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Red Hat, Inc. Errata Advisory
Synopsis: Rdist-6.1.5 license no longer permits distribution.
Advisory ID: RHEA-1999:020-01
Issue date: 1999-07-09
Keywords: rdist license
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1. Topic:
A change in licensing between rdist-6.1.0 and rdist-6.1.5 restricts
the commercial distribution and use of rdist-6.1.5.
2. Bug IDs fixed:
none
3. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.0, all architectures
4. Obsoleted by:
5. Conflicts with:
6. RPMs required:
Intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/i386/rdist-6.1.0-10.i386.rpm
Alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/alpha/rdist-6.1.0-10.alpha.rpm
Sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/sparc/rdist-6.1.0-10.sparc.rpm
Source rpm:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/SRPMS/rdist-6.1.0-10.src.rpm
7. Problem description:
A change in licensing between rdist-6.1.0 and rdist-6.1.5 restricts
the commercial distribution and use of rdist-6.1.5. The packages
above revert to the latest available version of rdist that does not
have this restriction.
8. Solution:
You should install the new packages by typing (assuming Red Hat
6.0/i386) rpm -Uvh rdist-6.1.0-10.i386.rpm
9. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
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058a93d7793e1acb4d4360ec8ec8f84c SRPMS/rdist-6.1.0-10.src.rpm
e34468d42572caf45493bfdfbcd89ed2 alpha/rdist-6.1.0-10.alpha.rpm
12cd990464485c0329c0ff2cad5c1385 i386/rdist-6.1.0-10.i386.rpm
c2f362a36664d227f5ba66f448f5e203 sparc/rdist-6.1.0-10.sparc.rpm
These packages are also PGP 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 <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 –nopgp <filename>
10. References: