Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:2259-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12

An update that has 11 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for the SUSE Manager Client Tools provides several fixes and improvements.

The following new package has been added:

supportutils-plugin-susemanager-client (bsc#1052039)

Additionally, the following issues have been fixed:

cobbler:

  • Fix missing arguments and location for Xen. (bsc#1048183)

hwdata:

  • Update to version 0.301. (bsc#1053415)

osad:

  • Reduce maximal size of osad log before rotating.
  • Perform osad restart in posttrans. (bsc#1039913)

spacecmd:

  • Configchannel export binary flag to json. (bsc#1044719)
  • Spacecmd report_outofdatesystems: Avoid one XMLRPC call per system. (bsc#1015882)

spacewalk-backend:

  • Make master_label static to keep its value when retrying. (bsc#1038321)
  • Adapt for the new gpgcheck flag for the channels.
  • Removing conflicting epoch fix. (bsc#1042861)
  • Remove not implemented option --force-all-packages. (bsc#1040194)
  • Fix parsing oscap results. Not every Rule has an XCCDF ID Tag. (bsc#1041992)
  • Move to different file to not conflict with web.default_mail_from in Java code.
  • Don't trim channel content if there is major sync error in any repository.
  • Rhn-charsets is meant to be run only under root user.
  • Unable to run cdn-sync if older channels do not exist anymore.

spacewalksd:

  • Fix permissions of PID files in spacewalksd. (bsc#1049936)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2017-1385=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (noarch)
    • osad-5.11.80.3-31.3.1
    • supportutils-plugin-susemanager-client-3.1.2-6.3.1
    • rhnpush-5.5.104.3-18.3.1
    • osa-common-5.11.80.3-31.3.1
    • spacewalk-backend-libs-2.7.73.7-55.3.1
    • spacecmd-2.7.8.6-38.3.1
    • koan-2.6.6-49.3.1
    • hwdata-0.301-10.3.1
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • spacewalksd-debugsource-5.0.26.3-24.3.1
    • spacewalksd-5.0.26.3-24.3.1
    • zypp-plugin-spacewalk-0.9.16-30.3.1
    • spacewalksd-debuginfo-5.0.26.3-24.3.1

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