Recommended update for SUSEConnect

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3222-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for SUSEConnect fixes the following issues:

  • Add detection for cloud provider systems (AWS/Google/Azure) (fate#320935)
  • Does no longer raise an exception when SUSEConnect is being used with zypper's sub-command 'search-packages' behind an SMT (bsc#1098220)
  • Does no longer install release packages if they are already present
  • Improves error messages
  • Prevents now the automatic registration of recommended products that are not mirrored by the registration proxy.

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 SP1 LTSS 12-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-2305=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • SUSEConnect-0.3.12-17.17.1

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