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Bug 1639086 - subscription manager sends package report to the Satellite even nothing has changed .
Summary: subscription manager sends package report to the Satellite even nothing has c...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 7.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: candlepin-bugs
QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-15 03:30 UTC by Hao Chang Yu
Modified: 2023-03-24 14:17 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 12:57:25 UTC
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Github candlepin subscription-manager pull 1945 0 None closed 1639086: Fix vendor comparison 2021-01-13 22:23:49 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1569909 0 medium CLOSED UnicodeWarning while trying to attach subscription 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 4387201 0 None None None 2019-09-02 13:29:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2008 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:57:48 UTC

Internal Links: 1569909

Description Hao Chang Yu 2018-10-15 03:30:14 UTC 
Created attachment 1493908 [details]
rpm with utf8 vendor name

Description of problem:
If a client installed a non Red Hat rpm with utf8 vendor name, subscription manager will fail to compare the installed package with the cached package profile. This caused subscription manager to send the same package profile report to the Satellite repeatedly.

Bug 1519512 fixed part of the issue.

Adding "_normalize_string" to the package comparison seems to fix the issue.

--- /tmp/profile.py	2018-10-15 11:05:17.256224881 +1000
+++ /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rhsm/profile.py	2018-10-15 11:05:28.528353754 +1000
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
                 self.release == other.release and \
                 self.arch == other.arch and \
                 self.epoch == other.epoch and \
-                self.vendor == other.vendor:
+                self._normalize_string(self.vendor) == self._normalize_string(other.vendor):
             return True


This issue caused rhsmcertd to send package report to the Satellite every 4 hours before upgrading to "subscription-manager-1.20.11-1.el7_5.x86_64" but the issue is gone after I did the upgrade. The issue is still happen in katello-package-upload which is calling the same function. I am not sure why.

How reproducible:

# katello-package-upload
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/rhsm/profile.py:68: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  self.vendor == other.vendor:


Thanks.

Regards
Hao
Comment 7 Craig Donnelly 2019-05-01 20:09:18 UTC 
Cancelling needinfo on Hao, got a package for testing.

Verified with a test package containing special characters in vendor.

Tested against Satellite 6.4.2 with packages:

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 ~]# rpm -q katello-agent katello-host-tools subscription-manager
katello-agent-3.3.5-5.el7sat.noarch
katello-host-tools-3.3.5-5.el7sat.noarch
subscription-manager-1.24.3-1.el7.x86_64

===================================================================================================

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 anchors]# yum install umlaut-vendor -y
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Loaded plugins: enabled_repos_upload, package_upload, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
kwalker-rpmissues                                                                             | 3.4 kB  00:00:00     
rhel-7-server-rpms                                                                            | 2.0 kB  00:00:00     
rhel-7-server-satellite-tools-6.4-rpms                                                        | 2.1 kB  00:00:00     
kwalker-rpmissues/x86_64/primary_db                                                           | 1.9 kB  00:00:00     
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package umlaut-vendor.x86_64 0:0.1-1 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=====================================================================================================================
 Package                       Arch                   Version                Repository                         Size
=====================================================================================================================
Installing:
 umlaut-vendor                 x86_64                 0.1-1                  kwalker-rpmissues                 1.6 k

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 1.6 k
Installed size: 0  
Downloading packages:
umlaut-vendor-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm                                                                | 1.6 kB  00:00:00     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : umlaut-vendor-0.1-1.x86_64                                                                        1/1 
Uploading Package Profile
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
  Verifying  : umlaut-vendor-0.1-1.x86_64                                                                        1/1 

Installed:
  umlaut-vendor.x86_64 0:0.1-1                                                                                       

Complete!
Uploading Enabled Repositories Report
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 anchors]# rpm -qli umlaut-vendor
Name        : umlaut-vendor
Version     : 0.1
Release     : 1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 01 May 2019 03:52:05 PM EDT
Group       : Applications/Productivity
Size        : 0
License     : GPL
Signature   : (none)
Source RPM  : umlaut-vendor-0.1-1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Wed 01 May 2019 03:48:02 PM EDT
Build Host  : copr-vm-production-psi-os-00016252-20190501-190955
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Red Hat Copr
Vendor      : Öh NÖ!
Summary     : Dummy summary
Description :
This is a dummy description.
(contains no files)

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 anchors]# cd

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 ~]# katello-package-upload 
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager

[root@dhcp-8-30-234 ~]# 

Did not receive any errors.
Based on a review of the tasks within the Satellite, there are no duplicate upload-package-profile tasks being created when the Satellite already has the proper list with this condition.
Tested with rhsmcertd restart and a two minute checkin - splay = 0.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:57:25 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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2008
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