Fedora 18 Update: ntfs-3g-2012.1.15-5.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16215
2012-10-16 17:32:08
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Name        : ntfs-3g
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2012.1.15
Release     : 5.fc18
URL         : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary     : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS
driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe
handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can
create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams;
it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including
streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links,
devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full
file access right and ownership support.

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Update Information:

Add improved versioning to ntfsprogs Obsoletes to prevent yum from self-obsoleting ntfsprogs package in every update transaction.
Apply patches to ensure that if Windows 8 leaves an NTFS partition in an unsafe state, Linux will refuse to mount it (if it did, it would lead to data loss).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #863641 - Avoid uneeded obsoletes ntfsprogs from the said sub-package
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863641
  [ 2 ] Bug #859373 - Danger in dual booting Windows 8 and Linux
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859373
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g' 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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