Chapter 4. 4.1.2 Release Notes

Previously, when you reran an instance of RHUI Installer which was not up-to-date, RHUI Installer updated the RHUI packages if newer versions were available. As a result, the RHUI system would enter an inconsistent state since the older version of the RHUI Installer package was not aware of potential changes to the RHUI package set.

In addition, running RHUI Installer to change a setting, without updating RHUI in the process, was not supported.

With this update, when you rerun RHUI Installer, it checks whether a newer version is available. If available, RHUI Installer displays an error message stating that you must either update the RHUI Installer package, or rerun the RHUI Installer command using the --ignore-newer-rhui-packages argument. The --ignore-newer-rhui-packages argument prevents the installer from applying any RHUI updates.

When updating from RHUI version 4.1.0 or older, rhui-installer ignores the existing custom RHUI CA and generates a new RHUI CA regardless of the parameter value set in the answer.yml file. Consequently, RHUI fails to recognize clients which use the older RHUI CA. To work around this problem, specify the custom RHUI CA when running the rhui-installer --rerun command.

rhui-installer --rerun --user-supplied-rhui-ca-crt <custom_RHUI_CA.crt> --user-supplied-rhui-ca-key <custom_RHUI_CA_key>

# rhui-installer --rerun --user-supplied-rhui-ca-crt <custom_RHUI_CA.crt> --user-supplied-rhui-ca-key <custom_RHUI_CA_key>

For more information, see Updating Red Hat Update Infrastructure.