RHBA-2012:0858 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum-utils packages that fix four bugs and add three enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The yum-utils packages provide a collection of utilities and examples for the
Yum package manager.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, The reposync utility wrongly set the exit code "0" if a

package was not downloaded. This update modifies the underlying code so that
reposync now sets the exit code "1" if a package is either not correctly signed
or fails to download. (BZ#701096)

• Prior to this update, the yumdownloader tool tried to download a package from

all repositores that provided that particular package. As a result, after the
first download a message was displayed that the file already existed. This
update modifies the yumdownloader so that duplicated download attempts are now
avoided. (BZ#711767)

• Prior to this update, the yum-debug-restore tool recognized only that the

latest version of a package was installed. As a consequence, older kernel
packages were not restored. This update adds support for "installonly" packages,
so the whole set of installed kernel packages is restored. (BZ#737597)

• Prior to this update, the man page for the package-cleanup tool did not

mention the changed semantics of the "--count" option. This update modifies the
man page so that the "--count" option is now correctly documented. (BZ#782338)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

• Prior to this update, yum could not list the dependencies and the already

installed packages in the repositories that satisfy these dependencies. This
update adds the "show-changed-rco" command to give a compact description of the
changes to Requires, Conflicts, and Obsoletes data from installed or old files.
(BZ#684925)

• Prior to this update, the repodiff tool only compared packages based on their

name. This update adds the "--compare-arch" option to the repodiff tool to
compare also the architecture. (BZ#710579)

• Prior to this update, the package-cleanup tool did not correctly handle

kernel-PAE and kernel-xen packages. This update adds support for kernel-PAE and
kernel-xen packages. (BZ#769775)

All users of yum-utils 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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 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 (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 - 684925 - [RFE] Add show-changed-rco command to yum-utils
• BZ - 701096 - reposync returns 0 even when it encounters a downloading problem.
• BZ - 711767 - yumdownloader is trying to download the package again from another repo

CVEs

(none)

References

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