RHBA-2015:1452 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix several bugs and add two enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system
capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software
packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The output of the %posttrans scriptlet was not correctly displayed to the

user, which could lead to important errors being ignored. This update introduces
a new API that collects the output from the %posttrans scriptlet. As a result,
the yum utility can now access the %posttrans output, and displays it to the
user. (BZ#606239)

• Although the RPM Package Manager does not support packages with files larger

than 4 GB, the rpm utility allowed creating source packages where individual
files exceeded 4 GB. The installation of such packages then failed with a
"Digest mismatch" error. Now, rpm no longer allows the creation of such
packages, which in turn prevents the described installation failure. (BZ#833427)

• On certain architectures, the value of the "LONGSIZE" tag was displayed

incorrectly. This update ensures that on these architectures, the value of
"LONGSIZE" is converted to the native byte order correctly, and that it is
therefore displayed correctly. (BZ#1040318)

• The behavior of the file mode and directory mode parameters for the %defattr

directive was changed in a prior update, which caused building packages that
still expected the previous behavior to fail or to experience problems. The
directive has been reverted to the previous behavior, and a warning about the
potential problems with %defattr has been added to the "rpmbuild" command.
(BZ#997774)

• If the standard output of the rpm utility was redirected to a file and the

file system was full, rpm failed without writing any error messages. Now, rpm
prints an error message as a standard error output if the described scenario
occurs. (BZ#1139805)

• The rpm utility was unable to download and install packages the remote

locations of which were specified with an IPv6 address and a specific path
format. Now, rpm automatically uses the "--globoff" option with IPv6 addresses,
which turns off cURL globbing, and allows packages to be properly downloaded and
installed in the described scenario. (BZ#1076277)

• If a Perl script in a package contained a string declared as a here-document

that included the "use" or "require" words, or a multiline string with these
words, the package in some cases had incorrect dependencies when it was created
using the "rpmbuild" command. Now, the "use" and "require" strings are ignored
as keywords in here-documents and multiline strings, which prevents the problem
from occurring. (BZ#921969, BZ#1024517)

• Previously, build scriptlets using the pipe character ("|") in some cases

failed. This update properly sets the default handling of the SIGPIPE signal in
build scriptlets, thus fixing the bug. (BZ#993868)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• The OrderWithRequires feature has been added to the RPM Package Manager, which

provides the new OrderWithRequires package tag. If a package specified in
OrderWithRequires is present in a package transaction, it is installed before
the package with the corresponding OrderWithRequires tag is installed. However,
unlike the Requires package tag, OrderWithRequires does not generate additional
dependencies, so if the package specified in the tag is not present in the
transaction, it is not downloaded. (BZ#760793)

• The %power64 macro has been added to the rpm packages. This macro can be used

to specify any or all 64-bit PowerPC architectures in RPM spec files by using
the "%{power64}" string. (BZ#1178083)

Users of rpm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add these enhancements. All running applications linked against the RPM
library must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• 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 (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 606239 - Need rpm API to collect scriptlet output from %posttrans
• BZ - 760793 - backport the OrderWithRequires feature to RPM
• BZ - 833427 - error: unpacking of archive failed on file ... cpio: Digest mismatch
• BZ - 903009 - .debug_line CU does not fit into section
• BZ - 921969 - rpmbuild should leave PKG_CONFIG_PATH alone
• BZ - 997774 - %defattr(755,root,root) no longer applies to directories
• BZ - 1024517 - perl.req returns wrong set of required modules due parsing bug
• BZ - 1026750 - perl.req produces bogus dependencies
• BZ - 1076277 - rpm do not support ipv6 on RHEL6.5
• BZ - 1122100 - rpm-build does not require redhat-rpm-config
• BZ - 1139805 - rpm badly handles failed write() to stdout
• BZ - 1170124 - rpm install not always keep the native architecture of the machine in multilib environment

CVEs

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References

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