- Issued:
- 2012-06-20
- Updated:
- 2012-06-20
RHBA-2012:0791 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
yaboot bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated yaboot package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.
Description
The yaboot package provides a boot loader for Open Firmware based PowerPC
systems. It can be used to boot IBM eServer System p machines.
This update fixes the following bugs:
- Prior to this update, the /etc/yaboot.conf parser failed during install when
the quoted string was too long. This update modifies the code to significantly
extend the size of quoted strings. Now, the /etc/yaboot.conf file parses as
expected. (BZ#711001)
- Prior to this update, yaboot could only be build using the mock tool which
creates a 32-bit PowerPC environment in chroot. This updated package supports
building with rpmbuild. (BZ#750199)
All users of yaboot are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
Fixes
- BZ - 750199 - The -m32 option is missing when rpmbuild builds yaboot on ppc64 for ppc arch
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
yaboot-1.3.14-39.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2e5b7b0f4cfa3e39054ee9faad28f88bb2f85e9f68d2edc838569d1f91aa748b |
ppc64 | |
yaboot-1.3.14-39.el6.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 31e6e006294f83a2fa86d10c966948e7fddbea1f66b3a9801d27d056ab894aaa |
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