Recommended update for wicked

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:2673-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that contains one feature and has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for wicked fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 0.6.76
  • compat-suse: warn user and create missing parent config of infiniband children
  • client: fix origin in loaded xml-config with obsolete port references but missing port interface config, causing a no-carrier of master (bsc#1226125)
  • ipv6: fix setup on ipv6.disable=1 kernel cmdline (bsc#1225976)
  • wireless: add frequency-list in station mode (jsc#PED-8715)
  • client: fix crash while hierarchy traversing due to loop in e.g. systemd-nspawn containers (bsc#1226664)
  • man: add supported bonding options to ifcfg-bonding(5) man page
  • arputil: Document minimal interval for getopts
  • man: (re)generate man pages from md sources
  • client: warn on interface wait time reached
  • compat-suse: fix dummy type detection from ifname to not cause conflicts with e.g. correct vlan config on dummy0.42 interfaces
  • compat-suse: fix infiniband and infiniband child type detection from ifname

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 High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-2673=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-2673=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-2673=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • wicked-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-service-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debugsource-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debuginfo-0.6.76-3.46.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • wicked-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-service-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debugsource-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debuginfo-0.6.76-3.46.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • wicked-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-service-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debugsource-0.6.76-3.46.1
    • wicked-debuginfo-0.6.76-3.46.1

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