Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Detailed notes on the changes implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Detailed notes on the changes implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Edition 1 Do n Do mingo Red Hat Engineering Co ntent Services ddo mingo @redhat.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes T his document is a record of all package changes since the last minor update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 1. Added Packages dapl-2.0.7-2.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 APIs Description: libdat and libdapl provide a userspace implementation of the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 API that is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology. dstat-0.6.6-3.
1. Added Packages Summary: FreeIPMI Description: The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System Management Software" (in-band) based on Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification. This package contains a Technology Preview for FreeIPMI. Please visit http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support policies. gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes The iSNS package contains the daemon and tools to setup a iSNS server, and iSNS client tools. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol allows automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network. libcxgb3-1.1.4 -1.
1. Added Packages libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic IB functions. libibumad-1.1.7-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand um ad (user MAD) library Description: libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic and management tools, including OpenSM. libibverbs-1.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver Description: Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4 handles that hardware). libnes-0.5-2.
1. Added Packages Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules. This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive of all IETF and IANA maintained standard MIB modules. mpi-selector-1.0.0-2.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Summary: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution docum entation Description: Documentation from OFED 1.3 opensm-3.1.8-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and m anagem ent utilities Description: OpenSM is the OpenIB project's Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks. The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the machines in the infiniband fabric to manage the fabric's routing state.
1. Added Packages Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and control it as if a human were typing commands. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Summary: VNIC ULP service Description: VNIC ULP service qperf-0.4 .0-1.el5 Group: Networking/Diagnostic Summary: Measure socket and RDMA perform ance Description: Measure socket and RDMA performance. rsyslog-2.0.0-11.
1. Added Packages In conjunction with the kernel ib_srp driver, srptools allows you to discover and use SCSI devices via the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand. system-config-netboot-0.1.4 5.1-1.el5 Group: Applications/System Summary: network booting/install configuration utility (GUI) Description: system-config-netboot is a utility which allows you to configure diskless environments and network installations. tpm-tools-1.3.1-1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes udftools-1.0.0b3-0.1.el5 Group: Applications/Archiving Summary: Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities Description: Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities. virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5 Group: Applications/System Summary: Virtual Machine Viewer Description: Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC widget to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC server details. wdaemon-0.
2. D ropped Packages 2. Dropped Packages No packages listed here. 3. Updated Packages Deployment_Guide-5.1.0-11 - Deployment_Guide-5.2-9 Group: Docum entation Summary: Deploym ent Guide Description: This Deployment Guide documents relevant information regarding the deployment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. No added dependencies No removed dependencies ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-3.el5.4 - ImageMagick-6.2.8.0-4 .el5_1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP, NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
2. D ropped Packages Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(T M). Description: The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM). A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), and medias. Added Dependencies: psutils No removed dependencies acl-2.2.39-2.1.el5 - acl-2.2.39-3.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Access control list utilities.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies anaconda-11.1.2.87-1 - anaconda-11.1.2.113-1 Group: Applications/System Summary: Graphical system installer Description: The anaconda package contains the program which was used to install your system. These files are of little use on an already installed system. Added Dependencies: libdhcp-devel >= 1.20-5 libnl-devel >= 1.0-0.10.pre5.5 Removed Dependencies: glib2-devel >= 2.11.1-5 libdhcp-devel >= 1.
2. D ropped Packages Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing Description: The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel. Added Dependencies: checkpolicy openldap-devel selinux-policy-devel No removed dependencies authconfig-5.3.12-2.el5 - authconfig-5.3.21-3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Description: The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. This package (bash) contains bash version 3.2, which improves POSIX compliance over previous versions. Added Dependencies: autoconf gettext No removed dependencies bind-9.3.3-10.
2. D ropped Packages Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: sim ple python bootloader config lib Description: Small python library for use with bootloader configuration by anaconda and up2date. No added dependencies No removed dependencies busybox-1.2.0-3 - busybox-1.2.0-4 .
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, OpenGL (via glitz), in-memory image buffers, and image files (PDF, PostScript, and SVG). Cairo is designed to produce identical output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension or OpenGL).
