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Bug 1862431

Summary: 'subscription-manager config' used to default to return 'subscription-manager config --list'
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: John Sefler <jsefler>
Component: subscription-managerAssignee: William Poteat <wpoteat>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team <rhsm-qe>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 8.3CC: achadha, arahaman, arpandey, jhnidek, ktordeur, peter.vreman, rankumar, redakkan, stefan.jermann
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, Triaged
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 13:32:41 UTC Type: Bug
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Description John Sefler 2020-07-31 12:32:25 UTC 
Description of problem:

The default behavior when passing no arguments to the 'subscription-manager config' module was to return 'subscription-manager config --list'.

With the current build of subscription-manager, nothing is returned.  Like other subscription-manager modules, when no option is passed, there is usually a default and for the config module, the default used to be "--list".  Is this a new expected behavior?  Arguably, a better response is to display the --help information as the default rather than nothing.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@hpe-dl380pgen8-02-vm-11 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.27.11-1.el8.x86_64


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
[root@hpe-dl380pgen8-02-vm-11 ~]# subscription-manager config --list
[server]
   hostname = subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com
   insecure = [0]
   no_proxy = []
   port = [443]
   prefix = [/subscription]
   proxy_hostname = []
   proxy_password = []
   proxy_port = []
   proxy_scheme = [http]
   proxy_user = []
   server_timeout = [180]
   ssl_verify_depth = [3]

[rhsm]
   auto_enable_yum_plugins = [1]
   baseurl = [https://cdn.redhat.com]
   ca_cert_dir = [/etc/rhsm/ca/]
   consumercertdir = [/etc/pki/consumer]
   entitlementcertdir = [/etc/pki/entitlement]
   full_refresh_on_yum = [0]
   inotify = [1]
   manage_repos = [1]
   package_profile_on_trans = [0]
   pluginconfdir = [/etc/rhsm/pluginconf.d]
   plugindir = [/usr/share/rhsm-plugins]
   productcertdir = [/etc/pki/product]
   repo_ca_cert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   repomd_gpg_url = []
   report_package_profile = [1]

[rhsmcertd]
   autoattachinterval = [1440]
   certcheckinterval = [240]
   disable = [0]
   splay = [1]

[rhsmd]
   processtimeout = 300

[logging]
   default_log_level = DEBUG

[] - Default value in use


[root@hpe-dl380pgen8-02-vm-11 ~]# subscription-manager config
[root@hpe-dl380pgen8-02-vm-11 ~]# 


Actual results:
  above

Expected results:
  expected "subscription-manager config" to return the same response as "subscription-manager config --list"



Additional info:
Comment 1 John Sefler 2020-08-10 18:20:05 UTC 
For historical reference, here is the original RFE that requested that executing 'subscription-manager config' module should default to the same behavior as 'subscription-manager config --list'.  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811594#c5

Bug 811594 - [RFE] facts command should default to list
Comment 2 John Sefler 2020-09-17 16:36:32 UTC 
Interestingly, this bug appears to be fixed in 1.27.15-1 and was broken in 1.27.14-1.
One of the following commits from the changelog must have fixed this bug too...

[root@kvm-05-guest01 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.27.15-1.el8.x86_64

[root@kvm-05-guest01 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager --changelog  | head
* Thu Aug 20 2020 Christopher Snyder <csnyder> 1.27.15-1
- 1615429: Fix sorting of plugin hooks (csnyder)
- 1820534: Update translations (csnyder)
- 1841601: Set default encoding properly; ENT-2499 (jhnidek)
- 1839199: More rhsmd cleanup (wpoteat)
- 1869725: Do not print traceback, when profile upload failed; ENT-2754
  (jhnidek)

[root@kvm-05-guest01 ~]# subscription-manager config
[server]
   hostname = [subscription.rhsm.redhat.com]
   insecure = [0]
   no_proxy = []
   port = [443]
   prefix = [/subscription]
   proxy_hostname = []
   proxy_password = []
   proxy_port = []
   proxy_scheme = [http]
   proxy_user = []
   server_timeout = [180]
   ssl_verify_depth = [3]

