Bug 2139089

Summary:	Error in glibc strptime()
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Benson Muite <benson_muite>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	glibc team <glibc-bugzilla>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.9	CC:	ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mnewsome, pfrankli, sipoyare
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2022-11-02 07:30:03 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Benson Muite 2022-11-01 12:01:56 UTC

When testing Apache Arrow on CentOS7 which is based on RHEL7, an error in strptime() causes a test to fail[1]. There is an appropriate patch[2]. Can this be backported?

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/glqnj435bd4nmtbmrkvrb4cp0mmbx9pw
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=cccc95f28ace0be4fe97537dbd867c08fbf71a8e

Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2022-11-02 07:30:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHEL 7 is currently in Maintenance Support 2 Phase.  According to our policy, “During […] Maintenance Support 2 Phase for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions […] 7, Red Hat defined Critical and Important impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected (at Red Hat discretion) Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. Other errata advisories may be delivered as appropriate.” Based on the available information, this bug does not qualify.

If you have further questions, please file a support ticket in Customer Portal: https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/