Compatibility locales for SAP

Advisory:	RHEA-2009:1194-1
Type:	Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2009-08-04
Last updated on:	2009-08-04
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP

Details

A new compat-locales-sap package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Advanced Platform for SAP.

The compat-locales-sap package provides various compatibility UNIX® locales
for use with SAP® Application Servers.

This new compat-locales-sap package adds the following locales for UNIX
compatibility:

* cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2@SAP

* en_US@POSIX

* de_DE@POSIX

* sk_SK.ISO-8859-2@SAP

* tr_TR.ISO-8859-9@SAP

These locales provide support for customers who are not using Unicode for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 4 and 5. (BZ#508595, BZ#467488)

All SAP users should install this newly-released package, which adds this
enhancement.

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/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP

SRPMS:
compat-locales-sap-1.0.2-1.el4_8.src.rpm	`MD5: c5b725ac5381e49d7797e0fe6873e6c2`
compat-locales-sap-1.0.2-1.el5_3.src.rpm	`MD5: b75a3fc7d760d9f4baf419221f0d7a0b`

x86_64:
compat-locales-sap-common-1.0.2-1.el4_8.noarch.rpm	`MD5: af61a61404dbf319810895c54964fee6`
compat-locales-sap-common-1.0.2-1.el5_3.noarch.rpm	`MD5: 7e37ba2177968ffd4ca5e5813af97e79`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

467488 - Add package compat-locales-sap to the RHEL5 SAP Supplementary channel
508595 - Add package compat-locales-sap to the RHEL4 SAP Supplementary channel

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