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Bug 1234787

Summary:	Wrong number of security updates listed by yum
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Matteo Corti <matteo>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Valentina Mukhamedzhanova <vmukhame>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.6	CC:	bugzilla.redhat.com, james.antill, ksrot, matteo
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Description Matteo Corti 2015-06-23 09:00:34 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

yum-3.2.29-60.el6.noarch

How reproducible:

yum --security  check-update

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum --security  check-update

Actual results:

Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, rhnplugin, security
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Limiting package lists to security relevant ones
No packages needed for security; 7 packages available

mysql-libs.i686                                  5.1.73-5.el6_6                                   rhel-x86_64-server-6

Expected results:

If mysql-libs.i686 is a security update: the text should not be "No packages needed for security" but should be "1 package needed for security"

If mysql-libs.i686 is not a security update: mysql-libs.i686 should not be listed

Additional info:

Comment 2 Karel Srot 2015-09-09 08:24:37 UTC

Hello,
could you please list all mysql package versions you have installed on the system? Isn't it possible that you already have an updated x86_64 version of the package installed (which would be is strange though).

# rpm -qa | grep mysql

Comment 3 Matt Probert 2015-09-09 08:35:57 UTC

I observe the same thing.  Granted I am in a downstream distro, but I can confirm the bug.  For anyone using nagios to monitor their servers, this breaks check_updates if you are trying to alert on security updates only.

Note in the below output:
"No packages needed for security; 22 packages available"

Yet 7 specific packages are listed.

This is new feature/bug.




[root@monitor-02 ~]# yum check-updates --security
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, security
No such command: check-updates. Please use /usr/bin/yum --help
[root@monitor-02 ~]# yum check-update --security
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, security
Determining fastest mirrors
epel/metalink                                                                                              |  25 kB     00:00
 * atomic: mirror1.34sp.com
 * base: ftp.heanet.ie
 * epel: mirror1.babylon.network
 * extras: ftp.heanet.ie
 * updates: ftp.heanet.ie
atomic                                                                                                     | 3.4 kB     00:00
atomic/primary_db                                                                                          | 787 kB     00:00
base                                                                                                       | 3.7 kB     00:00
epel                                                                                                       | 4.3 kB     00:00
epel/primary_db                                                                                            | 5.7 MB     00:00
extras                                                                                                     | 3.4 kB     00:00
extras/primary_db                                                                                          |  27 kB     00:00
sensu                                                                                                      |  951 B     00:00
sensu/primary                                                                                              |  33 kB     00:00
sensu                                                                                                                       75/75
updates                                                                                                    | 3.4 kB     00:00
updates/primary_db                                                                                         | 1.3 MB     00:00
Limiting package lists to security relevant ones
epel/updateinfo                                                                                            | 698 kB     00:00
No packages needed for security; 22 packages available

bind-libs.i686                                                  32:9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.4                                  updates
device-mapper-libs.i686                                         1.02.95-3.el6_7.2                                          updates
libXfont.i686                                                   1.4.5-5.el6_7                                              updates
nss-softokn.i686                                                3.14.3-23.el6_7                                            updates
pam.i686                                                        1.1.1-20.el6_7.1                                           updates
selinux-policy.noarch                                           3.7.19-279.el6_7.4                                         updates
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch                                  3.7.19-279.el6_7.4                                         updates
[root@monitor-02 ~]#

Comment 4 Karel Srot 2015-09-10 07:40:26 UTC

I can confirm the bug. FYI, mysql-5.1.73-5.el6_6 was not a security update, still it is listed. yum updateinfo --security doesn't seem to have this behaviour.

Comment 5 Karel Srot 2015-09-10 07:58:06 UTC

This is a regression introduced by patch BZ-967121-remove_transaction.patch

Comment 7 Karel Srot 2015-09-14 06:34:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1191313 ***