Recommended update for SUSE Manager
SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for SUSE Manager
This collective update for SUSE Manager 1.7 provides
enhancements and new features:
* SSH Server Push
* Add a script for automated user creation from LDAP
* Support recovery of failed schema upgrades
* Add new tool 'mgr-create-bootstrap-repo' to create
bootstrap repositories with current package versions
* Sync cobbler created tftpboot content to specified
proxies.
Additionally, the following issues have been fixed:
cobbler, koan:
* Fix restart of newly created para-virtualized Xen
systems
* Fix installation of full-virtualized Xen systems
* Add python-urlgrabber to the list of required
packages.
spacecmd:
* Various minor fixes.
spacewalk-backend:
* Write better error message if the GPG key is not
imported
* Show correct size for old RPMs larger than 2 GiB
* Do not read RPM into memory before transferring to
client
* If the database host is localhost, use Unix sockets
in backend
* Use FQDN in reposync error emails
* Do not change the channels on future actions request.
spacewalk-backend-libs:
* Add support to V4 RSA/SHA1 signature
* Fix Unicode encoding.
spacewalk-branding:
* Add missing descriptions for SUSE-only taskomatic
jobs.
spacewalk-client-tools:
* Fix CPU type for ppc64.
spacewalk-java:
* Fix "Can't do in-place edit" error message during
registration
* Make duplicate-hostname search case-insensitive
* Use the server timezone as the default for the first
user
* Do not create kickstart files for SUSE distributions
* Generate metadata always if not explicitly rejected
* Completed kickstarts still show up on 'currently
kickstarting' list
* Do not ignore the exit code for external programs
* Do not silence caught exceptions
* Fix WebUI's errata sync
* Only package build times should be converted to GMT
* Fix ISE when doing SP migration of SLE 11 SP1 SMT
spacewalk-search:
* Proper quoting for the zero length test.
spacewalk-web:
* Fix Oracle-specific outer join syntax, use of
PE.evr.*, and missing joins
* Display package list on page history/event.pxt.
susemanager:
* Make mgr-ncc-sync only sync vendor channels that have
URLs
* Test content of directory given with --from-dir
* Implement listing by products
* Fix mgr-register to not crash if product release is
empty.
susemanager-schema:
* Quote password passed to sqlplus to allow the use of
special characters.
How to apply this update:
1. Log in as root user to the SUSE Manager server. 2. Stop
the Spacewalk service: spacewalk-service stop 3. Apply
the patch using either zypper patch or YaST Online Update.
4. Upgrade the database schema with
spacewalk-schema-upgrade. 5. Start the Spacewalk service:
spacewalk-service start
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2013:0803-1 |
| Rating: | low |
| References: | #794651 #798807 #800758 #801151 #802144 #803124 #803866 #804445 #808278 #811025 #812046 #812599 #812948 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has 13 recommended fixes can now be installed. It includes 11 new package versions.
Description:
This collective update for SUSE Manager 1.7 provides
enhancements and new features:
* SSH Server Push
* Add a script for automated user creation from LDAP
* Support recovery of failed schema upgrades
* Add new tool 'mgr-create-bootstrap-repo' to create
bootstrap repositories with current package versions
* Sync cobbler created tftpboot content to specified
proxies.
Additionally, the following issues have been fixed:
cobbler, koan:
* Fix restart of newly created para-virtualized Xen
systems
* Fix installation of full-virtualized Xen systems
* Add python-urlgrabber to the list of required
packages.
spacecmd:
* Various minor fixes.
spacewalk-backend:
* Write better error message if the GPG key is not
imported
* Show correct size for old RPMs larger than 2 GiB
* Do not read RPM into memory before transferring to
client
* If the database host is localhost, use Unix sockets
in backend
* Use FQDN in reposync error emails
* Do not change the channels on future actions request.
spacewalk-backend-libs:
* Add support to V4 RSA/SHA1 signature
* Fix Unicode encoding.
spacewalk-branding:
* Add missing descriptions for SUSE-only taskomatic
jobs.
spacewalk-client-tools:
* Fix CPU type for ppc64.
spacewalk-java:
* Fix "Can't do in-place edit" error message during
registration
* Make duplicate-hostname search case-insensitive
* Use the server timezone as the default for the first
user
* Do not create kickstart files for SUSE distributions
* Generate metadata always if not explicitly rejected
* Completed kickstarts still show up on 'currently
kickstarting' list
* Do not ignore the exit code for external programs
* Do not silence caught exceptions
* Fix WebUI's errata sync
* Only package build times should be converted to GMT
* Fix ISE when doing SP migration of SLE 11 SP1 SMT
spacewalk-search:
* Proper quoting for the zero length test.
spacewalk-web:
* Fix Oracle-specific outer join syntax, use of
PE.evr.*, and missing joins
* Display package list on page history/event.pxt.
susemanager:
* Make mgr-ncc-sync only sync vendor channels that have
URLs
* Test content of directory given with --from-dir
* Implement listing by products
* Fix mgr-register to not crash if product release is
empty.
susemanager-schema:
* Quote password passed to sqlplus to allow the use of
special characters.
How to apply this update:
1. Log in as root user to the SUSE Manager server. 2. Stop
the Spacewalk service: spacewalk-service stop 3. Apply
the patch using either zypper patch or YaST Online Update.
4. Upgrade the database schema with
spacewalk-schema-upgrade. 5. Start the Spacewalk service:
spacewalk-service start
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Manager 1.7 for SLE 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sleman17sp2-suse-manager17-201304-7701
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Manager 1.7 for SLE 11 SP2 (x86_64) [New Version: 1.7.1.8,1.7.22,1.7.38.24 and 1.7.7.9]:
- cobbler-2.2.2-0.31.3
- spacecmd-1.7.7.9-0.5.3
- spacewalk-backend-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-app-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-applet-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-config-files-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-config-files-common-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-iss-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-iss-export-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-libs-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-package-push-server-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-server-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-sql-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-sql-oracle-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-sql-postgresql-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-tools-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-backend-xp-1.7.38.24-0.5.9
- spacewalk-branding-1.7.1.8-0.5.4
- susemanager-1.7.22-0.5.11
- susemanager-tftpsync-1.7.1-0.5.2
- susemanager-tools-1.7.22-0.5.11
- SUSE Manager 1.7 for SLE 11 SP2 (noarch) [New Version: 1.7.14.15,1.7.15.10,1.7.28.16,1.7.3.10,1.7.3.8,1.7.54.24 and 1.7.56.18]:
- jsch-0.1.49-0.5.4
- jzlib-1.0.7-10.10.3
- spacewalk-base-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-base-minimal-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-certs-tools-1.7.3.8-0.5.2
- spacewalk-client-tools-1.7.14.15-0.5.3
- spacewalk-grail-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-html-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-java-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-java-config-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-java-lib-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-java-oracle-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-java-postgresql-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-pxt-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-search-1.7.3.10-0.5.6
- spacewalk-sniglets-1.7.28.16-0.5.3
- spacewalk-taskomatic-1.7.54.24-0.5.6
- spacewalk-utils-1.7.15.10-0.5.13
- susemanager-schema-1.7.56.18-0.7.1
References:
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/794651
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/798807
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/800758
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/801151
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/802144
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/803124
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/803866
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/804445
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/808278
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/811025
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/812046
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/812599
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/812948
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=7770f6cfa0cacde30c9cb67e9d009407