Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1105-1
Rating: moderate
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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
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0

An update that has eight fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

spacecmd:

  • Connect to API using FQDN instead of hostname to avoid SSL validation problems (bsc#1085667)
  • Add function to update software channel through spacecmd
  • Configure gpg_flag via spacecmd creating a channel (bsc#1080290)
  • Allow scheduling the change of software channels as an action. The previous channels remain accessible to the registered system until the action is executed.

spacewalk-backend:

  • Fix encoding for RPM package group in reposync (bsc#1083001)
  • Add --no-packages option to spacewalk-repo-sync
  • Use --force-all-errata only to re-sync patches --deep-verify still used for package checksum check and single errata import (bsc#1077244)
  • Use GTM for rpm build_time (bsc#1078056)

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Fix up2date logging on FQDN collection exception (bsc#1081607, bsc#1082019)

zypp-plugin-spacewalk:

  • Python3 compatibility
  • Build python2/python3 subpackages (bsc#1073879)
  • Build as noarch for SLES12 and higher

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-12-2018-758=1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-3.0-2018-758=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 12 (noarch)
    • spacecmd-2.7.8.10-38.15.3
    • spacewalk-client-setup-2.7.6.4-52.6.3
    • zypp-plugin-spacewalk-1.0.0-30.6.3
    • spacewalk-client-tools-2.7.6.4-52.6.3
    • spacewalk-backend-libs-2.7.73.12-55.15.3
    • spacewalk-check-2.7.6.4-52.6.3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 3.0 (noarch)
    • zypp-plugin-spacewalk-1.0.0-30.6.3

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