Issued:
2009-11-11
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2009:1575 - star bug fix update

Synopsis

star bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated star package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The star utility is a tape- and disk-archiving tool similar to tar that supports saving Access Control List (ACLs) permission information.

This updated star package fixes the following bug:

  • restoring directories which had default ACL permissions set when they were archived with the star utility did not result in those ACL permissions correctly being restored after extraction. This update fixes the problem so that the default ACL permissions are correctly restored on directories extracted from a star archive. (BZ#450994)

All users of star are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • star-1.5a75-3.i386.rpm
  • star-1.5a75-3.src.rpm
  • star-1.5a75-3.ppc.rpm
  • star-1.5a75-3.s390x.rpm
  • star-1.5a75-3.x86_64.rpm
  • star-1.5a75-3.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information