Recommended update for python-kiwi

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:0344-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Development Tools Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that has nine fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-kiwi fixes the following issues:

  • Update libyui-ncurses-pkg10 to libyui-ncurses-pkg11 Tumbleweed there is no longer the libyui-ncurses-pkg10 its been superseded by libyui-ncurses-pkg11. (bsc#1159538)
  • Fix grub2 configuration for shim fallback setup if shim fallback setup is enabled the grub.cfg is copied to the EFI partition. (bsc#1159235, bsc#1155815)
  • No swap volume is added on btrfs as the volume manager is not LVM, so swap has its own volume. (bsc#1156908)
  • Fixed setup of default grub config preventing grub2-mkconfig to place the root device information twice. (bsc#1156908)
  • Include 'grub.cfg' inside the efi partition the vfat. (bsc#1157354)
  • Fix for kiwi relative path in repository element. (bsc#1157104)
  • Fixed 'zipl' bootloader setup for 's390' images. (bsc#1156694)
  • Fix the sha256 generated file content in a 'kiwi result bundle' call includes the filename with the correct extension. (bsc#1139915)
  • Fixed rpmdb compat link setup removing the hardcoded path '/var/lib/rpm' and use the rpm macro definition instead. (bsc#1150190)

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:

  • Development Tools Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP1-2020-344=1

Package List:

  • Development Tools Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • kiwi-tools-debuginfo-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • dracut-kiwi-live-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • kiwi-tools-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • python3-kiwi-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • dracut-kiwi-lib-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • python-kiwi-debugsource-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • kiwi-man-pages-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • dracut-kiwi-overlay-9.19.8-3.9.1
    • dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-9.19.8-3.9.1
  • Development Tools Module 15-SP1 (x86_64)
    • kiwi-pxeboot-9.19.8-3.9.1

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