Topic

An update for anaconda is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The anaconda packages contain parts of the Anaconda installation program that allows reconfiguration and advanced installation options.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of anaconda are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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 Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 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 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 Scientific Computing 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 Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• 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 (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1269174 - Unable to identify DASD devices before formatting them with dasdfmt
• BZ - 1328576 - RFE: When a MAC address is provided in a network kickstart line, it should be written to the installed ifcfg file as the HWADDR
• BZ - 1378010 - RHVH 40: The help info show as RHEL during anaconda interactive installation.
• BZ - 1412159 - [RFE] Add directive to set the installclass from kickstart
• BZ - 1448459 - [RFE] yum timeout and retries should be configurable in kickstart file
• BZ - 1450922 - RFE: allow assigning mount points to existing block devices in text mode
• BZ - 1452873 - The timezone validity filter in anaconda rejects valid timezones that RHEL6 accepted
• BZ - 1459623 - Allow /var to be a mount point
• BZ - 1480523 - [anaconda] Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1481768 - [RFE] - increase size of atomicos/root LV
• BZ - 1496416 - Automated kickstart installation with GUI hangs on incomplete storage spoke (race condition).
• BZ - 1524785 - [RHEL-7.5] Unable to finish Network & Host Name settings in graphical initial-setup
• BZ - 1526450 - RFE: add firewall --use-system-defaults kickstart option
• BZ - 1534833 - Require kickstart/GUI spoke config option for certain security mitigations

CVEs

(none)

References