RHBA-2012:0283 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix multiple bugs and add two enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system
capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software
packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, an attempt to initialize the rpm database in a non-existent

directory could have failed to create a transaction lock. With this update, this
problem has been fixed in that RPM now tries to create a non-existent directory
before creating the lock. (BZ#510469)

• Previously, an attempt to close a NULL rpmio file descriptor caused the

process to terminate with when calling the "assert()" function. With this
update, the problem with the process termination has been fixed and the
"Fclose()" function now accepts a NULL pointer and performs no operation.
(BZ#573043)

• Previously, in Python bindings, calling "hdr.dsFromHeader()" caused a

SystemError exception on headers with no dependencies, for example gpg-pubkey
headers. With this update, RPM now returns an empty dependency set object in
this case. (BZ#628883)

• Previously, RPM library initialization forced the umask of the process to

"022", which could have caused unwanted permissions for files created by
software that makes use of the RPM API. With this update, the umask is now only
changed for the duration of a transaction and restored to its previous value
afterwards. (BZ#673821)

• Previously, disabling package scriptlet execution (the "rpm --noscripts"

command) did not prevent "%pretrans" and "%posttrans" scriptlets from running.
With this update, the "--noscripts" option now disables execution of all
scriptlet types. (BZ#740345)

In addition, this update introduces the following enhancements:

• The "%setup" and "%patch" spec directives now support transparent

decompression of XZ and LZMA compressed source tarballs and patch files.
(BZ#620674)

• Support for the "RPMCALLBACK_SCRIPT_ERROR" callback event has been added in

this update. This allows programs that make use of the librpm API (for example
yum) to report install or erase failures more accurately. (BZ#533831)

All users of RPM are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add 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
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 - 510469 - rpm -i --root=/chroot', error: can't create transaction lock
• BZ - 533831 - Yum reports package installed even if scriptled failed
• BZ - 620674 - [RFE] xz support in RHEL 5 rpm
• BZ - 628883 - hdr.dsFromHeader() fails with "SystemError" for gpg-pubkeys

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)