Advisories

Mandriva Advisories

Package name update-alternatives Date August 13th, 2007 Advisory ID MDKA-2007:084 Affected versions 2007.0, 2007.1 Synopsis Updated update-alternatives packages fix various bugs

Problem Description

A new version of update-alternatives is being made available that
corrects a number of bugs in the tool and how symlink handling was
performed.

The new version also has new command-line options and updated
documentation.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007

 4570230addd1a241d8b6632c9498abda  2007.0/i586/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm 
 45f678d837d4de3e2b52f18c6ce144be  2007.0/SRPMS/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64

 0c57d2b16c64863330dc90dee46bf047  2007.0/x86_64/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm 
 45f678d837d4de3e2b52f18c6ce144be  2007.0/SRPMS/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 4c048a3184d6073dbe93cf894ecfede7  2007.1/i586/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm 
 68f1a8b4b21dc701a276717f12afa858  2007.1/SRPMS/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 eb71f2404d4755145ccb300c42103239  2007.1/x86_64/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm 
 68f1a8b4b21dc701a276717f12afa858  2007.1/SRPMS/update-alternatives-1.9.0-0.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Upgrade

To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.

Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

                rpm --checksig package.rpm
                

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.