Recommended update for Salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:14363-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

salt:

  • Avoid "NameError: name 'salt_system_encoding' is not defined" (bsc#1138952)
  • Fix load cached grain "osrelease_info" to prevent exceptions on "pkg.info_installed" on Debian and Ubuntu minion (bsc#1170042)
  • Build: Buildequire pkgconfig(systemd) instead of systemd
  • Backport saltutil state module to 2019.2 codebase (bsc#1167556)
  • Add new custom SUSE capability for saltutil state module
  • Virt._get_domain: don't raise an exception if there is no VM
  • Fix partition.mkpart to work without fstype (bsc#1169800)

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 Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604
    zypper in -t patch suse-ubu164ct-salt-202005-14363=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Manager Client Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 1604 (all)
    • salt-common-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+40.1
    • salt-minion-2019.2.0+ds-1.1+40.1

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