Bug 695427 - Add warning for cert. files with the same basename
Summary: Add warning for cert. files with the same basename
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: James Antill
QA Contact: Karel Srot
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-11 17:29 UTC by James Antill
Modified: 2014-01-21 06:20 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, users were not notified that different certificate files with the same basename are treated as identical, which could lead to all sorts of problems. With this update, yum checks certificate files for such duplicates and displays an error message appropriately.
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Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:34:22 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0602 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE yum bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-19 09:37:29 UTC

Description James Antill 2011-04-11 17:29:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

 This is due to the problems in curl/pycurl mentioned in 694294. We're just going to add a warning to yum, and something to the man page explaining it.
 This is needed for 6.1 due to rhsm.
Comment 1 James Antill 2011-04-11 18:41:26 UTC 
Change is done, waiting for ACKs so I can build.
Comment 8 Tomas Capek 2011-05-17 11:57:31 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
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Previously, users were not notified that different certificate files with the same basename are treated as identical, which could lead to all sorts of problems. With this update, yum checks certificate files for such duplicates and displays an error message appropriately.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:34:22 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/RHBA-2011-0602.html
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