Recommended update for yast2-installation-control, yast2-update, and yast2-pkg-bindings

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:0235-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that contains two features and has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for yast2, yast2-installation-control, yast2-update, and yast2-pkg-bindings fixes the following issues:

yast2:

  • Fixed Resolvables class to uniquely identify the libzypp objects to avoid random failures (bsc#1178688)

yast2-installation-control:

  • Allowing the change of vendor without user interaction. (jsc#SLE-14807, jsc#SLE-15184)

yast2-pkg-bindings:

  • Allow filtering resolvables by RPM path, return RPM path for the product packages (bsc#1178688, bsc#1176276)
  • Set the previous distro_target option when restarting the package manager (bsc#1176275)
  • Expand the URL when libzypp expects it and avoid wrong repository name generated during installation. (bsc#1173509)
  • Allowing the change of vendor without user interaction. (jsc#SLE-14807, jsc#SLE-15184)

yast2-update:

  • Extended the list of compatible vendors. (jsc#SLE-14807)
  • Fixed selecting the base product (e.g. SLES) during upgrade. (bsc#1176276, bsc#1176275)

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 15 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-INSTALLER-15-SP2-2021-235=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-235=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • yast2-pkg-bindings-4.2.15-3.12.2
    • yast2-4.2.91-3.21.2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • yast2-logs-4.2.91-3.21.2
    • yast2-pkg-bindings-debugsource-4.2.15-3.12.2
    • yast2-4.2.91-3.21.2
    • yast2-update-4.2.20-3.4.2
    • yast2-pkg-bindings-debuginfo-4.2.15-3.12.2
    • yast2-pkg-bindings-4.2.15-3.12.2

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