Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0061 - rpm bug fix update

Synopsis

rpm bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • RPM treated systems which were using Geode processors as compatible with the i686 architecture. Consequently, installation of i686 packages failed on this systems. This compatibility issue has been resolved by setting the architecture to i686, and installation of the i686 architecture packages works as expected. (BZ#620570)

  • Previously, the Japanese version of the rpm(8) manual page contained multiple typos. This update corrects those typos. (BZ#760552)

  • The Python bindings provided by the rpm-python package incorrectly added a new line character at the end of the group tag when retrieving it from a Python program. This bug has been fixed and the tag is now returned unaltered. (BZ#783451)

  • Due to the lack of DWARF 3 and 4 format support, the rpmbuild utility was not able to produce usable debug packages with newer compilers. This update adds the required support for the debugedit utility to RPM, and DWARF 3 and 4 formats are now supported as expected. (BZ#808547)

  • The "freshen" (rpm -F/--freshen) operation did not consider the architecture the packages were built for when selecting update candidates, which caused either misleading error messages or packages being updated to a different architecture inappropriately on multilib systems. RPM now requires an exact architecture match between packages on multilib systems to perform the freshen operation. (BZ#813282)

  • Descriptions of the "--define" and "--eval" parameters were missing in the rpm(8) manual page. This update adds these missing descriptions. (BZ#814602)

All users of RPM are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390.rpm
  • rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-4.4.2.3-31.el5.src.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • rpm-debuginfo-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ppc.rpm
  • rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.s390x.rpm
  • rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • rpm-build-4.4.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.s390.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.ia64.rpm
  • rpm-python-4.4.2.3-31.el5.i386.rpm
  • popt-1.10.2.3-31.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information