Fedora 12 Update: PackageKit-0.5.4-0.4.20091029git.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11882
2009-11-20 22:10:57
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Name        : PackageKit
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.5.4
Release     : 0.4.20091029git.fc12
URL         : http://www.packagekit.org
Summary     : Package management service
Description :
PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user
to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro,
cross-architecture API.

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Update Information:

- Switch the signed install permission to require the root password  - See
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.html
for the rationale.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Nov 19 2009 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.4-0.4.20091029git
- Switch the signed install permission to require the root password
* Mon Nov 16 2009 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.4-0.3.20091029git
- When searching for available packages to install, use our preferred arch.
- Handle the error condition where the package name would be invalid.
- Fixes #534169 and #533014
* Mon Nov  9 2009 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.4-0.2.20091029git
- Fix a critical bug in the command-not-found code that triggers an infinite
  loop when a new package is installed.
- Fixes #533554
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #534047 - Active local console users get to install signed software on a machine they do not have the root password to
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update PackageKit' 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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