Package util-linux: Information

    Source package: util-linux
    Version: 2.12r-alt6
    Build time:  Nov 23, 2007, 06:24 PM
    Category: System/Base
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    License: GPL
    Summary: A collection of basic system utilities
    Description: 
    The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities
    that are necessary for a Linux system to function.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    agetty (x86_64, i586)
    cfdisk (x86_64, i586)
    fdisk (x86_64, i586)
    look (x86_64, i586)
    losetup (x86_64, i586)
    mount (x86_64, i586)
    sfdisk (x86_64, i586)
    util-linux (x86_64, i586)

    Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin



      1. libe2fs-devel
      2. glibc-devel-static
      3. libncurses-devel
      4. libpam-devel
      5. zlib-devel

    Last changed


    Nov. 20, 2007 Alexey Gladkov 2.12r-alt6
    - mount: Drop privileges properly when calling helpers (CVE-2007-5191).
    Feb. 1, 2007 Dmitry V. Levin 2.12r-alt5
    - nologin: Rewritten without using glibc (fixes #10729).
    - mount: Disabled MS_SILENT support (workarounds #10434).
    Dec. 21, 2006 Dmitry V. Levin 2.12r-alt4
    - Use libblkid/libuuid in mount, umount, swapon and mkswap.
    - mount: Requires: nfs-utils >= 1:1.0.10-alt3.