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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4211
2009-05-02 16:03:21
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Name : preupgrade
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 1.1.0
Release : 1.fc10
URL : https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/
Summary : Prepares a system for an upgrade
Description :
preupgrade prepares your Fedora system for an upgrade to the next version
by examining your system, downloading all the files needed for the upgrade,
and then setting up your system to perform the upgrade after rebooting.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed May 13 2009 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.0-1
- Bump version for 1.1.0 release
* Tue May 5 2009 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.pre3
- Drop support for /boot on RAID
- Properly enable both main and install repos
- Fix cleanup of interrupted runs
- Require VNC password to be >= 6 chars long, like anaconda (bug #498843)
* Wed Apr 22 2009 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.pre2
- Disable bootloader installation (bug 496952)
- Fix handling of releases.txt to accept Rawhide again
* Thu Apr 16 2009 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.0-0.pre1
- Try to get new packages for *all* repos, including updates (bug 473966)
- Fix UnicodeDecodeError downloading packages (bug 476862)
- Fix traceback if network isn't up at startup (bug 474177)
- Specify which system to upgrade in kickstart (bug 473016)
- Fix traceback with certain mirrors (bug 487743)
- Fix problems with "excludes=" in yum.conf (bug 491577)
* Mon Dec 8 2008 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.1-1
- Fix yaboot Conflicts: to allow installation on ppc (bug 473065)
- Fix crash with separate /var partition or mdraid root (bug 473782)
- Fix crash with mdraid (software RAID) root (bug 473103)
- CLI: Use the right dir for createrepo
- CLI: Fix network option parsing, add --dhcp
- CLI: Write network options into ks.cfg (bug 472933)
* Fri Nov 21 2008 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.0-1
- Minor UI fixes
- Add --clean flag
- Use checksums to verify boot image integrity
- Clean up bootloader config when cleaning an interrupted run
- Use 'ybin --bootonce' on ppc rather than changing default boot target
- Be more careful about picking a keymap (bug 471515)
- Add Fedora 10 (Cambridge) to releases.txt
* Mon Nov 3 2008 Will Woods <wwoods(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.9-1
- Fetch release data from http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt
- Recognize new metadata filenames
- Generate kickstart for all installs
- Automatically upgrade bootloader config during upgrade
- preupgrade-cli: Add --vnc for headless remote installs
- preupgrade-cli: Properly set locale so we don't crash on non-en_US
- preupgrade-cli: Fix --help
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #491577 - preupgrade: Cannot upgrade release with 'exclude=' entries
in /etc/yum.conf
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491577
[ 2 ] Bug #487743 - Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 preupgrade 'content-length' problem
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487743
[ 3 ] Bug #473016 - Preupgrade to F10 (with multiple Fedora partitions) gives
"Unable to read package metadata" error on reboot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473016
[ 4 ] Bug #474177 - Traceback if run when network down; no UI
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474177
[ 5 ] Bug #476862 - preupgrade f10->rawhide fails with UnicodeDecodeError on
libXdamage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476862
[ 6 ] Bug #473966 - RfE: Preupgrade should downloading new distributation with updates
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473966
[ 7 ] Bug #496952 - preupgrade overwrite MBR instead of first partition on HDD
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496952
[ 8 ] Bug #498843 - Upgrade with VNC asks for password after reboot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498843
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update preupgrade' 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
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