Recommended update for quota

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:1133-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4

An update that contains one feature and has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for quota fixes the following issues:

Quota was updated to the 4.05 release (jsc#SLE-5734).

  • This release includes mostly various smaller cleanups and fixes in various areas.
  • Most visible changes are addition of f2fs and exfs among recognized filesystems.
  • support for new kernel interface that allows for repquota(8) to work reliably also for XFS or ext4 with quota feature and generally other filesystem where quota files are not available to quota-tools
  • IPv6 support for rpc.quotad and all other tools.
  • Tons of various fixes

Other changes:

  • Remove quot binary functionality could be achieved by using repquota instead
  • Fixed high cpu load issue (bsc#1104898)
  • Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new %_fillupdir macro (bsc#1069468)
  • Enable ldapmail feature (bsc#1055450)

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 Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1133=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1133=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 (x86_64)
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • quota-nfs-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debugsource-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-nfs-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1
    • quota-debuginfo-4.05-6.3.1

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