Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.3 - RELEASE MANIFEST User manual

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Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3
Release Manifest
Package Manifest for all Architectures.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation
Don Domingo
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Abstract
This document is a record of all package changes since the last minor update of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5
1. Added Packages ................................................................................................................... 1
2. Dropped Packages .............................................................................................................. 19
3. Updated Packages ............................................................................................................... 20
1. Added Packages
cmirror-1.1.36-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: cmirror - The Cluster Mirror Package
• Description:
cmirror - Cluster Mirroring

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cmirror-kmod-0.1.21-10.el5
• Group: System Environment/Kernel
• Summary: cmirror kernel modules
• Description:
cmirror-kmod - The Cluster Mirror kernel modules
compat-libcom_err-1.0-7
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: A libcom_err compatibility library
• Description:
The compat-libcom_err package contains libcom_err.so.3, which may be
required
by applications which were built against older packages of MIT
Kerberos.
crash-spu-commands-1.1-1
• Group: Development/Debuggers
• Summary: Cell/B.E. SPU commands extension for crash
• Description:
Specific commands for debugging SPU run control data using crash.
dapl-2.0.13-4.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 and 2.0 APIs
• Description:
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

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• Description:
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.
e4fsprogs-1.41.1-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Utilities for managing the fourth extended (ext4) filesystem
• Description:
The e4fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in the
fourth extended (ext4) filesystem. E4fsprogs contains
e4fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean
shutdown), mke4fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an
empty ext4 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal
structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted
filesystem, or to create test cases for e4fsck), tune4fs (used to
modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext4fs
filesystem utilities.
Please note that "e4fsprogs" simply contains renamed static binaries
from the equivalent upstream e2fsprogs release; it is packaged this
way for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to ensure that the many changes
included for ext4 do not destabilize the core e2fsprogs in RHEL5.
You should install the e4fsprogs package if you need to manage the
performance of an ext4 filesystem.
ecryptfs-utils-56-8.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: The eCryptfs mount helper and support libraries

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• Description:
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.
fipscheck-1.0.3-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: A library for integrity verification of FIPS validated
modules
• Description:
FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated
modules. The package also provides helper binaries for creation and
verification of the HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.
freeipmi-0.5.1-6.el5
• Group: Applications/System
• Summary: FreeIPMI
• Description:
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.
gcc43-4.3.2-7.el5
• Group: Development/Languages
• Summary: Preview of GCC version 4.3
• Description:
The gcc43 package contains preview the GNU Compiler Collection version
4.3.

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5
gtk-vnc-0.3.2-3.el5
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: A GTK widget for VNC clients
• Description:
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-0.4-3.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: InfiniBand fabric simulator for management
• Description:
ibsim provides simulation of infiniband fabric for using with OFA
OpenSM,
diagnostic and management tools.
infiniband-diags-1.4.1-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools
• Description:
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:
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.
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5
• Group: Development/Languages

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• Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment
• Description:
The OpenJDK runtime environment.
ktune-0.2-3.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Server performance tuning service
• Description:
ktune provides settings for server performance tuning. Please have a
look at
/etc/sysconfig/ktune and /etc/sysctl.ktune for tuning
parameters.
libcmpiutil-0.4-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: CMPI Utility Library
• Description:
Libcmpiutil is a library of utility functions for CMPI providers.
The goal is to reduce the amount of repetitive work done in
most CMPI providers by encapsulating common procedures with more
"normal" APIs. This extends from operations like getting typed
instance properties to standardizing method dispatch and argument
checking.
libcxgb3-1.2.2-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Chelsio T3 iWARP HCA Userspace Driver
• Description:
Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP
verbs
library. This driver enables Chelsio iWARP capable ethernet devices.
libehca-1.2-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: IBM InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver

