5.2 Technical Notes


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Detailed notes on the changes implemented in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

Abstract

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Technical Notes list and document the changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and its accompanying applications between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and minor release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.
This document is a record of all package changes since the last minor update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

1.  Added Packages

dapl-2.0.7-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 APIs
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libdat and libdapl provide a userspace implementation of the DAT 1.2 and 2.0
    API that is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology.
    
dstat-0.6.6-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Versatile resource statistics tool
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
    Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features,
    more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems
    during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.
    
    Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you
    can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your
    IDE controller, or compare the network bandwidth numbers directly
    with the disk throughput (in the same interval).
    
    Dstat gives you detailed selective information in columns and clearly
    indicates in what magnitude and unit the output is displayed. Less
    confusion, less mistakes.
    
ecryptfs-utils-41-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in the
    Linux kernel. This package provides the mount helper and supporting
    libraries to perform key management and mount functions.
    
    Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs.
    
freeipmi-0.5.1-5.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: FreeIPMI
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and
    "System Management Software" (in-band) based on Intelligent
    Platform Management Interface specification.
    
    This package contains a Technology Preview for FreeIPMI. Please visit
    http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the Red Hat support
    policies.
    
gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: A GTK widget for VNC clients
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK. It is built using coroutines
    allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.
    
ibsim-0.4-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: InfiniBand fabric simulator for management
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    ibsim provides simulation of infiniband fabric for using with OFA OpenSM,
    diagnostic and management tools.
    
infiniband-diags-1.3.6-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to
    diagnose an IB subnet.
    
isns-utils-0.91-0.1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: The iSNS daemon and utility programs
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    The iSNS package contains the daemon and tools to setup a iSNS server,
    and iSNS client tools. The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) protocol
    allows automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and
    Fibre Channel devices (using iFCP gateways) on a TCP/IP network.
    
libcxgb3-1.1.4-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Chelsio T3 iWARP HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
    library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices.
    
libehca-1.2-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: IBM InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    IBM hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
    library.
    
libibcm-1.0.2-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Userspace InfiniBand Communication Manager.
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library.
    
libibcommon-1.0.8-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libibcommon provides common utility functions for the OFA diagnostic and
    management tools.
    
libibmad-1.1.6-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand MAD library
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libibmad provides low layer IB functions for use by the IB diagnostic
    and management programs. These include MAD, SA, SMP, and other basic
    IB functions.
    
libibumad-1.1.7-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libibumad provides the user MAD library functions which sit on top of
    the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB diagnostic
    and management tools, including OpenSM.
    
libibverbs-1.1.1-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Library providing access to InfiniBand/iWARP hardware verbs protocol
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libibverbs is a library that allows userspace processes to use
    InfiniBand/iWARP "verbs" as described in the InfiniBand Architecture
    Specification. This includes direct hardware access for fast path
    operations.
    
    For this library to be useful, a device-specific plug-in module should
    also be installed.
    
libipathverbs-1.1-10.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: QLogic InfiniPath HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    QLogic hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
    library. This driver supports QLogic InfiniPath based cards.
    
libmlx4-1.0-3.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
    library. This driver supports Mellanox ConnectX architecture cards.
    
libmthca-1.0.4-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
    library. This driver supports Mellanox based Single Data Rate and Dual Data
    Rate cards, including those from Cisco, Topspin, and Voltaire. It does
    not support the Connect-X architecture based Quad Data Rate cards (libmlx4
    handles that hardware).
    
libnes-0.5-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: NetEffect RNIC Userspace Driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs
    library. This driver enables NetEffect iWARP capable ethernet devices.
    
librdmacm-1.0.7-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: Userspace RDMA Connection Manager.
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API.
    
libsdp-1.1.99-9.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library for direct userspace use of Sockets Direct Protocol
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    libsdp is an LD_PRELOAD-able library that can be used to have existing
    applications use InfiniBand Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) instead of
    TCP sockets, transparently and without recompilation. For information
    on how to configure libsdp, see libsdp.conf, which is installed in
    $(sysconfdir) (usually /usr/local/etc or /etc).
    
libsmi-0.4.5-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: A library to access SMI MIB information
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Libsmi is a C library to access MIB module information through
    a well defined API that hides the nasty details of locating
    and parsing SMIv1/v2 MIB modules.
    
    This package contains tools to check, dump, and convert MIB
    definitions and a steadily maintained and revised archive
    of all IETF and IANA maintained standard MIB modules.
    
mpi-selector-1.0.0-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Provides site-wide and per-user MPI implementation selection
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    A simple tool that allows system administrators to set a site-wide
    default for which MPI implementation is to be used, but also allow
    users to set their own default MPI implementation, thereby overriding
    the site-wide default.
    
    The default can be changed easily via the mpi-selector command --
    editing of shell startup files is not required.
    
mstflint-1.3-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Mellanox firmware burning tool
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    This package contains a burning tool for Mellanox manufactured HCA cards.
    It also provides access to the relevant source code.
    
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-21.el5
  • Group: Networking/WWW
  • Summary: A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use Netscape 4 compatible plugins
    compiled for ppc into Mozilla for another architecture, e.g. x86_64.
    
