RHBA-2011:1198 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated yum-rhn-plugin package that fixes one bug is now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The yum-rhn-plugin package provides rhnplugin, a plug-in that allows Yum to
access a Red Hat Network server for software updates.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, rhnplugin always downloaded all available repository

metadata, including the filelist.xml and others.xml files, which are not
required for regular Yum transactions. To prevent unnecessary disk space
consumption, this update adapts rhnplugin to download only the metadata required
for a particular Yum transaction. (BZ#732427)

All users of yum-rhn-plugin are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which fixes this bug.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 732427 - rhn_check fills /var by attempting to do a full download of the metadata

CVEs

(none)

References

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