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• Description:
IBM hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library.
libibcm-1.0.3-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Userspace InfiniBand Communication Manager.
• Description:
libibcm provides a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment
library.
libibcommon-1.1.1-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library
• Description:
libibcommon provides common utility functions for the OFA diagnostic
and
management tools.
libibmad-1.2.1-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand MAD library
• Description:
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-1.2.1-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand umad (user MAD) library
• Description:
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the user MAD modules in the kernel. These are used by the IB
diagnostic
and management tools, including OpenSM.
libibverbs-1.1.2-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Library providing access to InfiniBand/iWARP hardware verbs
protocol
• Description:
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-1.1-11.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: QLogic InfiniPath HCA Userspace Driver
• Description:
QLogic hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access
library. This driver supports QLogic InfiniPath based cards.
libmlx4-1.0-4.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
• Description:
Mellanox hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs
access
library. This driver supports Mellanox ConnectX architecture cards.
libmthca-1.0.5-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Mellanox InfiniBand HCA Userspace Driver
• Description:

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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-0.5-4.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: NetEffect RNIC Userspace Driver
• Description:
Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP
verbs
library. This driver enables NetEffect iWARP capable ethernet devices.
librdmacm-1.0.8-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: Userspace RDMA Connection Manager.
• Description:
librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API.
libsdp-1.1.99-10.el5_2
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• Summary: A library for direct userspace use of Sockets Direct Protocol
• Description:
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

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• Description:
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.
libspe2-2.2.80.121-4.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: SPE Runtime Management Library
• Description:
SPE Runtime Management Library for the
Cell Broadband Engine Architecture.
libvirt-cim-0.5.1-4.el5
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: A CIM provider for libvirt
• Description:
Libvirt-cim is a CMPI CIM provider that implements the DMTF SVPC
virtualization model. The goal is to support most of the features
exported by libvirt itself, enabling management of multiple
platforms with a single provider.
mpi-selector-1.0.1-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Provides site-wide and per-user MPI implementation selection
• Description:
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.

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mpitests-3.0-2.el5
• Group: Applications
• Summary: MPI Benchmarks and tests
• Description:
Set of popular MPI benchmarks:
IMB-2.3
Presta-1.4.0
OSU benchmarks ver 2.2
mstflint-1.3-1.el5
• Group: Applications/System
• Summary: Mellanox firmware burning tool
• Description:
This package contains a burning tool for Mellanox manufactured HCA
cards.
It also provides access to the relevant source code.
mvapich-1.1.0-0.2931.3.el5
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: MPI implementation over Infiniband RDMA-enabled interconnect
• Description:
This is high performance and scalable MPI-1 implementation over
Infiniband and RDMA-enabled interconnect.
This implementation is based on MPICH and MVICH. MVAPICH is pronounced
as `em-vah-pich''.
mvapich2-1.0.3-3.el5
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: OSU MVAPICH2 MPI package
• Description:
This is an MPI-2 implementation which includes all MPI-1 features. It
is
based on MPICH2 and MVICH.

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nedit-5.5-21.el5
• Group: Applications/Editors
• Summary: A GUI text editor for systems with X
• Description:
NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is
very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the
Macintosh(TM) or Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) style of interface.
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-22.el5
• Group: Networking/WWW
• Summary: A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins
• Description:
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-1.3.2-0.20080728.0355.1.el5
• Group: Documentation/Man
• Summary: OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution documentation
• Description:
Documentation from OFED 1.3
opensm-3.2.2-3.el5
• Group: System Environment/Daemons
• Summary: OpenIB InfiniBand Subnet Manager and management utilities
• Description:
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
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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-2.6.14-1.el5_2.1
• Group: System Environment/Daemons
• Summary: Openswan IPSEC implementation
• Description:
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-1.2-11.el5
• Group: Productivity/Networking/Diagnostic
• Summary: IB Performance tests
• Description:
gen2 uverbs microbenchmarks
perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: Perl library for accessing Zip archives
• Description:
The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate,
read, and write Zip archive files.
Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files.
Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings.
Members can be added, removed, extracted, replaced, rearranged, and
enumerated. They can also be renamed or have their dates, comments,
or other attributes queried or modified. Their data can be compressed

