- Issued:
- 2007-06-11
- Updated:
- 2007-06-11
RHBA-2007:0474 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
coreutils bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated coreutils packages that fix several bugs are now available.
Description
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
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 164722 - sort ignores buffer-size when reading from stdin
- BZ - 188001 - Can't rebuild coreutils without warnings on RHEL3
- BZ - 188897 - test not builtin to tcsh
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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