Bug 995969
Summary: | Failure of rpmReadConfigFiles() api. | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Satya Shendige <satya.shendige> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 5.8 | CC: | adaora.onyia, ctatman, ffesti, jshortt, pmatilai, satya.shendige |
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2013-12-17 13:12:39 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: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 883145 |
Description
Satya Shendige
2013-08-12 05:25:48 UTC
redhat-rpm-config is mere configuration data, actual functionality is in rpm itself -> switching component. The issue is likely to be the two components fighting over global NSS context, which was the only possibility back when rpm started using NSS. These days (since version 3.2.15) NSS supports private contexts which can be used to fix the issue in either involved component, and newer rpm versions take advantage of this already (see bug 871485). Whether this qualifies as critical enough to considering fixing in rhel-5 at this point is an entirely different question however. We are currently not planning to port the enhancement mentioned in comment #1 back to RHEL 5. Please escalate the issue through your support contact in case this is important for you. But be aware that the over all number of packages and bugs that can be addressed in the update are limited and this issue might be seen as an RFE which have very little chances of being accepted. |