Issued:

2012-07-13

Updated:

2012-07-13

RHBA-2012:1073 - subscription-manager bug fix update

Synopsis

subscription-manager bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated subscription-manager packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Subscription Manager tool allows users to understand the specific products which have been installed on their machines, and the specific subscriptions which their machines are consuming.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, CLI (command-line interface) calls to "subscription-manager release --list" were ignoring the command-line proxy options. As a consequence, running the command with proxy configuration values specified as arguments resulted in the proxy settings from the configuration file being used instead of those specified on the CLI. With this update, if the user specifies a proxy using command-line options, these values correctly override corresponding proxy settings in the rhsm.conf file when the command is run. (BZ#833390)

• Client ID certificates expire after one year, and previously could be regenerated only manually by the user. With this update, the client can automatically retrieve an updated client ID certificate from the entitlement server if this is supported by the target instance. (BZ#834558)

All users of subscription-manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.src.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
• subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-firstboot-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-gnome-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
• subscription-manager-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
• subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
• subscription-manager-migration-0.99.19.4-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 833390
• This content is not included.BZ - 834558

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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