Recommended update for Machinery

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for Machinery
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2015:1809-1
Rating: moderate
References: #950362
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12

  • An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.

    Description:


    This update provides Machinery 1.14.2, which brings the following new
    features:

    - The x86_64 machinery-helper is now shipped with Machinery. It speeds up
    inspection of unmanaged-files.
    - Export of AutoYaST files is now possible with system descriptions, which
    have empty repository scopes.
    - Introduce format version 5 which adds the "environment" scope. This is a
    hidden scope which is used internally by Machinery. For more details
    please refer to
    https://github.com/SUSE/machinery/blob/master/docs/System-Description-Forma
    t.md#version-5.

    Several fixes and enhancements are also included in this release:

    - Allow limiting the `list` command output to certain system descriptions
    by passing them along as argument.
    - Add `move` command to rename system descriptions.
    - Add inspection of RPM based Docker containers.
    - Align output of `machinery config`.
    - Add rpc_pipefs to filtered filesystems.
    - Handle socket errors for `-i` option.
    - Add `containerize` command to the experimental features.
    - Fix: Typo in HTML package view.
    - Fix: Clean up binding the server for HTML view to IP addresses.
    - Fix: Make links to sections with common elements clearer in HTML
    comparison view.
    - Fix: XML files are no longer treated as binary files in HTML view.
    - Fix: Scrolling issue of file view.
    - Fix: Show `Files extracted` status in `compare --html` when both status
    are the same.
    - Fix: Validate port option in the `show`, `compare`, and `serve`
    commands.

    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 Module for Advanced Systems Management 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Adv-Systems-Management-12-2015-740=1

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

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • machinery-1.14.2-35.1
      • machinery-debuginfo-1.14.2-35.1
      • machinery-debugsource-1.14.2-35.1

    References: