Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHEA-2012:0171 - new package: pixman

Synopsis

new package: pixman

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new pixman package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The pixman package provides a low-level pixel manipulation library and offers features like image compositing and trapezoid rasterization.

This enhancement update adds the pixman package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. (BZ#718810)

Note: the pixman package is a dependency of spice-client.

All users who require pixman are advised to install this new package.

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

Updated Packages

• pixman-devel-0.22.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
• pixman-0.22.0-2.el5.x86_64.rpm
• pixman-0.22.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
• pixman-devel-0.22.0-2.el5.i386.rpm
• pixman-0.22.0-2.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 718810

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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