[LON-CAPA-admin] RPM update with check-rpms

[Martin Siegert]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
> 
> I'm confused about your link: Under "Solution" you say "...upgrade to
> version 6.53", but the example you give uses v. 6.51. Which one do you
> mean I should upgrade to?

It says "upgrade to version 6.53 (or patched version for your distribution)"
RedHat patched the 6.51 version for RH 6.2 against the vulnerability.
Thus, just execute the command given in the advisory.
And: yes, all those rpms are available on RedHat mirror sites in the updates
directories, e.g., on mirror.arc.nasa.goc or ftp.crc.ca.

Cheers,
Martin

> 
> Thanks,
> Lars.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Martin Siegert wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:38:52PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > > When I do a check-rpms -v I'm told that I need the new version of
> > > ghostscript (v. 6.51). However when as root I do 
> > > 
> > > check-rpms -v --update -noftp
> > > 
> > > I get an error that 
> > > 
> > > [root at schubert rpms]# check-rpms -v --update --noftp
> > > updates for i686 processor, RH 6.2
> > > Getting list of installed packages
> > > Getting package lists from /var/tmp/rpms ...
> > > 
> > > RPM files to be updated:
> > > 
> > > ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1.i386.rpm
> > > Running rpm -Fvh ...
> > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > VFlib2 is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> > > xtt-fonts is needed by ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> > > libVFlib2.so.24   is needed by
> > > ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1
> > > 
> > > The needed packages above are not to be found at
> > > install.lon-capa.org/3.1/latestRPMS nor any of the RedHat rpm mirrors
> > > I checked. 
> > > 
> > > How do I do this update? (Debian updates works better ;-)   )
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lars.
> > 
> > see
> > 
> > http://www.sfu.ca/~siegert/linux-security/msg00120.html
> > 
> > (section on RedHat 6.2) for an explanation and solution.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
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