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2005-12-09 s390-tools 1.5.1 ("April 2004" and "October 2005") (superseded)

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Category: operating system. Contains the source tree of a set of user space utilities that should to be used together with the Linux on zSeries kernel and device drivers.

s390-tools-1.5.1.tar.gz / MD5 recommended (superseded) (2005-12-09)

These s390-tools-1.5.1 replace s390-tools-1.5.0

This package contains the following bug fixes:

Description: lsdasd: lsdasd man page and online help inconsistent.
Symptom: "lsdasd -v" and "man lsdasd" show slightly different information.
Problem: See symptom.
Solution: Adapt files to be consistent.
Problem-ID: 19110

Description: vmcp: Rearrange error messages and return codes to cover all possible cases with useful information.
Symptom: Some error cases missed detailed information.
Problem: Misleading error messages.
Solution: Rearrange the error codes and messages, other cleanups.
Problem-ID: 19648

Description: zfcp: zfcpdbf script does not check command line parameters for validity.
Symptom: zfcpdbf script accepts 0 as 'switch off' and all other values as 'switch on'.
Problem: zfcpdbf does not check command line parameters for validity.
Solution: Check all command line parameters, if any is wrong show help message and quit.
Problem-ID: 19281

Description: zipl: Compilation failure when using binutils 2.16.
Symptom: Any attempt to compile the zipl tool with binutils 2.16 (and above) will fail with an error.
Problem: Some of the assembler .macro statements contained in zipl are malformed. Newer versions of the GNU assembler will report these occurrences as errors and abort compilation.
Solution: Fix the .macro statements.
Problem-ID: 19415


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