Fedora 16 Update: dracut-013-12.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13103
2011-09-21 22:06:22
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 013
Release     : 12.fc16
URL         : https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/
Summary     : Initramfs generator using udev
Description :
Dracut contains tools to create a bootable initramfs for 2.6 Linux kernels.
Unlike existing implementations, dracut does hard-code as little as possible
into the initramfs. Dracut contains various modules which are driven by the
event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as
NFS, iSCSI, NBD, FCoE with the dracut-network package.

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Update Information:

reintroduced /dev/live,
move mounting of securitfs to a seperate module,
do not carry over initramfs udev rules

moved mounting of securityfs to separate dracut module
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #734096 - live cd boot error message: failed to execute '/sbin/initqueue' ...: No such file or directory
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734096
  [ 2 ] Bug #737140 - Path /sys/kernel/security is already a mount point, refusing start for sys-kernel-security.automount
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737140
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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