Bug 725496

Summary: yum-rhn-plugin does not respect the default priority setting in the [main] stanza for yum-plugin-priorities, only per-channel definitions are effective
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury>
Component: yum-rhn-pluginAssignee: Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Šimon Lukašík <slukasik>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: jhutar, mmraka, slukasik
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-34.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
When processing the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf file, the previous version of rhnplugin incorrectly ignored options in the [main] section other than "enabled" and "gpgcheck". This update ensures that this file is now processed correctly.
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 16:49:46 UTC Type: ---
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Description Yury V. Zaytsev 2011-07-25 16:34:12 UTC 
Description of problem:

I am using a certain number of third-party repositories (i.e. local repositories, RepoForge / DAG etc.) in addition to the RHN-provided channels. To protect the base packages from being replaced I have installed yum-plugin-priorities and assigned priorities to all of the extra repositories.

However, I also need a way to assign highest priority to the RHN repos to prevent Red Hat packages from being replaced shall a conflict occur. There is a solution mentioned here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515720 , that is to assign the priority in the [main] stanza of yum-rhn-plugin configuration file:

> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf:
> 
> [main]
> priority = 10 

while all the other repositories should be assigned a priority number higher than 10.

This, however, has no effect. If I enumerate all channels manually and assign priorities this way:

> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf:
> 
> [rhel-x86_64-server-6]
> priority = 10                                       
> 
> [rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6]
> priority = 10

it works perfectly! Unfortunately, this solution is error prone and requires additional administrative load upon changes in system subscriptions.

Therefore, I'd like to be able to assign a default priority for all RHN-supplied channels.

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

yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-26.el6_1.1.noarch
yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.30-6.el6.noarch
yum-3.2.29-17.el6.noarch

How reproducible:

Add third-party repositories with packages replacing base packages, set up priorities as described and perform 

# yum clean all
# yum -v update
 
Actual results:

Third party packages are taking over RHN-supplied packages, unless priorities are specified for every virtual RHN-provided repository, even if a default priority has been specified to be higher than the rest of the repositories.

Expected results:

All RHN packages always to take over if a higher default priority has been specified in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf.
Comment 2 Michael Mráka 2011-08-02 13:51:42 UTC 
The issue has been fixed in spacewalk master by
commit 0194651deb2c2d96031a346dab7cfacc0abd00dd
    725496 - respect default plugin settings from [main]
Comment 4 Michael Mráka 2011-08-02 14:05:37 UTC 
Backported to satellite CLIENT-RHEL-6 as
commit 9df21cf5ec669f3f35f730c7a5c7923884bfbd7a
    fixed package exclusion 
commit bd0acdf0ad1c676cbb8ee4e1aa7d96a60c04c3b2
    gpgcheck already is processed by pluginOptions and repoOptions
commit fd99878af57b20fe97fc480746e30eda1a415c02
    725496 - respect default plugin settings from [main]
commit 52a43b2fd3c25e2abd85bbf5e25605578f619761
    removed redundant variables
Comment 6 Michael Mráka 2011-08-10 08:17:55 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
yum-rhn-plugin ignored settings from [main] section of rhnplugin.conf except for gpgcheck and enabled.

After the fix it takes care of both [main] section settings and per channel settings.
Comment 7 Šimon Lukašík 2011-08-17 11:50:12 UTC 
Changing to Verified:

With a new package set, the priority parameter in the [main] section
is taken in account and packages are downloaded from prioritized
repozitories. The priority setting in the [main] section might
be still overridden by settings per channel.

Verified against:
yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-35.el6.noarch
Comment 8 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-10-27 16:30:04 UTC 
    Technical note updated. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    Diffed Contents:
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-yum-rhn-plugin ignored settings from [main] section of rhnplugin.conf except for gpgcheck and enabled.
+When processing the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf file, the previous version of rhnplugin incorrectly ignored options in the [main] section other than "enabled" and "gpgcheck". This update ensures that this file is now processed correctly.-
-After the fix it takes care of both [main] section settings and per channel settings.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:49:46 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1664.html