[sles-beta] SLES11SP4 x86_64 on VMware

[urs.frey at post.ch]

Hi 

Just updated from SLES11-SP3 on VMware online to SLES11-SP4
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/usr/bin/zypper --non-interactive cleanlocks
/usr/bin/zypper --non-interactive dist-upgrade --auto-agree-with-licenses ${zypp_recommends}
Reading installed packages...
Removed 0 locks.
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  crash-eppic libcryptsetup1 libevent-1_4-2 libiptc0 liblzmadec0 libnfnetlink0 libxtables9 lzma nfs-client nfsidmap release-notes-sles rpcbind

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
  crash-sial

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
  at audit audit-libs bash bash-doc bind-libs bind-utils binutils boost-license brocade-firmware cifs-utils cpupower crash cryptsetup desktop-translations
 e2fsprogs efibootmgr elilo gdb gdbm gfxboot gfxboot-branding-SLES hwinfo iproute2 iptables kdump kernel-default kernel-default-base kernel-default-devel
kernel-firmware kernel-source kpartx libboost_regex1_36_0 libcom_err2 libext2fs2 libgcc43 libgcc46 libgcc_s1 libgomp1 libmpfr1 libnuma1 libreadline5 libst
dc++43 libstdc++46 libstdc++6 libzypp linux-kernel-headers makedumpfile mcelog mdadm mkinitrd module-init-tools multipath-tools ntp numactl openssh pam-mo
dules parted pciutils-ids perl-Bootloader popt pwdutils readline-doc rpm rpm-python satsolver-tools sles-release sles-release-DVD strace suseRegister sysl
inux sysstat sysvinit usbutils xorg-x11-libX11 xorg-x11-libXext xorg-x11-libXt xorg-x11-xauth yast2 yast2-bootloader yast2-http-server yast2-installation
yast2-iscsi-client yast2-iscsi-server yast2-network yast2-nfs-client yast2-ntp-client yast2-online-update yast2-online-update-frontend yast2-packager yast
2-pkg-bindings yast2-samba-server yast2-storage yast2-storage-lib yast2-trans-en_US yast2-update yast2-vm zypper zypper-log

The following product is going to be upgraded:
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
  cron cups-client cups-libs glib2 glib2-lang kbd less libblkid1 libglib-2_0-0 libgobject-2_0-0 libgthread-2_0-0 libtirpc1 libuuid1 logrotate perl perl-Mo
dule-Build perl-Test-Simple perl-base perl-doc util-linux util-linux-lang uuid-runtime

The following packages are not supported by their vendor:
  liblzmadec0 lzma

99 packages to upgrade, 22 to downgrade, 12 new, 1 to remove.
Overall download size: 208.2 MiB. After the operation, additional 21.9 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
Automatically agreeing with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 product license.
Retrieving package brocade-firmware-3.2.3.0-0.11.11.noarch (1/133), 999.0 KiB (3.1 MiB unpacked)

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Looks good. Thank you SUSE.
Issue with forced installation of open-vm-tools got resolved
Please do not misunderstand. I am not against open-vm-tools.
But having an entire platform already installed and running ESXi VMwareTools it is not possible, to remove VMWareTools when doing service pack update.
This would be a too deep change which would have to be tested with all specific applications first. There is simply no time free to do so.
So having a service pack update which does not bring much "visible" changes, this is much easier to implement and getting accepted by production staff.

Leaving the option to choose open-vm-tools for new installations, gives me the freedom to carefully evaluate and introduce to operations staff.

Best regards

Urs Frey                                              
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