Synopsis

pykickstart bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated pykickstart package that fixes two bugs is now available.

Description

The pykickstart package is a python library used to manipulate kickstart
files.

This updated package addresses the following bugs:

• pykickstart ignored special characters when parsing arguments, and
  therefore omitted them when passing the arguments to the authconfig
  method. This meant that the system would not kickstart as specified.
  pykickstart now handles special characters, so arguments are passed as
  intended. Any further issues will be due to incorrect syntax. (BZ#241657)
  
• pykickstart lacked RAID10 support, so attempting to kickstart with
  RAID10 software resulted in a "RAID Partition defined without RAID
  level" error message and a failure to boot. RAID10 support has been
  added, and the kickstart now works as expected. (BZ#508053)
  

Users of pykickstart are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes 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/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 - 241657 - Several options for auth and rootpw gets ignored

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
x86_64
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312
ia64
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312
i386
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
x86_64
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312
i386
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
x86_64
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312
i386
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
s390x
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
ppc
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: ba511ca194fdcb7515432a933e82de72e637d44d0e4c18fa3ff5b0ec1dcd890d
x86_64
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312
i386
pykickstart-0.43.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 16c2195e9fe978231cb27aace56871534eab4f37eafa0d99fdedf1fdd2df6312