Debian Client Support in Foreman/Katello

fpa · August 12, 2019, 10:57am

Problem:
Register Debian Client to Foreman/Katello
Expected outcome:
Debian Client registered in Foreman/Katello
Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman 1.22.0
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
Katello 3.12
Other relevant data:
I have created a Debian Stretch Repository inside Foreman, built a Content View , created an Activation Key with this Content View and tried to add a debian 9 System to foreman using https://pypi.org/project/deb-subscription/ with
deb_subscription --fqdn --organization --location --activation_key

This results in the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/deb_subscription”, line 112, in
entry = ‘deb%shttps://%s/pulp/deb/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s %s %s\n’ % (trusted, KatelloBase.fqdn, org, environment_name, content_view_name, repository[‘product_type’], repository[‘product’][‘name’], repository[‘name’], release, components)
KeyError: ‘product_type’

Is there any other recommended way to register Debian Clients to Foreman ?
How far is debian supported by foreman anyway ?


logs

Bernhard_Suttner · August 12, 2019, 11:30am

Never tried deb-subscription. You should use https://github.com/candlepin/subscription-manager
In this repository, the debian pkgs build instructions are available under contrib/debian.

dIELERx · September 10, 2019, 7:58am

Is there anyone who successfully built the deb package from source?
I cant find the build instructions in the repo. The commit says " Adding debian / ubuntu package build instructions", but I cannot find those instructions in his commit or the whole repo.

I tried to build it, but tbh, I am not very familiar with building deb packages.

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package subscription-manager
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.25.1-2
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Bernhard Suttner <suttner@atix.de>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build contrib
dpkg-source: info: using options from contrib/debian/source/options: --extend-diff-ignore=^[^/]*[.]egg-info/
 debian/rules clean
dh clean --with python2 --buildsystem=pybuild
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
dh_auto_clean
	pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 2.7
W: pybuild base:249: missing command (plugin=custom, method=clean, interpreter=python2.7, version=2.7)
	rm -rf .pybuild/
	find . -name \*.pyc -exec rm {} \;
rm -rf build
rm -rf *.egg-info
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
   dh_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
	rm -f debian/debhelper-build-stamp
	rm -rf debian/.debhelper/
	rm -f debian/apt-transport-katello.debhelper.log debian/katello-upload-profile.debhelper.log debian/python-subscription-manager-doc.debhelper.log debian/python-subscription-manager.debhelper.log
	rm -f -- debian/python-subscription-manager.substvars debian/python-subscription-manager-doc.substvars debian/apt-transport-katello.substvars debian/katello-upload-profile.substvars debian/files
	rm -fr -- debian/python-subscription-manager/ debian/tmp/ debian/python-subscription-manager-doc/ debian/apt-transport-katello/ debian/katello-upload-profile/
	find .  \( \( \
		\( -path .\*/.git -o -path .\*/.svn -o -path .\*/.bzr -o -path .\*/.hg -o -path .\*/CVS -o -path .\*/.pc -o -path .\*/_darcs \) -prune -o -type f -a \
	        \( -name '#*#' -o -name '.*~' -o -name '*~' -o -name DEADJOE \
		 -o -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*.bak' \
		 -o -name '.*.orig' -o -name .*.rej -o -name '.SUMS' \
		 -o -name TAGS -o \( -path '*/.deps/*' -a -name '*.P' \) \
		\) -exec rm -f {} + \) -o \
		\( -type d -a -name autom4te.cache -prune -exec rm -rf {} + \) \)
 dpkg-source -b contrib
dpkg-source: info: using options from contrib/debian/source/options: --extend-diff-ignore=^[^/]*[.]egg-info/
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../subscription-manager_1.25.1.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b contrib subprocess returned exit status 255

