Fedora 17 Update: os-prober-1.53-3.fc17
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Sat Jun 9 00:03:19 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8796
2012-06-02 23:25:21
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Name : os-prober
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 1.53
Release : 3.fc17
URL : http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/os-prober/
Summary : Probes disks on the system for installed operating systems
Description :
This package detects other OSes available on a system and outputs the results
in a generic machine-readable format. Support for new OSes and Linux
distributions can be added easily.
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Update Information:
Fixes the usrmove bug
This update enhances os-prober's detection capabilities for: OSes on mdraid partitions, other Fedora installations, and PPC OSes.
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Jun 2 2012 Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd+rpmchlog at gmail.com> - 1.53-3
- Consider usrmoved distribtions in fallback linux detector (bug #826754)
- Remove patch backup files from final rpm package (by not creating a backup!)
* Fri May 25 2012 Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd+rpmchlog at gmail.com> - 1.53-2
- Add support for OSes installed on Linux mdraid partitions, bug #752402
- Add Fedora's grub2 config path, fixes generating menu entries for other
installed Fedora's
- Fixed bug in parsing yaboot.conf: accept spaces around '=' for append,
bug #825041
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #826754 - os-prober incorreclty recognizes unknown Linux distribution on /usr partitions after usrmove
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826754
[ 2 ] Bug #752402 - os-prober doesn't find linux OS on mdraid partitions
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752402
[ 3 ] Bug #825041 - grub2 fails on F17 install when multiple distros present (os-prober)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825041
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update os-prober' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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