- Issued:
- 2011-01-13
- Updated:
- 2011-01-13
RHEA-2011:0087 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
ppc64-utils bug fix and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An enhanced ppc64-utils package that fixes several bugs is now available.
Description
The ppc64-utils package is a collection of utilities for Linux running on 64-bit
PowerPC platforms.
This updated ppc64-utils package adds the following enhancements:
- The lsvpd utility that lists hardware Vital Product Data (VPD), such as,
vendor, version, revision level, and serial number, was upgraded to upstream
version 1.6.8. (BZ#565612)
- The libvpd library, which is a library for lsvpd, was upgraded to upstream
version 2.1.2. (BZ#566271)
- The package provides support for partition hibernation. (BZ#579800)
In addition, this updated ppc64-utils package provides fixes for the following
bugs:
- Previously, several man pages were missing. This update adds the missing
pages. (BZ#555781)
- On the ofpathname manual page, "PoowerPC-64" was changed into PowerPC-64".
(BZ#577338)
- The ofpathname manual page did not show the "-a" and "-V" options, and the
"-?" option was displayed for the "--help" option. The missing "-a" and "-V"
options were added and the short option for "--help", "-?", was changed to "-h"
and the manual page shows all options as expected. (BZ#578516)
- Previously, the ofpathname command could not properly convert a logical name
to an Open Firmware device path name for SAN disk. With this update, ofpathname
converts the logical name properly. (BZ#580992)
- Previously, the drmgr tool does not support PCI DLPAR remove operations on the
Jupiter and Juno Power platforms. With this update, drmgr supports remove
operations. (BZ#655087)
- After the ppc64-utils installation, the install.log file contained the
following error message:
error reading information on service vpdupdater: No such file or directory
With this update, the error message is no longer in the log file. (BZ#638513)
Users of ppc64-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds
these enhancements and resolves 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 555781 - ppc64-utils is missing several manpages
- BZ - 565612 - [5.6 FEAT] Update Package: lsvpd-1.6.8
- BZ - 566271 - [5.6 FEAT] Update package: libvpd-2.1.x in PPC64-utils
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ppc64-utils-0.13-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: a2843dece2dea3cd45a58cf51a157420a06245f1f22a5167ff3674e33fe97154 |
ppc | |
ppc64-utils-0.13-7.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: e9f9ece43bbc10c950748a96a4f1bf07be5e36043d596a46c9ba8232080c67b8 |
ppc64-utils-devel-0.13-7.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 0cbea9be5332daba016a77ed7c481e88f386da67d4151980d7129c48ef2495a7 |
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