RHBA-2008:0388 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum packages that update yum to version 3.2.8 and resolve several
issues are now available.

Description

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 as necessary.

These updated yum packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• yum now displays the location from which it acquired the GPG key.
• yum now returns the appropriate exit codes when listing packages.
• various corrections to the yum man page.
• yum no longer outputs the error message "Cannot open logfile

/tmp/yumroot/var/log/yum.log" when installing with the '--installroot' option.

• a missing '/var/cache/yum/<repo>/headers' directory caused the command

'yum clean all' to fail.

• a leaking file descriptor caused a number of SELinux AVC denials.
• the yum configuration file no longer contains the obsoleted 'pkgpolicy'

option.

• yum now handles full path requirements correctly.
• yum now handles an empty group file correctly.
• yum can now work with repositories on the Apache HTTP server which do not

have partial download (no Range header) support.

• yum now sends the header "User-agent: urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.8".
• a dependency misconfiguration has been fixed, so that yum now has the

correct dependencies.

• yum now installs yum-metadata-parser with the correct CPU architecture.
• yum did not perform tracebacks when there were SQLite exceptions.
• yum did not properly handle a recursion error which resulted in the error

message "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded".

• yum now correctly installs all dependencies.
• a problem with a multilib install corner case has been corrected.
• upgrading yum using anaconda and an installation key now works.
• a critical memory leak in yum-updatesd was detected and fixed.
• yum-updatesd no longer blocks other yum tools.
• yum-updatesd no longer needs to restart when installed packages set changes.
• yum-utils now works reliably with yum.
• the yumdownloader option '--resolve' now works correctly.
• the yumdownloader '--disablerepo' now works correctly.
• the new plugins yum-filter-data and yum-list-data allow a wide-range of

filtering and listing of yum results.

• yum-changelog now works as expected.
• yum-aliases now has a manual page.
• pirut also now installs all of its dependencies correctly.
• several GUI fixes and improvements in pirut and system-cdinstall-helper.
• pirut translation issues with the ko_KR and de_DE locales have been fixed.
• CD/DVD install now works and no longer gives a "IOError: <urlopen error

unknown url type: media>" error message.

• pup now correctly updates sos and sysreport packages.
• the puplet tray icon now appears as expected.

All users of yum are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 237773 - pkgpolicy in yum.conf is not documented in online manual
• BZ - 238438 - yum installation of hts rpm fails with a traceback
• BZ - 240611 - yum not returning appropriate exit codes when listing packages
• BZ - 241182 - pirut crashes on empty group file
• BZ - 249085 - memory leak in yum-updatesd
• BZ - 249710 - RFE: Yum to understood rpms downloaded, when partial content requested
• BZ - 250231 - [pirut] [ko_KR] - Need some strings to be corrected in Pirut
• BZ - 309811 - Unable to upgrade from snapshot3 to snapshot4 using Virtualization key
• BZ - 339321 - Wrong dependency in libvirt-python
• BZ - 389611 - yum resolves full path requirements wrong and install wrong package.
• BZ - 391791 - yumdownloader Crashes When Using --resolve
• BZ - 426419 - yumdownloader does not support "--disablerepo" option
• BZ - 427987 - yum-changelog: TypeError: populateSack() got an unexpected keyword argument 'mdtype'
• BZ - 429346 - yum not returning appropriate exit codes when listing packages
• BZ - 429653 - yum-metadata-parser update
• BZ - 429737 - missing "import" causes adding repos during install to fail
• BZ - 429751 - Yum gives traceback
• BZ - 431073 - pirut crashs with german locale
• BZ - 431077 - Specified icons in .desktop file are missing
• BZ - 435474 - puplet never appears in notification tray
• BZ - 437127 - yum-filter-data uses incorrect options in examples
• BZ - 437429 - Multilib. install corner case error
• BZ - 438168 - man-page is incomplete
• BZ - 438169 - yum-aliases should contain man-page

CVEs

(none)

References

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