Fedora 16 Update: zlib-1.2.5-7.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11440
2012-08-03 11:05:27
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Name        : zlib
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.2.5
Release     : 7.fc16
URL         : http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
Summary     : The zlib compression and decompression library
Description :
Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression
library which is used by many different programs.

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Update Information:

This update provides zlib libraries recompiled with the -fPIC flag.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  2 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 1.2.5-7
- resolves: #832545
  recompiled with -fPIC flag
* Tue Jan 10 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 1.2.5-6
- resolves: #719139
  Zlib fails to read zip64 files on 64-bit system
* Fri Nov 11 2011 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.5-5
- fix minizip to permit uncrypt when NOUNCRYPT is not defined
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #832545 - libz.a not being compiled with -fPIC on x86_64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832545
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update zlib' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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