Issued:

2013-01-07

Updated:

2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:1134 - symlinks bug fix update

Synopsis

symlinks bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated symlinks packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The symlinks utility is used for maintenance of symbolic links.

This update fixes the following bug:

• On 32-bit systems, support for files larger than 2 GB was not enabled. This caused failures when running the symlinks utility in directories containing symbolic links to large files. This update enables large file support so that the utility works as expected in this scenario. (BZ#578597)

All users of symlinks are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.ia64.rpm
• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.src.rpm
• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.s390x.rpm
• symlinks-debuginfo-1.2-26.el5.ia64.rpm
• symlinks-debuginfo-1.2-26.el5.i386.rpm
• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.x86_64.rpm
• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.i386.rpm
• symlinks-debuginfo-1.2-26.el5.s390x.rpm
• symlinks-debuginfo-1.2-26.el5.x86_64.rpm
• symlinks-1.2-26.el5.ppc.rpm
• symlinks-debuginfo-1.2-26.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 578597

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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