RHBA-2018:2174 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spacewalk-schema and spacewalk-backend packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0.

Description

Red Hat Satellite provides a solution to organizations requiring absolute control over and privacy of the maintenance and package deployment of their servers. It allows organizations to utilize the benefits of Red Hat Network (RHN) without having to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0 can be upgraded to from earlier releases.

Bug fixes:

• Packages can have the same NEVRA but be signed by beta or release signing keys and therefore have different checksums. Previously, cdn-sync failed to link packages to channels when there were multiple packages with the same NEVRA but different checksums. This behavior has been fixed. (BZ#1574437)
• Previously, in rare cases, database schema upgrade from satellite-schema-5.8.0.38 or satellite-schema-5.8.0.40 failed because the upgrade did not detect the correct original record. This has been corrected. (BZ#1576002)
• Previously, satellite-sync did not update the repomd.xml file when only comps.xml or modules.yaml changed. Consequently, a client would not download the whole repository. This has been corrected. (BZ#1576775)

Solution

Application of this errata involves updating the database schema.

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To apply this erratum, take the following steps:

• Shut down Red Hat Satellite by running the following command as root:

rhn-satellite stop

• Backup the database. For embedded or managed database variants, please consult Red Hat Satellite 5.8 documentation. For an external database, consult your database administrator.
• Upgrade the errata packages. Details on how to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258
• Update the database schema using the spacewalk-schema-upgrade command. To do so, run as root:

spacewalk-schema-upgrade

This process will update your database schema to the latest version. The
spacewalk-schema-upgrade command will inform you about the results of the
upgrade and exact locations of schema upgrade log files.

• Restart Red Hat Satellite by running the following as root:

rhn-satellite start

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1576002 - Satellite 5.8 Fails During schema upgrade to 5.8.0.42
• BZ - 1576775 - when comps.xml or modules.yaml changes (rest of repo unchanged), sat synces it but do not update repomd.xml

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/273633
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258