RHBA-2011:1427 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated spice-client package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote
display protocol designed for virtual environments. SPICE users can access a
virtualized desktop or server from the local system or any system with network
access to the server. SPICE is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux for viewing
virtualized guests running on the KVM hypervisor or on Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisors.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Although old SPICE-related packages (such as spice-cairo) are no longer

required to be installed with the spice-client package, they were still needed
by a previously installed spice-client or spice-server package. With the
"Obsolete" lines in the package spec file, updating spice-client forced an
update to spice-server as well, and vice versa. With this update, all "Obsolete"
lines have been removed from the spice-client.spec file, thus fixing this bug.
(BZ#725103)

All spice-client users that want to install spice-server on a client machine are
advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug, and uninstall
the old SPICE-related packages when they are no longer needed.

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.1 i386
• 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 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.1 i386
• Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance (from RHUI) 6.1 x86_64
• 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

Fixes

• BZ - 725103 - spice-client.spec: remove Obsolete lines

CVEs

(none)

References

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