Bug 2162348

Summary:	Satellite uses deprecated network configuration file format with RHEL 9
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component:	Provisioning Templates	Assignee:	Leos Stejskal <lstejska>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.11.4	CC:	ahumbe, ajambhul, fgarciad, gtalreja, lstejska, mhulan, saydas
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Description Marko Myllynen 2023-01-19 11:42:44 UTC

Description of problem:
RHEL 9 deprecates ifcfg configuration files and uses the ini-style connection files by default:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/9.0_release_notes/index#deprecated-functionality_networking

However, it seems Satellite 6.11 still creates ifcfg when kickstarting RHEL 9 VMs using Satellite. As ifcfg files are deprecated only new ini-style files should be used and nothing should be created in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Thanks.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 6.11.4

Comment 2 Leos Stejskal 2023-01-31 09:50:41 UTC

Hi, this is know issue, reported also in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135787 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163010.

I suggest to remove the BZ from the 6.13 scope, this issue is there for some time (from RHEL 7),
and implementing correct network configuration in templates which is backwards compatible back to RHEL 6 is just not feasible in the 6.13 scope.

Comment 5 Leos Stejskal 2023-05-29 11:30:48 UTC

Hi,
I propose to remove the BZ from 6.14. Due to other work on other tasks, we didn't manage to fix it in time
and there is a little chance we can make it into the 6.14.

I created a task [0] for the investigation of what needs to be done and what would be the impact,
but I am sure that it's not going to be a small bugfix or a small change.

[0] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SAT-17931

Comment 7 Leos Stejskal 2023-11-21 08:35:13 UTC

Closing as a duplicate to #2135787

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2135787 ***