Recommended update for libzypp, zypper

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1307-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12

An update that has 10 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for libzypp and zypper provides the following fixes:

libzypp: - Don't filter procs with a different mnt namespace. (bsc#1068708) - Support signing with subkeys. (bsc#1008325) - Fix gpg-pubkey release (creation time) computation. (bsc#1036659) - Show more specific exception message if GPG binary is missing. (bsc#637791) - Fix a potential crash if repository has no baseurl. (bsc#1043218) - plugin: Do not reject header values containing a ':'. (bsc#1074687) - RpmDb::checkPackage: Fix parsing localized rpm output. (bsc#1076415) - Adapt loop mounting of iso images. (bsc#1038132, bsc#1033236)

zypper: - Do not recommend cron as it is not a direct dependency of zypper. (bsc#1079334)

Special Instructions and Notes:

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 12 LTSS 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-929=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libzypp-14.45.10-2.73.1
    • zypper-debuginfo-1.11.66-2.64.1
    • libzypp-debuginfo-14.45.10-2.73.1
    • libzypp-debugsource-14.45.10-2.73.1
    • zypper-1.11.66-2.64.1
    • zypper-debugsource-1.11.66-2.64.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12 (noarch)
    • zypper-log-1.11.66-2.64.1

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