[rhsm]
   auto_enable_yum_plugins = [1]
   baseurl = [https://cdn.redhat.com]
   ca_cert_dir = [/etc/rhsm/ca/]
   consumercertdir = [/etc/pki/consumer]
   entitlementcertdir = [/etc/pki/entitlement]
   full_refresh_on_yum = [0]
   inotify = [1]
   manage_repos = [1]
   package_profile_on_trans = [0]
   pluginconfdir = [/etc/rhsm/pluginconf.d]
   plugindir = [/usr/share/rhsm-plugins]
   productcertdir = [/etc/pki/product]
   repo_ca_cert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   repomd_gpg_url = []
   report_package_profile = [1]

[rhsmcertd]
   autoattachinterval = [1440]
   certcheckinterval = [240]
   disable = [0]
   splay = [1]

[logging]
   default_log_level = [INFO]

[] - Default value in use


VERIFIED: subscription-manager config once again defaults to the --list result.
Comment 3 Archana Pandey 2020-09-29 06:24:20 UTC 
Early Testing

Reproducer:

[root@localhost /]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 3.1.18-1
subscription management rules: 5.41
subscription-manager: 1.27.14-1.el8
[root@localhost /]# subscription-manager config
[root@localhost /]#                                     <<<<<<<<<<<<< no output produced

Also in older master scratcch build :

root@localhost /]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 3.1.18-1
subscription management rules: 5.41
subscription-manager: 1.28.1-1.git.4.02c6050.el8

[root@localhost /]# subscription-manager config
[root@localhost /]#                                       <<<<<<<<<<<<< no output produced

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

Verifying in latest master scratch build:

[root@localhost /]# rpm -qa subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.28.3-1.git.10.32f43d9.el8.x86_64

[root@localhost /]# subscription-manager config
[server]
   hostname = [subscription.rhsm.redhat.com]
   insecure = [0]
   no_proxy = []
   port = [443]
   prefix = [/subscription]
   proxy_hostname = []
   proxy_password = []
   proxy_port = []
   proxy_scheme = [http]
   proxy_user = []
   server_timeout = [180]
   ssl_verify_depth = [3]

[rhsm]
   auto_enable_yum_plugins = [1]
   baseurl = [https://cdn.redhat.com]
   ca_cert_dir = [/etc/rhsm/ca/]
   consumercertdir = [/etc/pki/consumer]
   entitlementcertdir = [/etc/pki/entitlement]
   full_refresh_on_yum = [0]
   inotify = [1]
   manage_repos = [1]
   no_insights = [0]
   package_profile_on_trans = [0]
   pluginconfdir = [/etc/rhsm/pluginconf.d]
   plugindir = [/usr/share/rhsm-plugins]
   productcertdir = [/etc/pki/product]
   repo_ca_cert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   repomd_gpg_url = []
   report_package_profile = [1]

[rhsmcertd]
   autoattachinterval = [1440]
   certcheckinterval = [240]
   disable = [0]
   splay = [1]

[logging]
   default_log_level = [INFO]

[] - Default value in use


[root@localhost /]# 
[root@localhost /]# diff <(subscription-manager config --list) <(subscription-manager config)
[root@localhost /]# 

VERIFIED: subscription-manager config defaults to the --list output
Comment 5 Archana Pandey 2020-11-02 14:53:42 UTC 
Early testing :

verifying against dev build : subscription-manager-1.28.5-1.el8.x86_64

[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 3.2.0-1
subscription management rules: 5.41
subscription-manager: 1.28.5-1.el8
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# 
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# rpm -qa subscription-manager --changelog | grep 1862431
- 1862431: option validation error from unexpected config entry; ENT-2712
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# 
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# subscription-manager config
[server]
   hostname = subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com
   insecure = [0]
   no_proxy = []
   port = [443]
   prefix = [/subscription]
   proxy_hostname = []
   proxy_password = []
   proxy_port = []
   proxy_scheme = [http]
   proxy_user = []
   server_timeout = [180]
   ssl_verify_depth = [3]

