Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1436 - mercurial bug fix update

Synopsis

mercurial bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mercurial packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Mercurial is a lightweight source control management system designed for managing large distributed projects.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the "hg view" command failed with the "Permission denied" error message. This update adds the required execute permission to the hgk utility. As a result, running "hg view" works as expected. (BZ#784079)

  • Running an SSL-encrypted "hg serve" command could previously cause the server to rise an exception and tracebacks on every SSL connection attempt. As a consequence, "hg serve" failed in this situation even though it worked as expected without SSL. A patch has been applied to fix this bug. As a result, running SSL-encrypted "hg serve" works, and the command displays the expected output. (BZ#928301)

  • Prior to this update, running the "hg copy -A" command did not add broken symbolic links to a repository. The underlying source code has been modified to use the os.patch.lexists() method. As a result, "hg copy -A" adds the broken symbolic links as expected. (BZ#1006457)

Users of mercurial 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • mercurial-hgk-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-1.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-el-1.4-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mercurial-debuginfo-1.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-el-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mercurial-debuginfo-1.4-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mercurial-hgk-1.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-1.4-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mercurial-hgk-1.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • mercurial-1.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-1.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mercurial-1.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mercurial-1.4-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mercurial-hgk-1.4-4.el6.s390x.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-el-1.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mercurial-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mercurial-1.4-4.el6.src.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • emacs-mercurial-el-1.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
  • mercurial-debuginfo-1.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mercurial-debuginfo-1.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information