perl-Date-Manip enhancement update
| Advisory: | RHEA-2011:1560-2 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Product Enhancement Advisory |
| Severity: | N/A |
| Issued on: | 2011-12-06 |
| Last updated on: | 2011-12-06 |
| Affected Products: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) |
Details
An updated perl-Date-Manip package that upgrades the Date::Manip module to
upstream version 6.24 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Date::Manip module provides a mechanism for Perl scripts to perform common
date or time operations, such as comparing two timestamps or parsing
international times.
This update adds the following enhancement:
* Among other flaws, the previous version of the perl-Date-Manip package
included outdated time zone definitions and an old API that is now considered
deprecated. This update upgrades the perl-Date-Manip package to upstream version
6.24, which provides up-to-date time zone definitions and version 6 of the API.
Users are still able to use the old API version 5 by explicitly using the
Date::Manip::DM5 module. (BZ#672934)
All users of perl-Date-Manip are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which adds this enhancement.
Solution
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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Updated packages
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | MD5: 18b54c941e22735d01b52ed513247763 SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
| IA-32: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| x86_64: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | MD5: 18b54c941e22735d01b52ed513247763 SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
| x86_64: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | MD5: 18b54c941e22735d01b52ed513247763 SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
| IA-32: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| PPC: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| s390x: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| x86_64: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | MD5: 18b54c941e22735d01b52ed513247763 SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
| IA-32: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| x86_64: | |
| perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | MD5: 6ec89934f9e5b94d856e4c28e257097f SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
| (The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network) | |
Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)
672934 - [RFE] rebase perl-Date-Manip to 6.x tree
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