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc

dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package subscription-manager
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.25.1-2
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Bernhard Suttner <suttner@atix.de>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build contrib
dpkg-source: info: using options from contrib/debian/source/options: --extend-diff-ignore=^[^/]*[.]egg-info/
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with python2 --buildsystem=pybuild
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
dh_auto_clean
	pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 2.7
W: pybuild base:249: missing command (plugin=custom, method=clean, interpreter=python2.7, version=2.7)
	rm -rf .pybuild/
	find . -name \*.pyc -exec rm {} \;
rm -rf build
rm -rf *.egg-info
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
   dh_clean -O--buildsystem=pybuild
	rm -f debian/debhelper-build-stamp
	rm -rf debian/.debhelper/
	rm -f debian/apt-transport-katello.debhelper.log debian/katello-upload-profile.debhelper.log debian/python-subscription-manager-doc.debhelper.log debian/python-subscription-manager.debhelper.log
	rm -f -- debian/python-subscription-manager.substvars debian/python-subscription-manager-doc.substvars debian/apt-transport-katello.substvars debian/katello-upload-profile.substvars debian/files
	rm -fr -- debian/python-subscription-manager/ debian/tmp/ debian/python-subscription-manager-doc/ debian/apt-transport-katello/ debian/katello-upload-profile/
	find .  \( \( \
		\( -path .\*/.git -o -path .\*/.svn -o -path .\*/.bzr -o -path .\*/.hg -o -path .\*/CVS -o -path .\*/.pc -o -path .\*/_darcs \) -prune -o -type f -a \
	        \( -name '#*#' -o -name '.*~' -o -name '*~' -o -name DEADJOE \
		 -o -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*.bak' \
		 -o -name '.*.orig' -o -name .*.rej -o -name '.SUMS' \
		 -o -name TAGS -o \( -path '*/.deps/*' -a -name '*.P' \) \
		\) -exec rm -f {} + \) -o \
		\( -type d -a -name autom4te.cache -prune -exec rm -rf {} + \) \)
 debian/rules build
dh build --with python2 --buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=pybuild
   dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=pybuild
	pybuild --configure -i python{version} -p 2.7
W: pybuild base:249: missing command (plugin=custom, method=configure, interpreter=python2.7, version=2.7)
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
make -f Makefile GTK_VERSION=2 OS_DIST=debian PREFIX=/usr
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
make[2]: Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'Makefile'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager/contrib'
debian/rules:12: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

Tony_Coffman · September 10, 2019, 1:20pm

I buiilt it from source last week on Xenial. I didn’t document it exactly but here were the rough steps I used.

I have no idea if these steps are right but the package was built and seems functional.

git clone

Install build tools
apt install build-essential fakeroot devscripts equivs lintian dpatch quilt

Install build dependencies
apt install debhelper dh-python libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev lsb-release pkg-config python-all python-setuptools intltool python-dbus python-kitchen python-flake8 python-freezegun python-polib python-coverage python-dev

cd into the source tree

mv contrib/debian …
(move the debian dir up one level in the source tree)

debuild -b -uc -us

FYI - I ran into an issue after I built it where the rhsm.sources file doesn’t seem to use the subscription info to populate the Suites and Components components field correctly. So this means you can subscribe a system and get a sources file built but you’ll get 404 errors when it actually tries to hit the pulp repos. I posted about that in another thread but I think I’m going to need the ATIX guys to chime in to help with that one.

Tony_Coffman · September 10, 2019, 1:24pm

Ahh - I think I ran into the issue you’re seeing. There was a hardcoded path in a sed replacement. I think it was in the debian/rules file. I had to replace lib64 with lib or vice versa.

dIELERx · September 10, 2019, 3:12pm

Thanks for the infos. You helped me to get a bit closer to the finish line

One thing I didnt do was moving /contrib/debian to the root path.
Afterwards I could step a bit further, but I had a lot problem regarding openssl during compiling.
After installing libssl-dev, those errors were also fixed.

But now I am running into the following error:

copying build/dbus/systemd/rhsm-facts.service -> debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib/systemd/system
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
creating subscription_manager.egg-info
writing requirements to subscription_manager.egg-info/requires.txt
writing subscription_manager.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to subscription_manager.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to subscription_manager.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to subscription_manager.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing manifest file 'subscription_manager.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'subscription_manager.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'subscription_manager.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Copying subscription_manager.egg-info to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager-1.26.2-py2.7.egg-info
running install_scripts
Installing rhsmd script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rct script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rhsm-facts-service script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rhsm-service script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing subscription-manager script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rhsm-debug script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing rhsmcertd-worker script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
Installing subscription-manager-gui script to debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/bin
mkdir -p debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/sbin/
mkdir -p debian/python-subscription-manager//
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/subscription-manager debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/sbin/
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/sbin/
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/rhsmcertd-worker debian/python-subscription-manager//
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/rhsm-service debian/python-subscription-manager//
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/rhsm-facts-service debian/python-subscription-manager//
mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/rhsmd debian/python-subscription-manager//
if [[ "true" == "true" ]]; then \
	mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/subscription-manager-gui debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/sbin/; \
else \
	rm debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/subscription-manager-gui; \
fi; \
if [[ "0" = "1" ]]; then \
	mv debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/bin/syspurpose debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/sbin/; \
fi;
find debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages -name requires.txt -exec sed -i '/dbus-python/d' {} \;
find: ‘debian/python-subscription-manager//usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages’: No such file or directory
Makefile:313: recipe for target 'install-via-setup' failed
make[2]: *** [install-via-setup] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager'
debian/rules:24: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_install' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/subscription-manager'
debian/rules:12: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-indep subprocess returned exit status 2

I think this is the same problem you had in the past. ... /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages’: No such file or directory

Therefore i replaced lib with lib64 in the debian/rules file, but this does not seem to change anything, which looks like this now:
sed -i -e '/dbus-python/d' debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager-1.25.1-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt

dIELERx · September 10, 2019, 3:42pm

I fixed the error. Compiling works now.

