It's that time again, another release of Candlepin and associated
projects available for your enjoyment. With this release we
have subscription-manager in Fedora as well as a debut build of
Thumbslug.
For more information on Candlepin, please visit:
http://candlepinproject.org/
Features & Enhancements
========================
subscription-manager
---------------------
* added support for host registration and guest association when host
can not register itself.
* virt-who work to handle ESX guests
* subscription-manager available in fedora
candlepin
----------
* build modified to use the tito hotness instead of bunch of disjoint
bash scripts
* disable manifest rules import.
* added support for host registration and guest association when host
can not register itself.
thumbslug
----------
* added appropriate init scripts to run as a service
* uses Candlepin CRL
* thumbslug talks to akamai
* created puppet module for katello
Bugs fixed
===========
subscription-manager
---------------------
705883: Fix error dialog modal issues.
719743: Improved text output for successful pool subscription
740788: Getting error with quantity subscribe using
subscription-assistance page.
746259: Don't allow the user to pass in an empty string as an
activation key
746732: Only use fallback locales for dates we need to parse
749332: Normalize the error messages for not being registered
749636: Client should not support users entering activation keys
and existing consumer ids
752572: add interval logging statements back in on rhsmcertd startup
753093: The available subscriptions count does not show correctly
in Subscription Manager GUI
754821: Default org of "Unknown" was not marked for gettext
755031: Unregister before attempting to run a second registration
755035: Migration script should work on RHEL 5.7 and up.
755130: add extra whitespace to classic warning
755541: Enhanced the message in the katello plugin to debug when
the backend system does not support environments.
756173: Unexpected behavior change in subscription-manager unregister
756507: do not use output from "getlocale" as input for "setlocale"
758471: install-num-migrate-to-rhsm threw traceback when no instnum
was found.
759199: rhsmcertd is logging the wrong value for certFrequency
candlepin
----------
753093: The Available Subscriptions count do not show correctly
in Subscription Manager GUI
754841: Implement DELETE /pools/id.
754843: Fix legacy virt bonus pools missing pool_derived.
755677: Activation Keys should not check quantity on unlimited pools
756628: Translate missing rule errors.
758462: ensure job detail isn't null, skip it.
thumbslug
----------
759607: update url for subscriptions handler
Download & Setup
=================
Make sure you read over the Candlepin Setup Guide, which is located at
https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/Setup
As well as the Headpin Install Guide which can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/headpin/Install
Just give me the bits already! You can get the various bits at the
urls below.
Candlepin:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/candlepin/candlepin/
Thumbslug:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/candlepin/thumbslug/
Headpin:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/katello
Subscription Manager:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/candlepin/subscription-manager/
--
jesus m. rodriguez | jesusr(a)redhat.com
principal software engineer | irc: zeus
red hat systems management | 919.754.4413 (w)
rhce # 805008586930012 | 919.623.0080 (c)
+---------------------------------------------+
| "Those who cannot remember the past |
| are condemned to repeat it." |
| -- George Santayana |
+---------------------------------------------+
--
jesus m. rodriguez | jesusr(a)redhat.com
principal software engineer | irc: zeus
red hat systems management | 919.754.4413 (w)
rhce # 805008586930012 | 919.623.0080 (c)
+---------------------------------------------+
| "Those who cannot remember the past |
| are condemned to repeat it." |
| -- George Santayana |
+---------------------------------------------+
Might be interesting.
LZ
----- Forwarded message from Lukas Zapletal <lzap(a)redhat.com> -----
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:00:19 +0100
From: Lukas Zapletal <lzap(a)redhat.com>
To: katello-devel(a)redhat.com
Subject: [katello-devel] Manifest cat utility
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Guys,
I wrote a simple script that prints useful information from manifest ZIP
file. Its here:
git:scripts/catmf
Be sure you symlink it to your $HOME/bin dir, very useful.
Example session (fake manifest):
$ catmf fake-manifest.zip
Product: rand-19248 (rand-99053)
Product: rand-64228 (rand-66393)
Entitlement (ff808081336da11101336da917760007):
Product: rand-64228 (rand-66393)
Pool Id: ff808081336da11101336da917760007
Quantity: 30
Contract:
Account: 76534
Ends: 2025-05-29T00:00:00.000+0000
Entitlement (ff808081336da11101336da917fe0009):
Product: rand-19248 (rand-99053)
Pool Id: ff808081336da11101336da917fe0009
Quantity: 20
Contract:
Account: 12345
Ends: 2025-05-29T00:00:00.000+0000
Real one: http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/69673
--
Later,
Lukas Zapletal | E32E400A
RHN Satellite Engineering
Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Brno
_______________________________________________
katello-devel mailing list
katello-devel(a)redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/katello-devel
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Later,
Lukas Zapletal | E32E400A
RHN Satellite Engineering
Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Brno