Recommended update for star

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:0329-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for star provides the following fixes:

  • Set extended attributes after chown(), as recent Linux kernels reset them with a chown() call. (bsc#1014065)
  • Flush the verbose file stream before checking for missing links. Prevents mixed output when the user redirects star's standard error to standard output and pipe it to tee(1). (bsc#935569)
  • star(1) outputs contents of an archive to standard error instead of standard output. (bsc#918021)

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 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-star-12960=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-star-12960=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • star-1.5final-28.23.27.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • star-1.5final-28.23.27.1

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