Fedora EPEL 5 Update: python-boto-1.9b-6.el5

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-0009
2011-01-03 16:46:05
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Name        : python-boto
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.9b
Release     : 6.el5
URL         : http://code.google.com/p/boto/
Summary     : A simple lightweight interface to Amazon Web Services
Description :
Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
It supports S3 (Simple Storage Service), SQS (Simple Queue Service) via
the REST API's provided by those services and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
via the Query API. The goal of boto is to provide a very simple, easy to
use, lightweight wrapper around the Amazon services.

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Update Information:

- Added a patch for python 2.4 support (#656446, #661233)
- Added patch to fix parameter of build_list_params() (#647005)
- Backported upstream patch for image registration (#561216)


Upstream changes for 1.9b:

- boto 0.9d - Fix reference to non-production server 
- boto 1.0a - Official support for SimpleDB 
- boto 1.1a 
- boto 1.1b - Fixes Issue with s3.key.Key object close method 
- boto 1.1c - Fixes Issues 102, 104, 105 
- boto 1.2a - Support for new EC2 API 
- boto-1.3a - Support for COPY, Canned ACL on PUT, bug fixes 
- boto-1.4a - Support for EBS, QueryWithAttributes, lots of bugfixes
- boto-1.4c - Fixes stupid and dangerous copy/paste error in SDB support
- boto-1.5b - Adds initial support for CloudFront (ahem) service 
- boto-1.5c - Fixes issue 165, issue 172, issue 173, issue 174, issue 176, issue 177
- boto-1.5d - Fixes Issue 172, Issue 178, Issue 180, Issue 181, Issue 182 
- boto-1.6a - Add support for Regions in EC2
- boto-1.6b - Adds support for Signature Version 2 for increased security with EC2, SQS, SDB 
- boto-1.7a - Adds support for new SQS features 
- boto-1.8a - Adds support for Autoscale, CloudWatch, ELB
- boto-1.8c - Fixes serious S3 issue (245) and issue 243 and 244 
- boto-1.8d - Fixes Issue 251, a problem with POST when using Eucalyptus 
- boto-1.9a - Support for RDS, BootFromEBS, Spot Instances, and more 
- boto-1.9b - RDS and VPC modules were omitted from 1.9a release tarball
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #656446 - BackendException: Boto requires a bucket name.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656446
  [ 2 ] Bug #661233 - Duplicity needs upgrade to work with Amazon S3
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661233
  [ 3 ] Bug #647005 - blockdevicemapping.build_list_parameters references 'pre' before assignment
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647005
  [ 4 ] Bug #561216 - upstream bugfix for connection.py needs backporting
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561216
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update python-boto' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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