On 30 May 2017 at 16:31, Evgeni Golov <[email protected]> wrote:

> > >  - yum clean all, all good
> > >  - yum upgrade doesn't recognise new repos. If I look into
> > > /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo and the new products aren't listed in that
> > > file.
> > >
> > > In order to get it to work, traditionally I've then performed:
> > >
> > > subscription-manager identity
> > > subscription-manager unsubscribe
> > > subscription-manager register --org="ACMI" --activationkey="Utility
> > > Server"
> >
> > I have discovered that my traditional method was finally deprecated and
> it
> > didn't work.
> >
> > But I also found that the slightly easier work around works:
> >
> > subscription-manager repos
> >
> > For whatever reason, that refreshes the redhat.repo.
>
> So would "subscription-manager refresh".
> When you change repos, your subscription changes, but it is not pulled
> in on every yum invocation.
>
> You can set full_refresh_on_yum = 1 in rhsm.conf, but even then not
> every aspect is properly updated [1].
>
> Also, I would suggest against using sub-man unregister && sub-man
> register as a cluebat workaround. The subscription certificate is also
> used for katello-agent, and if you don't restart it after doing the
> sub-man dance, you end up without the ability to apply errata via
> katello-agent.
>



Ah! Thanks. That's great information to know - I'll start using that method.

I find the documentation around subscription-manager to be a little opaque
to be honest.

cheers
L.



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