Issued:

2012-03-06

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0354 - createrepo bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

createrepo bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated createrepo package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

This package contains scripts that generate a common metadata repository from a directory of RPM packages.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the shebang line of the modifyrepo.py script contained "#!/usr/bin/env python", so the system path was used to locate the Python executable. When another version of Python was installed on the system, and "/usr/local/python" was specified in the PATH environment variable, scripts did not work due to Python compatibility problems. With this update, the shebang line is modified to "#!/usr/bin/python", so that the system version of Python is always used. (BZ#623105)

All users of createrepo 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

• createrepo-0.9.8-5.el6.noarch.rpm
• createrepo-0.9.8-5.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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