RHBA-2014:1411 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum-utils packages that fix several bugs 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 to make yum easier and more powerful to use.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the debuginfo-install utility considered only a certain naming

scheme of debuginfo repositories, which Certificate-based Red Hat Network
content delivery network (CDN) did not follow. As a consequence,
debuginfo-install did not work with the debuginfo repositories created in CDN.
With this update, support for the new naming scheme of debuginfo repositories
has been added, and debuginfo-install now works with debuginfo CDN repositories
as intended. (BZ#676193)

• Prior to this update, enabled source repositories without their respective

binary repositories were automatically disabled. As a consequence, source
packages could not be downloaded using the "yumdownloader --source" command.
With this update, enabled source repositories are no longer disabled
automatically, and the "yumdownloader --source" command now works as expected.
(BZ#808347)

• Prior to this update, the fs-snapshot plugin did not work with the Device

Mapper as the "dmsetup splitname" command line interface had changed and no
longer supported the "-o" option. More specifically, fs-snapshot did not take
snapshots of user's file systems before running a yum transaction. In addition,
fs-snapshot did not work with Logical Volumes Management (LVM), failing to
create new LVM snapshots. With this update, the plugin adjusts to the new
command line interface, thus fixing both bugs. (BZ#850612)

• Previously, man pages for several utilities, such as repo-rss, repodiff,

repoquery, or reposync, were missing. With this update, for each utility a man
page has been created. (BZ#981773)

• When the yum-complete-transaction command was run, the /var/run/yum.pid file

was left in the file system. A patch has been applied to
yum-complete-transaction to clean the file system, and /var/run/yum.pid is now
deleted after yum-complete-transaction finishes. (BZ#984119)

• When the user tried to download an RPM using the yumdownloader utility when

there had already been the same RPM of a bigger size in the destination
directory, RPM was not redownloaded, and only a confusing error was displayed to
the user. A patch for handling already downloaded RPMs has been applied, and if
the checksum of RPMs does not match the intended, yumdownloader redownloads the
RPM. (BZ#1004089)

• Previously, there was an insufficient check in the yum code. Consequently,

under some circumstances, the yum-complete-transaction command removed the
complete packages, nearly deleting the whole system, instead of updating them.
With this update, yum-complete-transaction is more cautious with package
removals, and when finding incomplete or aborted yum transactions on a system,
it attempts to complete them. (BZ#1013475)

• Previously, when a package was removed and the yum post-transaction-action

extension for a changed directory was enabled, the "yum remove" command
terminated unexpectedly. A patch has been provided to fix the bug, "yum remove"
no longer crashes, and post-transaction-action is fulfilled successfully without
any exceptions. (BZ#1045494)

• Previously, executing the "yum-config-manager --setopt='debuglevel=9' --save"

command caused the yum-utils utility to terminate unexpectedly. The underlying
source code has been patched, and the "yum-config-manager

• -setopt='debuglevel=9' --save" command is now successfully executed.

(BZ#1075705)

• Previously, running the repoquery command when the RPM database failed to open

caused the repoquery utility to terminate unexpectedly. A patch has been applied
to fix this bug, and repoquery no longer crashes. (BZ#1097560)

Users of yum-utils 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/site/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 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 676193 - debuginfo-install fails to find debuginfo packages
• BZ - 802784 - make repodiff handle local repos even without the file:// prefix
• BZ - 971598 - [RHEL6] Yum config manager confuses ID and name
• BZ - 1004089 - yumdownloader can't download package when there's an oversize RPM in the destdir.
• BZ - 1026317 - man page yum-security doesn't mention option --sec-severity
• BZ - 1045494 - yum post transaction action fails when package is removed
• BZ - 1075705 - yum-config-manager --save doesn't work
• BZ - 1097560 - repoquery tracebacks when fails to open rpmdb

CVEs

(none)

References

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