Recommended update for dosfstools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2022:0084-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 Business Critical Linux 15-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.2

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for dosfstools fixes the following issues:

  • To be able to create filesystems compatible with previous version, add -g command line option to mkfs (bsc#1188401)
  • BREAKING CHANGES: After fixing of bsc#1172863 in the last update, mkfs started to create different images than before. Applications that depend on exact FAT file format (e. g. embedded systems) may be broken in two ways:
  • The introduction of the alignment may create smaller images than before, with a different positions of important image elements. It can break existing software that expect images in doststools <= 4.1 style. To work around these problems, use "-a" command line argument.
  • The new image may contain a different geometry values. Geometry sensitive applications expecting doststools <= 4.1 style images can fails to accept different geometry values. There is no direct work around for this problem. But you can take the old image, use "file -s $IMAGE", check its "sectors/track" and "heads", and use them in the newly introduced "-g" command line argument.

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2022-84=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2022-84=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2022-84=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2022-84=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dosfstools-debugsource-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-debuginfo-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-4.1-3.6.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dosfstools-debugsource-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-debuginfo-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-4.1-3.6.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • dosfstools-debugsource-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-debuginfo-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-4.1-3.6.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    • dosfstools-debugsource-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-debuginfo-4.1-3.6.1
    • dosfstools-4.1-3.6.1

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