Recommended update for fence-agents

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:3637-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for fence-agents fixes the following issues:

Update from version 4.4.0+git.1558595666.5f79f9e9 to version 4.6.0+git.1605185986.7b0f11c1 (bsc#1178343)

  • Add pkg-config file
  • fence_scsi: do not write key to device if it's already registered, and open file correctly to avoid using regex against end-of-file
  • fencing: fix run_command() to allow timeout=0 to mean forever
  • fencing: fix to make timeout(s)=0 be treated as forever for agents using pexpect
  • Add a fence_crosslink agent
  • fencing: fix power-timeout when using the new disable-timeout parameter

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 Availability Extension 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-2020-3637=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • fence-agents-4.6.0+git.1605185986.7b0f11c1-4.16.1
    • fence-agents-devel-4.6.0+git.1605185986.7b0f11c1-4.16.1
    • fence-agents-debugsource-4.6.0+git.1605185986.7b0f11c1-4.16.1
    • fence-agents-debuginfo-4.6.0+git.1605185986.7b0f11c1-4.16.1

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