Fedora 12 Update: ruby-1.8.6.399-5.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-8757
2010-05-19 18:34:32
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Name        : ruby
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.8.6.399
Release     : 5.fc12
URL         : http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Summary     : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language
Description :
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming.  It has many features to process text
files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl).  It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.

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Update Information:

Backported ruby 1.8.7 feature to simplify OpenSSL::Digest method with keeping
compatibility.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 19 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.399-5
- Retry for bug 559158, Simplify the OpenSSL::Digest class
  pull more change commits from ruby_1_8 branch
* Mon May 17 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.399-4
- Patch36 (ruby-1.8.x-RHASH_SIZE-rb_hash_lookup-def.patch)
  also backport rb_hash_lookup definition (bug 592936)
* Thu May 13 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.399-3
- ruby-1.8.x-null-class-must-be-Qnil.patch (bug 530407)
- Recreate some patches using upstream svn when available, and
  add some comments for patches
* Tue May 11 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.399-2
- tcltk: Give up using potentially unmaintained ruby_1_8_6 branch
  and instead completely replace with ruby_1_8 branch head
  (at this time, using rev 27738)
  (seems to fix 560053, 590503)
- Fix Japanese encoding strings under ruby-tcltk/ext/tk/sample/
* Tue Apr 27 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.399-1
- Update to 1.8.6 p 399 (bug 579675)
- Patch to fix gc bug causing open4 crash (bug 580993)
* Fri Mar 12 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.388-9
- F-14: rebuild against new gdbm
* Thu Jan 28 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt;
- Once revert the previous change (patch34)
* Wed Jan 27 2010 Jeroen van Meeuwen <j.van.meeuwen(a)ogd.nl&gt; - 1.8.6.388-8
- Backport openssl/digest functions providing digest and hexdigest functions
  directly in OpenSSL::Digest.methods
- Make sure that Red Hat people version their changelog entries
- This is actually release #1, but now needs to be release #7
* Mon Jan 18 2010 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com&gt; - 1.8.6.388-1
- Add conditional for RHEL.
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.383-6
- CVE-2009-4492 ruby WEBrick log escape sequence (bug 554485)
* Wed Dec  9 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; - 1.8.6.383-5
- Change mkmf.rb to use LIBRUBYARG_SHARED so that have_library() works
  without libruby-static.a (bug 428384)
- And move libruby-static.a to -static subpackage
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #559158 - hexdigest method missing in ruby-libs-1.8.6.383-6
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559158
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