The kweather applet would be available in the applets viewer of the KDE kicker, despite the kweather application not being installed. Also, the previous update of kdetoys wouldn"t install because of a typo in the package specification. This update corrects the issues.
Automatic mirror geolocation in drakxtools-backend in Mandriva Linux 2008.1 would fail for some locales, because it uses backward compatibility timezone names for which there were no zone.tab entries in timezone , this makes software like urpmi to not select optimal mirrors in its automatic media/mirrors addition mode. This update makes timezone provide backward timezone name entries in zone.tab f ...
Updated timezone packages are being provided for older Mandriva Linux systems that do not contain new Daylight Savings Time information and Time Zone information for some locations. These updated packages contain the new information.
The fluxbox package had an incorrect post-installation script which prevented the additional fonts files to be installed correctly. Update: The previous package incorrectly added a requirement on a package that does not correct the problem. This update corrects that.
A bug was found in the gdb package that prevented the build of the gdbserver binary and its manpage. Updated packages are being provided to fix the issue.
Updated timezone packages are being provided for older Mandriva Linux systems that do not contain the new Daylight Savings Time information for 2008 and later for certain time zones. These updated packages contain the new information.
A missing dependency could prevent gconftool symlink to be create at package install time, when installing a minimal system. This update fixes that issue.
The pdksh package shipped with Mandriva Linux 2008.0 contained a packaging bug where /usr/bin/ksh pointed to a non-existant target. This update corrects the problem.