Fedora 14 Update: libsmbios-2.2.26-3.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-15689
2010-10-05 05:17:38
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Name        : libsmbios
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.2.26
Release     : 3.fc14
URL         : http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main
Summary     : Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries
Description :
Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get
information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table.

This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface.

This package also has a C++-based library, with a C++ interface. It is not
actively maintained, but provided for backwards compatibility. New programs
should use the libsmbios C interface.

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Update Information:

* yum-dellsysid: fix Requires on smbios-utils-python
* raise exception for invalid rbu hdr files.
* Add new blacklist entries.
* Sync from Praveen Paladugu most of the new token list.
* fixup bios versioning for new-style versioning with 0's in ver
* ver=unknown if rbu version=1 and not alpha chars
* fixup bug in service and asset tag reading and writing where
  it checked the checksum incorrectly as well as read/wrote the
  checksum from/to the wrong location.
* fixup cmos read/write, add support for python callbacks.
* implement export of tokens in CSV format
* add support to import CSV token list. Fixup export/dump to
  properly quote.
* localize messages from import/export token dumps
* add spanish translations
* Fix output of translated unicode strings.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libsmbios' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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