RHBA-2011:0662 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated pykickstart package that fixes several bugs and adds a number of
enhancements is now available.

Description

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

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

• The ksflatten tool included with pykickstart erroneously output any

%include statements along with the content included by these statements.
The original %include statements are now removed when the referenced
content is included. (BZ#668050)

• The documentation included in pykickstart was not referenced correctly,

so no information was available to users. This has been corrected and
useful documentation is now included. (No BZ#)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

• The bootloader command now takes an additional "--iscrypted" option.

Since GRUB supports multiple encryption mechanisms and can automatically
detect which to use based on the encrypted password, this new option
should be used whenever an encrypted password is provided. This takes
the place of the previous "--md5pass=" option. (BZ#554870)

• The "url" and "repo" commands now take an additional "--noverifyssl"

option. Use this option to prevent anaconda from checking the validity of
the SSL certificate of your source when using HTTPS. (BZ#660340)

• Three new network options have been added to pykickstart: "--activate",

"--nodefroute", and "--bootproto=ibft". These enable users to install to
iSCSI target systems that use a network card other than the system's
network configuration. (BZ#668417)

All users of pykickstart are advised to upgrade to this package, which
fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

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://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 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 - 668050 - pykickstart does not remove %includes
• BZ - 668417 - Cannot perform network kickstart installation to iSCSI target accessed via different NIC

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)