RHBA-2012:0457 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spacewalk-backend packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red
Hat Network Satellite 5.4.

Description

Red Hat Network Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based
infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, monitoring, and remote management
of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• A previous errata advisory, the RHBA-2011:1466 Red Hat Network Satellite

server spacewalk-backend bug fix update, introduced a regression which caused
the spacewalk-repo-sync utility to take an excessive amount of time (45 minutes
in the reported case) to sync an up-to-date repository containing a large number
(that is, thousands) of packages. This update adapts the underlying source code
to ensure that spacewalk-repo-sync completes in a few minutes when a repository
is already up-to-date, as expected. (BZ#791328)

• Prior to this update, an attempt to run the spacewalk-repo-sync utility to

sync a repository with a channel for a different architecture failed with a
traceback. This update ensures that spacewalk-repo-sync reports an error in this
scenario. (BZ#769176)

All users of Red Hat Network Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which fix these bugs.

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 Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 769176 - traceback when spacewalk-repo-sync synces package into incompatible arch channel

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1466.html