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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8708
2012-06-01 16:18:24
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Name : grubby
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 8.12
Release : 1.fc17
URL :
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/grubby.git
Summary : Command line tool for updating bootloader configs
Description :
grubby is a command line tool for updating and displaying information about
the configuration files for the grub, lilo, elilo (ia64), yaboot (powerpc)
and zipl (s390) boot loaders. It is primarily designed to be used from scripts
which install new kernels and need to find information about the current boot
environment.
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Update Information:
This should fix the problems of preupgrade not updating the kernel/initrd entries.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 31 2012 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 8.12-1
- Update to 8.12
- Preserve trailing indentation when splitting line elements (mads)
Resolves: rhbz#742720
- Pick last device mounted on / (pjones,bcl)
Related: rhbz#820340
Related: rhbz#820351
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #742720 - yum update with new kernel strips white space from /etc/default/grub
GRUB_DEFAULT value
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742720
[ 2 ] Bug #820340 - kernel-X.Y-Z.fc17 does not supersede kernel-X.Y-Z.fc16 in grub
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820340
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update grubby' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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