Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:2620-1
Rating: moderate
References:
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12

An update that has 13 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

cobbler:

  • Enabling PXE grub2 support for PowerPC (bsc#986978)

rhnlib:

  • Add function aliases for backward compatibility (bsc#998185)

salt:

  • Setting up OS grains for SLES-ES (SLES Expanded Support platform)
  • Move salt home directory to /var/lib/salt (bsc#1002529)
  • Generate Salt Thin with configured extra modules (bsc#990439)
  • Prevent pkg.install failure for expired keys (bsc#996455)
  • Required D-Bus and generating machine ID
  • Fix python-jinja2 requirements in rhel
  • Fix pkg.installed refresh repository failure (bsc#993549)
  • Fix salt.states.pkgrepo.management no change failure (bsc#990440)
  • Prevent snapper module crash on load if no DBus is available in the system (bsc#993039)
  • Prevent continuous restart, if a dependency wasn't installed (bsc#991048)
  • Fix beacon list to include all beacons being process
  • Run salt-api as user salt like the master (bsc#990029)

spacewalk-backend:

  • Fix for non-integer IDs for bugzilla bug
  • Silently ignore non-existing errata severity label on errata import, remove non-used exception (bsc#986447)
  • Make suseLib usable on a proxy

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Logging message in case of malformed XML file
  • Prevent crashes if machine-id is None (bsc#994619)
  • Print invalid package name and replace the invalid character
  • Ignore packages with not UTF-8 characters in name, version and release (bsc#990738)

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:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2016-1533=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (noarch)
    • spacewalk-backend-libs-2.5.24.6-40.1
    • spacewalk-client-setup-2.5.13.6-42.1
    • spacewalk-client-tools-2.5.13.6-42.1
    • koan-2.6.6-39.1
    • rhnlib-2.5.84.3-14.1
    • spacewalk-check-2.5.13.6-42.1
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-doc-2015.8.7-17.1
    • salt-minion-2015.8.7-17.1
    • salt-2015.8.7-17.1

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