.2/noarch/rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm de9d88df6cdfcbb42188546b62bdc34b 6.2/noarch/rhn_register-gnome-1.0.2-0.6.x.noarch.rpm 204d9866e57763b1b9bb70f0a54678e5 6.2/sparc/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.sparc.rpm 1073de37efb6433d069da95ff1502aca 6.2/sparc/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-0.6.x.sparc.rpm 494b4984fe9fc363c46b321db22b95d5 6.2/sparc/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.sparc.rpm af2bf0c010fded605ddbb64b5054144e 6.2/sparc/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.sparc.rpm d951ae24d35a8c73cefcb6ac0a698032 7.0/alpha/up2date-2.1.7-1.alpha.rpm a6833b6128ef1479ffacc3421c442c54 7.0/alpha/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1.alpha.rpm 081d7934b77c50e99699198282bb2bb9 7.0/alpha/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.alpha.rpm 432c1954c9dca758e202aa5865a0fded 7.0/i386/up2date-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm 6860bd32579faa4381f1c04ab9e676c6 7.0/i386/up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm 8e20e57e6930eb89941e7dc11b395dbb 7.0/i386/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm 2acd7d0cf52dec0fa31b9744048aedef 6.2/SRPMS/rhn_register-1.0.2-0.6.x.src.rpm 03edf869af4c57025c37540791d68ef9 6.2/SRPMS/up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.src.rpm 4c25a40e812780975258e09ca8556abc 6.2/SRPMS/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-0.6.x.src.rpm 96b7f0e1a51722e8b87f3a3f48e672a5 6.2/SRPMS/python-1.5.2-27.6.x.src.rpm 6df37c7293a9af13d41ada9af7f2afe2 7.0/SRPMS/up2date-2.1.7-1.src.rpm b65ee43d32a91fad6c2aecff9e8d10dd 7.0/SRPMS/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1.src.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig <filename> If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename> 8. References: Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Redhat-watch-list mailing list To unsubscribe, visit: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-watch-list