[WIP] spec: Avoid DNF warnings on traditional Fedora hosts and DNF on atomics #3509
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It will be good to make it easier to have gratis, self-supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OCI containers on Fedora Silverblue and Workstation
through the RHEL Developer Suite subscription [1]. This includes Toolbx
containers created with:
$ toolbox create --distro rhel --release 9.5
However, when subscription-manager was installed on a Fedora host with
DNF4, the subscription-manager DNF plugin printed some spurious warning
messages that users didn't like because it made them think that
something is wrong. eg., when the host is unregistered:
$ sudo dnf update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use
subscription-manager to register.
Last metadata expiration check: ...
Or, when the host has been registered:
$ sudo dnf update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
This system is registered with an entitlement server, but is not
receiving updates. You can use subscription-manager to assign
subscriptions.
Last metadata expiration check: ...
These warnings have no relevance in Fedora, because the purpose of using
subscription-manager(8) on a Fedora host is to access RHEL content in
OCI containers. There is no need for RHEL content on the Fedora host
itself.
Note that these warnings aren't visible on Fedora hosts with DNF5
because the subscription-manager plugin doesn't work with it.
Secondly, until now, subscription-manager had %{_bindir}/dnf-3 and
%{_bindir}/dnf4 in its dependency chain. This meant that installing
subscription-manager on Fedora Silverblue pulled them in, even though
those executables shouldn't be present on Silverblue because they don't
work there.
Both these problems can be addressed by disabling the DNF and libdnf
plugins on Fedora.
[1] https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246833
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262228
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Here is an initial scratch build for Fedora 41: It seems to work. I am now trying to ensure that |
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It will be good to make it easier to have gratis, self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux OCI containers on Fedora Silverblue and Workstation through the RHEL Developer Suite subscription. This includes Toolbx containers created with:
$ toolbox create --distro rhel --release 9.5However, when
subscription-managerwas installed on a Fedora host with DNF4, thesubscription-managerDNF plugin printed some spurious warning messages that users didn't like because it made them think that something is wrong. eg., when the host is unregistered:Or, when the host has been registered:
These warnings have no relevance in Fedora, because the purpose of using
subscription-manager(8)on a Fedora host is to access RHEL content in OCI containers. There is no need for RHEL content on the Fedora host itself.Note that these warnings aren't visible on Fedora hosts with DNF5 because the subscription-manager plugin doesn't work with it.
Secondly, until now,
subscription-managerhad%{_bindir}/dnf-3and%{_bindir}/dnf4in its dependency chain. This meant that installingsubscription-manageron Fedora Silverblue pulled them in, even though those executables shouldn't be present on Silverblue because they don't work there.Both these problems can be addressed by disabling the DNF and libdnf plugins on Fedora.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246833
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262228