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7.240. yum

Updated yum package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically, prompting the user for permission as necessary.

Bug Fixes

BZ#893994
Yum has been updated to detect severity conflicts in the updateinfo.xml file.
BZ#905100
Previously, the "yum grouplist" command terminated unexpectedly with the "ValueError: unknown locale" message when a user-defined locale was specified on the system. With this update, "yum grouplist" has been modified to correctly process user-defined locale files, thus fixing this bug.
BZ#1016148
Under certain circumstances, when attempting to install locally stored packages, yum terminated with the following message:
ValueError: your.rpm has no attribute basepath
This bug has been fixed, and yum now installs local packages as expected.
BZ#1051931
Yum has been modified to properly notify the user if there is not enough space for the installed package in the installation destination. Now, the space required for the package is displayed correctly in MB or KB.
BZ#1076076
Prior to this update, yum did not show the echo output from the %postun RPM scriplet during package removal. This bug has been fixed, and the output is now displayed correctly.
BZ#1144503
Previously, the yum-plugin-downloadonly plug-in returned exit code 1 even when it executed successfully. The functionality of the plug-in has been incorporated into yum as the "--downloadonly" option. The "yum --downloadonly" command now returns the correct exit code on success.
BZ#1171543
The yum-plugin-security plug-in did not show any advisory if the architecture of the updated package changed. This bug has been fixed, and yum-plugin-security now works as expected.
BZ#1200159
Prior to this update, when epoch was defined in the rpm specification file of the kernel package, yum removed the running kernel package after updating. This bug has been fixed, and the running kernel is no longer removed in the described case.

Enhancements

BZ#1154076
The "--exclude" option has been enhanced to exclude the already installed packages.
BZ#1136212
The "yum check" command has been enhanced to execute faster.
BZ#1174612
The "--assumeno" option has been backported to the yum package.
Users of yum are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.