Recommended update for timezone
SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for timezone
The latest update to timezone 2014c introduced changes in the binary format
of timezone files generated by zic(1) to improve handling of low-valued
timestamps. This change caused problems for some applications that rely
on the stability of the binary format, so this update reverts it.
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2014:0731-1 |
| Rating: | important |
| References: | #879073 #879512 #879680 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has three recommended fixes can now be installed. It includes one version update.
Description:
The latest update to timezone 2014c introduced changes in the binary format
of timezone files generated by zic(1) to improve handling of low-valued
timestamps. This change caused problems for some applications that rely
on the stability of the binary format, so this update reverts it.
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sdksp3-timezone-2014c-2-9297 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-timezone-2014c-2-9297 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-timezone-2014c-2-9297 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-timezone-2014c-2-9296 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp1-timezone-2014c-2-9294 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-timezone-2014c-2-9297
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.7.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.7.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-2014c-0.5.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (noarch) [New Version: 2014c]:
- timezone-java-2014c-0.5.1
References:
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/879073
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/879512
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/879680
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=3e426d9cc0ec1473c84a94cbc3e6ccbb
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=5a67445e4d8be996cb3bb2e7a3c6bf61
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=5e69b3a572183d557d2f92f263d7780f
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=e92709ca57a1c3227b8d433271be888d
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=ef7caf62d19cedad404844c7a6252182