Fedora Test Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-030
2003-12-04
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Name : rsync
Version : 2.5.7
Release : 2
Summary : A program for synchronizing files over a network.
Description :
Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network instead of sending the complete files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-029
2003-12-03
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Name : gnucash
Version : 1.8.8
Release : 1
Summary : GnuCash is an application to keep track of your finances.
Description :
GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even currency trades. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure balanced books.
Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-026
2003-12-02
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Name : kernel
Version : 2.4.22
Release : 1.2129.nptl
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-016
2003-12-01
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Name : initscripts
Version : 7.42.2
Release : 1
Summary : The 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.
An unofficial AMD 64 preview version of Fedora Core 1 is now available
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-014
2003-11-26
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Name : rhn-applet
Version : 2.1.4
Release : 3
Summary : Panel applet for indication that newer Red Hat packages are available
Description :
Panel applet for indication that newer Red Hat packages are available.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-022
2003-11-25
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Name : ethereal
Version : 0.9.16
Release : 2.FC1.1
Summary : Network traffic analyzer
Description :
Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-018
2003-11-25
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Name : postgresql
Version : 7.3.4
Release : 11
Summary : PostgreSQL client programs and libraries.
Description :
PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions). The postgresql package includes the client programs and libraries that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server. These PostgreSQL client programs are programs that directly manipulate the internal structure of PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server. These client programs can be located on the same machine with the PostgreSQL server, or may be on a remote machine which accesses a PostgreSQL server over a network connection. This package contains the docs in HTML for the whole package, as well as command-line utilities for managing PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server.
If you want to manipulate a PostgreSQL database on a remote PostgreSQL server, you need this package. You also need to install this package if you're installing the postgresql-server package.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-019
2003-11-25
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Name : rhdb-utils
Version : 2.0
Release : 2
Summary : Miscellaneous utilities for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition.
Description :
This package contains miscellaneous, non-graphical tools developed for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-024
2003-11-25
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Name : pam_krb5
Version : 2.0.5
Release : 1
Summary : A Pluggable Authentication Module for Kerberos 5.
Description :
This is pam_krb5, a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux-PAM and Kerberos 5. This module supports password checking, ticket creation, and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets. The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-023
2003-11-25
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Name : nss_ldap
Version : 207
Release : 6
Summary : NSS library and PAM module for LDAP.
Description :
This package includes two LDAP access clients: nss_ldap and pam_ldap. Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X.500 and LDAP directory servers 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).
Pam_ldap is a module for Linux-PAM that supports password changes, V2 clients, Netscape's SSL, ypldapd, Netscape Directory Server password policies, access authorization, and crypted hashes.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-007
2003-11-24
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Name : redhat-config-packages
Version : 1.2.7
Release : 1
Summary : Package manager
Description :
redhat-config-packages is the package manager for Red Hat Linux. It supports installation of interesting packages from CD.
Fedora Testing Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-021
2003-11-24
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Name : binutils
Version : 2.14.90.0.6
Release : 4
Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-020
2003-11-21
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Name : postgresql-odbc
Version : 7.3
Release : 5
Summary : PostgreSQL ODBC driver.
Description :
This package includes the driver needed for applications to access a PostgreSQL system via ODBC (Open Database Connectivity).
Michal Ambroz has released alternative nVidia 1.0-4496 binary drivers and a few other RPMs for Fedora Core 1
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-019
2003-11-21
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Name : rhdb-utils
Version : 2.0
Release : 2
Summary : Miscellaneous utilities for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition.
Description :
This package contains miscellaneous, non-graphical tools developed for PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-003
2003-11-21
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Name : grep
Version : 2.5.1
Release : 17.2
Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Description :
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.
You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-018
2003-11-20
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Name : postgresql
Version : 7.3.4
Release : 10
Summary : PostgreSQL client programs and libraries.
Description :
PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions). The postgresql package includes the client programs and libraries that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server. These PostgreSQL client programs are programs that directly manipulate the internal structure of PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server. These client programs can be located on the same machine with the PostgreSQL server, or may be on a remote machine which accesses a PostgreSQL server over a network connection. This package contains the docs in HTML for the whole package, as well as command-line utilities for managing PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server.
If you want to manipulate a PostgreSQL database on a remote PostgreSQL server, you need this package. You also need to install this package if you're installing the postgresql-server package.
There may be one hat too many in the open source world. Concerned that they will be forced to drop the name of their five year-old open source project, researchers at Cornell University and the University of Virginia (UVA) are readying a challenge to Red Hat Inc.'s Fedora trademark, currently pending review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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