Scientific Linux SL5: Errata 14-44-25 Low Severity Yum Update

Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:44:25 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Low: yum on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Low: yum bugfix update
Issue date:	2009-07-14

This updated yum package fixes the following bugs:

* The nightly yum.cron will spew out alot of information during
the add-ons section. The logging level for these information
messages was turned up so that it doesn't happen during yum.cron

* The kernel-module plugin now detects when yum has chosen a
kernel-module for a kernel not installed. It will put the
correct kernel-module on the list to be installed, and remove
the poorly choosen kernel-module from the installation list.

For SL 50 and 51 machines the following features have been added

* installonlyn is not a plugin but built into yum. To turn this
feature off, put the following line in /etc/yum.conf
 installonly_limit = 0

The following default setting has been changed

* installonlyn defaults to 4 instead of 3

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
yum-3.2.19-25.sl.src.rpm
 i386:
yum-3.2.19-25.sl.noarch.rpm
 x86_64:
yum-3.2.19-25.sl.noarch.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson