Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:1204 - zsh bug fix update

Synopsis

zsh bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated zsh packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell, but includes many enhancements. The zsh shell supports command line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions with autoloading, a history mechanism, and more.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, zsh interpreted variable assignments as other commands and tried to execute them when running zsh in ksh compatibility mode due to a parser error. This update modifies the underling code to interpret variable assignments as expected. (BZ#758681)

  • Prior to this update, the tab completion for Apache Subversion (SVN) did not work as expected when running the "svn diff" command in zsh. This update modifies the underlying code to ensure that SVN runs as expected. (BZ#788050)

All users of zsh are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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

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

  • zsh-html-4.2.6-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.2.6-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.src.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.2.6-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.2.6-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.2.6-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.2.6-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.2.6-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • zsh-4.2.6-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • zsh-html-4.2.6-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.2.6-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • zsh-debuginfo-4.2.6-8.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information