Fedora 15 Update: firmware-addon-dell-2.2.9-3.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8660
2011-06-24 17:35:04
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Name        : firmware-addon-dell
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.2.9
Release     : 3.fc15
URL         : http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/download/
Summary     : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for Dell systems
Description :
The firmware-addon-dell package provides plugins to firmware-tools which enable
BIOS updates for Dell system, plus pulls in standard inventory modules
applicable to most Dell systems.

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Update Information:

The patch uses wineboot to configure a new root directory instead of using the legacy wineprefixcreate command, which isn't available with the wine package any more.

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 24 2011 Praveen K Paladugu <praveen_paladugu at dell.com>
- Added a patch to fix BZ#688046.This patch uses wineboot when available and falls back to legacy winprefixcreate if not.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #688046 - running firmware-extract aborts and gives a traceback
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688046
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update firmware-addon-dell' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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