Bug Fix Advisory htdig bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:0291-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-03-11
Last updated on: 2009-09-02
Affected Products: RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated htdig packages that resolve several issues are now available.

The ht://Dig system is a complete World Wide Web indexing and searching
system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace
the need for powerful Internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek,
Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead, it is intended to cover the search needs
for a single company, campus, or even a particular subsection of a website.
As opposed to some WAIS-based or web server-based search engines, ht://Dig
can span several web servers at a site, as long as they understand the HTTP
1.0 protocol.

These updated htdig packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

* updating the htdig packages incorrectly removed configuration files,
which were written over with the original configuration files. This no
longer occurs with these updated packages.

* in cases where htdig attempted to run the parser configured in the
"external_parsers" attribute in the htdig.conf configuration file, and
running that parser failed, then htdig could attempt to parse its own error
messages. With this update, htdig is prevented from parsing data
incorrectly in such a manner, exits from such a situation correctly, and
displays an improved error message when running the external parser fails.

* running "htfuzzy soundex" after indexing with htdig resulted in spurious
error messages when the "allow_numbers" attribute of the htdig.conf
configuration file was set to set to true.

* calling either the "htstat" or "htfuzzy" command when the database
contained zero words resulted in a segmentation fault, which has been fixed
in these updated packages.

All users of htdig are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.


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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.src.rpm     9abcb679805b7e295cd65bfb391d0ea7
 
IA-32:
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm     726c70cafa052c837a696d16e4e6cc84
 
x86_64:
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm     96f8108e756d9c9889c8e4533034df3c
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.src.rpm     9abcb679805b7e295cd65bfb391d0ea7
 
IA-32:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm     ef1fee1e6a604f36c0c5bc09467fdf28
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm     726c70cafa052c837a696d16e4e6cc84
 
IA-64:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ia64.rpm     17d427f5b9098f1e63d713eb3d0f707e
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ia64.rpm     5dfb37a83eca809e3f38fa682f03b7ae
 
PPC:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ppc.rpm     81971bc7bcc04cbd958e4f05ae6f6cd1
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.ppc.rpm     74b6e9103ee6d79ed63a1633198416c6
 
s390x:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.s390x.rpm     946ea26ef9760d2b74918305bdc8c42f
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.s390x.rpm     b95c113d36f09103600850d2e0351b77
 
x86_64:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm     bfa547e3ca14d635776320ecd63dff63
htdig-web-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm     96f8108e756d9c9889c8e4533034df3c
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.src.rpm     9abcb679805b7e295cd65bfb391d0ea7
 
IA-32:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.i386.rpm     ef1fee1e6a604f36c0c5bc09467fdf28
 
x86_64:
htdig-3.2.0b6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm     bfa547e3ca14d635776320ecd63dff63
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

435741 - htdig doesn't give a proper error message when failing to execute external parser
435743 - htfuzzy soundex gives spurious error message when allow_numbers is true
459971 - missing (noreplace) in specfile


Keywords

htfuzzy, htstat, noreplace, parser


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