Bug Fix Advisory coreutils bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2007:0474-3
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-06-11
Last updated on: 2007-06-11
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated coreutils packages that fix several bugs are now available.

The coreutils package contains core GNU utilities. It is the combination
of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

* The sort command ignored the -S buffer size option when run as part of a
pipeline.

* The wrong version of automake was used for building the package.

* The colorls.csh profile script was inefficient.

* A performance improvement that had previously been added has been removed
due to problems in NIS environments.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these
issues.


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/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)

SRPMS:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.src.rpm     aee0815d3e2761ccda73c7c92782c32e
 
IA-32:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.i386.rpm     a26d2aab604cc0b8607377cd01450954
 
x86_64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.x86_64.rpm     223765762eeaf7a59cc00b60fff8a7ef
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.src.rpm     aee0815d3e2761ccda73c7c92782c32e
 
IA-32:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.i386.rpm     a26d2aab604cc0b8607377cd01450954
 
IA-64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.ia64.rpm     2c339b9a899c08dee35da22310132b6c
 
PPC:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.ppc.rpm     afe125610800e20db082537566810c16
 
s390:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.s390.rpm     88a0188f7a906032c3d3800a42a112ed
 
s390x:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.s390x.rpm     ffa6d526b9eb9653afe9fa8420806106
 
x86_64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.x86_64.rpm     223765762eeaf7a59cc00b60fff8a7ef
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)

SRPMS:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.src.rpm     aee0815d3e2761ccda73c7c92782c32e
 
IA-32:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.i386.rpm     a26d2aab604cc0b8607377cd01450954
 
IA-64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.ia64.rpm     2c339b9a899c08dee35da22310132b6c
 
x86_64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.x86_64.rpm     223765762eeaf7a59cc00b60fff8a7ef
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.src.rpm     aee0815d3e2761ccda73c7c92782c32e
 
IA-32:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.i386.rpm     a26d2aab604cc0b8607377cd01450954
 
IA-64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.ia64.rpm     2c339b9a899c08dee35da22310132b6c
 
x86_64:
coreutils-4.5.3-28.7.x86_64.rpm     223765762eeaf7a59cc00b60fff8a7ef
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

164722 - sort ignores buffer-size when reading from stdin
188001 - Can't rebuild coreutils without warnings on RHEL3
188897 - test not builtin to tcsh



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