Issued:

2013-09-30

Updated:

2013-09-30

RHBA-2013:1327 - yum-rhn-plugin bug fix update

Synopsis

yum-rhn-plugin bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The yum-rhn-plugin package allows the Yum package manager to access content from Red Hat Network (RHN).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, applying automatic updates with the yum-rhn-plugin utility on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system could fail with an "empty transaction" error message. This was because the cached version of yum-rhn-plugin metadata was not up-to-date. With this update, yum-rhn-plugin downloads new metadata if available, ensuring that all packages are available for download. (BZ#853799)

• Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy did not work properly if separated from a parent by a slow network. Consequently, users who attempted to download larger repodata files and RPM packages experienced timeouts. This update changes both RHN Proxy and Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHN Client to allow all communications to honor a configured timeout value for connections. (BZ#951592)

• Scheduled package installation actions failed if the package was already installed. This caused dependent actions to fail to execute, such as configuration deployments, which in turn lead to the failure of automated installation using kickstart. This update ensures that a package installation action does not fail if the package is already installed. (BZ#845241)

Users of yum-rhn-plugin are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4.1-7.el5.src.rpm
• yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4.1-7.el5.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

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References

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Additional information

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