Fedora 7 Test Update: ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2573
2007-10-18 02:28:06.277342
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Name        : ncurses
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 5.6
Release     : 9.20070812.fc7
URL         : http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
Summary     : A terminal handling library
Description :
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
updating character screens with reasonable optimization.  The ncurses
(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the
discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.

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Update Information:

Update to upstream 20070812 patch, fixes various bugs.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct 16 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.6-9.20070812.fc7
- allocate additional working buffers in new_field (#310071)
* Wed Oct 10 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.6-8.20070812.fc7
- don't write beyond field buffer in form driver (#310071)
* Thu Oct  4 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 5.6-7.20070812.fc7
- update to patch 20070812 (#310071)
- fix comp_hash string output
- avoid comparing padding in cchar_t structure
- buildrequire diffutils
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #310071 - Widec set_field_buffer fails with 'double free or corruption' error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310071
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Updated packages:

701834b36e801e2480e9c862ab0a49339a7c5f2a ncurses-devel-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc64.rpm
cc6152d02044a3a96cdb416e3bb27c8aa9f6fdd8 ncurses-static-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc64.rpm
fb20d2a804d95bfc4924f96a3a56e368ed2afdb6 ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc64.rpm
db4a8d88cc1136bfb8508f1dd0d3d68f1da7fc39 ncurses-debuginfo-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc64.rpm
8b18d1cbb4d7f6829601715985226262adc51c8e ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.i386.rpm
8a9aa40b286ba3bb392a01aa31b2aa6def4b61a2 ncurses-devel-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.i386.rpm
47d8a488ce6245dc55e0cc96e683744b1b456ee2 ncurses-debuginfo-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.i386.rpm
02a18de9e36a70dcbcc5f59b7c5087f44e29b90c ncurses-static-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.i386.rpm
4e425b7e11f1659066f1ae66d4477962ff58629c ncurses-devel-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.x86_64.rpm
28a92cf312c063424de3144443093c174b9d0cc7 ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.x86_64.rpm
e66f2910e4d078c37d01d8d059b28fd499f1f094 ncurses-debuginfo-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.x86_64.rpm
1d827b58cc6150505cb1b97558830ca3c38b89aa ncurses-static-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.x86_64.rpm
611ebf712978e71bc59a3d00c723f8aa4315f49d ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc.rpm
63225d4218123f174d98fff8a3dd4d00edbe77f0 ncurses-devel-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc.rpm
4828f84ba5eb5a5ed2631b985fb25ba88b77a91d ncurses-static-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc.rpm
17ccabf834807a8c3f3ecc01098eb528636aa411 ncurses-debuginfo-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.ppc.rpm
41208a2723f5bd01c6f098a4758300cdbafdfa71 ncurses-5.6-9.20070812.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ncurses' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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