Fedora 17 Update: dracut-017-40.git20120308.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-3385
2012-03-08 16:13:43
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 017
Release     : 40.git20120308.fc17
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:

- add s390 ctcm network kernel module
- kill dhclient silently
- cleanup and fix network config writeout to /run/initramfs/state
- various cleanups
- fixed live image over nfs install
- fixed a bug, where some kernel modules are not installed
- fixed convertfs.sh script for the /usr-move
- hostonly fixes
- faster image creation
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #781983 - Extend functionality to support LiveOS via nfs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781983
  [ 2 ] Bug #796793 - Cannot usrmove: Something failed. Move back to the original state
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796793
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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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