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Bug 2095316 - subscription-manager shouldn't override repo list if it thinks it's in a container
Summary: subscription-manager shouldn't override repo list if it thinks it's in a cont...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: candlepin-bugs
QA Contact: Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team
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Blocks: 2075080
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Reported: 2022-06-09 14:09 UTC by Cédric Jeanneret
Modified: 2022-07-22 13:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-07-22 13:52:43 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-124809 0 None None None 2022-06-09 14:22:33 UTC

Description Cédric Jeanneret 2022-06-09 14:09:51 UTC 
Description of problem:

While testing osp-17 on a rhel9 host, subscribed to a satellite host, we're facing consistent issue with subscription-manager overriding the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo because it thinks it's running from within a container.

Some more context is available here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2058540
as well as our QE hitting that precise issue here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2075080

Basically:
- OSP has a "standard" bind-mount or /run:/run in all containers
- podman (container engine) pushes a /run/.containerenv file
- this file is then visible from the host
- dnf has an enabled plugin, "subscription-manager", running before any command (clean, makecache, install, erase, etc)

So, as soon as we have one container with that mount running on the node, and get any dnf command running, subscription-manager kicks in. It then thinks it's in a container and, instead of keeping the repo list as-is, it will override it.
But ONLY a small part: the equivalent of the rhsm "baseurl" - meaning it will be switched to https://cdn.redhat.com/<all the satellite path set during registration>

You can see such example in 2075080#c0.

IMHO, subcription-manager should NOT touch the repository list at all if it thinks it's in a container, especially when there's a valid /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file available (with all the correct settings)

Small thoughts about that:
what would happen if we run this:

podman run -v /etc/dnf:/etc/dnf -v /etc/yum.repos.d:/etc/yum.repos.d ubi9 dnf install httpd

Apparently, following what I've seen, it would at least try to edit the repository list (since running in a container), but SHOULD fail, thanks to SELinux (but would succeed on a permissive system - note that ":z" won't apply to those locations afaik).

Note:
- we can, of course, export the SMDEV_CONTAINER_OFF=True as an /etc/profile.d/ thingy (that's what I'm going to propose as a "sensible workaround" within tripleo/osp)
- we may be able to work in order to stop mounting /run, and expose only subdirectories
- or maybe podman can stop exposing that precise file on the host

But, really, subscription-manager shouldn't touch repository files if thinking it's in a container.

Cheers,

C.
Comment 1 Cédric Jeanneret 2022-07-22 13:52:43 UTC 
After discussions, this is expected behavior, and OSP isn't affected anymore (by exporting the variable, and with a podman patch that is coming through https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2097694.
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