2. D ropped Packages Description: This package contains Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster Suite SNMP/CIM module/agent/provider. Added Dependencies: cman-devel No removed dependencies cman-2.0.73-1.el5 - cman-2.0.84 -2.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: cm an - T he Cluster Manager Description: cman - The Cluster Manager Added Dependencies: kernel-headers No removed dependencies conga-0.10.0-6.el5 - conga-0.12.0-7.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies coolkey-1.1.0-5.el5 - coolkey-1.1.0-6.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: CoolKey PKCS #11 m odule Description: Linux Driver support for the CoolKey and CAC products. No added dependencies No removed dependencies coreutils-5.97-12.1.el5 - coreutils-5.97-14 .
2. D ropped Packages LKCD or m core dum pfiles Description: The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch. No added dependencies No removed dependencies createrepo-0.4 .4 -2.fc6 - createrepo-0.4 .11-3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No removed dependencies cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: A high-perform ance m ail server with IMAP, POP3, NNT P and SIEVE support Description: The cyrus-imapd package contains the core of the Cyrus IMAP server. It is a scaleable enterprise mail system designed for use from small to large enterprise environments using standards-based internet mail technologies.
2. D ropped Packages desktop-printing-0.19-20.el5 - desktop-printing-0.19-20.1.el5 Group: Applications/File Summary: Desktop print icon Description: Desktop-printing contains eggcups, a program for user print job notification and control. No added dependencies No removed dependencies devhelp-0.12-11.el5 - devhelp-0.12-16.el5 Group: Developm ent/T ools Summary: API docum ent browser Description: An API document browser for GNOME 2. Added Dependencies: gecko-devel-unstable = 1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies dhcp-3.0.5-7.el5 - dhcp-3.0.5-13.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: DHCP (Dynam ic Host Configuration Protocol) server and relay agent. Description: DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information (IP address, subnetmask, broadcast address, etc.) from a DHCP server.
2. D ropped Packages Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes The dvgrab utility will capture digital video from a DV source on the firewire (IEEE-1394) bus. No added dependencies No removed dependencies e2fsprogs-1.39-10.el5 - e2fsprogs-1.39-15.
2. D ropped Packages Description: Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows. No added dependencies No removed dependencies emacspeak-23.0-2.1 - emacspeak-23.0-3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for programs that work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information. It was originally developed for Evolution (hence the name), but is now used by other packages. Added Dependencies: gtk-doc intltool >= 0.35.0 openldap-evolution-devel openssl-devel Removed Dependencies: intltool openldap-devel >= 2.0.11 file-4 .17-9.0.1.el5 - file-4 .
2. D ropped Packages libjpeg-devel libpng-devel nspr-devel >= 4.6 nss-devel >= 3.11.1 zlib-devel flac-1.1.2-27 - flac-1.1.2-28.el5_0.1 Group: Applications/Multim edia Summary: An encoder/decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec. Description: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis, but lossless.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: Developm ent/System Summary: Frysk execution analysis tool Description: Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++. It is aimed at providing developers and sysadmins with the ability to both examine and analyze running multi-host, multi-process, multi-threaded systems.
2. D ropped Packages The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. Note that gd is not a paint program. No added dependencies No removed dependencies gdb-6.5-25.el5 - gdb-6.5-37.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies gfs-kmod-0.1.19-7.el5 - gfs-kmod-0.1.23-5.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Kernel Summary: gfs kernel m odules Description: gfs - The Global File System is a symmetric, shared-disk, cluster file system. Added Dependencies: kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-92.el5 kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-92.el5 Removed Dependencies: kernel-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-xen-devel-ia64 = 2.6.18-53.el5 gfs-utils-0.1.12-1.
2. D ropped Packages gfs2-utils-0.1.38-1.el5 - gfs2-utils-0.1.4 4 -1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Kernel Summary: Utilities for m anaging the global filesystem (GFS) Description: The gfs2-utils package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in GFS filesystems. No added dependencies No removed dependencies ghostscript-8.15.2-9.1.el5 - ghostscript-8.15.2-9.1.el5_1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes gnome-panel-2.16.1-6.el5 - gnome-panel-2.16.1-7.el5 Group: User Interface/Desktops Summary: GNOME panel Description: The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other features for the GNOME desktop. No added dependencies No removed dependencies gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-8.el5 - gnome-power-manager-2.16.0-9.
