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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6996
2008-08-12 16:10:35
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Name : fakeroot
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 1.9.6
Release : 16.fc8
URL :
http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/
Summary : Gives a fake root environment
Description :
fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have
root privileges for file manipulation. fakeroot works by replacing the
file manipulation library functions (chmod(2), stat(2) etc.) by ones
that simulate the effect the real library functions would have had,
had the user really been root.
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Update Information:
This update fixes race conditions with the save-file. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 http://bugs.debian.org
/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Aug 3 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> - 1.9.6-16
- Update to 1.9.6.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update fakeroot' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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