Fedora 16 Update: nspr-4.9.4-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20795
2012-12-21 11:18:36
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Name        : nspr
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 4.9.4
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/
Summary     : Netscape Portable Runtime
Description :
NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system
facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization,
normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic
memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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Update Information:

Update nss, nss-softokn, and nss-util to nss-3.14.1, and nspr to nspr-4.9.4.

The release notes are at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.14.1_release_notes

Please see also the nss-3.14 the release notes are at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.14_release_notes

Please update the entire set at once to prevent conflicts.

As part of the nss-3.14 upstream functionality refactoring some headers moved to their rightful places.

This change had the effect in fedora, where nss is split into mutiple packages, of some headers moving from one devel rpm to another.

Those file ownership "swaps" could result in updates conflicts if one updates the packages separately.

For example, trying to install nss-util-devel resulted in an install conflict with nss-softokn-devel.

Two other headers moved from nss-softokn-devel to nss-devel changing package owners.

Testing shows that such conflicts do not occur when updating the full set as a whole.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec 17 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.4-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_4_RTM
* Fri Aug 31 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.2-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_2_RTM
* Thu Jul 12 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.1-2
- Retagging
* Sun Jul  8 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9.1-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_1_RTM
- Update License: to MPLv2.0 per upstream
* Wed Mar 28 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9-2
- Resolves: Bug 805672 - Library needs partial RELRO support added
* Sat Mar 10 2012 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.9-1
- Update to NSPR_4_9_RTM
- Selective merge from f17, don't install everything in /usr
* Thu Sep  8 2011 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 4.8.9-2
- Avoid %post/un shell invocations and dependencies.
* Tue Aug  9 2011 Elio Maldonado <emaldona at redhat.com> - 4.8.9-1
- Update to NSPR_4_8_9_RTM
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update nspr' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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