Bug 1898949

Summary: cloud-init should report full specific full version with "cloud-init --version"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Eduardo Otubo <eterrell>
Component: cloud-initAssignee: Eduardo Otubo <eterrell>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Huijuan Zhao <huzhao>
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Priority: low    
Version: 8.4CC: huzhao, jgreguske, ribarry, xiachen, yacao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 8.0   
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Fixed In Version: cloud-init-20.3-7.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 15:44:18 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Eduardo Otubo 2020-11-18 11:21:05 UTC
Description of problem:
After some discussion over IRC it was agreed that "cloud-init --version" command should report it's full version string instead of short version as a standard across distro providers.

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

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cloud-init --version


Actual results:
[otubo@localhost ~]$ cloud-init --version
/usr/bin/cloud-init 19.4
[otubo@localhost ~]$ 

Expected results:
[otubo@localhost ~]$ cloud-init --version
/usr/bin/cloud-init 20.3-3.el8
[otubo@localhost ~]$

Comment 2 Huijuan Zhao 2020-11-20 00:46:12 UTC
Can reproduce with rhel-8.4-nightly:

$ rpm -qa | grep cloud-init
cloud-init-20.3-3.el8.noarch

$ cloud-init --version
/usr/bin/cloud-init 20.3

Comment 7 Huijuan Zhao 2021-01-06 01:17:24 UTC
The issue is fixed in cloud-init-20.3-7.el8

$ cloud-init --version
/usr/bin/cloud-init 20.3-7.el8

Comment 10 Huijuan Zhao 2021-01-08 03:29:45 UTC
Move to VERIFIED per comment 7

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:44:18 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 (cloud-init bug fix and enhancement update), 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/RHEA-2021:1827