RHBA-2011:0602 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum packages that fix number of bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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 for permission as necessary.

These updated yum packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/yum.html#RHBA-2011-0602

All users of yum are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provide
numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 590675 - Lock yum for non-root users, so multiple simultaneous runs don't interact badly
• BZ - 604973 - repo file saving error when in repo id is $basearch
• BZ - 605039 - yum history crashes displaying transaction done by user with long username and no GEOCOS fullname
• BZ - 607258 - yum localinstall drpms/foo.drpm leads to Traceback
• BZ - 614023 - rpmdb open failed exception changed (rpm.error vs. TypeError)
• BZ - 615447 - Change the default bugtracker_url (patch from RHEL-5)
• BZ - 623553 - reinstall gets confused when run twice on one package
• BZ - 627290 - yum should treat epoch "None" as epoch "0"
• BZ - 628151 - Z-stream needed on yum installonly kernel-modules handling
• BZ - 630983 - yum not working properly with yum-plugin-versionlock
• BZ - 632391 - /var/cache/yum periodically filling up
• BZ - 633255 - yum self-test fails
• BZ - 633270 - yum cannot handle channel with sha384 checksum
• BZ - 634595 - yum traceback when running concurrent yum and rpm transactions
• BZ - 652750 - RFE: Separate language support and software in 'yum grouplist' output
• BZ - 655281 - yum group's "installation" is confusing for groups with only optional member. Eg. "System administration tools".
• BZ - 659494 - rebase yum, to collect all the bugs/features for 6.1
• BZ - 662712 - RFE: GPG CA keys
• BZ - 663378 - yum --changelog update traceback
• BZ - 669070 - yum manual page: yum clean dbcache section is repeated twice
• BZ - 669746 - runnign with -C as non-root tries to create a lockfile in root's cachedir.
• BZ - 670784 - Traceback in transaction, when _ts_save_file is None (from within anaconda)
• BZ - 677410 - Download sig check now holds the rpmdb ts lock, for all of downloads
• BZ - 678043 - YumBase.pkgSack.searchNevra fails in rhel6.1
• BZ - 679760 - Cannot install >2 GB package on i686 platform
• BZ - 687889 - [abrt] crash in yum-3.2.27-2.fc12: utils.py:108:show_lock_owner:TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable
• BZ - 694394 - yum-3.2.29-13.el6.noarch breaks plugin options
• BZ - 695427 - Add warning for cert. files with the same basename
• BZ - 696720 - "yum reinstall" generates the wrong rpmdb versions, due to not dropping old cached rpmdb entries
• BZ - 700035 - after removing /var/cache/yum/* yum misbehaves

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Technical_Notes/yum.html#RHBA-2011-0602