Issued:

2011-08-23

Updated:

2011-08-23

RHBA-2011:1198 - yum-rhn-plugin bug fix update

Synopsis

yum-rhn-plugin bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated yum-rhn-plugin package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The yum-rhn-plugin package provides rhnplugin, a plug-in that allows Yum to access a Red Hat Network server for software updates.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, rhnplugin always downloaded all available repository metadata, including the filelist.xml and others.xml files, which are not required for regular Yum transactions. To prevent unnecessary disk space consumption, this update adapts rhnplugin to download only the metadata required for a particular Yum transaction. (BZ#732427)

All users of yum-rhn-plugin are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5_7.1.noarch.rpm
• yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5_7.1.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 732427

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.