Fedora 12 Update: PackageKit-0.5.7-1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3777
2010-03-06 02:57:06
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Name        : PackageKit
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.5.7
Release     : 1.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:

- New upstream release of 0.5.7. - Blacklist auto-update-debuginfo when using PK
tools - Don't show an internal error if the database was changed by rpm - Ensure
we look in all update notices for a security update - Ensure RefreshCache
temporarily disables non-contactable repos - If yum, rpm or PackageKit are
available, then update these packages first - Do not ask the user for the
password twice if we've done a simulation - Show messages in the pkmon output
when the task has completed - Ensure we enter SETUP before we run the pre-
transaction checks - Ensure we set an error when the transaction is cancelled -
Fix a logic problem where the PkSpawn and PkBackend instances would race - Fixed
packagekit.client.install_packages() in Python bindings - Update the list of
free licences from the Fedora wiki
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar  3 2010 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.7-1
- New upstream release of 0.5.7.
- Blacklist auto-update-debuginfo when using PK tools. Fixes #566578
- Don't show an internal error if the database was changed by rpm
- Ensure we look in all update notices for a security update. Fixes #526279
- Ensure RefreshCache temporarily disables non-contactable repos
- If yum, rpm or PackageKit are available, then update these packages first
- Do not ask the user for the password twice if we've done a simulation
- Show messages in the pkmon output when the task has completed
- Ensure we enter SETUP before we run the pre-transaction checks
- Ensure we set an error when the transaction is cancelled
- Fix a logic problem where the PkSpawn and PkBackend instances would race
- Fixed packagekit.client.install_packages() in Python bindings
- Update the list of free licences from the Fedora wiki
* Tue Jan  5 2010 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.6-1
- New upstream release of 0.5.6.
- Show a message to the user if the repo could not be reached. Fixes #531838
- Include PackageKit in the list of essential packages.
- Fix a crash where the extra library check file callbacks had the wrong signature.
- Correct the transaction RequireRestart extra callback to fix a potential crash.
- Ensure to set the correct error if getting the transaction ID fails. Fixes #551546
- Ensure we send error messages to stderr, not stdout. Fixes #545220
* Mon Dec  7 2009 Richard Hughes  <rhughes at redhat.com> - 0.5.5-1
- New upstream release of 0.5.5.
- Check the filename is valid before exploding. Fixes #537381
- Only check certain transaction elements, not all of them. Fixes #541645
- After a successful cnf installation, re-exec new binary not command-not-found. Fixes #533554
- Run the newly installed file sync so we can return a proper exit code. Fixes #540482
- Only email using cron when a useful action was done. Fixes #540949
- Do not split more than one locale hint to fix setting LC_ variables. Fixes #543716
* 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 #566578 - pk vs yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566578
  [ 2 ] Bug #526279 - PK doesn't parse updateinfo correctly
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526279
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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
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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