Issued:

2011-05-19

Updated:

2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0662 - pykickstart bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

pykickstart bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated pykickstart package that fixes several bugs and adds a number of enhancements is now available.

Description

The pykickstart package is a python library used to manipulate kickstart files.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

• The ksflatten tool included with pykickstart erroneously output any %include statements along with the content included by these statements. The original %include statements are now removed when the referenced content is included. (BZ#668050)

• The documentation included in pykickstart was not referenced correctly, so no information was available to users. This has been corrected and useful documentation is now included. (No BZ#)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

• The bootloader command now takes an additional "--iscrypted" option. Since GRUB supports multiple encryption mechanisms and can automatically detect which to use based on the encrypted password, this new option should be used whenever an encrypted password is provided. This takes the place of the previous "--md5pass=" option. (BZ#554870)

• The "url" and "repo" commands now take an additional "--noverifyssl" option. Use this option to prevent anaconda from checking the validity of the SSL certificate of your source when using HTTPS. (BZ#660340)

• Three new network options have been added to pykickstart: "--activate", "--nodefroute", and "--bootproto=ibft". These enable users to install to iSCSI target systems that use a network card other than the system's network configuration. (BZ#668417)

All users of pykickstart are advised to upgrade to this 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.

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 This content is not included.http://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• pykickstart-1.74.5-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• pykickstart-1.74.5-1.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 668050
• This content is not included.BZ - 668417

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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