Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHEA-2011:0548 - libvpd enhancement update

Synopsis

libvpd enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated libvpd package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libvpd package contains the classes that are used to access Vital Product Data (VPD) created by vpdupdate in the lsvpd package.

This update introduces the following enhancement:

  • This update provides the latest API by which external serviceability and diagnostics tools can access VPD, consisting of hardware present on a system, the characteristics of that hardware, or hardware state. (BZ#632738)

Users of libvpd are advised to install this package, which adds this enhancement.

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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64

Updated Packages

  • libvpd-debuginfo-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libvpd-debuginfo-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libvpd-devel-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libvpd-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libvpd-devel-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libvpd-2.1.2-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libvpd-2.1.2-3.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information