Bug 404371

Summary:	[feature] Provide our CPE name in a new system file
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	redhat-release-server	Assignee:	Andrew Thomas <anthomas>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.0	CC:	apevec, atodorov, dgregor, lkocman, mikem, notting, snagar, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	redhat-release-6-6.0.0.14	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Clones:	592425 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-11-11 14:54:55 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	592425, 593463

Description Mark J. Cox 2007-11-29 13:39:53 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #404361 +++

CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) is a structured naming scheme for platforms
proposed by Mitre.  

CPE is used by the National Vulnerability Database and is part of SCAP and is
designed to be a way of providing a formal way to uniquely identify a platform.  
Whilst security tools can guess our platform by reading
/etc/[fedora|redhat|system]-release, parsing the marketing names is not
consistent.  We're already using CPE names to identify platforms and metrics
when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux advisories.  

So the proposal is to have fedora-release provide the CPE name for the release
in such a way that third party system tools can make use of it, and also to
convince other distributions to do the same.

For example, the formal name for the OS platform Fedora 8 is
"cpe://o:fedora_project:fedora:8" (ignore the incorrect name used in the
dictionary on the NVD site, it's due for update shortly)

This is a common platform name, regardless of what individual applications
(packages) are provided.  Therefore spins can use the same name.

So perhaps provide a /etc/system-release-cpe (/etc/system-cpe?) file containing
cpe://o:fedora_project:fedora:%{version}

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-11-29 13:41:55 UTC

Contact me for the specific RHEL names, but they're of the form like:

cpe://o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:GA:Server
cpe://o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:Update1:Client

Comment 2 Mike McLean 2007-12-10 17:09:49 UTC

Are we planning on adding this for all RHEL releases? I.e do we need to clone
this for the next round of updates?

Comment 6 Dennis Gregorovic 2009-09-17 12:44:32 UTC

/etc/system-release-cpe added to redhat-release-6-6.0.0.11

Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2009-09-18 07:39:00 UTC

Hi Dennis, I noticed that the format of the CPE name wasn't updated to match the latest CPE spec which only uses one slash after cpe: and a lowercase product variant.  So can you update it to something like this?

echo "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:%{version}:%{?beta: %{beta}}%{!?beta: GA}" > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/system-release-cpe

Thanks, Mark

Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2009-09-18 07:44:10 UTC

Alan, for RHEV you need to use the official RHEV CPE name, this can be found in the master product file (product.xml), where it is:

cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_hypervisor:2.1

Do you want me to file a bz for this? (I assume against ovirt-node pkg)

Comment 9 Dennis Gregorovic 2009-09-18 11:46:45 UTC

CPE text updated to match the latest spec.  redhat-release-6-6.0.0.13

Comment 10 Mark J. Cox 2009-09-21 08:24:25 UTC

Hey Dennis, it came out as 
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6: Alpha

I guess it needs no space after the beta: (I didn't test this)

Sorry about that.

Comment 11 Dennis Gregorovic 2009-09-21 15:40:09 UTC

How does this look?

$ rpm2cpio /mnt/redhat/brewroot/packages/redhat-release/6/6.0.0.14/ppc64/redhat-release-6-6.0.0.14.ppc64.rpm  | cpio -iuvmd /etc/system-release-cpe
293 blocks
$ cat ./etc/system-release-cpe
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:Alpha

Comment 12 Mark J. Cox 2009-09-22 09:13:52 UTC

that's correct, thanks!

Comment 13 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2009-10-28 15:51:07 UTC

Fixed in 'redhat-release-6-6.0.0.14'. 'redhat-release-6-6.0.0.15' included in compose 'RHEL6.0-20091027.3'.
Moving to ON_QA.

Comment 14 Alexander Todorov 2010-05-14 11:42:30 UTC

redhat-release-server-6-6.0.0.27.el6.x86_64

# cat /etc/system-release-cpe 
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6:beta:server

Moving to VERIFIED.

Comment 15 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-11 14:54:55 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.