2. D ropped Packages The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additional Python bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python. Added Dependencies: gecko-devel-unstable >= 1.9 Removed Dependencies: firefox-devel >= 1.5.0.5 gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5 - gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-8.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes The GNOME Volume Manager monitors volume-related events and responds with user-specified policy. The GNOME Volume Manager can automount hotplugged drives, automount inserted removable media, autorun programs, automatically play audio CDs and video DVDs, and automatically import photos from a digital camera. The GNOME Volume Manager does this entirely in user-space and without polling.
2. D ropped Packages GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. No added dependencies No removed dependencies gtkhtml3-3.12.0-1.fc6 - gtkhtml3-3.16.3-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: gtkhtm l library Description: GtkHTML is a lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes HAL is daemon for collection and maintaining information from several sources about the hardware on the system. It provides a live device list through D-BUS. No added dependencies No removed dependencies hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5 - hal-cups-utils-0.6.2-5.2.el5 Group: Applications/System Summary: Halified CUPS utilities Description: Halified utilities for CUPS: - hal_lpadmin - hal CUPS backend No added dependencies No removed dependencies hplip-1.6.7-4 .1.
2. D ropped Packages The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Description: A browser for your current hardware configuration. No added dependencies No removed dependencies hwdata-0.211-1 - hwdata-0.213.6-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Hardware identification and configuration data Description: hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids database and MonitorsDb databases. No added dependencies No removed dependencies ibutils-1.2-2.el5 - ibutils-1.2-3.
2. D ropped Packages initscripts-8.4 5.17.EL-1 - initscripts-8.4 5.19.EL-1 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: T he inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts. Description: The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces. No added dependencies No removed dependencies iproute-2.6.18-4 .el5 - iproute-2.6.18-7.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order to really use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. This package builds: - setkey, a program to directly manipulate policies and SAs - racoon, an IKEv1 keying daemon No added dependencies No removed dependencies iptables-1.3.5-1.2.1 - iptables-1.3.5-4 .el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: T ools for m anaging Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities.
2. D ropped Packages No removed dependencies isdn4 k-utils-3.2-50.1 - isdn4 k-utils-3.2-51.el5 Group: Applications/System Summary: Utilities for configuring an ISDN subsystem . Description: The isdn4k-utils package contains a collection of utilities needed for configuring an ISDN subsystem. No added dependencies No removed dependencies jakarta-commons-collections-3.1-6jpp.1 - jakarta-commons-collections-3.2-2jpp.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: T ools for configuring the console (keyboard, virtual term inals, etc.) Description: The kbd package contains tools for managing a Linux system's console's behavior, including the keyboard, the screen fonts, the virtual terminals and font files. No added dependencies No removed dependencies kdeadmin-3.5.4 -2.fc6 - kdeadmin-3.5.4 -3.el5 Group: User Interface/Desktops Summary: Adm inistrative tools for KDE.
2. D ropped Packages Description: Libraries for the K Desktop Environment: KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation). No added dependencies No removed dependencies kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 - kernel-2.6.18-92.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies ksh-20060214 -1.4 - ksh-20060214 -1.7 Group: Applications/Shells Summary: T he Original AT T Korn Shell Description: KSH-93 is AT&T Bell KornShell with "sh" the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of Laboratories. is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible (the Bourne Shell). No added dependencies No removed dependencies kudzu-1.2.57.1.15-1 - kudzu-1.2.57.1.
2. D ropped Packages LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) is an Message-Passing Interface (MPI) programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network. With LAM/MPI, a dedicated cluster or an existing network computing infrastructure can act as one parallel computer to solve one problem. LAM/MPI is considered to be "cluster friendly" because it offers daemon-based process startup/control as well as fast client-to-client message passing protocols.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Cross Platform Audio Output Library. Description: Libao is a cross platform audio output library. It currently supports ESD, OSS, Solaris, and IRIX. No added dependencies No removed dependencies libchewing-0.3.0-7.el5 - libchewing-0.3.0-8.
