-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5143 2009-05-19 00:07:56 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Significant rewrite by upstream. Necessary for updating Dell BIOS whose payloads now require firmware-tools > 2.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu May 14 2009 Matt Domsch <mdom...@fedoraproject.org> - 2.1.5-1.1 - rebase to upstream release * Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-...@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+...@gmail.com> - 1.5.6-2.1 - Rebuild for Python 2.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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bump https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454204 [ 2 ] Bug #499260 - firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell are out of date https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499260 [ 3 ] Bug #499939 - yum segfault during plugin load - can't update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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce