Recommended update for salt

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:3921-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • 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
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for salt fixes the following issues:

  • Use 'dnfnotify' instead 'yumnotify' for relevant distributions
  • Remove 'wrong _parse_cpe_name' from 'grains.core'
  • dnfnotify pkgset plugin implementation
  • Add 'rpm_vercmp' python library support for version comparison
  • Prevent pkg plugins errors on missing cookie path (bsc#1186738)
  • Fix 'ip6_interface' grain to not leak secondary IPv4 aliases (bsc#1191412)
  • Make "salt-api" package to require 'python3-cherrypy' on RHEL systems
  • 'tar' is required by minion on 'transactional-update' system
  • Do not consider skipped targets as failed for 'ansible.playbooks' state (bsc#1190446)
  • Fix 'traceback.*_exc()' calls

Special Instructions and Notes:

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-SP2-2021-3921=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP2-2021-3921=1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP2-2021-3921=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-3921=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-minion-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-3002.2-52.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-doc-3002.2-52.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • salt-zsh-completion-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-bash-completion-3002.2-52.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-master-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-syndic-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-cloud-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-api-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-standalone-formulas-configuration-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-proxy-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-ssh-3002.2-52.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • salt-fish-completion-3002.2-52.1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-52.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • salt-transactional-update-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-minion-3002.2-52.1
    • salt-3002.2-52.1
    • python3-salt-3002.2-52.1

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