Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: New textutils package available

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:45 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHBA-2000:040-01] New textutils package available

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis:          New textutils package available
Advisory ID:       RHBA-2000:040-01
Issue date:        2000-06-29
Updated on:        2000-06-29
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          N/A
Cross references:  N/A

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1. Topic:

With textutils-2.0a-2, sort -n doesn’t work properly.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.2 – i386 alpha sparc

3. Problem description:

With textutils-2.0a-2, sort -n doesn’t work properly. Some
locale information may also be ignored.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

10570 – /bin/sort broken
11104 – The `-n’ flag to sort does not work properly
11383 – /bin/sort does not sort properly if -n switch is used
11685 – sort -n doesn’t work correctly
12761 – ‘sort -n’ incorrect with stock textutils

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/textutils-2.0e-6.i386.rpm

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/textutils-2.0e-6.alpha.rpm

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/textutils-2.0e-6.sparc.rpm

sources:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/textutils-2.0e-6.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

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a890151493b37081571699c2707cd03a 6.2/SRPMS/textutils-2.0e-6.src.rpm
35ad718cacc6886b60b790e6039b8185 6.2/alpha/textutils-2.0e-6.alpha.rpm
02f253157ba3d04b113c5e198a85fbbe 6.2/i386/textutils-2.0e-6.i386.rpm
4628635c3a99c29dfaae382b09552178 6.2/sparc/textutils-2.0e-6.sparc.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig

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

8. References:

N/A