RHEA-2012:0669 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New aeolus-audrey-agent, open-vm-tools, vdsm-hook-floppyinject, python-httplib2,
facter, help2man, python-setuptools, python-oauth2, python-argparse, rhev-agent,
and libdnet package dependencies are now available for CloudForms 1.0.

Description

The following packages are dependencies for CloudForms 1.0:

• aeolus-audrey-agent: the Aeolus Audrey Startup Agent, a script which runs on a

booting cloud instance to retrieve configuration data from the Aeolus
Configuration Server.

• open-vm-tools: Open Virtual Machine Tools, an open source implementation of

VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components
that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

• vdsm-hook-floppyinject: allows for creating and mounting floppy disk for

Red-Hat VDSM.

• python-httplib2: a comprehensive HTTP client library that supports many

features left out of other HTTP libraries.

• facter: a Ruby module for collecting simple facts about a host operating

system.

• help2man: a script to create simple man pages from the "--help" and

"--version" output of programs.

• python-setuptools: a collection of enhancements to the Python distutils that

allow users to more easily build and distribute Python packages, especially ones
that have dependencies on other packages.

• python-oauth2: a Python support for the improved OAuth protocol.
• python-argparse: an Optparse-inspired command-line parser for Python.
• rhev-agent: a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Management agent running

inside a guest.

• libdnet: a simple portable interface to lowlevel networking routines.

This enhancement update adds new aeolus-audrey-agent, open-vm-tools,
vdsm-hook-floppyinject, python-httplib2, facter, help2man, python-setuptools,
python-oauth2, python-argparse, rhev-agent, and libdnet dependency packages to
CloudForms 1.0. (BZ#788085, BZ#800033)

All users requiring the aeolus-audrey-agent, open-vm-tools,
vdsm-hook-floppyinject, python-httplib2, facter, help2man, python-setuptools,
python-oauth2, python-argparse, rhev-agent, and libdnet package dependencies
should install these newly released packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 788085 - open-vm-tools does not install on RHEL 5.7
• BZ - 800033 - aeolus-audrey-agent should ship as part of CloudForms 1.0.0
• BZ - 800251 - Instance launched with http service (through configserver )doesn't allow to ssh into ec2 instance
• BZ - 802877 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build open-vm-tools-8.8.0-5.el5
• BZ - 805151 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build open-vm-tools-8.8.0-5.el5
• BZ - 805154 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build aeolus-audrey-agent-0.4.4-4.el5
• BZ - 805155 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build aeolus-audrey-agent-0.4.4-4.el6
• BZ - 805508 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build libdnet-1.12-9.el5
• BZ - 805510 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build libdnet-1.12-9.el6
• BZ - 805511 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build vdsm-hook-floppyinject-1.0-6.el6
• BZ - 805512 - Rpmdiff failure(s) for build rhev-agent-2.3.16-3.el5

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)