Red Hat Linux 6.2 Bug Fix

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Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory Synopsis Updated libtiff packages are now available. Advisory ID RHBA-2000:026-02 Issue Date 2000-05-17 Updated On 2000-05-23 Product Red Hat Linux Keywords libtiff fax2ps y2k tiff2ps Cross References N/A 1. Topic: A bug in the fax2ps command included in the libtiff package has been found and corrected. 2. Problem description: A bug was present in the fax2ps command in libtiff 3.5.2, 3.5.3, and 3.5.4. The effect was that the fax2ps command would print blank pages instead of the images it was given. 3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information) 10885 - fax2ps seems broken 8345 - fax2ps prints blank pages 8566 - Deflate (ZIP) and JPEG codecs in libtiff missing 8942 - Incorrect URL in rpm information. 4. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386 alpha sparc 5. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 6.2: intel: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/i386/libtiff-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/i386/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm alpha: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/alpha/libtiff-3.5.5-2.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/alpha/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.alpha.rpm sparc: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/sparc/libtiff-3.5.5-2.sparc.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/sparc/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.sparc.rpm sources: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.2/en/os/SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.5-2.src.rpm 6. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15d2f3054aa43aff578e8fa858020191 6.2/en/os/SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.5-2.src.rpm f9e1d080e87b8eb450ed6fa74bf1126a 6.2/en/os/alpha/libtiff-3.5.5-2.alpha.rpm 0b3565747bdf67eabc291ac162aa499e 6.2/en/os/alpha/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.alpha.rpm 5d6559c99851a146ad2727f4d500da22 6.2/en/os/i386/libtiff-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm a5241ef6e8ef7212f31cbca1f44923d4 6.2/en/os/i386/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.i386.rpm 662f0a7d53e227c15b0e6ac0688db08f 6.2/en/os/sparc/libtiff-3.5.5-2.sparc.rpm d26c0eaaa4d71665152d88ccc2711637 6.2/en/os/sparc/libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2.sparc.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig filename If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys. 8. References: N/A