RHBA-2020:1823 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for yum is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1658565 - yum in podman container fails with: Cannot rename directory
• BZ - 1676891 - RFE to allow for better stats gathering
• BZ - 1677253 - Provide a way of removing all packages belonging to a stream
• BZ - 1678588 - Net install should retry package download if it fails, and not just give up
• BZ - 1679213 - yum-config-manager --enable/--disable without arguments is ambiguous
• BZ - 1680482 - dnf update alias from man page doesn't work
• BZ - 1680488 - dnf alias infinite recursion processing
• BZ - 1680489 - dnf alias does not define order of alias config files
• BZ - 1686602 - [RFE] Add the "--urls" option for RHEL 8 reposync.
• BZ - 1690894 - dnf download does not re-download damaged .rpm
• BZ - 1696204 - dnf should enable parent-required-modules if user specify exact module version to install. Or print missing installed modules.
• BZ - 1706382 - Group subcommand should support listing IDs
• BZ - 1706386 - [RFE] Discoverable man page names for DNF plugins
• BZ - 1709563 - yum operations on disabled appstreams should have more targeted error messages
• BZ - 1713627 - dnf exits with "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'xxx'" without further details
• BZ - 1716067 - Software package listing and updates fail due to error: "Cannot update read-only repo"
• BZ - 1717865 - pkcon download from file:// repository does not work
• BZ - 1719679 - Module is marked as installed even if the rpm transaction check failed
• BZ - 1721091 - yum doesn't read config file via http any more
• BZ - 1726712 - Versionlock plugin not allowing upgrades from previous
• BZ - 1727853 - dnf download ignores destdir argument for some packages
• BZ - 1728004 - dnf updateinfo shows kernel errata as available when the older kernel is still installed.
• BZ - 1728252 - dnf should not take buildtime into account when upgrading packages
• BZ - 1730162 - "dnf module reset" will clear the "install" information
• BZ - 1733233 - [abrt] [faf] PackageKit: unknown function(): /usr/libexec/packagekitd killed by 11
• BZ - 1734081 - No way to ignore "is excluded" packages
• BZ - 1734394 - [abrt] [faf] PackageKit: libdnf::repoGetImpl(libdnf::Repo*)(): /usr/libexec/packagekitd killed by 11
• BZ - 1738837 - man dnf.conf mentions best=False as default
• BZ - 1744073 - dnf repoquery --querytags doesn't work
• BZ - 1746562 - dnf-automatic (and dnf list) ignores versionlock
• BZ - 1748841 - dnf: Bad id for repo when dnf variables are used inside repoid field of repo file
• BZ - 1750528 - "yum updateinfo list cves" does not list cves
• BZ - 1750620 - dnf check-update not honouring versionlock
• BZ - 1752363 - Rebase libdnf to >= 0.35.3
• BZ - 1752364 - Rebase dnf to >= 4.2.9
• BZ - 1752365 - Rebase dnf-plugins-core to >= 4.0.9
• BZ - 1753970 - /var/log/dnf.rpm.log contains duplicate entries
• BZ - 1754463 - dnf-plugins-core package does not verify
• BZ - 1754609 - Modify default dnf-automatic unit timers
• BZ - 1756382 - [libdnf] PackageKit's DNF backend doesn't apply all variable substitutions.
• BZ - 1756473 - dnf: package is excluded without explanation
• BZ - 1758447 - dnf module disable <module:stream> disables all streams
• BZ - 1759847 - command `dnf downgrade pkg` emits Error: No packages marked for downgrade
• BZ - 1761773 - DNF dumps core (SIGABRT) due to not handling the NoModuleException
• BZ - 1762314 - Not enabling module deps when installing a pkg
• BZ - 1763663 - Double logging when downloading repository metadata
• BZ - 1772953 - Anaconda leaves server-with-gui installs in inconsistent state: "yum search" warns "nothing provides module(perl:5.26)"
• BZ - 1773436 - dnf update no longer sorts the list of rpms being updated.
• BZ - 1773483 - The dnf shell will fail to load multiple transactions when using locally downloaded packages.
• BZ - 1774103 - The '--delete' option when used with reposync command deletes the packages immediately after download.
• BZ - 1774670 - dnf remove --oldinstallonly does not remove old kernels
• BZ - 1775434 - reposync does not properly sync modules with --newest option
• BZ - 1780083 - [RFE] Break apart the dnf timers from the core dnf package and make them as an option install reducing UBI bloat.
• BZ - 1780370 - versionlock plugin prevents installed packages being removed
• BZ - 1781086 - dnf update print lot of errors and traceback when run under regular user
• BZ - 1781360 - dnf.Base.close() does not close hawkey.log filedescriptor
• BZ - 1781601 - yum repolist does not list all repos when running from initscript/unit file
• BZ - 1781769 - Dnf does not correctly detect the latest version of the module stream
• BZ - 1782530 - reposync does not honor --exclude or --include from repository's configuration
• BZ - 1784148 - dnf deplist is not returning linux-firmware dependency
• BZ - 1786072 - "Include=" option to include configuration from urls absent in dnf
• BZ - 1787637 - Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo
• BZ - 1788212 - Packages installed via DNF Python api are not logged to /var/log/dnf.rpm.log or /var/log/dnf.log
• BZ - 1788574 - [RFE] DNF Support post-transaction actions (plugin)
• BZ - 1793950 - dnf shows different package count for appstream repository than what is specified in the repository metadata
• BZ - 1794644 - dnf upgrade --security does not install all available security updates
• BZ - 1794856 - DNF sometimes produces hard to parse/hard to read output when not running in an interactive terminal

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index