Issued:
2012-07-13
Updated:
2012-07-13

RHBA-2012:1074 - subscription-manager bug fix update

Synopsis

subscription-manager bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated subscription-manager packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The subscription-manager package provides programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat Entitlement platform.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • 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#838091)

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

Solution

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

This update is available via 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • subscription-manager-migration-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.src.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-firstboot-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • subscription-manager-gnome-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • subscription-manager-migration-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-gnome-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-firstboot-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-firstboot-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • subscription-manager-migration-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • subscription-manager-firstboot-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.s390x.rpm
  • subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-gnome-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-migration-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-migration-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • subscription-manager-gnome-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
  • subscription-manager-firstboot-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ia64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-debuginfo-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
  • subscription-manager-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.ppc.rpm
  • subscription-manager-gnome-0.98.16.3-1.el5_8.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information