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Bug 1479388 - yum-config-manager does not enable repository when called inside a rhel 7.4 container
Summary: yum-config-manager does not enable repository when called inside a rhel 7.4 c...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1486338
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum-utils
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Michal Domonkos
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 13:21 UTC by Petr Kubat
Modified: 2018-08-27 11:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-06 17:34:03 UTC
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Description Petr Kubat 2017-08-08 13:21:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
When 'yum-config-manager --enable ...' is called directly after the 'redhat.repo' file is populated via a different yum command (as suggested by https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1443553) the repository in question does not get enabled for yum (but gets enabled in the 'redhat.repo' file) and all other operations depending on the enabled repository will fail.

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

rhel-server-docker-7.4-81
yum-3.4.3-154.el7.noarch
yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch
subscription-manager-1.19.21-1.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
# docker run --rm -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7:7.4 bash
# yum install yum-utils # < just a command to populate redhat.repo
Package yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch already installed and latest version
# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo | grep rhscl-7-rpms -A 10 | grep enabled
enabled = 1
# yum install -y rh-nginx18

Actual results:
No package rh-nginx18 available.
Error: Nothing to do
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo | grep rhscl-7-rpms -A 10 | grep enabled
enabled = 0

Expected results:
rh-nginx18 gets installed
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo | grep rhscl-7-rpms -A 10 | grep enabled
enabled = 1

Additional info:
The repository gets enabled properly if another yum command gets called before the call to yum-config-manager. So something like this works as expected:

# docker run --rm -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7:7.4 bash
# yum install yum-utils
Package yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch already installed and latest version
# yum install yum-utils
Package yum-utils-1.1.31-42.el7.noarch already installed and latest version
# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
# yum install -y rh-nginx18
rh-nginx18 gets installed
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo | grep rhscl-7-rpms -A 10 | grep enabled
enabled = 1
Comment 2 Tom Deseyn 2017-08-08 14:09:24 UTC 
I've also encountered this.

Invoking 'yum install' is disabling repos that were enabled using 'yum-config-manager'.
Comment 3 david.rogina 2017-08-08 16:47:02 UTC 
We are noticing the same exact issue.
Comment 4 Petr Kubat 2017-08-09 04:55:10 UTC 
One additional note: The issue is not present in the 7.3 version of the rhel7 image, so something in 7.4 must have introduced it.
Comment 5 Pavel Raiskup 2017-08-18 06:43:58 UTC 
Ping, could this be prioritized please?  This means that we have to commit
an ugly hack to workaround this issue into *every single* docker image
git repository.
Comment 7 Jason Cohen 2018-08-06 15:15:54 UTC 
Has this been resolved? I am unable to view the duplicate issue, as we are not a RH customer, but an internal RH team in Marketing Operations. 

We are cleaning up some tech debt and hoping to remove the ugly workaround in our images if possible.
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