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Subject:
Security ERRATA for yum on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:27:32 -0500
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Synopsis:	Moderate: yum security update
Issue date:	2008-10-06

When RedHat started putting the %{dist} variable into their rpm names, it took
the Scientific Linux developers a while to believe that was what they were 
really going to settle on. (There were two other distribution naming schemes 
RedHat used before this, so we thought this one would only last a month or 
two.)  As a result, we ended up with several security updates with poor names. 
  These poorly named packages could not be updated when newer security updates 
came out.

This yum update contains a plugin called "versionfix".  Versionfix allows yum 
to update poorly named packages.  These poorly named packages will be updated 
the next time yum is run.  On a normal system, this will be the next day.

SL 4.x

    SRPMS:
yum-2.4.3-4.SL.src.rpm
    i386:
yum-2.4.3-4.SL.noarch.rpm
    x86_64:
yum-2.4.3-4.SL.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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