Synopsis

redhat-upgrade-tool bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated redhat-upgrade-tool package that fixes several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Red Hat Upgrade Tool is used for performing an in-place upgrade of your
current system to the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It
determines what packages are needed for the upgrade and gathers them from the
source or sources given. It also fetches and sets up the boot images needed to
run the upgrade and sets up the system to perform the upgrade on the next system
boot. Running the Red Hat Upgrade Tool requires running the Preupgrade Assistant
as a prerequisite.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) repository setup did
  not correctly specify the appropriate URLs. As a consequence,
  preupgrade-assistant postupgrade scripts could not use the Yum utility, and an
  error message was displayed. With this update, the "skip_if_unavailable" option
  has been set to "True" for all generated repository files, and the errors no
  longer occur. (BZ#1106401)
  
• Previously, using the "--addrepo" option with an incorrect argument returned a
  confusing error message that no upgrade was available from the repository. As a
  consequence, it was not clear whether the specified URL was incorrect or there
  was no upgrade available from the repository. This update improves the error
  message which now suggests checking if the specified URL is correct.
  (BZ#1084985)
  
• After an upgrade, when one of the postupgrade scripts attempted to downgrade
  several packages, downgrade failed because of errors downloading the GPG keys.
  This bug has been fixed by specifying that the postupgrade scripts use the same
  GPG keys as the Red Hat Upgrade Tool. As a result, postupgrade scripts downgrade
  the selected packages successfully. (BZ#1115532)
  
• Previously, the Red Hat Upgrade Tool did not perform a check whether the
  repositories the system is being upgraded to are signed by Red Hat. This update
  adds a check to the Red Hat Upgrade Tool which checks the repository signatures
  and fails the upgrade if the packages are not signed by Red Hat. (BZ#1123915)
  
• Previously, running the redhat-upgrade-tool command with the "--clean" option
  could fail because the Red Hat Upgrade Tool did not check for the existence of
  the /var/lib/systemd file. This bug has been fixed and the "redhat-upgrade-tool
  
• -clean" command now executes successfully. (BZ#1128162)
  
• Previously, after an upgrade, the Red Hat Upgrade Tool did not disable the Yum
  repositories for the old system. This bug has been fixed and now Red Hat Upgrade
  Tool correctly disables all old repositories excluding the
  /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-upgrade-* repositories. (BZ#1130686)
  
• Previously, certain packages handled by the Preupgrade Assistant utility and
  consequently by the Red Hat Upgrade Tool had broken upgrade paths. As a
  consequence, these packages were not upgraded during system assessment. This
  update fixes the upgrade paths and the correct files are now downloaded and
  installed by both tools. (BZ#1138615)
  
• Previously, when performing an upgrade over the network, if there was a
  network timeout error when downloading the .treeinfo file, the Red Hat Upgrade
  Tool exited with a traceback error. After this update, if there is a network
  timeout, the Red Hat Upgrade Tool returns a "Downloading failed" error and does
  not produce a traceback error. (BZ#1076120)
  

Users of redhat-upgrade-tool are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which fixes 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/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1084985 - confusing error message on --addrepo failure
• BZ - 1115532 - redhat-upgrade-tool does not import RHEL-7 repo keys
• BZ - 1128162 - missing checking of /var/lib/system-upgrade with --clean option

CVEs

• CVE-2014-3585

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fbb3be8bd4ce2094b7fc1c3ed826ebd68b3c38ec03bc0001cfe6519221449308
x86_64
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547
i386
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fbb3be8bd4ce2094b7fc1c3ed826ebd68b3c38ec03bc0001cfe6519221449308
s390x
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fbb3be8bd4ce2094b7fc1c3ed826ebd68b3c38ec03bc0001cfe6519221449308
ppc64
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fbb3be8bd4ce2094b7fc1c3ed826ebd68b3c38ec03bc0001cfe6519221449308
x86_64
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: fbb3be8bd4ce2094b7fc1c3ed826ebd68b3c38ec03bc0001cfe6519221449308
x86_64
redhat-upgrade-tool-0.7.32-1.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8a29c7131eceeedd1c77044b933cb4188c9b0849e0606eba28f00fd5c4e94547