RHEA-2016:2619 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated redhat-upgrade-tool package that fixes one bug and adds one enhancement is now available for the Extras channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Red Hat Upgrade Tool is used for performing an in-place upgrade of your current system to the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It determines what packages are needed for the upgrade and gathers them from the source or sources given. It also fetches and sets up the boot images needed to run the upgrade and sets up the system to perform the upgrade on the next system boot. Running the Red Hat Upgrade Tool requires running the Preupgrade Assistant as a prerequisite.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the Red Hat Upgrade Tool failed, because it was not able to import GPG keys of packages to be downloaded and installed during the upgrade without the user's acknowledgment. Now, the tool prompts the user to acknowledge importing the required keys, and it no longer fails. (BZ#1150029)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, the Red Hat Upgrade Tool failed if there was an "include=<URL>" statement in a .repo file in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. With this update, the statement is supported and the repository file with the "include=<URL>" statement is processed correctly. (BZ#1270223)

Users of redhat-upgrade-tool are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug and add this enhancement.

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1270223 - [redhat-upgrade-tool] xccdf_preupg_rule_system_repositories_check doesn't like 'include' in repo files
• BZ - 1303982 - PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"

CVEs

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References

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