RHBA-2015:1384 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yum package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install
updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically,
prompting the user for permission as necessary.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Yum has been updated to detect severity conflicts in the updateinfo.xml file.

(BZ#893994)

• Previously, the "yum grouplist" command terminated unexpectedly with the

"ValueError: unknown locale" message when a user-defined locale was specified on
the system. With this update, "yum grouplist" has been modified to correctly
process user-defined locale files, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#905100)

• Under certain circumstances, when attempting to install locally stored

packages, yum terminated with the following message:

ValueError: your.rpm has no attribute basepath

This bug has been fixed, and yum now installs local packages as expected.
(BZ#1016148)

• Yum has been modified to properly notify the user if there is not enough space

for the installed package in the installation destination. Now, the space
required for the package is displayed correctly in MB or KB. (BZ#1051931)

• Prior to this update, yum did not show the echo output from the %postun RPM

scriplet during package removal. This bug has been fixed, and the output is now
displayed correctly. (BZ#1076076)

• Previously, the yum-plugin-downloadonly plug-in returned exit code 1 even when

it executed successfully. The functionality of the plug-in has been incorporated
into yum as the "--downloadonly" option. The "yum --downloadonly" command now
returns the correct exit code on success. (BZ#1144503)

• The yum-plugin-security plug-in did not show any advisory if the architecture

of the updated package changed. This bug has been fixed, and yum-plugin-security
now works as expected. (BZ#1171543)

• Prior to this update, when epoch was defined in the rpm specification file of

the kernel package, yum removed the running kernel package after updating. This
bug has been fixed, and the running kernel is no longer removed in the described
case. (BZ#1200159)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• The "--exclude" option has been enhanced to exclude the already installed

packages. (BZ#1154076)

• The "yum check" command has been enhanced to execute faster. (BZ#1136212)
• The "--assumeno" option has been backported to the yum package. (BZ#1174612)

Users of yum are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these
bugs and adds these enhancements.

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 Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 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 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 Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 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 - 887407 - UpdateNotice.xml() will render bad XML if an errata spans more than 1 collection
• BZ - 893994 - detect severity conflicts in updateinfo.xml
• BZ - 905100 - yum grouplist fails when customized locale in use
• BZ - 952291 - --distro param truncates tag string
• BZ - 1016148 - yum localinstall throws: ValueError: <any rpm> has no attribute basepath
• BZ - 1136212 - yum check execution takes extremely long time
• BZ - 1144503 - yum-plugin-downloadonly exists with error code 1 on success
• BZ - 1155994 - yum: history.py:1440:search:AssertionError
• BZ - 1165783 - OSError: [Errno 20] yum update -y
• BZ - 1174612 - RFE: backport --assumeno option to yum
• BZ - 1181847 - yum distro-sync full fails with backtrace

CVEs

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References

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