RHBA-2012:0913 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated PackageKit packages that fix four bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage
packages in a secure way using a cross-distribution, cross-architecture API.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• If a user attempted to install or update packages that were either unsigned,

or signed with a GPG key that was not installed and not available for
installation, PackageKit kept reporting that the packages are from an untrusted
source and repeatedly prompted the user for confirmation. This update corrects
this behavior and ensures that up-to-date interfaces are used to specify that
untrusted packages are to be installed. (BZ#744359)

• If the pkcon console client is executed with the "--noninteractive" command

line option, it is not supposed to prompt the user for any confirmation.
Previously, running pkcon with this option did not prevent it from requiring
confirmation in certain situations, such as if a package signing key had to be
imported or additional dependent packages needed to be removed during package
removal. With this update, the pkcon utility no longer requires confirmation in
these situations and proceeds as if the user answered "yes" on the command line.
(BZ#783537)

• Prior to this update, the PackageKit-yum and PackageKit-yum-plugin subpackages

did not specify pygobject2 and dbus-python as their dependencies. Consequently,
if these packages were not present on the system, certain tools such as the
pkcon console client or the refresh-packagekit plug-in for YUM did not work
properly. This update adapts the PackageKit-yum and PackageKit-yum-plugin
subpackages to require pygobject2 and dbus-python respectively. As a result, the
tools that are installed with either of these subpackages no longer fail to work
properly due to missing dependencies. (BZ#684861, BZ#700448)

All users of PackageKit 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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• 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 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 Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• 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 - 684861 - pkcon does not work correctly (outputs nothing useful) + fix
• BZ - 700448 - Bug 694812 also affects RHEL6

CVEs

(none)

References

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