Recommended update for rhnlib, spacewalk-client-tools, spacewalksd, suseRegisterInfo

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for rhnlib, spacewalk-client-tools, spacewalksd, suseRegisterInfo
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:2925-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1015136 #1019360 #1025312 #1031667 #1049936 #974864 #990738 #994619 #998185
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4
    		•

    An update that has 9 recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:

    This update for rhnlib, spacewalk-client-tools, spacewalksd and
    suseRegisterInfo provides fixes and enhancements.

    rhnlib (update to 2.7.2.1):

    - Support all TLS versions in rpclib. (bsc#1025312)
    - Add function aliases for backward compatibility. (bsc#998185)
    - Set one required attribute to be compatible with all xmlrpclib versions.
    - Don't use tmpDir configuration from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.
    - Multiple Python 2 and 3 compatibility fixes.

    spacewalk-client-tools (update to 2.7.6.2):

    - Enable detection of Oracle Linux during registration.
    - Fix reboot message to use correct product name. (bsc#1031667)
    - Fix UnicodeDecodeError when running rhnreg_ks with a different locale
    than en_US.
    - Resolve /etc/hostname if not FQDN on traditional registration.
    (bsc#1019360)
    - Prevent crashes if machine-id is None. (bsc#994619)
    - Ignore packages with not UTF-8 characters in name, version and release.
    (bsc#990738)
    - Convert dbus.Int32 to int to fix a TypeError during registration.
    (bsc#974864)
    - Replace upstream subscription counting with new subscription matching.
    (fate#311619)
    - Multiple Python 2 and 3 compatibility fixes.

    spacewalksd (update to 5.0.26):

    - Fix permissions of PID files in spacewalksd. (bsc#1049936)
    - Use spacewalk-update-status only on registered systems. (bsc#1015136)

    suseRegisterInfo (update to 3.1.1)

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:
      zypper in -t patch slessp4-rhnlib-13335=1

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
      • rhnlib-2.7.2.1-12.3.1
      • spacewalksd-5.0.26.3-10.3.1
      • suseRegisterInfo-3.1.1-15.3.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (noarch):
      • spacewalk-check-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
      • spacewalk-client-setup-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
      • spacewalk-client-tools-2.7.6.2-22.3.1

    References: