RHBA-2019:2384 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated loxrax-composer packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for the Extras channel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The lorax-composer package enables using existing Lorax tooling using the new Composer workflows. You can use both the command-line tools and the Cockpit user interface.

This update includes the following bug fixes and enhancements:

• Backport cloud image support from RHEL8 version of lorax-composer (BZ#1656105)
• lorax-composer's recovery from disk full needs work (BZ#1657054)
• lorax-composer: Multiple arches results in duplicate module/package entries (BZ#1657055)
• Not enough free space left on install.img for x86_64 (BZ#1664128)
• lorax-composer fails to setup users if [customizations] hostname=foo.bar is used in a recipe (BZ#1666517)
• test_build_and_deploy_azure.sh - allow easier cleanup of Azure resources (BZ#1673012)
• You can start a compose using a deleted blueprint (BZ#1683442)
• Composer needs a way to disable SMT in created images (BZ#1688335)
• Enable CDN access from kickstart files (BZ#1701033)
• [test-suite] Use a common helper function to execute generic tests (BZ#1704209)
• Live-ISO / qcow2 test [ FAIL ] :: networking not brought up inside VM preventing tests from executing (BZ#1710877)

Users of loxrax-composer are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1656105 - Backport cloud image support from RHEL8 version of lorax-composer
• BZ - 1657055 - lorax-composer: Multiple arches results in duplicate module/package entries
• BZ - 1666517 - lorax-composer fails to setup users if [customizations] hostname=foo.bar is used in a recipe
• BZ - 1673012 - test_build_and_deploy_azure.sh - allow easier cleanup of Azure resources
• BZ - 1683442 - You can start a compose using a deleted blueprint
• BZ - 1688335 - Composer needs a way to disable SMT in created images
• BZ - 1701033 - Enable CDN access from kickstart files
• BZ - 1704209 - [test-suite] Use a common helper function to execute generic tests

CVEs

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References

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