RHBA-2015:1352 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated PackageKit packages that fix two 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:

• Prior to this update, if the RPM v3 binary was used to re-sign custom and

third-party unsigned packages, PackageKit could not handle installing these
packages. As a consequence, installing certain packages using the PackageKit GUI
could fail with the following error message:

pct = div * (ts_current - 1) + pct_start + ((div / 100.0) * val)

This update fixes PackageKit to handle these rare cases, and the installation no
longer fails in the described situation. (BZ#1140837)

• Previously, when MAILTO recipients were set in the

/etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background file, the
/etc/cron.daily/packagekit-background.cron script only checked for the return
value from the pkcon command before trying to send email reports. As a
consequence, two unnecessary empty emails were sent under certain circumstances.
With this update, the $PKTMP file is not attempted to be sent by email if the
files is empty, and only emails with useful information are now sent in the
described scenario. (BZ#1172119)

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.

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

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 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 - 1172119 - packagekit-background.cron sends empty body emails causing anacron to send error message from mail program.

CVEs

(none)

References

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