RHBA-2011:0136 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated yum package that fixes several problems and adds an enhancement is
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Yum is a utility that can check for, automatically download, and install updated
RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting
the user as necessary.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, yum checked the configured server host name with the name in the

server's SSL certificate when connecting to HTTPS yum repositories, even when
SSL verification was disabled, which is the default setting. With this update
yum will only check names when SSL verification is enabled. Note: yum-rhn-plugin
always disables name checks even for non-RHN repositories. (BZ#500721)

• Previously, installing obsolete packages resulted in installing the package of

the incorrect arch. With this update, Yum selects the correct arch and the issue
is resolved. (BZ#593349)

• Previously, running yum failed when /proc was not mounted. With this update,

yum uses the generic result instead of trying to narrow down the architecture of
the Central Processing Unit (CPU). (BZ#623955)

• Previously, when getting unique metadata from RHN yum would only delete the

downloaded files and not the generated (.sqlite) files. This meant that
/var/cache/yum would grow without bound. With this update, yum will delete the
generated files as well. (BZ#628963)

• Previously, the yum.conf manual page did not document options for setting SSL

verification parameters for HTTPS yum repositories. With this update, these
options are documented. (BZ#637146)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, yum can parse more fields in the updateinfo.xml metadata

and provides these fields to other applications. (BZ#634119)

Yum users are advised to upgrade to this updated package which resolves 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 the 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 - 593349 - yum-3.2.22-26.el5 install obsoleted pkg. makes the install be of the wrong arch
• BZ - 623955 - yum crashes when /proc is not mounted
• BZ - 628963 - /var/cache/yum periodically filling up
• BZ - 637146 - yum: ssl* options should be documented in yum.conf(5)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)