RHBA-2020:1028 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1520383 - Subscription-manager logs too much data into INFO level
• BZ - 1625571 - Man page of rhsm.conf needs to be updated on proxy_port section
• BZ - 1702239 - Syspurpose command shows Python traceback, when locale is not supported
• BZ - 1703054 - subscription-manager register fails under LANG=fr_FR.iso88591
• BZ - 1705017 - Document --installed as default behaviour for the list option of subscription-manager command
• BZ - 1723803 - [RFE] System Purpose Status needs a list of reasons to explain why it is "Mismatched"
• BZ - 1724712 - System Type on "subscription-manager list --consumed" report
• BZ - 1733992 - [candlepin & subscription-manager] RHEL 7.8 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1737894 - [RFE] subscription-manager list --available and --consumed should report new roles and usage
• BZ - 1739697 - Syspurpose commands should display the same message as subscription-manager when there is conflict in system purpose values between server and client
• BZ - 1739699 - syspurpose unset operation is broken on RHEL 8.1
• BZ - 1739705 - dnf.exceptions.RepoError: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms'
• BZ - 1739706 - When user tries to add mutilple addons that are already added ,User is not displayed a message(as to whether the addon is or notand why its not added) for second and subsequent addons
• BZ - 1739707 - Can't pull UBI images rootless, no access to /etc/docker/certs.d/registry.access.redhat.com/
• BZ - 1741183 - Yum plugins are loaded multiple times after updating the host to the latest subscription-manager
• BZ - 1742208 - package profile upload seems to be broken on RHEL7.7
• BZ - 1743729 - update error from Advisory RHBA-2019:45288 when dnf-plugin-subscription-manager is installed from extras
• BZ - 1752059 - [rhel78] System gets mail report when cron.daily is run and the list continue to grow
• BZ - 1756491 - subscription-manager yum plugin references undefined name 'warnOrGiveUsageMessage'
• BZ - 1786236 - yum install -y $package: There are no enabled repos
• BZ - 1788293 - negative test attempts to use a revoked entitlement do not appear in yum repolist (until a second call to yum repolist)
• BZ - 1788297 - duplicate messages are being reported by the yum plugin for subscription-manager

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index