Recommended update for open-vm-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3149-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • Desktop Applications Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for open-vm-tools provides the following fixes:

  • Adjust the package to allow building properly on SLE-15 and Leap-15.
  • Allow vmtoolsd.service to enable vgauthd if needed, creating the vmtoolsd.service.requires and vgauthd.service symlinks. (bsc#1103868)
  • Starting with 10.3.0, open-vm-tools builds with xmlsec1 by default (instead of building with xml-security). To keep SLE compatible, xml-security is explicitly selected.
  • Switch from sunrpc to libtirpc to enable building under glibc 2.27.

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2229=1
  • Desktop Applications Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-2229=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • libvmtools-devel-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.0-3.3.1
  • Desktop Applications Module 15 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.0-3.3.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.3.0-3.3.1

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