Change the ‘sed’ line in debian/rules was correct. But its not the lib, its the hardcoded version:
Change the following line:

sed -i -e '/dbus-python/d' debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager-1.25.1-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt

into (it might depend on your version)

sed -i -e '/dbus-python/d' debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager-1.26.2-py2.7.egg-info/requires.txt

dIELERx · September 11, 2019, 7:54am

Oh and I forgot one thing to mention: One line in the Makefile has to be changed:

PYTHON_SITELIB ?= $(PREFIX)/lib64/$(PYTHON_VER)/site-packages

to

PYTHON_SITELIB ?= $(PREFIX)/lib/$(PYTHON_VER)/site-packages

Now compiling should be successfull

valenbb · October 6, 2019, 2:28am

These steps work, thank you.
What’s the next step once it is done building. This is my first time building.

Thanks,
AndyL

jost · October 22, 2019, 1:59pm

These steps works.

But now I have some other issue, questions. I have install all packages on ubuntu 18.04:

python-subscription-manager python-subscription-manager apt-transport-katello katello-upload-profile

server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 3.12.3-Unknown
subscription management rules: 5.35
subscription-manager: 1.26.4-1-9-gb47736bf

and register client to Foreman and I got this error during registration:

root@zubuntu:~# subscription-manager register --org=“bla” --activationkey=“ubuntu_1804_key”
’NoneType’ object is not callable
root@zubuntu:~#

and in /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log

2019-10-22 15:12:36,732 [INFO] subscription-manager:5303:MainThread @connection.py:905 - Connection built: host=foremansc.test.local port=443 handler=/rhsm auth=none
2019-10-22 15:12:43,931 [INFO] subscription-manager:5303:MainThread @managerlib.py:72 - Consumer created: zubuntu (75d0a750-ab07-4284-97a5-99540ec27397)
2019-10-22 15:12:43,933 [INFO] subscription-manager:5303:MainThread @connection.py:905 - Connection built: host=foremansc.test.local port=443 handler=/rhsm auth=identity_cert ca_dir=/etc/rhsm/ca/ insecure=False
2019-10-22 15:12:43,934 [ERROR] subscription-manager:5303:MainThread @managercli.py:216 - Error during registration: ‘NoneType’ object is not callable
2019-10-22 15:12:43,934 [ERROR] subscription-manager:5303:MainThread @managercli.py:217 - ‘NoneType’ object is not callable
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py”, line 1370, in _do_command
type=self.options.consumertype
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rhsmlib/services/register.py”, line 102, in register
store = syspurposelib.SyncedStore(uep, consumer_uuid=self.identity.uuid)
TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object is not callable

Can I ignore this error?

client is visible in Foreman. I would like to know:

do I have to create /etc/apt/sources.list by myself or should this be created automatically during registration, because I add apt repository to activation key?
I have also create Lifecycle Environment/Content View and if I have to create /etc/apt/sources.list by myself I just don’t understand if I promote new version with new patches this mean that all clients will see new CV even if I don’t promote to all environment. Is that correct?

Thanks

taylor1 · February 10, 2020, 5:58pm

Hi. I’m just setting this up now and followed lots of the help around (thanks everyone), and now am at this point, where the Suites and Components don’t get created correctly. I wasn’t able to find your other post. Was that resolved?

taylor1 · February 10, 2020, 6:08pm

Also it’s trying to download i386 architecture binaries, no idea where it got that from, and I can’t make up an Architecture option in the rhsm.sources file.

taylor1 · February 10, 2020, 6:21pm

In debian/python-subscription-manager/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subscription_manager/repofile.py around line 440, there’s this:

        apt_cont = content.copy()
        apt_cont['Types'] = 'deb'
        apt_cont['URIs'] = baseurl
        apt_cont['Suites'] = 'default'
        apt_cont['Components'] = 'all'
        apt_cont['Trusted'] = 'yes'
        return apt_cont

