RHBA-2024:0812 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated version of Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) is now available.
RHUI 4.7 fixes several operational bugs and also adds several new
features.

Description

Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) provides a highly scalable and redundant framework for managing repositories and content. It also allows cloud providers to deliver content and updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances.

This RHUI update fixes the following bugs:

• With this update unrecognized rhui-manager commands are no longer ignored, instead they are reported as unrecognized.
• In prior versions of RHUI when rhui-manager status was executed, while no CDS nodes where being tracked, warnings were being logged in /var/log/rhui/rhua_ansible.log. With this update such extraneous warnings are not produced.
• With this update unnecessary nginx packages are no longer installed.
• With this update the number of versions of saved repository metadata limited to five. In the past as new packages were added into a repository, a new version of the metadata was generated, potentially happening hundreds of times.
• With this update empty repos are now exported. In the past, if RHUI was configured with `--fetch-missing-symlinks False`, the unexported empty repos resulted in "Errors during downloading metadata for repository"

This RHUI update introduces the following enhancements:

• The rhui-installer has been updated to allow the config files, as stored under /etc/rhui, the certificate files, as stored under /etc/pki/rhui and the log files, as stored under /var/log/rhui to be mounted on remote file share.
• With this update RHUI supports HAProxy running on RHEL 9 even when RHUA is running on RHEL 8.
• With this update log file rhui-subscription-sync.log has been relocated to directory /var/log/rhui from directory /var/log.

Solution

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

For detailed instructions on how to apply this update, see:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_update_infrastructure/4/html/migrating_red_hat_update_infrastructure/assembly_upgrading-red-hat-update-infrastructure_migrating-red-hat-update-infrastructure

For other information, see the product documentation:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_update_infrastructure/4

Affected Products

• Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 x86_64

Fixes

• RHUI-399 - rhui-manager commands ignore unrecognized options
• RHUI-460 - Add support to allow conf, cert and log files to be stored on remote file systems.
• RHUI-468 - RHUI 4 can install HAProxy/Load Balancer node on RHEL 9
• RHUI-478 - A warning in rhua_ansible.log is triggered by rhui-manager status when no CDSes exist
• RHUI-479 - Lots of unnecessary packages related to nginx are installed
• RHUI-483 - Set default value of retain_repo_versions to 5
• RHUI-493 - Empty repos aren't automatically exported
• RHUI-503 - Move /var/log/rhui-subscription-sync.log to /var/log/rhui

CVEs

(none)

References

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