Bug 1319927

Summary:	[RFE] subscription-manager should automatically enable yum plugins
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	William <wlehman>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	Jiri Hnidek <jhnidek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	John Sefler <jsefler>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Filip Hanzelka <fhanzelk>
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	bcourt, candlepin-bugs, cdonnell, csnyder, jhnidek, khowell, rjerrido, skallesh, vrjain
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Release:	7.4
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	subscription-manager-1.20.8-1	Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	subscription-manager now automatically enables the `subscription-manager` and `product-id` yum plugins With this update, the subscription-manager utility automatically enables the `yum` plugins: `subscription-manager` and `product-id`. This update benefits users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux who previously used the rhn-client-tools utility to register their systems to Red Hat Network Classic or who still use it with Satellite 5 entitlement servers, and who have temporarily disabled the `yum` plugins. As a result, it is easier for users to start using the newer subscription-manager tools for entitlements. Note that running subscription-manager displays a warning message indicating how to change this default behavior if it is not desirable.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1317690	Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-04-10 09:47:31 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1420851, 1469152

Description William 2016-03-21 20:46:44 UTC

Description of problem:

Customers have experienced an issue where setting 'subscription-manager release --set=<version>' did not update the EUS repo to the correct version due to the subscription-manager plugin not being enabled. 

We should have a check to see if the plugin is enabled.  If it is not, then it should provide output stating so and recommend the plugin be enabled.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
current

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Comment 2 Barnaby Court 2016-03-28 19:13:43 UTC

When setting the release, sub-man should validate that the yum plugin is enabled. There will be no further check after the release has been set.

Comment 3 Chris Snyder 2017-07-10 20:45:24 UTC

Suggestion: The logic to check if the plugin (read from "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf") is enabled should be run on subman startup. To be clear this means the warning message should be output on any subman command AND on GUI start up.

Comment 10 Shwetha Kallesh 2017-11-14 08:05:38 UTC

Verification :

Case 1.  Verify yum plugins are automatically enabled and user is informed when subscription-manager commands are run on CLI:

[root@dhcp35-121 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 2.0.43-1
subscription management rules: 5.26
subscription-manager: 1.20.5-1.el7

Disable the subscription-manager yum plugin:
[root@dhcp35-121 ~]# sed -i s/enabled=./enabled=0/g /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf

Verify if the plugin is disabled:
[root@dhcp35-121 ~]# grep enabled /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf
enabled=0

Now execute the sub-man command on CLI and observe the warning message conveying user that the plugin is enabled automatically:
[root@dhcp35-121 ~]# subscription-manager register 
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: shwetha_tier1_test
Password: 
The system has been registered with ID: 9f559a08-bb1a-49ca-a060-02cc66eba5c0
The registered system name is: dhcp35-121.lab.eng.blr.redhat.com

WARNING

The yum plugins: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf were automatically enabled for the benefit of Red Hat Subscription Management. If not desired, use "subscription-manager config --rhsm.auto_enable_yum_plugins=0" to block this behavior.

Verify if the plugin is enabled:
[root@dhcp35-121 ~]# grep enabled /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf
enabled=1

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 09:47:31 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0681