[rhsm]
   auto_enable_yum_plugins = [1]
   baseurl = [https://cdn.redhat.com]
   ca_cert_dir = [/etc/rhsm/ca/]
   consumercertdir = [/etc/pki/consumer]
   entitlementcertdir = [/etc/pki/entitlement]
   full_refresh_on_yum = [0]
   inotify = [1]
   manage_repos = [1]
   package_profile_on_trans = [0]
   pluginconfdir = [/etc/rhsm/pluginconf.d]
   plugindir = [/usr/share/rhsm-plugins]
   productcertdir = [/etc/pki/product]
   repo_ca_cert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   repomd_gpg_url = []
   report_package_profile = [1]

[rhsmcertd]
   autoattachinterval = [1440]
   certcheckinterval = [240]
   disable = [0]
   splay = [1]

[logging]
   default_log_level = DEBUG

[] - Default value in use


[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# diff <(subscription-manager config --list) <(subscription-manager config)
[root@kvm-03-guest14 ~]# 

Actual results:  "subscription-manager config" returns the same response as "subscription-manager config --list"

Based on above observation updating verified field to Tested
Comment 8 John Sefler 2020-11-12 15:36:30 UTC 
Verification with nightly compose RHEL-8.4.0-20201112.n.1 ...

      Beaker Test information:
                         HOSTNAME=kvm-02-guest10.hv2.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
                            JOBID=4725191
                         RECIPEID=9051109
                    RESULT_SERVER=
                           DISTRO=RHEL-8.4.0-20201112.n.1
                     ARCHITECTURE=x86_64

      Job Whiteboard: Reserve Workflow provision of distro RHEL-8.4.0-20201112.n.1 on any lab system for 86400 seconds

      Recipe Whiteboard: 
**  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **  **
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]#
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager
subscription-manager-1.28.5-1.el8.x86_64
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# 
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# rpm -q subscription-manager --changelog | grep 1862431
- 1862431: option validation error from unexpected config entry; ENT-2712
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# 
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# subscription-manager config
[server]
   hostname = [subscription.rhsm.redhat.com]
   insecure = [0]
   no_proxy = []
   port = [443]
   prefix = [/subscription]
   proxy_hostname = []
   proxy_password = []
   proxy_port = []
   proxy_scheme = [http]
   proxy_user = []
   server_timeout = [180]
   ssl_verify_depth = [3]

[rhsm]
   auto_enable_yum_plugins = [1]
   baseurl = [https://cdn.redhat.com]
   ca_cert_dir = [/etc/rhsm/ca/]
   consumercertdir = [/etc/pki/consumer]
   entitlementcertdir = [/etc/pki/entitlement]
   full_refresh_on_yum = [0]
   inotify = [1]
   manage_repos = [1]
   package_profile_on_trans = [0]
   pluginconfdir = [/etc/rhsm/pluginconf.d]
   plugindir = [/usr/share/rhsm-plugins]
   productcertdir = [/etc/pki/product]
   repo_ca_cert = /etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem
   repomd_gpg_url = []
   report_package_profile = [1]

[rhsmcertd]
   autoattachinterval = [1440]
   certcheckinterval = [240]
   disable = [0]
   splay = [1]

[logging]
   default_log_level = [INFO]

[] - Default value in use


[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# 
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# subscription-manager config > /tmp/config.txt
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# subscription-manager config --list > /tmp/configlist.txt
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# diff /tmp/config.txt /tmp/configlist.txt
[root@kvm-02-guest10 ~]# 

VERIFIED: "subscription-manager config" returns the same results as "subscription-manager config --list" as expected and as Verified:Tested in comment 5.
Changing status to VERIFIED
Comment 9 Rehana 2021-01-05 14:40:28 UTC 
*** Bug 1910348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Brad Buckingham 2021-04-15 14:23:33 UTC 
*** Bug 1946883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 13:32:41 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 (subscription-manager bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2021:1575