RHEL6 32-bit Client Update (2016-03-14)

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The following packages, all dated 2016-03-14, appeared in my RHEL6 Client updates, but did not appear on the public rhel-client-6-errata web page, nor did the source packages appear on the public FTP site. This caused some concern on my part, since I often use those public resources to monitor RHEL updates. Logging in to my RHN account allowed me to fill in some, but not all, of the details.

Package Errata Public SRPMS
file-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm (none) file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm
file-libs-5.04-30.el6.i686.rpm (none) file-5.04-30.el6.src.rpm
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-10.el6.i686.rpm RHEA-2015:21919 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-10.el6.src.rpm
tar-1.23-14.el6.i686.rpm RHBA-2015:21878 (404) tar-1.23-14.el6.src.rpm
tmpwatch-2.9.16-6.el6.i686.rpm RHBA-2015:21889 tmpwatch-2.9.16-6.el6.src.rpm

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This was actually a mistake. Some pre-release packages leaked and appeared in RHN. I believe they're still being removed, and they'll be officially released later, including complete metadata.

Radek, thanks for clarifying this issue. Unfortunately, this confirms my fear that running yum update automatically installed mistakenly released/undocumented packages.

I manually reverted the affected packages on my system, but I also successfully tested the following procedure. It requires that the RHEL repository contain correct data.

1) Identify problem packages using yum list extras

2) Revert problem packages with yum downgrade

In conclusion, I will investigate modifying my local system and update process to mitigate automated installation of any invalid packages present in the RHEL repositories.

Right. There's unfortunately no way for yum to tell whether the updates were released intentionally or by mistake.

I've been discussing this issue with the Release Engineering team in the past weeks and we've run into several problems while trying to remove the packages from all the involved places. The packages should be inaccessible now, if there's no other caching issue. On the other hand, the packages will appear again when RHEL 6.8 is released, which won't take long.

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