Packages and gpg-pubkey on RHEL5

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Hello,

I've been trying to fix a problem using bcfg2 1.1.1. When I run the client on a RHEL5 system, I see this in the server logs:

Jan 18 12:37:55 cfgserver bcfg2-server[23783]: Got unknown entries Jan 18 12:37:55 cfgserver bcfg2-server[23783]: gpg-pubkey?

I tried to find some documentation on making gpg-pubkey work with the Packages plugin, but the documentation is not particularly good:

1.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/appendix/guides/fedora.html mention BoundPackage? sections that won't even pass bcfg2-repo-validate

2.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/appendix/guides/converging_rhel5.html also mention BoundPackage? sections that won't even pass bcfg2-repo-validate, and it says type="yum" (which should fail, gpg-pubkey isn't in yum)

3.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/client/tools/yumng.html only mentions Pkgmgr settings

4.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/quickstart/centos.html actually mentions the version requirement (saying version="foo"), however, even with that set in a subscribed group, I still see in the Server logs the error about the unknown entry gpg-pubkey.

5.) Lastly, I'm not sure if it's related, but when I run the client, I alwas see this python trace: Unexpected failure of verification method for entry type Package Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/init.py", line 138, in Inventory

states[entry] = func(entry, mods)

File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/YUMng.py", line 451, in VerifyPackage?

_POs = [ p for p in POs if p.version == nevraversion? \

KeyError?: 'version'

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I removed a separate group entry which tried to add the gpg-pubkey "package", and that eliminated the python stack trace, #5.

[solj]

Replying to https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm53g_OvEixgi55cBdUXTHWrAwrQcK1PlU:

Hello,

I've been trying to fix a problem using bcfg2 1.1.1. When I run the client on a RHEL5 system, I see this in the server logs:

Jan 18 12:37:55 cfgserver bcfg2-server[23783]: Got unknown entries Jan 18 12:37:55 cfgserver bcfg2-server[23783]: gpg-pubkey?

I tried to find some documentation on making gpg-pubkey work with the Packages plugin, but the documentation is not particularly good:

1.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/appendix/guides/fedora.html mention BoundPackage? sections that won't even pass bcfg2-repo-validate

This documentation has been updated.

2.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/appendix/guides/converging_rhel5.html also mention BoundPackage? sections that won't even pass bcfg2-repo-validate, and it says type="yum" (which should fail, gpg-pubkey isn't in yum)

This documentation has been updated.

3.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/dev/client/tools/yumng.html only mentions Pkgmgr settings

This documentation still needs to be updated for the newer YUMng client tool.

4.) ​http://docs.bcfg2.org/quickstart/centos.html actually mentions the version requirement (saying version="foo"), however, even with that set in a subscribed group, I still see in the Server logs the error about the unknown entry gpg-pubkey.

The reason it shows up as an unknown entry is because Packages has no knowledge of gpg-pubkey rpms. Since Packages doesn't handle these, it is safe to ignore this message. The documentation has been updated to reflect this.

[solj]

Moving to 1.2.0. It looks like the main thing left to do here is to fully document the new YUMng client tool.

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gpg-pubkey handling is automatic in Bcfg2 1.2, so this is no longer an issue.