Fedora 8 Update: yaboot-1.3.13-9.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-10663
2008-12-02 23:57:23
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Name        : yaboot
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.3.13
Release     : 9.fc8
URL         : http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/
Summary     : Linux bootloader for Power Macintosh "New World" computers.
Description :
yaboot is a bootloader for PowerPC machines which works on New World ROM
machines (Rev. A iMac and newer) and runs directly from Open Firmware,
eliminating the need for Mac OS.
yaboot can also bootload IBM pSeries machines.

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Update Information:

Increased MAX_TOKEN to successfuly run preupgrade.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 27 2008 Roman Rakus <rrakus at redhat.com> - 1.3.13-9
- Fix maximum token length, to fix preupgrade (#471321)
* Wed Nov 28 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com> - 1.3.13-8
- Correct default config file location on Efika
- Disable new USB bindings in efika.forth for now
* Tue Nov 27 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com> - 1.3.13-7
- Add efika.forth for fixing up Efika device-tree
* Tue Nov 27 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com> - 1.3.13-6
- Detect broken bplan firmware and don't add ":0" to block device names
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #471321 - long append="..." causes yaboot to reject entire yaboot.conf (MAX_TOKEN too small)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471321
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update yaboot' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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