    This package consists in:
    * npviewer: the plugin viewer
    * npwrapper.so: the browser-side plugin
    * mozilla-plugin-config: a tool to manage plugins installation and update
    
ofed-docs-1.3-3.el5
  • Group: Documentation/Man
  • Summary: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution documentation
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Documentation from OFED 1.3
    
opensm-3.1.8-1.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    OpenSM is the OpenIB project's Subnet Manager for Infiniband networks.
    The subnet manager is run as a system daemon on one of the machines in
    the infiniband fabric to manage the fabric's routing state. This package
    also contains various tools for diagnosing and testing Infiniband networks
    that can be used from any machine and do not need to be run on a machine
    running the opensm daemon.
    
openswan-2.6.12-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Openswan IPSEC implementation
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Openswan is a free implementation of IPSEC & IKE for Linux. IPSEC is
    the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide
    both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you
    to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing
    through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and
    decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel. The resulting
    tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN.
    
    This package contains the daemons and userland tools for setting up
    Openswan on a freeswan enabled kernel.
    
perftest-1.2-10.el5
  • Group: Productivity/Networking/Diagnostic
  • Summary: IB Performance tests
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    gen2 uverbs microbenchmarks
    
pexpect-2.3-1.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Pure Python Expect-like module
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling
    them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like
    Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a child application and
    control it as if a human were typing commands.
    
    Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp,
    passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to automate setup scripts for duplicating
    software package installations on different servers. And it can be used for
    automated software testing. Pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but
    Pexpect is pure Python. Unlike other Expect-like modules for Python, Pexpect
    does not require TCL or Expect nor does it require C extensions to be compiled.
    It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module.
    
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5
  • Group: Development/Libraries
  • Summary: Python Module for Accessing and Modifying Configuration Data in INI files
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    iniparse is an INI parser for Python which is API compatible
    with the standard library's ConfigParser, preserves structure of INI
    files (order of sections & options, indentation, comments, and blank
    lines are preserved when data is updated), and is more convenient to
    use.
    
python-setuptools-0.6c5-2.el5
  • Group: Development/Languages
  • Summary: Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that allow
    you to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones that
    have dependencies on other packages.
    
qlvnictools-0.0.1-8.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: VNIC ULP service
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    VNIC ULP service
    
qperf-0.4.0-1.el5
  • Group: Networking/Diagnostic
  • Summary: Measure socket and RDMA performance
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Measure socket and RDMA performance.
    
rsyslog-2.0.0-11.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Daemons
  • Summary: Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,
    syslog/tcp, RFC 3195, permitted sender lists, filtering on any message part,
    and fine grain output format control. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd
    and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it
    suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while
    at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.
    
setroubleshoot-plugins-2.0.4-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Analysis plugins for use with setroubleshoot
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    This package provides a set of analysis plugins for use with
    setroubleshoot. Each plugin has the capacity to analyze SELinux AVC
    data and system data to provide user friendly reports describing how
    to interpret SELinux AVC denials.
    
srptools-0.0.4-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Tools for using the InfiniBand SRP protocol devices
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    In conjunction with the kernel ib_srp driver, srptools allows you to
    discover and use SCSI devices via the SCSI RDMA Protocol over InfiniBand.
    
system-config-netboot-0.1.45.1-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: network booting/install configuration utility (GUI)
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    system-config-netboot is a utility which allows you to configure
    diskless environments and network installations.
    
tpm-tools-1.3.1-1.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Management tools for the TPM hardware
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    tpm-tools is a group of tools to manage and utilize the Trusted Computing
    Group's TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
    securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's
    software state using cryptographic hashes and more.
    
trousers-0.3.1-4.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Libraries
  • Summary: TCG's Software Stack v1.2
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's Software Stack
    (TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use
    of your TPM hardware. TPM hardware can create, store and use RSA keys
    securely (without ever being exposed in memory), verify a platform's software
    state using cryptographic hashes and more.
    
tvflash-0.9.0-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Tool to manage Mellanox HCA firmware flash memory
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    tvflash is used to query and update the firmware flash memory attached
    to Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs.
    
udftools-1.0.0b3-0.1.el5
  • Group: Applications/Archiving
  • Summary: Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities.
    
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5
  • Group: Applications/System
  • Summary: Virtual Machine Viewer
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting
    to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC widget to provide the display,
    and libvirt for looking up VNC server details.
    
wdaemon-0.13-1
  • Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
  • Summary: Hotplug helper for Wacom X.org driver
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    Helper application which emulates persistent input devices for Wacom tablets
    so they can be plugged and unplugged while X.org server is running. This should
    go away as soon X.org properly supports hotplugging.
    
xulrunner-1.9-0.beta5.6.el5
  • Group: Applications/Internet
  • Summary: XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.
    
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
  • Group: System Environment/Base
  • Summary: Update notification daemon
  • Description: Copy to Clipboard Toggle word wrap
    yum-updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates and
    can notify you when they are available via email, syslog or dbus.
    
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