Fedora 20 Update: dracut-034-7.git20131008.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-18560
2013-10-09 13:53:14
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Name        : dracut
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 034
Release     : 7.git20131008.fc20
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:

- bcache-tools: now includes the dracut module which previously was part of dracut

- dracut: dmsquash-live: add /dev/mapper/live-base
- dracut: add option to turn on/off prelinking
- dracut: add ACPI table overriding
- dracut: do not log to syslog/kmsg/journal for UID != 0
- dracut: lvm/mdraid: Fix LVM on MD activation
- dracut: bcache module removed (now in bcache-tools upstream)
- dracut: mdadm: also install configs from /etc/mdadm.conf.d
- dracut: fixes for mdadm-3.2.6+
- dracut: fcoe: add FCoE UEFI boot device support
- dracut: rootfs-block: add support for the rootfallback= kernel cmdline option

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1004693 - 61-bcache.rules run blkid
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004693
  [ 2 ] Bug #1016726 - livemedia-creator need a device pointing to the original live image
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016726
  [ 3 ] Bug #1016730 - dracut needs to adapt co changing mdadm rules files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016730
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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