Fedora 21 Update: libhif-0.1.8-1.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-0921
2015-01-20 20:10:42
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Name        : libhif
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.1.8
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : https://github.com/hughsie/libhif
Summary     : Simple package library built on top of hawkey and librepo
Description :
This library provides a simple interface to hawkey and librepo and is currently
used by PackageKit and rpm-ostree.

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Update Information:

- New upstream release
- Actually inhibit logind when the transaction can't be cancelled
- Add 'quit' command to pkcon
- Automatically import metadata public keys when safe to do so
- Automatically install AppStream metadata
- Do not attempt to run command-not-found for anything prefixed with '.'
- Don't use PkBackendSpawn helpers in compiled backends
- Fix a hard-to-debug crash when cancelling a task that has never been run
- Look for unavailable packages during resolve
- Make pk_backend_job_call_vfunc() threadsafe
- Make pk_backend_repo_list_changed() threadsafe
- Return 'unavailable' packages for metadata-only repos
- Use a thread-local HifTransaction to avoid db3 index corruption

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 19 2015 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.8-1
- Update to new upstream version
- Do not attempt to read from a closed file descriptor
- Do not use hif_context_get_transaction() from multiple threads
- Ensure HifContext can be finalised to prevent rpmdb index corruption
- Resolves: #1183010
* Thu Jan 15 2015 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.7-3
- Do not download the mirrorlists when checking for updates
- Resolves: #1181501
* Wed Jan 14 2015 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.7-2
- Fix auto-importing of GPG keys during installing
- Resolves: #1182090 and #1182156
* Fri Dec 19 2014 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.7-1
- Update to new upstream version
- Add the concept of metadata-only software sources
- Correctly update sources with baseurls ending with a slash
- Don't unref the HifSource when invalidating as this is not threadsafe
- Improve handling of local metadata
- Support appstream and appstream-icons metadata types
* Wed Nov 26 2014 Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com> 0.1.6-2
- Do not crash when trying to parse pathological files like bumblebee.repo
- Resolves: #1164330
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1181501 - offline update failed in an unexpected way - Failed to find curl;7.37.0-12.fc21;x86_64;updates
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181501
  [ 2 ] Bug #1183010 - packagekit either fails to complete transaction very often, or even breaks rpm database indices
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183010
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libhif' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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