Fedora 18 Update: zif-0.3.6-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-8722
2013-05-21 07:05:04
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Name        : zif
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.3.6
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/
Summary     : Simple wrapper for rpm and the Fedora package metadata
Description :
Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that provides read-write
access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit.

Zif is not designed as a replacement to yum, nor to be used by end users.

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Update Information:

- New upstream release
- Add 'pkcon backend-details' to be get details of the selected backend
- Do not rely on Python2 to write UTF-8 strings
- Update the comps->group mapping for Fedora 19
- When converting to unicode special case YumBaseError
- Added Provides property to retrieve which Provides the backend supports
- Allow clients to call org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer
- browser-plugin: Do not crash when running an installed package that is upgradable
- Do not install the bash-completion code in /etc
- Do not use _UTF8Writer when using python3
- Don't abort the daemon if the client requests a property that does not exist
- Don't use the default main context in sync PkClient methods
- Expose the transaction flags on the .Transaction object
- Pause for 10 seconds if an error occurred before restarting systemd-updates
- Remove the prepared-updates file if any relevant state was changed
- Support getting the distro-id from /etc/os-release
- Use PIE to better secure installed tools and also use full RELRO in the daemon
- Use the correct session method to fix font installation in pk-gtk-module
- Write a pre-failure status file in case the update transaction crashes
- yum: Ensure conf.cache is set before repo.cache is created
- yum: Ignore errors when removing packages to work out the requires list
- zif: Do not issue a critical warning when doing WhatProvides
- zif: Use the same speedup used in libzif upstream

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ChangeLog:

* Wed May  8 2013 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.3.6-1
- New upstream release
- Add a --version argument to the Zif command line tool
- Add support for the nogpgcheck command line option
- Add the rdeptree command
- Add zif_store_remote_get_pubkey_enabled() to be able to get the keys
- Do not abort because an update tries to remove the running kernel
- Fix a crash when using 'zif local-install' on an unsigned package
- Fix some metadata downloads being retried over and over again
- Install the package when the user does 'zif install /usr/sbin/powertop'
- Support installing packages using an rpm provide name
* Tue Jan  8 2013 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.3.5-1
- New upstream release
- Don't fail 'zif refresh-cache' if a repo is unavailable
- Fix 'zif remove-with-deps' to not remove user-action packages
- Set the correct basearch for ARM processors
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update zif' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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