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Bug 1663954 - Enable CDN access from kickstart files
Summary: Enable CDN access from kickstart files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1663950 1691969 1691971 1693801 1693976 1700898 1701002 1711869 1712054
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-07 11:33 UTC by Lars Karlitski
Modified: 2020-11-14 15:51 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-29.19.1.1-1
Doc Type: No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1691971 1693976 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-11-05 21:07:54 UTC
Type: Feature Request
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:3417 0 None None None 2019-11-05 21:08:35 UTC

Description Lars Karlitski 2019-01-07 11:33:09 UTC 
Composer is unusable from RHEL (see bug #1663950), because it cannot pass subscription information to anaconda.

I've proposed a patch upstream to pykickstart (see bug #1663952) and anaconda to do that:

    https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1745

I realize that this is a very late change, but it's fairly low impact on anaconda and would make composer usable at all on these systems.
Comment 3 Peter Kotvan 2019-02-19 07:50:29 UTC 
Hi Lars,

can you describe the use case in detail? From the description I don't know how the process of passing subscription information to anaconda should work. Will this feature introduce any change in Anaconda installation?

We need more detailed information to provide the qe_ack since for any change in 8.0.1 there should be implemented a new gating test.

Thanks.
Comment 5 Lars Karlitski 2019-02-19 09:03:52 UTC 
(In reply to Peter Kotvan from comment #3)
> Hi Lars,
> 
> can you describe the use case in detail? From the description I don't know
> how the process of passing subscription information to anaconda should work.
> Will this feature introduce any change in Anaconda installation?
> 
> We need more detailed information to provide the qe_ack since for any change
> in 8.0.1 there should be implemented a new gating test.

Sure! Composer uses the host's repositories as a source for the images it creates. Currently, the image installation fails if the host is a RHEL host with repositories that require a valid subscription. It makes Composer unusable without a nasty workaround.

This is because there's no way for Composer to pass the repository's configured client certificate to Anaconda. To fix this, I've added options to the kickstart commands `repo` and `url` which allow specifying paths to the needed cert (see the linked pykickstart bug). This is a natural extension to those commands: they already accept other options related to a repository.

This Anaconda patch only makes it use those options, by passing them further down to its invocation of dnf.
Comment 16 Radek Vykydal 2019-06-05 10:12:17 UTC 
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/1993
Comment 24 Jan Stodola 2019-08-26 08:45:55 UTC 
Moving to VERIFIED based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663950#c7
Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:07:54 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-2019:3417
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