2. D ropped Packages liberation-fonts-0.2-2.el5 - liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5 Group: User Interface/X Summary: Fonts to replace com m only used Microsoft Windows Fonts Description: The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New. No added dependencies No removed dependencies libexif-0.6.13-4 .0.2.el5 - libexif-0.6.13-4 .0.2.el5_1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes The libhugetlbfs library interacts with the Linux hugetlbfs to make large pages available to applications in a transparent manner. No added dependencies No removed dependencies libica-1.3.7-5.el5 - libica-1.3.7-7.
2. D ropped Packages The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files. No added dependencies No removed dependencies libraw1394 -1.2.1-1.fc6 - libraw1394 -1.3.0-1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system.
2. D ropped Packages libsysfs-devel libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2 - libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Group: Developm ent/Libraries Summary: Library providing XML and HT ML support Description: This library allows to manipulate XML files. It includes support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. There is DTDs support this includes parsing and validation even with complex DtDs, either at parse time or later once the document has been modified.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies ltrace-0.5-6.4 5svn.fc6 - ltrace-0.5-7.4 5svn.el5 Group: Developm ent/Debuggers Summary: T racks runtim e library calls from dynam ically linked executables. Description: Ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until the command exits.
2. D ropped Packages device-mapper >= 1.02.24-1 Removed Dependencies: device-mapper >= 1.02.20-1 m17n-db-1.3.3-4 6.el5 - m17n-db-1.3.3-4 8.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Multilingualization datafiles for m 17n-lib Description: This package contains multilingualization (m17n) datafiles for m17n-lib which describe input maps, encoding maps, and OpenType font data for many languages. No added dependencies No removed dependencies m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1 - m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes make-3.81-1.1 - make-3.81-3.el5 Group: Developm ent/T ools Summary: A GNU tool which sim plifies the build process for users. Description: A GNU tool for controlling the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. Make allows users to build and install packages without any significant knowledge about the details of the build process.
2. D ropped Packages No removed dependencies mdadm-2.5.4 -3.el5 - mdadm-2.6.4 -1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: m dadm controls Linux m d devices (software RAID arrays) Description: mdadm is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux MD (software RAID) devices. As such, it provides similar functionality to the raidtools package.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used.
2. D ropped Packages MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries. The base package contains the MySQL client programs, the client shared libraries, and generic MySQL files. Added Dependencies: gawk No removed dependencies nautilus-2.16.2-6.el5 - nautilus-2.16.2-7.el5 Group: User Interface/Desktops Summary: Nautilus is a file m anager for GNOME.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Description: The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, including ifconfig, netstat, route, and others. No added dependencies No removed dependencies newt-0.52.2-9 - newt-0.52.2-10.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: A developm ent library for text m ode user interfaces. Description: Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces.
2. D ropped Packages Summary: Notification Daem on Description: notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktop notification specification. No added dependencies No removed dependencies nspr-4 .6.5-3.el5 - nspr-4 .7.0.99.2-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Netscape Portable Runtim e Description: NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Nss_db is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley Databases to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS). Install nss_db if your flat name service files are too large and lookups are slow. No added dependencies No removed dependencies nss_ldap-253-5.el5 - nss_ldap-253-12.
2. D ropped Packages oddjob-0.27-7 - oddjob-0.27-9.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: A D-BUS service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications Description: oddjob is a D-BUS service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus. No added dependencies No removed dependencies openCryptoki-2.2.4 -16.el5 - openCryptoki-2.2.4 -21.el5 Group: Productivity/Security Summary: Im plem entation of Cryptoki v2.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers.
2. D ropped Packages OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set of protocols for accessing directory services (usually phone book style information, but other information is possible) over the Internet, similar to the way DNS (Domain Name System) information is propagated over the Internet. The openldap package contains configuration files, libraries, and documentation for OpenLDAP.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executing commands on a remote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and to provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.
2. D ropped Packages Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A security tool which provides authentication for applications Description: PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. No added dependencies No removed dependencies parted-1.8.1-12.el5 - parted-1.8.1-17.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Perl-compatible regular expression library. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h. No added dependencies No removed dependencies pcsc-lite-1.3.
