Recommended update for machinery
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2016:0704-1 |
| Rating: | moderate |
| References: | #968380 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update provides Machinery 1.18.0, which brings the following fixes
and enhancements:
- Make the machinery-helper exclusive to improve inspection performance
significantly on all supported architectures.
- Fix treatment of the rpm '(replaced)' flag (gh#SUSE/machinery#1897)
- Fix repository recognition on older Debian systems
- Inspection of unmanaged-files is now also using the faster
machinery-helper when a remote user is used
- Show all available information for unmanaged files in HTML view
(gh#SUSE/machinery#1905)
- Move the machinery documentation from man page to HTML format
- Implement "--extract-metadata" option for the unmanaged-files inspection
to retrieve the file meta (e.g. owner, group, size) data without
extracting the files.
- Fixed counting of files in unmanaged directories (empty directories now
report zero files as one would expect)
- Fix reset button in HTML view (gh#SUSE/machinery#1899)
- Align config-files scope in HTML view (gh#SUSE/machinery#1814)
- Allow closing file dialog (in WebUI) by pressing ESC
- Support inspection of Ubuntu 14.04 systems
- New '--ssh-identity-file' option to specify a SSH private key when
inspecting a remote system
- New '--ssh-port' option to specify an SSH port when inspecting a remote
system
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-12-2016-402=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-1.18.0-48.1
- machinery-debuginfo-1.18.0-48.1
- machinery-debugsource-1.18.0-48.1