Migration to venv-salt-minion does not copy grains information

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.3
susemanager-sls-4.3.18-150400.1.2.noarch

Situation

When executing the migration to the Salt Bundle (see https://documentation.suse.com/suma/4.3/en/suse-manager/client-configuration/contact-methods-saltbundle.html for details), existing grains information in /etc/salt/grains is not being copied to the new /etc/venv-salt-minion directory.

Resolution

Workaround:

Until a fix will be provided with a regular maintenance update, please add these lines to /usr/share/susemanager/salt/util/mgr_switch_to_venv_minion.sls:

mgr_copy_salt_grains:
file.copy:
- name: /etc/venv-salt-minion/grains
- source: /etc/salt/grains
- require:
- pkg: mgr_venv_salt_minion_pkg
- onlyif:
- test -f /etc/salt/grains

This will copy /etc/salt/grains to /etc/venv-salt-minion during the migration. For already completed migrations please copy the file manually.

Additional Information

Procedure:

1. On SUSE Manager:

cp /usr/share/susemanager/salt/util/mgr_switch_to_venv_minion.sls /usr/share/susemanager/salt/util/mgr_switch_to_venv_minion.sls.backup

2. Edit the file and add the lines mentioned in the Resolution section of this article.

3. When done, compare the files using diff. The output returned should be similar to:

diff /usr/share/susemanager/salt/util/mgr_switch_to_venv_minion.sls /usr/share/susemanager/salt/util/mgr_switch_to_venv_minion.sls.backup
29,37d28
< mgr_copy_salt_grains:
< file.copy:
< - name: /etc/venv-salt-minion/grains
< - source: /etc/salt/grains
< - require:
< - pkg: mgr_venv_salt_minion_pkg
< - onlyif:
< - test -f /etc/salt/grains

4. Continue with the migration as outlined in the documentation.

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