2. D ropped Packages Group: Developm ent/Languages Summary: T he PHP HT ML-em bedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) Description: PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managing software. No added dependencies No removed dependencies pkgconfig-0.21-1.fc6 - pkgconfig-0.21-2.el5 Group: Developm ent/T ools Summary: A tool for determ ining com pilation options. Description: The pkgconfig tool determines compilation options. For each required library, it reads the configuration file and outputs the necessary compiler and linker flags.
2. D ropped Packages Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies ppc64 -utils-0.11-2 - ppc64 -utils-0.11-9.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Linux/PPC64 specific utilities Description: A collection of utilities for Linux on PPC64 platforms. Added Dependencies: db4-devel librtas-devel >= 1.3.3 libstdc++-devel libtool sg3_utils-devel zlib-devel Removed Dependencies: librtas-devel procps-3.2.7-8.1.el5 - procps-3.2.7-9.
2. D ropped Packages Group: Applications/System Summary: Utilities for m anaging processes on your system . Description: The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++.
2. D ropped Packages redhat-release-notes-5Server-9 - redhat-release-notes-5Server-12 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release notes files Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release notes files. No added dependencies No removed dependencies redhat-rpm-config-8.0.4 5-22.el5 - redhat-rpm-config-8.0.4 5-24 .el5 Group: Developm ent/System Summary: Red Hat specific rpm configuration files. Description: Red Hat specific rpm configuration files.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes rhn-client-tools-0.4 .16-1.el5 - rhn-client-tools-0.4 .17-8.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Support program s and libraries for Red Hat Network Description: Red Hat Network Client Tools provides programs and libraries to allow your system to receive software updates from Red Hat Network. No added dependencies No removed dependencies rhpxl-0.4 1.1-1.el5 - rhpxl-0.4 1.1-6.
2. D ropped Packages The rsh package contains a set of programs which allow users to run commands on remote machines, login to other machines and copy files between machines (rsh, rlogin and rcp). All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication. This package contains the clients needed for all of these services. The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other machines. No added dependencies No removed dependencies ruby-1.8.5-5.el5 - ruby-1.8.5-5.el5_1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes This package contains utilities related to Linux for S/390. The most important programs contained in this package are: - The cmstools suite to list, check, copy and cat files from a CMS volume. - chccwdev, a script to generically change attributes of a ccw device. - dasdfmt, which is used to low-level format eckd-dasds with either the classic linux disk layout or the new z/OS compatible disk layout.
2. D ropped Packages Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of PC-related machines share files, printers, and other information (such as lists of available files and printers). The Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux operating systems support this natively, and add-on packages can enable the same thing for DOS, Windows, VMS, UNIX of all kinds, MVS, and more. This package provides an SMB server that can be used to provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies scim-pinyin-0.5.91-15.el5 - scim-pinyin-0.5.91-16.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Sm art Pinyin IMEngine for Sm art Com m on Input Method platform Description: Simplified Chinese Smart Pinyin IMEngine for SCIM. No added dependencies No removed dependencies selinux-policy-2.4 .6-104 .el5 - selinux-policy-2.4 .6-137.
2. D ropped Packages Summary: Utils for Linux's SCSI generic driver devices + raw devices Description: Collection of Linux utilities for devices that use the SCSI command set. Includes utilities to copy data based on "dd" syntax and semantics (called sg_dd, sgp_dd and sgm_dd); check INQUIRY data and VPD pages (sg_inq); check mode and log pages (sginfo, sg_modes and sg_logs); spin up and down disks (sg_start); do self tests (sg_senddiag); and various other functions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes This is the freedesktop.org shared MIME info database. Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of files. Frequently, it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for a file. This is generally done by examining the file's name or contents, and looking up the correct MIME type in a database. No added dependencies No removed dependencies smartmontools-5.36-3.1.el5 - smartmontools-5.36-4 .
2. D ropped Packages SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It can be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix, or can be called from a procmail script, .forward file, etc. It uses a genetic-algorithm evolved scoring system to identify messages which look spammy, then adds headers to the message so they can be filtered by the user's mail reading software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No added dependencies No removed dependencies sudo-1.6.8p12-10 - sudo-1.6.8p12-12.el5 Group: Applications/System Summary: Allows restricted root access for specified users. Description: Sudo (superuser do) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis. It is not a replacement for the shell.
