Heads Up: Updating SLE10 product info via ZLM 7.2 SLE10-SP1-Online-Bundle after upgrading to SLE10 SP1
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Posted: 25 Jul 2007 |
Here's an important piece of information for those of you using ZENworks Linux Management 7.2 to upgrade to SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1. There's an issue where SLE10 does not appear to be upgraded to SLE10 SP1 when using ZLM 7.2 SLE10-SP1-Online-Bundle. When you use the "rug pd" command, it indicates that SLE10 has not been upgraded to SLE10 SP1.
Here's the workaround.
In ZCC edit the SLE10-SP1-Online-Bundle to add the following script as a post-installation script:
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#!/bin/sh
for file in `ls -1 /var/lib/zypp/db/products/` ; do
if [ `grep "<name>SUSE_SLED" /var/lib/zypp/db/products/$file | wc -l` -eq 1 ]; then
rm /var/lib/zypp/db/products/$file
elif [ `grep "<name>SUSE_SLES" /var/lib/zypp/db/products/$file | wc -l` -eq 1 ]; then
rm /var/lib/zypp/db/products/$file
fi
done
sarch=`arch`
datesec=`date +%s`
filename="/var/lib/zypp/db/products/"`uuidgen | awk '{gsub(/-/,"",$1); print $1}'`
if [ `cat /etc/SuSE-release |grep "SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10"|wc -l` -eq 1 ]; then
issled=1
else
issled=0
fi
echo '
<product version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.novell.com/metadata/zypp/xml-store" type="base">' >$filename
if [ $issled -eq 1 ]; then
echo ' <name>SUSE_SLED_SP1</name>
<version ver="10.1" rel="0" epoch="0" />' >>$filename
echo " <arch>$sarch</arch>" >> $filename
echo ' <provides><capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLE == 10.1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLED == 10.1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-SP1 == 10-SP1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLED_SP1 == 10.1-0</capability>
</provides>
<obsoletes><capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLED < 10.1</capability>
</obsoletes>
<requires><capability kind="pattern" >basesystem</capability>
<capability kind="package" >sled-release-10-sp1</capability>
</requires>
<summary>SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="de">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="en">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="en_US">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1</summary>' >> $filename
else
echo ' <name>SUSE_SLES_SP1</name>
<version ver="10.1" rel="0" epoch="0" />' >>$filename
echo " <arch>$sarch</arch>" >> $filename
echo ' <provides><capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLE == 10.1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLES == 10.1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-SP1 == 10-SP1</capability>
<capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLES_SP1 == 10.1-0</capability>
</provides>
<obsoletes><capability kind="product" >SUSE_SLES < 10.1</capability>
</obsoletes>
<requires><capability kind="package" >sles-release-10-sp1</capability>
<capability kind="pattern" >basesystem</capability>
</requires>
<summary>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="de">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="en">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</summary>
<summary lang="en_US">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</summary>' >> $filename
fi
echo '<description></description>
<description lang="en"></description>
<description lang="en_US"></description>
<install-notify></install-notify>
<install-notify lang="en"></install-notify>
<install-notify lang="en_US"></install-notify>
<delete-notify></delete-notify>
<delete-notify lang="en"></delete-notify>
<delete-notify lang="en_US"></delete-notify>
<license-to-confirm></license-to-confirm>
<license-to-confirm lang="en"></license-to-confirm>
<license-to-confirm lang="en_US"></license-to-confirm>
<vendor>SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany</vendor>
<size>0</size>
<archive-size>0</archive-size>
<install-only>false</install-only>
<build-time>0</build-time>' >> $filename
echo " <install-time>$datesec</install-time>" >> $filename
if [ $issled -eq 1 ]; then
echo '<shortname>SLED 10 SP1</shortname>
<distribution-name>SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-SP1</distribution-name>
<distribution-edition>10-SP1</distribution-edition>
<source>SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 10.1-0</source>
<release-notes-url>http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/i386/SUSE-SLED/10-SP1/release-notes-sled.rpm</release-notes-url>' >>$filename
else
echo '<shortname>SLES 10 SP1</shortname>
<distribution-name>SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-SP1</distribution-name>
<distribution-edition>10-SP1</distribution-edition>
<source>SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1</source>
<release-notes-url>http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/i386/SUSE-SLES/10-SP1/release-notes-sles.rpm</release-notes-url>' >> $filename
fi
echo ' <update-urls>
</update-urls>
<extra-urls>
</extra-urls>
<optional-urls>
</optional-urls>
<product-flags>
<product-flag>update</product-flag>
</product-flags>
</product>
' >> $filename
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Save and deploy the bundle. When this bundle is installed on a SLE10 GA device, the product info will get updated.
About the Problem
To replicate this problem, create a bundle in ZLM 7.2 server by mirroring SLE10-SP1-Online catalog from nu.novell.com and assign the bundle to a SLE10 managed device, so that the bundle gets installed on the device and the device becomes SLE10 SP1 device.
When a SLE10 GA device is upgraded online from nu.novell.com, a special patch called product-sled10-sp1 is installed which updates the product information. This patch does not have a corresponding rpm file. zlmmirror mirrors down SLE10-SP1-Online, but it only creates a bundle of rpms. When this bundle is installed on a SLE10 GA device, this patch does not get installed and product information does not get updated to reflect that the device is SLE10 SP1.
For additional information, see this TID.
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