RHBA-2015:0401 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum-utils packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 yumdownloader utility accepted only a certain naming scheme of

source repositories, which Certificate-based Red Hat Network content delivery
network (CDN) did not follow. As a consequence, the yumdownloader and
yum-builddep utilities did not work with the source repositories created in CDN.
With this update, support for the new naming scheme of source repositories has
been added, and yumdownloader and yum-builddep now work with source CDN
repositories as intended. (BZ#1082050)

• Prior to this update, the needs-restarting utility used an incorrect method

for determining the process start time. With this update, needs-restarting has
been modified to find the correct process start time, thus fixing this bug.
(BZ#1095150)

• Preivously, attempts to download a package using the yumdownloader utility failed if the same package of a bigger size was present in the destination directory. Consequently, the package was not redownloaded, and a vague error message was displayed. A patch for handling already downloaded packages has been applied, and yumdownloader now redownloads packages in the aforementioned scenario. (BZ#1104995)
• In case of dependency errors, the yumdownloader utility did not inform the

user about them. With this update, yumdownloader has been modified to print all dependency error messages as expected. (BZ#1113391)

• 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. (BZ#1127782)

• Prior to this update, the yum-config-manager utility did not accept standard wildcard characters in its input. This update adds support for wildcards to yum-config-manager. (BZ#1129590)
• Previously, the "reposync -u" command exited after processing the first

enabled repository. This bug has been fixed, and "reposync -u" now correctly
processes all enabled repositories. (BZ#1133125)

• With this update, the yum-plugin-post-transaction-actions plug-in has been

modified to accept the colon characters in the command part of .action files.
(BZ#1134989)

• Prior to this update, the reposync utility did not create the correct

directory infrastructure, which resulted in packages and metadata files being
located in the same directory. This problem has been fixed, and reposync always
creates the correct directory infrastructure. (BZ#1139032)

• Prior to this update, when running the "reposync -u" command to report on items

to be downloaded, the report always showed that all items needed to be
downloaded even if they already resided in the local repository. This bug hasbeen fixed, and "reposync -u" now reports correctly. (BZ#1140864)

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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1082050 - RFE: adjust yum-downloader logic for source repos in CDN
• BZ - 1095150 - needs-restarting script is not functional
• BZ - 1104995 - yumdownloader can't download package when there's an oversize RPM in the destdir.
• BZ - 1107658 - [abrt] yum-utils: yumRepo.py:1030:_getFile:NoMoreMirrorsRepoError: failure: repodata/2563479c3c5ff214df9f90cd0bd62c5021eb8c33c6166c9e263951b759795508-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from rhel7: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
• BZ - 1113391 - yumdownloader should print depsolving errors instead of ignoring them
• BZ - 1127782 - yum post transaction action fails when package is removed
• BZ - 1129590 - yum-config-manager --setopt doesn't work with wildcards
• BZ - 1133125 - reposync -u stops after first repo
• BZ - 1139032 - reposync created directory structure incorrect
• BZ - 1140864 - reposync -u option ignores already downloaded packages

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal