Recommended update for parted

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:2741-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

An update that has nine fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for parted fixes the following issues:

  • Fix an endianness bug failing the creation of GPT partition tables in blkpg handling on s390x (bsc#1104667)
  • mkpart: Allow empty quoted string "''" or '""' for the GPT partition name in script mode (bsc#1023818, bsc#1032562)
  • Fix starting CHS in protective MBR (bsc#969165)
  • Fixes an issue where partition names for dm devices didn't match kpartx (bsc#1056508)
  • Fixes a partition device naming issue for all devices (bsc#1078820, bsc#1081547)

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 CaaS Platform 3.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

Package List:

  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 (x86_64)
    • libparted0-3.1-35.3.17
    • libparted0-debuginfo-3.1-35.3.17
    • parted-debugsource-3.1-35.3.17
    • parted-debuginfo-3.1-35.3.17
    • parted-3.1-35.3.17

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