Synopsis

redhat-rpm-config bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The redhat-rpm-config package is used during the build of RPM packages to apply
various default distribution options determined by Red Hat. Also,
redhat-rpm-config provides a few Red Hat RPM macro customizations, such as those
used during the building of Driver Update packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the find-requires.ksyms script provided by the
  redhat-rpm-config package could not locate the kernel Application Binary
  Interface (ABI) reference files provided by the kabi-whitelists package. As a
  consequence, building an RPM that contained a kernel module (*.ko) resulted in
  the "KERNEL ABI COMPATIBILITY WARNING" error message, and no compatibility check
  was performed. With this update, the kernel ABI reference files can be
  successfully located, and ABI compatibility of kernel object files can now be
  verified in the described situation. (BZ#842761)
  
• RPM scans files during the build process for dependencies, and if a file is
  accidentally detected as a script by libmagic, RPM parses the first line for the
  "#!" string to get the interpreter. Previously, RPM could pick up random data if
  the "#!" string was not included at the beginning of the file. With this update,
  the RPM verification process is more thorough, and incorrect requirements are no
  longer picked up. (BZ#1179521)
  
• With this update, the redhat-rpm-config package has been added as a dependency
  of the rpm-build package. A new RPM virtual provide has been added to the
  system-rpm-config package, which allows system-rpm-config to be required by
  rpm-build while still being able to be replaced by a third party package.
  (BZ#1199983)
  

Users of redhat-rpm-config 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.

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1199983 - redhat-rpm-config should provide system-rpm-config

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
x86_64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a
i386
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
x86_64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a
i386
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
x86_64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a
i386
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
s390x
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
ppc64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
x86_64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a01939e75b1a9a1cd8c8abda874366899f05b8d44705f11358894dcff07f30c2
x86_64
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a
i386
redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-44.el6.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 207ac93823dbb9b74ad5d0dc1bb2b1896031813c236028b3460f4ed9c4d2db6a