yum update or yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk fails with "Error: Package: 1:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.201.b09-1.el6_10.x86_64 Requires: pcsc-lite-devel(x86-64)"

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 yum update or yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk fails with:

  Error: Package: 1:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.201.b09-1.el6_10.x86_64 (rhel-6-server-rpms)
             Requires: pcsc-lite-devel(x86-64)
  

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 yum update or yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk fails with:

  Error: Package: 1:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.201.b09-0.el7_6.x86_64 (rhel-7-server-rpms)
             Requires: pcsc-lite-devel(x86-64)
  

Resolution

• New Erratas have been released which resolve this issue.

RHEL 7: RHBA-2019:0452 - Bug Fix Advisory
RHEL 6: RHBA-2019:0479 - Bug Fix Advisory

• If you are registered with a local repository, Satellite or RHUI, make sure the content is synced to the latest version.
• For Red Hat Satellite, one should not enable the optional repository. Please see Upgrading Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with dependency error for pcsc-lite-devel package, how to fix it?.
• Clear any existing cache for registered clients and update:

# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/
# yum clean all

Root Cause

• java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.201.b09-1.el6_10 was published in RHSA-2019:0416
• java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.201.b09-0.el7_6 was published in RHSA-2019:0435

Both of the above packages have a new dependency on pcsc-lite-devel.x86-64, which is only supplied through RHEL optional repositories.

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