Fedora 17 Update: dracut-018-31.git20120504.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-7315
2012-05-04 22:11:42
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 018
Release     : 31.git20120504.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:

- fixed cmdline handling, which fixes anaconda install with kickstart
- copy over resolv.conf
- fixed iscsi and multipath host-only cmdline generation for kdump
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #818707 - "network --device=link" in kickstart breaks boot
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818707
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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