RHBA-2015:1436 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mercurial packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Mercurial is a lightweight source control management system designed for
managing large distributed projects.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the "hg view" command failed with the "Permission denied" error

message. This update adds the required execute permission to the hgk utility. As
a result, running "hg view" works as expected. (BZ#784079)

• Running an SSL-encrypted "hg serve" command could previously cause the server

to rise an exception and tracebacks on every SSL connection attempt. As a
consequence, "hg serve" failed in this situation even though it worked as
expected without SSL. A patch has been applied to fix this bug. As a result,
running SSL-encrypted "hg serve" works, and the command displays the expected
output. (BZ#928301)

• Prior to this update, running the "hg copy -A" command did not add broken

symbolic links to a repository. The underlying source code has been modified to
use the os.patch.lexists() method. As a result, "hg copy -A" adds the broken
symbolic links as expected. (BZ#1006457)

Users of mercurial 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 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 6 i386
• 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 - 784079 - hg view is broken
• BZ - 1006457 - Mercurial doesn't add broken symlink when using "copy -A"

CVEs

(none)

References

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