[CentOS] Ghostscript update?

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Frank,

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 11:28 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Has the issue with the last ghostscript update been resolved?  I
> temporarily added ghostcript to the excludes line in my yum.conf to
> prevent problems and haven't seen any more mention of it here.

Yamaban recently pointed out it's a simple fix. Let me summarize:

$ diff -up /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_init.ps.new.bad /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_init.ps
--- /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_init.ps.new.bad	2017-01-04 11:20:37.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/share/ghostscript/8.70/Resource/Init/gs_init.ps	2015-07-24 00:00:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -2025,7 +2025,6 @@ readonly def
       /LockFilePermissions true
     >> setuserparams
   }
-  systemdict /getenv {pop //false} put
   if
   % setpagedevice has the side effect of clearing the page, but
   % we will just document that. Using setpagedevice keeps the device

Regards,
Leonard.

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