Looks like Suites and Components is hard-coded. I doubt I’ll be able to figure out how to get it to properly read anything out of the foreman server config, but if it helps anyone, that’s where it is.

besmirzanaj · May 4, 2020, 4:06pm

Sharing some steps I followed but facing the ’NoneType’ object is not callable from jost when issuing the “subscription-manager register” command

ubuntu 18 build notes

git clone https://github.com/ATIX-AG/subscription-manager.git
sudo apt install build-essential devscripts equivs
cd subscription-manager
cp -r contrib/debian .
dch -i # enter the release notes
mk-build-deps debian/control
sudo apt install ./subscription-manager-build-deps*.deb
dpkg-buildpackage -b

After build

bzanaj@ubuntu18:~/subscription-manager$ cd ..
bzanaj@ubuntu18:~$ ll *.deb
apt-transport-katello_1.25.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb
katello-upload-profile_1.25.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb
python-subscription-manager_1.25.1-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
python-subscription-manager-doc_1.25.1-2ubuntu1_all.deb

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install httpie jq libdw1 libjq1 liblua5.2-0 libnl-route-3-200 libnspr4 libnss3 libonig4 librpm8 librpmbuild8 librpmio8 librpmsign8 python-apt python-asn1crypto python-certifi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-cryptography python-debian python-decorator python-ethtool python-gobject python-gobject-2 python-idna python-iniparse python-ipaddress python-openssl python-requests python-rpm python-urllib3 python3-pygments rpm-common virt-what

Install the debs

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Get the sh script from katello-ca-consumer rpm and execute in the ubuntu system.

sudo bash katello-ca-consumer.sh 
sudo subscription-manager register --org="<ORG>" --activationkey="Ubuntu_1804_live"

repos

bzanaj@ubuntu18:~$ sudo subscription-manager repos
+----------------------------------------------------------+
    Available Repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Repo ID:   <ORG>_Ubuntu_18_Helper_Repo
Repo Name: Helper Repo
Repo URL:  https://foreman.server.com/pulp/deb/<ORG>/Live/Ubuntu_Content_View/custom/Ubuntu_18/Helper_Repo
Enabled:   1

rhsm.sources

bzanaj@ubuntu18:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rhsm.sources 
#
# Certificate-Based Repositories
# Managed by (rhsm) subscription-manager
#
# *** This file is auto-generated.  Changes made here will be over-written. ***
# *** Use "subscription-manager repo-override --help" if you wish to make changes. ***
#
# If this file is empty and this system is subscribed consider
# a "apt-get update" to refresh available repos
#
# *** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ***
#
Suites: default
sslverify: 1
enabled_metadata: 1
sslclientkey: /etc/pki/entitlement/<ID>-key.pem
sslclientcert: /etc/pki/entitlement/<ID>.pem
Trusted: yes
enabled: 1
baseurl: https://forema.server.com/pulp/deb/<ORG>/Live/Ubuntu_Content_View/custom/Ubuntu_18/Helper_Repo
id: <ORG>_Ubuntu_18_Helper_Repo
sslcacert: /etc/rhsm/ca/katello-server-ca.pem
Components: all
gpgcheck: 0
metadata_expire: 1
URIs: katello://3847035710451318546@foreman.server.com/pulp/deb/<ORG>/Live/Ubuntu_Content_View/custom/Ubuntu_18/Helper_Repo
Types: deb
name: Helper Repo

stephenc · May 7, 2020, 12:27am

It can be fixed by adjusting rhsm.sources suites and components to the correct values.

Rajeshunix13 · June 9, 2020, 5:25am

@taylor1, just specify architectures separated by , in repository.

i.e: amd64, i386

Rajeshunix13 · June 10, 2020, 3:28pm

@besmirzanaj
which release note have to specify in the file?. katello or foreman release note?

Rajeshunix13 · June 10, 2020, 4:13pm

@besmirzanaj,

sudo bash katello-ca-consumer.sh , from where we can get it?.

besmirzanaj · June 10, 2020, 4:31pm

Sorry I forgot the details on this step, adding a bit more info.

Download the certificate rpm package from katello on the same debian/ubuntu server you are using for building. then convert that package from RPM to a DEB. In the RPM there is basically just one bash script (the one in my previous comment)

replace that line with the following:
$ sudo alien -d katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
$ sudo chown $USER:$GROUPS katello-ca-consumer-foreman.domain.com_1.0-2_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f katello-ca-consumer-foreman.domain.com_1.0-2_all.deb

besmirzanaj · June 10, 2020, 4:36pm

these is the subscription manager version