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shield Recommended update for kiwi
SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2016-831

This update provides KIWI v7.02.96, which brings several fixes and enhancements: - Add part_msdos module for self build EFI image: On ARM we have a few hooks in kiwi that allow us to adapt the resulting image to target boards. On some systems, we need to install the firmware to hardware specified sector offsets on the image target (sd card). Unfortunately some systems demand firmware at sector 1 which is where the GPT would usually reside. So we need to use an MBR partition layout. We can convert the GPT into an MBR using gdisk in our ARM scripts, but at that point grub2 would have to be able to interpret the MBR as well. So we need the "msdos_part" module included. (bnc#975898) - Don't copy initial ram disk content to /run/initramfs: We should avoid copying the initial ram disk content to a tmpfs filesystem, especially on low memory systems. (bsc#963276) - Execute haveged in udevStart: This ensure there is at least a source of entropy for /dev/random when FIPS mode is enabled. Without it, VMware virtual machines hang at boot. (bsc#964204) - Run dracut as background process for vmx images: The dracut process takes quite some time and blocks the boot process. In cloud frameworks instance boot time matters and with this patch the dracut process runs in parallel with the rest of the boot process. (bsc#971621) - Use shim-install to setup EFI secure boot. (bsc#968475) - Don't write grub.cfg to EFI directory: Originally the file was written there as reference, but nothing will ever update that file if the real grub configuration changes. Thus it doesn't make sense to provide this information. (bsc#968270) - Avoid lvcreate to ask for wiping swap signature: When kiwi creates the logical volume for the swap space and there is already a swap signature at the place on disk, lvm stops and asks what to do with it. This should be generally avoided at that stage in the boot process. (bsc#968601) - Enable pvops builds for EC2: The pvops kernel comes first with SLES12 SP2 and provides Xen HVM and Xen paravirtual operations. The paravirtual block drivers are new to this kernel and must be addressed in kiwi. In addition the setup of the root device in the kernel commandline cannot be a fixed device name anymore since the device node names are different depending which virtualization mode is used. Therefore the root device setup for ec2 builds is now based on the rootfs label. (bsc#966293) - Fix shell syntax in grub2 template. (bsc#961334) - Support by-label mount entries for btrfs subvolumes. (bsc#964474) - Don't add kernel file systems to fstab: Systems with systemd which this kiwi version aims for, don't need proc, sysfs, debugfs and friends to be part of the fstab. (bsc#964472) - Allow system to be installed on btrfs snapshot. (bsc#946648) - Evaluate kiwi_btrfs_root_is_snapshot in boot code: If set it's required to mount the subvolumes like it is done with lvm volumes. In addition this patch fixes the update of the fstab file which has to contain an entry for each subvolume excluding snapshots and the toplevel. (bsc#946648) - Add btrfs_root_is_snapshot attribute and its get/set(er) methods. (bsc#946648) - Improve validation of targetDevice: If called with --targetdevice the target must be a device block special and nothing else, no symlink, no other node type. (bsc#956484) - Fixed creation of /var/run vs. /run: It should not be kiwi's task to handle that but it seems we will not be able to fix this in a clean way on the package level. Thus, KIWI now checks for the desired distro from the value of the boot attribute and create either /run with a symlink /var/run or /var/run. - Fixed spec file requirements: for older systems (SLE11), the pidof program as used by kiwi is provided with the sysvinit package not with sysvinit-tools. - Prevent prefix setup in grub.cfg for Xen: Xen PV guests boot via a first stage loader pygrub/pvgrub and interpret the grub config file differently. One inconsistency is that pvgrub searches for the grub modules at a different place. Setting up the prefix will point pvgrub to the wrong place and the system fail to boot. (bsc#965831) - Prevent command variables for Xen domU grub2 setup: Xen PV images which boot via pvgrub have the problem that pvgrub is not able to correctly read in the grub.cfg file written by kiwi. This is because kiwi uses a variable which contains the loader command (e.g $linux) instead of the loader command directly. grub2 supports this but pvgrub is not able to interpret this information. This patch prevents the use of the variable if the target image is Xen, domU and the firmware type is set to bios. (bsc#965831) - Refactor suseStripKernel: The way the method downsizes the kernel tree is wrong in several places and very hard to read. Therefore the code has been refactored and splitted into task methods which can run independently from each other. As one result the kernel tree is not missing any metadata and/or update weak-updates paths anymore. (bsc#965830) - Fixed validation of updates/weak-updates modules: suseStripKernel took the update and weak-update modules only into account if they are mentioned in the drivers list. But these modules are considered p1 and should always be included and also checked against its dependencies. (bsc#965830)

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12.1 x86_64
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