Advisories » MGAA-2015-0066

Updated patch package fixes symlink regression

Publication date: 23 Jul 2015
Modification date: 23 Jul 2015
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 4 , 5

Description

The update to the patch package in MGASA-2015-0068 broke the patch
command's ability to patch files inside of a directory whose name was a
symlink (savannah#44251).

The patch package has been updated to version 2.7.5 to fix this
regression.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16436
• http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44251
• http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/plain/NEWS?id=3b698ab6a13fd3e5890689cd85cf41312c682f8c
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0068.html

SRPMS

4/core

• patch-2.7.5-1.mga4

5/core

• patch-2.7.5-1.mga5