2. D ropped Packages system-config-cluster-1.0.50-1.3 - system-config-cluster-1.0.52-1.1 Group: Applications/System Summary: system -config-cluster is a utility which allows you to m anage cluster configuration in a graphical setting. Description: system-config-cluster is a utility which allows you to manage cluster configuuration in a graphical setting. No added dependencies No removed dependencies system-config-date-1.8.12-1.el5 - system-config-date-1.8.12-3.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No removed dependencies system-config-kickstart-2.6.19.1-1.el5 - system-config-kickstart-2.6.19.6-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A graphical interface for m aking kickstart files. Description: Kickstart Configurator is a graphical tool for creating kickstart files. No added dependencies No removed dependencies system-config-language-1.1.18-1.el5 - system-config-language-1.1.18-2.
2. D ropped Packages system-config-printer-0.7.32.5-1.el5 - system-config-printer-0.7.32.8-1.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A printer adm inistration tool Description: system-config-printer is a graphical user interface that allows the user to configure a CUPS print server. No added dependencies No removed dependencies system-config-securitylevel-1.6.29.1-1.el5 - system-config-securitylevel-1.6.29.1-2.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes /usr/bin/dvips /usr/bin/latex /usr/bin/ps2pdf crash-devel latex2html libcap-devel zlib-devel Removed Dependencies: dejagnu glib2-devel >= 2.0.0 tcpdump-3.9.4 -11.el5 - tcpdump-3.9.4 -12.el5 Group: Applications/Internet Summary: A network traffic m onitoring tool. Description: Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces.
2. D ropped Packages TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takes a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and creates a typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as output. Usually, TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting package like LaTeX or PlainTeX, since TeX by itself is not very user-friendly. The output format needn't to be DVI, but also PDF, when using pdflatex or similar tools.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: Networking/Daem ons Summary: Apache Servlet/JSP Engine, RI for Servlet 2.4 /JSP 2.0 API Description: Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.
2. D ropped Packages tzdata-2007d-1.el5 - tzdata-2007k-2.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: T im ezone data Description: This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world. No added dependencies No removed dependencies udev-095-14 .9.el5 - udev-095-14 .16.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A userspace im plem entation of devfs Description: The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in userspace using sysfs and netlink.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes No removed dependencies virt-manager-0.4 .0-3.el5 - virt-manager-0.5.3-8.el5 Group: Applications/Em ulators Summary: Virtual Machine Manager Description: Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines such as Xen. It uses libvirt as the backend management API. No added dependencies No removed dependencies vsftpd-2.0.5-10.el5 - vsftpd-2.0.5-12.
2. D ropped Packages Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant Description: wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver. No added dependencies No removed dependencies x3270-3.3.4 p7-3.el5.1 - x3270-3.3.4 p7-3.el5.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.2.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-3.13.el5 Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 ati video driver Description: X.Org X11 ati video driver. Added Dependencies: autoconf automake libtool xorg-x11-server-randr-source >= 1.1.1-48.39.el5 No removed dependencies xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.6.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.13.el5 Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 i810 video driver(s) Description: X.
2. D ropped Packages xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.2-1.el5 - xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.6-6.el5 Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 nv video driver Description: X.Org X11 nv video driver. Added Dependencies: xorg-x11-server-randr-source No removed dependencies xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7 - xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.1-7.1.el5 Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 sis video driver Description: X.Org X11 sis video driver. No added dependencies No removed dependencies xorg-x11-server-1.1.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical Notes Group: Applications/Multim edia Summary: An X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface. Description: XSane is an X based interface for the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) library, which provides access to scanners, digital cameras, and other capture devices. XSane is written in GTK+ and provides control for performing the scan and then manipulating the captured image. No added dependencies No removed dependencies yelp-2.16.0-15.el5 - yelp-2.16.
2. D ropped Packages No removed dependencies yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5 - yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.el5 Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: RHN support for yum Description: This yum plugin provides support for yum to access a Red Hat Network server for software updates. No added dependencies No removed dependencies yum-utils-1.0.4 -3.el5 - yum-utils-1.1.10-9.
