fix: CI: setup git repository properly

.github/workflows/pytest.yml

@@ -21,9 +21,31 @@ jobs:
       image: ${{ matrix.image }}
 
     steps:
+      - name: "Enable EPEL repository"
+        run: |
+          yum -y install epel-release
+
+      - name: "Install core packages"
+        run: |
+          yum install -y \
+            git-core gcc make python python-devel python-setuptools python-pip
+
       - name: "Checkout repository"
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
+      # We need to initiate the repository manually because Actions fallback
+      # to REST API with Git < 2.18; CentOS 7/RHEL 7 have 1.8.
+      # See https://github.com/actions/checkout#checkout-v3
+      # See https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/766
+      - name: "Initiate new git repository"
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
+          git config --global user.name "RHSM for RHEL 7 at GitHub Actions"
+          git init
+          git add .
+          git commit -m "Detached commit"
+          git config --global --add safe.directory '*'
+
       - name: "Run container-pre-test.sh"
         run: |
           bash scripts/container-pre-test.sh

scripts/container-pre-test.sh

@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-yum install -y epel-release
-
-# Install essential packages
-yum install -y \
-  git gcc make python python-devel python-setuptools python-pip
-
 # Install system, build and runtime packages
 yum install -y \
   gtk3-devel python-ethtool \

subscription-manager.spec

@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ Requires:  virt-what
 Requires:  %{rhsm_package_name} = %{version}
 Requires:  %{py_package_prefix}-six
 Requires:  %{py_package_prefix}-dateutil
-Requires: %{py_package_prefix}-syspurpose
+Requires:  %{py_package_prefix}-syspurpose
+Requires:  %{py_package_prefix}-requests
 
 # rhel 8 has different naming for setuptools going forward
 %if (0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} >= 8)