RHBA-2009:0440 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated yum-metadata-parser package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

yum-metadata-parser is a fast metadata parser for yum implemented in C.

This updated yum-metadata-parser package fixes the following bug:

• in certain circumstances, yum-metadata-parser corrupted yum's sqlite

database, which could have led to problems such as dependency resolution
failures when attempting to upgrade packages. With this update, yum
regenerates the sqlite database file following each repository metadata
download, which solves possible database corruption issues.

All users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these
issues by always generating the .sqlite files from scratch.

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/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 491916 - automatic update of ghostscript fails

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)