Fedora 19 Update: dracut-027-19.git20130410.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-5312
2013-04-10 14:59:50
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 027
Release     : 19.git20130410.fc19
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:

* also handle UUID= in crypttab
* only include needed /etc/crypttab entries
* add support for bridge over team and vlan
* support multiple bonding interfaces
* add "action_on_fail=" kernel command line parameter
* add support for bridge over a vlan tagged interface

* fix crypto password timeout on the dracut side

The *systemd* side still has to be fixed with the next systemd release.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #919752 - boot process hangs until timeout
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919752
  [ 2 ] Bug #928106 - timeout with cryptsetup root filesystem
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928106
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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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