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Bug 1746876 - Confusing Description of rsyslog-gnutls rpm
Summary: Confusing Description of rsyslog-gnutls rpm
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rsyslog
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.2
Assignee: Jiří Vymazal
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-29 12:20 UTC by Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
Modified: 2020-04-28 16:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rsyslog-8.1911.0-1.el8
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:01:03 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1702 0 None None None 2020-04-28 16:01:30 UTC

Description Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2019-08-29 12:20:38 UTC 
Description of problem:

The rsyslog-gnutls rpm only ships

$ rpm -ql rsyslog-gnutls
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/ad68b613261f69d178676e834ee1941b5059c5
/usr/lib64/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so

so there seem to be no documentation or man page about its purpose or behaviour. Checking the rpm -qi rsyslog-gnutls output, it says

Summary     : TLS protocol support for rsyslog
Description :
The rsyslog-gnutls package contains the rsyslog plugins that provide the
ability to receive syslog messages via upcoming syslog-transport-tls
IETF standard protocol.

However, the same Description has been there since RHEL 6. Is there some new upcoming syslog-transport-tls IETF standard protocol coming? Or is this about RFC 5425 from 2009?

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

rsyslog-gnutls-8.37.0-12.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:

Deterministic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to figure out what rsyslog-gnutls is about.

Actual results:

No documentation in the package, no man page, and rpm header Description talking about some upcoming standard.

Expected results:

Documentation, man page, or rpm header Description being more accurate about the plugin, its relation to standard, and ideally its usage.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2019-08-29 12:28:07 UTC 
Another confusing part of the Description is the part about

   ability to receive syslog messages via upcoming syslog-transport-tls

which somehow suggests that it is only needed on the machine active as a receiver for remote syslog reception. While it seems that it is needed on the rsyslog client which send to the remote server via TLS as well.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:01:03 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/RHSA-2020:1702
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