May 2021 - ARCHIVED: Uyuni Development

Merging custom CentOS packages to Master
by Stefan Bluhm 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hello all, Next big activity is pushing the required CentOS 8 packages to the Uyuni Master branches. The distribution of packages to repositories on the Uyuni Server are: - Uyuni Master: 98 + Uyuni Master Other: 58 - New custom packages: 46 - EPEL: 34 - PowerTools: 50 - CentOS 8 BaseOS: 477 + CentOS 8 AppStream: 196 1) I would push my newly created custom packages including kits to "Uyuni Master Other". Are there any guidelines? Otherwise I would just split out the change log of the spec file and submit. 2) What do we do about the EPEL and PowerTools packages? I feel a bit uneasy of pushing 84 packages (+ probable build dependencies) to OPS. Especially when you consider that these packages need to be maintained and monitored for security fixes. 3) One more (not so pleasant) thought is the module system. Installation requires activation of 10 modules and deactivation of 2 more modules. If we go for loading all packages of point 2) into OBS, we might as well add the ones from the modules and create an Uyuni Server module (one per major release?). That would simplify the user experience and probably use the module system as intended (but kill maintainability...). Let me know your thoughts and ways to continue. Best wishes, Stefan

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Fix for a problem syncing Debian/Ubuntu client tools
by Julio Gonzalez 28 May '21

28 May '21

Hi, Thanks to a report from Markus Thum, we realized that the repository syncing scripts did not support DEB packages without a Maintainer field at the control file. This was never a problem because Debian and Ubuntu DEB packages always have this field (it is mandatory according to their policies). But the new "scap-security-guide-*" DEBs don't have this field at this moment. We intend to fix this in collaboration with the SLE package maintaners (as we just build the package for Ubuntu/Debian from their sources), but that is going to take some time, and it would require republishing the client tools for Uyuni. While this problem does not break the repository syncing scripts, it shows an error on-screen, or at the logs (that produces an email each time an automated sync is launched). For this reason we decided to use the Patch procedure to fix this issue at the server (in the end packages without the Maintaner field are valid [1]), instead of waiting until Uyuni 2021.06 is released. You can apply the patch by following the instructions at: https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/patches.html#server Of course, the fix will be part of Uyuni 2021.06 as well, so it's not required if you don't manage Debian or Ubuntu clients. Best regards. [1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dpkg-dev/deb-control.5.en.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Uyuni 2021.05 is released!
by Julio Gonzalez 24 May '21

24 May '21

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Uyuni 2021.05 At https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html you will find all the resources you need to start working with Uyuni 2021.05, including the release notes, documentation, requirements and setup instructions. IMPORTANT: Read the release notes. Depending on your current Uyuni version some more manual steps can be required to update the Server (for example if your current version is < 2021.05) This is the list of highlights for this release: - SLE Micro 5.0 and openSUSE MicroOS as clients - Deprecated products (RHEL6 and clones, Ubuntu16.04) - Prometheus TLS - Updated Prometheus - Migrate clients from openSUSE Leap to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - Easier system group and configuration channel assignment - Enhanced CLM filter list - Notify beacon for DEB-based clients - Allow setting primary FQDN for the systems - Virtualization improvements - Custom data as pillar - Retracted patches - Client systems forwarded to SUSE Customer Center - Configuration state summary - Live patching made easy with filter templates - HTML documentation for the API - New API calls - spacecmd improvements - Activation key dropped from system details - Software Crashes (ABRT) dropped Please check the release notes for full details. Remember that Uyuni follows a rolling release planning, so the next version will contain bugfixes for this one and any new features. There will be no maintenance of 2021.05 As always, we hope you will enjoy Uyuni 2021.05 and we invite everyone of you to send us your feedback [1] and of course your patches, if you can contribute. Happy hacking! [1] https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/contact.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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GSoC 2021
by Riya Kalra 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hi everyone! I am Riya Kalra, a 3rd year student of B.Sc (hons) computer science at University of Delhi, India. I am elated to share that I have been selected as a GSoC 2021 student with OpenSuse. This would not have been possible without the constant support and guidance of Cedric Bosdonnat and Pau Garcia Quiles. I would be working on the 'Convert virtual systems page to ReactJs' project under the mentorship of Cedric Bosdonnat. I am very delighted to be a part of the Opensuse community and looking forward to make valuable contributions to the community.

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aarch64 available for Server/Proxy for Uyuni Master
by Julio Gonzalez 17 May '21

17 May '21

Hi everyone, aarch64 is now enabled for the Master project [1]. Big thanks to Guillaume Gardet for helping us with the first steps and the initial testing! This means you can now install Uyuni Master Server on top of openSUSE Leap 15.2 aarch64 by following the instructions at https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/devel-version.html The proxy can be installed by following the doc, and replacing x86_64 with aarch64 where appropriate (doc is not updated yet). Remember that Uyuni Master must not be used for production purposes!!!! Before we launch it as Stable, we want to gather some feedback from the community (as discussed during the last Community Hours). - If you give it a try and you don't find any issues, let's us know by replying to this email. - If you find issues, you can reply as well, but even a better alternative is creating an issue at https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues Happy hacking! [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Coming back to open RHEL8 topics
by Stefan Bluhm 10 May '21

10 May '21

Hello all, I am trying to close the pending items from my side. 1. Can you please pick up cobbler 3.2 from upstream? This one builds on CentOS 8 https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master/cobb… 2. xstream seems to have been deleted. This one will be required back again for CentOS (but in a higher version so this might now fall into the next point). https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:O… 3. I had to create 66 packages that are not available in the default CentOS8 base and appstreams. - How would you like me to go about submitting them? What are the guidelines to follow? Some of them are currently just imports of the Fedora RPMs, modified RPMs or self creations. - Some of the Java packages are created using tetra. What should I do with the kit files? Overall Current status: My test repository has now started to fail with time so it will need some rework to update on packages (at the moment I can only see xstream missing). https://www.bluhm-de.com/content/os-tools/en/applications/uyuni/installing-… Thank you and best wishes, Stefan

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Uyuni Community Hours 28.05.2021
by Pau Garcia 09 May '21

09 May '21

Uyuni Community Hours are held every last Friday of the month, at 4pm CET. The latest developments around Uyuni are presented and the community can ask question, provide feedback, request or suggest features or enhancements, etc to the Product Owner and members of the development team. Uyuni is the upstream project of SUSE Manager. ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NDZmYWUyZWItMzhhOC00…> Or call in (audio only) +34 917 94 59 77,,946463263#<tel:+34917945977,,946463263#> Spain, Madrid Phone Conference ID: 946 463 263# Find a local number<https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d?id=…> | Reset PIN<https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=83d1ce03-a2c8-4530-…> ________________________________________________________________________________

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New repository: Uyuni Contrib
by Jochen Breuer 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear Uyuni community, I'm happy to let you know that we've release the Uyuni Contrib repository [0]. Uyuni Contrib contains tools that are not part of the core Uyuni system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main repository. This does not preclude their usefulness. So please use them with caution! Uyuni Contrib has currently two folder: * hubtools: Tools to install and configure SUSE Manager Hub. * uyuni-tools: Collection of useful Uyuni Tools. In order to use the tools with your Uyuni installation, you can simply download and extract the ZIP file [1] from GitHub to, for example, /opt. You Uyuni installation should have all dependencies needed to run all the tools. For more information, please check the corresponding README files: * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/README.md * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/hubtools/README.md * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/uyuni-tools/README.md Happy hacking! Jochen [0] https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/ [1] https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer

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