On 20/08/15 17:42, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 11:37 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> There are several relevant bugzillas for the redhat-rpm-config
>> 'security' update, but probably the most relevant one is 1122100 (
>> direct link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122100 ).
>> This is upstream of SL, and apparently it is intentional, and so
>> you'll need to file a bugzilla with redhat (or continue use the
>> workaround you already found).
>
> Replying to myself for the sake of archiving the information...... I
> found the link to this BZ by following BZ#1199983, which is mentioned in
> the 'Technical Notes' for 6.7 (specifically 7.178. redhat-rpm-config),
> and so the addition of redhat-rpm-config to the requirements for
> rpm-build is documented in the upstream release notes.


Further archiving of information: the erratum is mentioned here:

	https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1396.html

Cheers,

Paul.