RHBA-2006:0440 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix various issues are now available.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command-line driven package
management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying,
and updating software packages.

A potential deadlock in scriptlet execution has been fixed.

RPM will now add manually placed files into debuginfo packages.

A typographical error has been fixed in various RPM scripts.

An issue with RPM updating large files has been fixed. Issues verifying
empty files and verifying without SELinux have been fixed.

The ability to ignore size on RPM command line erasures has been added,
which works around an issue with removing packages on systems with stale
NFS mounts.

Transaction lock issues using RPM with --root and --dbpath have been fixed.
Note, to use --dbpath as non root, customers will need to define the
%_rpmlock_path macro to a location that can be written to; future versions
of RPM use '%{_dbpath}/__db.000'.

This update also includes updates to RPM documentation and translations.

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 151255 - rpm --root /new_root or --dbpath with --prefix uses the same transaction lock
• BZ - 172964 - --nodeps not mentioned in the man page for rpmbuild
• BZ - 175740 - rpm --verify reports spurious md5 errors for empty files
• BZ - 180385 - rpm man page doesn't document "--obsoletes" option
• BZ - 182681 - PATCH: run debugedit on extra files copied into debuginfo package by spec

CVEs

(none)

References

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