RHBA-2012:0911 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated redhat-rpm-config package that fixes several bugs and adds an
enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The redhat-rpm-config package is used during building of RPM packages to apply
various default distribution options determined by Red Hat. It also provides a
few Red Hat RPM macro customizations, such as those used during the building of
Driver Update packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the %kernel_module_package macro did not handle the "-v" and "-r"

optional version and release override parameters correctly. Consequently, the
specified version and release number were not used when the RPM package was
built. This bug has been fixed and these parameters are now handled properly.
(BZ#680029)

• Previously, a script, which generates "modalias"-style dependencies for Driver

Update packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, was not executable and thus could
not function properly. This bug has been fixed and these dependencies are now
generated as expected. (BZ#713638)

• When the kabi-whitelists package is installed, the %kernel_module_package

macro did not automatically perform a check against the Red Hat kernel ABI
interface (kABI). Consequently, when a package was being built, the macro did
not warn when the resulting modules used kernel symbols that were exported but
not part of the kABI. With this update, the abi_check.py script has been added
to perform the check and return a warning during the build process if
kabi-whitelists is not installed, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#713992)

• In certain cases, the dependency-generation scripts that produce information

about automatic kernel symbol during the build process of a Driver Update
package generated incorrect dependencies. This bug has been fixed and
dependencies are now generated correctly. (BZ#767738)

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The path of the autoconf configuration script invoked by the %configure macro

can now be customized by overriding the %_configure macro. In addition, this can
be of use when building out-of-tree packages. (BZ#652084)

Users of redhat-rpm-config are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes these bugs and adds this enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 767738 - redhat-rpm-config-9.0.3-34.el6 in RHEL-6.2 introduces bogus ksym Requires when building some packages on RHEL-6.2

CVEs

(none)

References

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