[CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:685 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) mysql - security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:685

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-685.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

Special notes:

There is feature in hercules, which makes it refelect sometimes
floating point test errors for aaplications due different accuracy of
real iron floating point and the host emulating it. It's kind of must
have design feature where hercules does pass the floating point
operations to host fp unit directly. It would slow down ten fold or
more if it would not do so.

This efectively means that for some packages the test phase fails under
hercules even tho it's not failing on real iron. I've had access to
real iron (not currently) and been able to verify that very same
compilers + other parts makes testing work on real iron and fail under
hercules. Resulting binaries still being good on oth platforms.

Therefore i just have to trust that binaris are ok even tho the
internal test procedures are failing. This is the case for s390 with
mysql. s390x compiles + tests just fine.

I start to make a note in these announcements if i have been forced to
skip the package internal testing phase for being able to make binary
RPMS. Something like there is below for s390.

It's just in case somene should rely on this distribution on real iron
as i am not able to verify/support this scenario. With hercules we're
all in same wagon - if it's not working, it's fixable for us :)


s390: (had to disable check/test)
updates/s390/RPMS/mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/mysql-bench-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/mysql-devel-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390.rpm


s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/mysql-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/mysql-bench-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/mysql-devel-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/mysql-server-4.1.12-3.RHEL4.1.s390x.rpm


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Pasi Pirhonen - upi at iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/
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