RHBA-2018:3724 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rhel-system-roles package that fixes several bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

The rhel-system-roles package includes a collection of Ansible roles and modules that provide a stable and consistent configuration interface for managing multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The network role has been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.1, which provides fixes of support of Ansible Engine 2.7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Beta, and improvements of the bundled documentation (README.md). (BZ#1645635)

This update also fixes two bugs:

• A bug in the support of ssh targets in the "kdump" role has been fixed. (BZ#1645633)
• Example playbooks for the "timesync" role were updated to match the recent changes of names of variables. (BZ#1642152).

Users of rhel-system-roles are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1642152 - timesync example playbooks are outdated
• BZ - 1645633 - kdump role fails when creating the kdump.conf file from a template
• BZ - 1645635 - rebase network role to latest upstream revision (F29, Ansible 2.7, doc fixes)

CVEs

(none)

References

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