-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-5307 2011-04-13 20:21:21 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : python-ethtool Product : Fedora 14 Version : 0.7 Release : 2.fc14 URL : http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=dsommers/public_git/python-ethtool.git;a=summary Summary : Ethernet settings python bindings Description : Python bindings for the ethtool kernel interface, that allows querying and changing of Ethernet card settings, such as speed, port, auto-negotiation, and PCI locations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixed several memory leak issues and NETLINK socket issues which could cause SELinux to report AVC if python-ethtool is used with scripts which forks out sub-processes. Also added man pages for pethtool and pifconfig. (This is a re-push, with man pages included for real). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Apr 13 2011 David Sommerseth <[email protected]> - 0.7-2 - Fixed missing man page packaging * Mon Apr 11 2011 David Sommerseth <[email protected]> - 0.7-1 - Fixed several memory leaks (commit aa2c20e697af, abc7f912f66d) - Improved error checking towards NULL values(commit 4e928d62a8e3) - Fixed typo in pethtool --help (commit 710766dc722) - Only open a NETLINK connection when needed (commit 508ffffbb3c) - Added man page for pifconfig and pethtool (commit 9f0d17aa532, rhbz#638475) - Force NETLINK socket to close on fork() using FD_CLOEXEC (commit 1680cbeb40e) * Tue Feb 8 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 0.6-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jan 19 2011 David Sommerseth <[email protected]> - 0.6-1 - Don't segfault if we don't receive any address from rtnl_link_get_addr() - Remove errornous file from MANIFEST - Added ethtool.version string constant - Avoid duplicating IPv6 address information - import sys module in setup.py (Miroslav Suchy) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #638475 - python-ethtool is missing man pages https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638475 [ 2 ] Bug #689843 - Python ethtool opens NETLINK_ROUTE when loaded which causes leaked descriptor https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689843 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update python-ethtool' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
