Issued:

2012-09-05

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1231 - brltty bug fix update

Synopsis

brltty bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated brltty packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display, and provides complete screen review functionality.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, building the brltty package could fail on the ocaml's unpackaged files error. This happened only if the ocaml package was pre-installed in the build root. The "--disable-caml-bindings" option has been added in the %configure macro so that the package now builds correctly. (BZ#684526)

• Previously, the /usr/lib/libbrlapi.so symbolic link installed by the brlapi-devel package incorrectly pointed to ../../lib/libbrlapi.so. The link has been fixed to correctly point to ../../lib/libbrlapi.so.0.5. (BZ#809326)

All users of brltty 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

Updated Packages

• brlapi-java-0.5.4-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-at-spi-4.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc.rpm
• brlapi-java-0.5.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.ppc.rpm
• brltty-xw-4.1-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.i686.rpm
• python-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-xw-4.1-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brltty-4.1-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• tcl-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• tcl-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-xw-4.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-4.1-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-4.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.i686.rpm
• brltty-at-spi-4.1-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• python-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• python-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.s390.rpm
• brltty-at-spi-4.1-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brltty-4.1-7.el6.src.rpm
• tcl-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brlapi-java-0.5.4-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brltty-at-spi-4.1-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• python-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brltty-4.1-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brltty-xw-4.1-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brlapi-java-0.5.4-7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.s390.rpm
• brlapi-devel-0.5.4-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• tcl-brlapi-0.5.4-7.el6.s390x.rpm
• brltty-debuginfo-4.1-7.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 684526

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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