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or uncompressed as needed. Members can be created from members in
existing Zip files, or from existing directories, files, or strings.
perl-Config-General-2.40-1.el5
• Group: Development/Libraries
• Summary: Generic configuration module for Perl
• Description:
This module opens a config file and parses it's contents for
you. After parsing the module returns a hash structure which contains
the representation of the config file.
The format of config files supported by Config::General is inspired by
the well known apache config format, in fact, this module is 100%
read-compatible to apache configs, but you can also just use simple
name/value pairs in your config files.
In addition to the capabilities of a apache config file it supports
some enhancements such as here-documents, C- style comments or
multiline options. It is also possible to save the config back to
disk, which makes the module a perfect backend for configuration
interfaces.
It is possible to use variables in config files and there exists also
support for object oriented access to the configuration.
pexpect-2.3-1.el5
• Group: Development/Languages
• Summary: Pure Python Expect-like module
• Description:
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'
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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:
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:
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-0.0.1-10.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: VNIC ULP service
• Description:
VNIC ULP service
qperf-0.4.1-2.el5
• Group: Networking/Diagnostic
• Summary: Measure socket and RDMA performance

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• Description:
Measure socket and RDMA performance.
rsyslog-2.0.6-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Daemons
• Summary: Enhanced system logging and kernel message trapping daemons
• Description:
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:
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.
sgpio-1.2.0_10-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: SGPIO captive backplane tool
• Description:
Intel SGPIO enclosure management utility
This package contains (part of) a Technology Preview for
Application for AHCI driver with SGPIO support.
Please visit http://www.redhat.com/support/service/ for details on the

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Red Hat support policies.
srptools-0.0.4-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Tools for using the InfiniBand SRP protocol devices
• Description:
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:
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:
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:
TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group's
Software Stack
(TSS) specification. You can use TrouSerS to write applications that
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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:
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:
Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities.
virt-viewer-0.0.2-2.el5
• Group: Applications/System
• Summary: Virtual Machine Viewer
• Description:
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.
wacomexpresskeys-0.4.1-1.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Wacom ExpressKeys and Touch Strips configuration utility
• Description:
Configuration utility to bind Wacom tablet's ExpressKeys and Touch
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generate other input events.
wdaemon-0.14-2
• Group: User Interface/X Hardware Support
• Summary: Hotplug helper for Wacom X.org driver
• Description:
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-1.9.0.5-1.el5_2
• Group: Applications/Internet
• Summary: XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications
• Description:
XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications.
yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Update notification daemon
• Description:
yum-updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates and
can notify you when they are available via email, syslog or dbus.
2. Dropped Packages
cachefilesd-0.8-2.el5
• Group: System Environment/Daemons
• Summary: CacheFiles userspace management daemon
• Description:
The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that
are
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do persistent caching to the local disk.
frysk-0.0.1.2007.06.21.rh2-4.el5
• Group: Development/System
• Summary: Frysk execution analysis tool
• Description:
Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native
Java and C++.
It is aimed at providing developers and sysadmins with the ability to
both
examine and analyze running multi-host, multi-process, multi-threaded
systems.
Frysk allows the monitoring of running processes and threads, of
locking
primitives and will also expose deadlocks, gather data and debug any
given
process in the system.
gfs2-kmod-1.52-1.16.el5
• Group: System Environment/Kernel
• Summary: gfs2 kernel module
• Description:
GFS2 - The GFS2 filesystem provided for RHEL5.
sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5
• Group: Development/Debuggers
• Summary: Gathers system hardware and configuration information.
• Description:
Sysreport is a utility that gathers information about a system's
hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for
diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sysreport is commonly used to help
support technicians and developers by providing a "snapshot" of a
system's current layout.
3. Updated Packages
Cluster_Administration-5.1.0-7 - Cluster_Administration-5.2-1
• Group: Documentation