Issued:
2011-09-07
Updated:
2011-12-06

RHEA-2011:1276 - DeviceKit-power enhancement update

Synopsis

DeviceKit-power enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated DeviceKit-power packages that add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

DeviceKit-power provides a daemon, API and command line tools for managing power devices attached to the system.

This update adds the following enhancements:

  • To allow administrators easily disable the suspend and hibernate actions on the system, DeviceKit-power now checks the PolicyKit authorization before deciding whether an action can be completed. (BZ#625880)

  • This update introduces a new sub-package DeviceKit-power-devel-docs, which contains developer's documentation for DeviceKit-power, so that it is now possible to install the DeviceKit-power-devel package on machines with multiple architectures without file conflicts. (BZ#727544)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated DeviceKit-power packages, which add these enhancements.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.s390.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-docs-014-3.el6.noarch.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.s390.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.src.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.s390.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-014-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-devel-014-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • DeviceKit-power-debuginfo-014-3.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information