RHBA-2021:0342 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The patchutils packages provide a collection of programs that can
manipulate patch files in a variety of ways, such as interpolating between
two pre-patches, combining two incremental patches, fixing line numbers in
hand-edited patches, and simply listing the files modified by a patch.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• filterdiff not removing the header from excluded files in a git patch

(BZ#1905282)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 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 Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1905282 - filterdiff not removing the header from excluded files in a git patch

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)