Fedora 10 Update: firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc10

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5143
2009-05-19 00:07:56
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Name        : firmware-tools
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 2.1.5
Release     : 1.1.fc10
URL         : http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/download/
Summary     : Scripts and tools to manage firmware and BIOS updates
Description :
The firmware-tools project provides tools to inventory hardware and a plugin
architecture so that different OEM vendors can provide different inventory
components. It is intended to tie to the package system to enable seamless
installation of updated firmware via your package manager, as well as provide
a framework for BIOS and firmware updates.

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Update Information:

Significant rewrite by upstream. Necessary for updating  Dell BIOS whose
payloads now require firmware-tools > 2.0.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 14 2009 Matt Domsch <mdomsch at fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.5-1.1
- rebase to upstream release
* Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.6-2.2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Nov 29 2008 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet+rpm at gmail.com> - 1.5.6-2.1
- Rebuild for Python 2.6
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #454204 - firmware-tools needs a bump
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454204
  [ 2 ] Bug #499260 - firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell are out of date
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499260
  [ 3 ] Bug #499939 - yum segfault during plugin load - can't update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499939
  [ 4 ] Bug #487690 - version in rawhide too old
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487690
  [ 5 ] Bug #468637 - firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell too old to flash newer bioses
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468637
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update firmware-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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