Recommended update for python-kiwi

Announcement ID:	SUSE-RU-2021:0493-1
Rating:	moderate
References:	bsc#1170863 bsc#1175729 bsc#1176129 bsc#1176134 bsc#1176977 bsc#1179562 bsc#1180781
Affected Products:	Development Tools Module 15-SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 LTSS 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 LTSS 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ESPOS 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 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 has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-kiwi fixes the following issues:

Update to version 9.21.23

• Azure generated images are not bootable. (bsc#1180781)

• Fixed validation of bool value in dracut module. (bsc#1179562)

• The oem-multipath-scan setup results in a bool variable inside of the initrd code. The variable kiwi_oemmultipath_scan is therefore either set to true or false. This update fixes the validation to make use of the bool() method provided for these type of variables.

• Omit multipath module by default (bsc#1179562)

• The plain installation of the multipath toolkit activates the dracut multipath code. The setup if the target image runs in a multipath environment or not should however be decided explicitly in the image description via <oem-multipath-scan> and not implicitly by the presence of tools.

• Fixed multipath disk device assignment in kiwi lib (bsc#1179562)

• The former lookup of the multipath mapped disk device contained a race condition. If the lookup of the device mapper files happened before multipathd has finished the initialization, kiwi continues with the unix node name and fails when the device mapper keeps a busy state on it. This update changes the code such that in case of an explicit request to use multipath the lookup of the mapped device becomes a mandatory process that runs until the DEVICE_TIMEOUT is reached. Default timeout is set to 60 sec.

• Do not exclude filesystem folders in OCI images (bsc#1176129)

• This update does not exclude filesystem folders during the rsync call in OCI images. It has been noted that including an empty /dev folder does not hurt and it can eventually help to workaround some limitations of container related tools such as buildah.

• Fix/Refactor s390 support (bsc#1170863)

• This changes the s390 support on several stages:

  • On s390 the boot process is based on zipl which boots into an initrd from which a userspace grub process is started to support the grub capabilities. The implementation of this concept is provided via the grub2-s390x-emu package. Once installed the setup of the bootloader is done via the grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install commands and therefore from a caller perspective the same as with any other grub2 setup process. For kiwi this means no extra zipl bootloader target code is needed. Therefore this update deletes the zipl setup from kiwi and puts on the standard grub2 process.
  • To support different targettypes the grub2-s390x-emu provided zipl template must be adapted. Parts of the former zipl bootloader setup therefore now applies to an update of the zipl2grub template file
  • Support for CDL/LDL DASD targets has been disabled in the schema. When testing 4k devices and a respective zipl2grub template setup for CDL/LDL targettype it has turned out that grub2-install is not able to run on such a device. Probably the device code in grub2-install does not work for 4k devices with an fdasd created partition table. As this needs further investigations and most probably adaptions on the grub toolchain for s390, we disabled the setup of these modes for now. Emulated DASD (FBA) and SCSI targets stays supported.

• Fix compat link for rpmdb location. (bsc#1176977)

• This update fixes the symbolic link creation for /var/lib/rpm. More specific for derived container images in which the base root tree already included the /var/lib/rpm the link, the ln command was creating a symbolic link inside the /var/lib/rpm folder givent that it was following the already existing symbolic link. Adding the --no-target-directory force ln command to treat /var/lib/rpm path as the fully qualified symlink name.

• Fixed s390/sle15 Virtual disk integration test. (bsc#1170863)

• The integration test used FBA mode as target. As the target is expected to be KVM this is the wrong setting. SCSI should be used instead.

• Support dynamic linux/linuxefi in any case. (bsc#1175729, bsc#1176134)

• Instead of restricting the dynamic linux vs. linuxefi setup to a specific grub version, support this setup for any version of grub.

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:

• Development Tools Module 15-SP2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP2-2021-493=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ESPOS 15
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-493=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 LTSS 15
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-493=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 LTSS 15
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-493=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-493=1

Package List:

• Development Tools Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • pv-debuginfo-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • pv-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • pv-debugsource-1.6.6-3.4.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ESPOS 15 (aarch64 x86_64)
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-lib-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debuginfo-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python-kiwi-debugsource-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-debuginfo-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-overlay-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debugsource-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • dracut-kiwi-live-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-man-pages-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python3-kiwi-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ESPOS 15 (x86_64)
  • kiwi-pxeboot-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 LTSS 15 (aarch64 x86_64)
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-lib-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debuginfo-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python-kiwi-debugsource-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-debuginfo-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-overlay-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debugsource-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • dracut-kiwi-live-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-man-pages-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python3-kiwi-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 LTSS 15 (x86_64)
  • kiwi-pxeboot-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 LTSS 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-lib-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debuginfo-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python-kiwi-debugsource-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-debuginfo-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-overlay-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debugsource-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • dracut-kiwi-live-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-man-pages-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python3-kiwi-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 LTSS 15 (x86_64)
  • kiwi-pxeboot-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 (ppc64le x86_64)
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-lib-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debuginfo-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python-kiwi-debugsource-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-debuginfo-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • dracut-kiwi-overlay-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-tools-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-debugsource-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • dracut-kiwi-live-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • kiwi-man-pages-9.21.23-3.36.3
  • pv-1.6.6-3.4.1
  • python3-kiwi-9.21.23-3.36.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 (x86_64)
  • kiwi-pxeboot-9.21.23-3.36.3

References:

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170863
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175729
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176129
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176134
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176977
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179562
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180781