SUSE-RU-2016:2620-2: moderate: Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools

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   SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for SUSE Manager Client Tools
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-RU-2016:2620-2
Rating:             moderate
References:         #1002529 #986447 #986978 #990029 #990439 
                    #990440 #990738 #991048 #993039 #993549 #994619 
                    #996455 #998185 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Manager Tools 12
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   An update that has 13 recommended fixes can now be
   installed.

Description:


   This update fixes the following issues:

   cobbler:

   - Enabling PXE grub2 support for PowerPC (bsc#986978)

   rhnlib:

   - Add function aliases for backward compatibility (bsc#998185)

   salt:

   - Setting up OS grains for SLES-ES (SLES Expanded Support platform)
   - Move salt home directory to /var/lib/salt (bsc#1002529)
   - Generate Salt Thin with configured extra modules (bsc#990439)
   - Prevent pkg.install failure for expired keys (bsc#996455)
   - Required D-Bus and generating machine ID
   - Fix python-jinja2 requirements in rhel
   - Fix pkg.installed refresh repository failure (bsc#993549)
   - Fix salt.states.pkgrepo.management no change failure (bsc#990440)
   - Prevent snapper module crash on load if no DBus is available in the
     system (bsc#993039)
   - Prevent continuous restart, if a dependency wasn't installed (bsc#991048)
   - Fix beacon list to include all beacons being process
   - Run salt-api as user salt like the master (bsc#990029)

   spacewalk-backend:

   - Fix for non-integer IDs for bugzilla bug
   - Silently ignore non-existing errata severity label on errata import,
     remove non-used exception (bsc#986447)
   - Make suseLib usable on a proxy

   spacewalk-client-tools:

   - Logging message in case of malformed XML file
   - Prevent crashes if machine-id is None (bsc#994619)
   - Print invalid package name and replace the invalid character
   - Ignore packages with not UTF-8 characters in name, version and release
     (bsc#990738)


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Manager Tools 12:

      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Manager-Tools-12-2016-1533=1

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Manager Tools 12 (aarch64):

      salt-2015.8.7-17.1
      salt-doc-2015.8.7-17.1
      salt-minion-2015.8.7-17.1

   - SUSE Manager Tools 12 (noarch):

      koan-2.6.6-39.1
      rhnlib-2.5.84.3-14.1
      spacewalk-backend-libs-2.5.24.6-40.1
      spacewalk-check-2.5.13.6-42.1
      spacewalk-client-setup-2.5.13.6-42.1
      spacewalk-client-tools-2.5.13.6-42.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1002529
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/986447
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/986978
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/990029
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/990439
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/990440
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/990738
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/991048
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/993039
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/993549
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/994619
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/996455
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/998185



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