Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 Technical Information

Engineering Content ServicesDon DomingoRed Hat Enterprise Linux 55.3 Technical NotesDetailed notes on the changes implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Li

Libsm i is a C library to access MIB module inform ation througha well defined API that hides the nasty details of locatingand parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB mo

xorg-x11- drv-nv- 2.1.2-1.el5 - xorg-x11- drv-nv- 2.1.6-6.el5Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 nv video driver Description:

Group: Applications/Multim edia Summary: An X Window System front-end for the SANE scanner interface. Description:XSane is an X based interface for

No removed dependenciesyum-rhn-plugin- 0.5.2-3.el5 - yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3- 6.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: RHN support for yum Descr

Summary: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution documentation Description:Docum entation from OFED 1.3opensm-3.1.8-1.el5Group: System Environm ent/Dae

Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controllingthem ; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works

Summary: VNIC ULP service Description:VNIC ULP serviceqperf-0.4 .0-1.el5Group: Networking/Diagnostic Summary: Measure socket and RDMA perform ance

In conjunction with the kernel ib_srp driver, srptools allows you todiscover and use SCSI devices via the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand.system-co

udft ools-1.0.0b3-0.1.el5Group: Applications/Archiving Summary: Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities Description:Linux UDF Filesystem userspace

2. Dropped PackagesNo packages listed here.3. Updated PackagesDeployment_Guide- 5.1.0-11 - Deployment_Guide-5.2-9Group: Documentation Summary: Dep

NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at alltimes. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended

Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM). Description:The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript(T

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesanaconda-11.1.2.87-1 - anaconda-11.1.2.113-1Group: Applications/System Summary: Graphical system insta

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Technical NotesDetailed notes on the changes implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux5.3Edition 1Do n DomingoRed Hat Eng

Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing Description:The audit package contains the user space utiliti

Description:The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command languageinterpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bashincorporate

Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: sim ple python bootloader config lib Description:Sm all python library for use with bootloader config

Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-qualitydisplay and print output. Currently supported output targets includethe X Window Sy

Description:This package contains Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster SuiteSNMP/CIM module/agent/provider.Added Dependencies:cman-develNo removed depende

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciescoolkey-1.1.0-5.el5 - coolkey-1.1.0- 6.el5Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: CoolKey PKCS #1

LKCD or m core dumpfiles Description:The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used toinvestigate either live systems, kernel core

No removed dependenciescyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 - cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-2.el5Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: A high-performance mail serv

desktop-printing-0.19-20.el5 - desktop-printing- 0.19-20.1.el5Group: Applications/File Summary: Desktop print icon Description:Desktop-printing cont

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesdhcp-3.0.5-7.el5 - dhcp- 3.0.5-13.el5Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: DHCP (Dynam ic Host C

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Diffutils includes four utilities: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff. Diffcompares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cm pcomm and shows

The dvgrab utility will capture digital video from a DV source on the firewire(IEEE-1394) bus.No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciese2fsprogs-1.

Description:Em acs is a powerful, custom izable, self-documenting, m odeless texteditor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scriptinglang

The evolution-data-server package provides a unified backend for programsthat work with contacts, tasks, and calendar information.It was originally de

libjpeg-devellibpng-develnspr-devel >= 4.6nss-devel >= 3.11.1zlib-develflac-1.1.2-27 - flac-1.1.2-28.el5_0.1Group: Applications/Multim edia Sum

Group: Developm ent/System Summary: Frysk execution analysis tool Description:Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implem ented using native J

The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw im agescomplete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste fromother images, and

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesgfs-kmod-0.1.19-7.el5 - gfs-kmod-0.1.23-5.el5Group: System Environm ent/Kernel Summary: gfs kernel modu

gfs2-utils-0.1.38- 1.el5 - gfs2- utils-0.1.4 4 -1.el5Group: System Environm ent/Kernel Summary: Utilities for managing the global filesystem (GFS

gnome-panel-2.16.1-6.el5 - gnome- panel-2.16.1-7.el5Group: User Interface/Desktops Summary: GNOME panel Description:The GNOME panel provides the win

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The gnome-python-extra package contains the source packages for additionalPython bindings for GNOME. It should be used together with gnome-python.Adde

The GNOME Volume Manager monitors volume-related events and responds withuser-specified policy. The GNOME Volume Manager can automount hot-pluggeddriv

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical userinterfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable forprojects ranging from

HAL is daemon for collection and m aintaining inform ation from severalsources about the hardware on the system. It provides a live devicelist through

The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searchingsystem for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replacethe n

Description:A browser for your current hardware configuration.No added dependenciesNo removed dependencieshwdata-0.211-1 - hwdat a-0.213.6- 1.el5Group

initscripts-8.4 5.17.EL-1 - initscripts-8.4 5.19.EL-1Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts. Descrip

This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order toreally use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. Thispackage builds:- s

No removed dependenciesisdn4 k-utils-3.2-50.1 - isdn4 k-utils-3.2-51.el5Group: Applications/System Summary: Utilities for configuring an ISDN subsy

Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Tools for configuring the console (keyboard, virtual term inals, etc.) Description:The kbd package contain

This document is a record of all package changes since the last minor update of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 5.1. Added Packagesdapl-2.0.7-2.el5Group: Sy

Description:Libraries for the K Desktop Environment:KDE Libraries included: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface),kfm (file manager), kht

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesksh- 20060214 -1.4 - ksh-20060214 -1.7Group: Applications/Shells Summary: The Original ATT Korn Shell D

LAM (Local Area Multicom puter) is an Message-Passing Interface (MPI)programming environment and development system for heterogeneouscomputers on a ne

Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Cross Platform Audio Output Library. Description:Libao is a cross platform audio output library. It

liberation- font s-0.2-2.el5 - liberation-fonts-1.0-1.el5Group: User Interface/X Summary: Fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Windows Fonts Des

The libhugetlbfs library interacts with the Linux hugetlbfs to make large pagesavailable to applications in a transparent manner.No added dependencies

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating andmanipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNGis a bit-mapped

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a numberof utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to addmandatory acce

libsysfs-devellibxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2 - libxml2-2.6.26- 2.1.2.1Group: Developm ent/Libraries Summary: Library providing XML and HT ML support Descripti

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesltrace-0.5-6.4 5svn.fc6 - ltrace-0.5-7.4 5svn.el5Group: Developm ent/Debuggers Summary: Tracks runtim e

Summary: FreeIPMI Description:The FreeIPMI project provides "Rem ote-Console" (out-of-band) and"System Management Software" (in-

device-mapper >= 1.02.24-1Removed Dependencies:device-mapper >= 1.02.20-1m17n-db-1.3.3-4 6.el5 - m17n-db-1.3.3-4 8.el5Group: System Environm

make-3.81-1.1 - make-3.81-3.el5Group: Developm ent/T ools Summary: A GNU tool which sim plifies the build process for users. Description:A GNU tool

No removed dependenciesmdadm-2.5.4 -3.el5 - mdadm-2.6.4 -1.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: mdadm controls Linux m d devices (software R

Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)im ages. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the blockdevice modules

MySQL is a m ulti-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is aclient/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld)and many diff

Description:The net-tools package contains basic networking tools, includingifconfig, netstat, route, and others.No added dependenciesNo removed depen

Summary: Notification Daemon Description:notification-daemon is the server implementation of the freedesktop.org desktopnotification specification.No

Nss_db is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley Databasesto be used as a prim ary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts,networks, prot

oddjob-0.27-7 - oddjob-0.27-9.el5Group: System Environm ent/Daem ons Summary: A D-BUS service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications

OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing anim plem entation of the SA Forum 's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). H

The iSNS package contains the daemon and tools to setup a iSNS server,and iSNS client tools. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocolallows a

OpenLDAP is an open source suite of LDAP (Lightweight Directory AccessProtocol) applications and development tools. LDAP is a set ofprotocols for acce

SSH (Secure SHell) is a program for logging into and executingcomm ands on a rem ote machine. SSH is intended to replace rlogin andrsh, and to provide

Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A security tool which provides authentication for applications Description:PAM (Pluggable Authentication M

Perl-compatible regular expression library.PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based onthe POSIX API are

Group: Developm ent/Languages Summary: The PHP HT ML-em bedded scripting language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) Description:PHP is an HTML-embedded

pirut (pronounced "pirate") provides a set of graphical tools for managingsoftware.No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciespkgconfig- 0.

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a numberof utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to addmandatory acce

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesppc64 -utils-0.11-2 - ppc64 -ut ils-0.11-9.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Linux/PPC64 spe

Group: Applications/System Summary: Utilities for managing processes on your system . Description:The psm isc package contains utilities for managi

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programm inglanguage often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includesmodules, class

libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnosticand management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basicIB functions.

redhat -release- not es-5Server-9 - redhat-release-notes-5Server-12Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release notes

rhn-client-tools-0.4 .16-1.el5 - rhn-client -tools-0.4 .17- 8.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Support program s and libraries for Red H

The rsh package contains a set of program s which allow users to runcomm ands on rem ote machines, login to other machines and copy filesbetween machi

This package contains utilities related to Linux for S/390.The most im portant program s contained in this package are:- The cmstools suite to list, c

Samba is the suite of program s by which a lot of PC-related machinesshare files, printers, and other information (such as lists ofavailable files and

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciesscim-pinyin-0.5.91-15.el5 - scim-pinyin-0.5.91-16.el5Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Sm a

Summary: Utils for Linux's SCSI generic driver devices + raw devices Description:Collection of Linux utilities for devices that use the

This is the freedesktop.org shared MIME info database.Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types offiles. Frequently, it is

SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminateUnsolicited Commercial Email (SPAM) from your incoming email. It canbe invok

No added dependenciesNo removed dependenciessudo- 1.6.8p12-10 - sudo-1.6.8p12-12.el5Group: Applications/System Summary: Allows restricted root acce

Group: System Environm ent/Libraries Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver Description:Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs

system-config- cluster-1.0.50-1.3 - system-config-cluster-1.0.52-1.1Group: Applications/System Summary: system -config-cluster is a utility which a

No removed dependenciessystem-config- kickstart- 2.6.19.1-1.el5 - system-config- kickstart- 2.6.19.6-1.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary:

system-config- printer-0.7.32.5-1.el5 - system-config- printer-0.7.32.8-1.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: A printer adm inistration too

/usr/bin/dvips/usr/bin/latex/usr/bin/ps2pdfcrash-devellatex2htmllibcap-develzlib-develRemoved Dependencies:dejagnuglib2-devel >= 2.0.0tcpdump- 3.9.

TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takesa text file and a set of formatting comm ands as input and creates atypesetter-i

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 us

tzdat a-2007d- 1.el5 - tzdata- 2007k-2.el5Group: System Environm ent/Base Summary: Tim ezone data Description:This package contains data files wit

No removed dependenciesvirt -manager-0.4 .0-3.el5 - virt-manager-0.5.3-8.el5Group: Applications/Emulators Summary: Virtual Machine Manager Descript

Summary: WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant Description:wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with supportfor WPA and WPA2 (IEEE

xorg-x11- drv-ati- 6.6.3-3.2.el5 - xorg-x11- drv-ati-6.6.3-3.13.el5Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support Summary: Xorg X11 ati video driver Descr