Bug 499079

Summary:	Bad EVR
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Component:	java-1.6.0-openjdk	Assignee:	Lillian Angel <langel>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	bressers, dennis, dgilmore, dgregor, langel, lkundrak, mastahnke, mishu, mjw, noa, patrickm, rbiba, rdieter, syeghiay, thoger
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OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	498967	Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-08-06 21:15:12 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	504189

Description Lubomir Rintel 2009-05-05 06:27:01 UTC

Your initial EVR was smaller than one of EPEL packages. Needless to say, the EPEL package is EOL-ed, is unsupported by you and doesn't get regularly updated for security fixes anymore.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #498967 +++

RHEL contains java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.30.b09.el5 which contains recent security patches, but EPEL contains java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2, which is newer according to yum, but hasn't been updated since October last year.

Comment 1 Noa Resare 2009-05-20 14:04:25 UTC

For all you bugzilla lurkers out there, a band aid solution to this repository incompatibility is to add

exclude=java-1.6.0*

to the [epel] segment of your /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

Comment 2 Michael Stahnke 2009-06-05 14:38:29 UTC

Ping?  This is a real problem and RH should release a new package with a new NVR to fix it.  The EPEL community has tried to communicate and work with RH here. 

Please advise.

Comment 3 Lillian Angel 2009-06-08 17:06:19 UTC

it will be fixed with the next update.

Comment 4 Dennis Gilmore 2009-07-01 19:43:01 UTC

Lillian according to the list of packages in 5.4 beta this is not fixed.  Please make it fixed.

Comment 5 Dennis Gilmore 2009-07-01 19:57:24 UTC

This needs fixing in 5.4  and can not wait for 5.5 its been broken since 5.3 was released. It poses a real security risk for users who have the epel package installed.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-06 21:15:12 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1201.html

Comment 14 Noa Resare 2009-08-10 08:45:46 UTC

I can confirm that this issue is resolved with the java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5 errata package (Advisory RHSA-2009:1201-1)

This means that there is no longer any need for the exclude line in epel.repo