- Issued:
- 2011-12-06
- Updated:
- 2011-12-06
RHEA-2011:1560 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
perl-Date-Manip enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
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.
Description
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included outdated time zone definitions and an old API that is now considered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
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 Server 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 672934 - [RFE] rebase perl-Date-Manip to 6.x tree
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
SRPM | |
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perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
i386 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
i386 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
i386 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
i386 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
s390x | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
ppc64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
i386 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
s390x | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support 6
SRPM | |
---|---|
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.src.rpm | SHA-256: 33b1db97e553e71a47b16d03c92d64ebf5f9fc077740e13d25c3f497eb3c8387 |
x86_64 | |
perl-Date-Manip-6.24-1.el6.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 76e290ed36a5d304507c7ee285b15b5631cdf61539a431480799b396b29549fd |
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