Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:1912-2
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • HPE Helion OpenStack 8
  • 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 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 BCL 12-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 ESPOS 12-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 LTSS 12-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ESPOS 12-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 LTSS 12-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • 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 OpenStack Cloud 8
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9

An update that has 20 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

POS_Image-Graphical6:

  • Add busybox package for tftp client

POS_Image-JeOS6:

  • Add busybox package for tftp client

hwdata:

  • Fix build for older distributon not supporting license tag at the SPEC file

kiwi-desc-saltboot:

  • Refactor kernel check and kexec functionality - make sure that preinit is called with correct kernel
  • Support for SLES11
  • Add nls modules for vfat
  • Fallback to previously installed image if SUMA is offline
  • Add tools to create efi partition
  • Add nvme drivers

rhnlib:

  • Add group to python*-rhnlib to fix building at SLE11
  • Read SSL decoded buffer completely when no pending bytes on the underlying connection.
  • Fix encoding issues after porting to Python 3.
  • Sync changes from Spacewalk
  • 1652859 - python3 http.client does not contain _set_hostport()
  • Use rpm for debian packaging
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

spacecmd:

  • Save SSM list on system delete and update cache (bsc#1130077, bsc#1125744)
  • Replace iteritems with items for python2/3 compat (bsc#1129243)
  • Fix python 3 bytes issue when handling config channels
  • Prevent spacecmd crashing when piping the output in Python 3 (bsc#1125610)
  • Fix compatibility with Python 3
  • Add function to merge errata and packages through spacecmd (bsc#987798)
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

spacewalk-backend:

  • Use new names in code for client tool packages which were renamed (bsc#1134876)
  • Fix password prompt within mgr-sign-metadata
  • Fix TypeError for 'errata.getErrataInfo' XMLRPC handler (bsc#1132346)
  • Fix typo in syncing product extensions (bsc#1118492)
  • Fix mgr-sign-metadata-ctl checking of exported keys.
  • Use suseLib.get_proxy to get the HTTP proxy configuration properly on DEB repos (bsc#1133424)
  • Add support for mirrorlist and metalink on Zypper reposync.
  • Solve situations where synced packages have epoch 0 but reposync does not find them them on the database.
  • Fix path to the RPM database used by Zypper at reposync.
  • Add makefile for python linter and unit/integration tests
  • Fix linking of packages in reposync (bsc#1131677)
  • Include arch to distinct latest packages on reposync.
  • Migrate missing spacewalk-cfg-get script to Python3
  • Improve dependency solving algorithm for spacewalk-repo-sync.
  • Remove apache access_compat module and adapt config files
  • Add support for getting latest versions from RPM packages when running "spacewalk-repo-sync" after migration to Zypper.
  • Include packages dependencies on "spacewalk-repo-sync" when using filters for RPM packages.
  • Allow package filtering (name matching) on spacewalk-repo-sync after migrating away from yum.
  • Fix crash when importing new channel families on 'mgr-inter-sync' (bsc#1129300)
  • Make Zypper to use the spacewalk GPG keyring in reposync (bsc#1128529)
  • Fix: handle non-standard filenames for comps.xml (bsc#1120242)
  • Make reposync use and append token correctly to the URL
  • Fix invalid mode error when doing spacewalk-repo-sync on Ubuntu official repos.
  • Fix bootstrapping SLE15 traditional client (bsc#1128564)
  • Fix reading LOB objects with python3
  • Fix "mgr-inter-sync" problems after Python 3 migration.
  • Mgr-sign-metadata can optionally clear-sign metadata files
  • Allow errata import from local repositories.
  • Fix "rhnpush" after migration to Python 3.
  • Fix package import issues when package encoding is ISO8859-1.
  • Fix issues with HTTP proxy and reposync.
  • Solve Python 3 problem and allow traditional registration.
  • Add "python-urlgrabber" as a new dependency.
  • Fix Python3 issues on satellite_tools scripts
  • Use "Zypper" and "libsolv" in "spacewalk-repo-sync". Replace "yum".
  • Require the correct dependency for python-rpm to allow the Proxy to work with Python3 only
  • Make rhn-ssl-dbstore compatible with python3
  • Take only text files from /srv/salt to make spacewalk-debug smaller (bsc#1103388)
  • Support mirroring of source packages
  • Make spacewalk-backend code compatible with Python 3
  • Prepare spacewalk-backend packages to build on Python 3
  • Replace PyPAM with python-python-pam
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)
  • Disable Oracle support for openSUSE (bsc#1095804)

spacewalk-client-tools:

  • Fix bootstrapping SLE15 traditional client (bsc#1128564)
  • Sync with Spacewalk
  • Add ability to work behind http proxies
  • 1666099 - python3 is picky about bytes and string
  • Fix testConfig.py
  • Use rpm for debian packaging
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)
  • The rhnsd service was replaced by rhnsd timer, so registration script and systemd presets are now adapted to this (bsc#1138130)

spacewalk-koan:

  • Fix building on openSUSE 15.0
  • Add Uyuni URL to package
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

spacewalk-oscap:

  • Fix python2 compilation on openSUSE
  • Add Uyuni URL to package
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

spacewalk-remote-utils:

  • Sync changes from Spacewalk
  • 1649374 - Update spacewalk-remote-utils with RHEL 7.6 channel definitions
  • 1633532 - Use python-gpg instead of python-gpgme where possible
  • Add Uyuni URL to package
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

spacewalk-usix:

  • Compatibility with Python 2 and 3
  • Use rpm for debian packaging
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

supportutils-plugin-susemanager-client:

  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

suseRegisterInfo:

  • Make suseRegisterInfo compatible with Python 2 and 3
  • Bump version to 4.0.0 (bsc#1104034)
  • Fix copyright for the package specfile (bsc#1103696)

zypp-plugin-spacewalk:

  • Fix python syntax error in distupgrade (bsc#1136102)

mgr-daemon:

  • rhnsd service was replaced by rhnsd timer (bsc#1138130)

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:

  • HPE Helion OpenStack 8
    zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-9-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-9-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP4-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 BCL 12-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 ESPOS 12-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-ESPOS-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 LTSS 12-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ESPOS 12-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-ESPOS-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 LTSS 12-SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-LTSS-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1912=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-1912=1

Package List:

  • HPE Helion OpenStack 8 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 BCL 12-SP3 (x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 ESPOS 12-SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 LTSS 12-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ESPOS 12-SP4 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 LTSS 12-SP4 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter-0.17.0-1.3.7

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