Recommended update for supportutils

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2625-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
  • openSUSE Leap 15.3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3
  • 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 SP3
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.2

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

Description:

This update for supportutils fixes the following issues:

ethtool was updated to version 3.1.17:

  • Solve a downgrade issue between SUSE Linux Enterprise SP3 and lower (bsc#1188348)
  • Adding ethtool options g l m to network.txt (jsc#SLE-18240)
  • lsof options to improve performance (bsc#1186687)
  • Exclude rhn.conf from etc.txt (bsc#1186347)
  • analyzevmcore supports local directories (bsc#1186397)
  • getappcore checks for valid compression binary (bsc#1185991)
  • getappcore does not trigger errors with help message (bsc#1185993)

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:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-2021-2625=1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-2625=1

Package List:

  • openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch)
    • supportutils-3.1.17-7.35.5.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP3 (noarch)
    • supportutils-3.1.17-7.35.5.1

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