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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8433
2012-05-26 03:18:04
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Name : os-prober
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 1.53
Release : 2.fc17
URL :
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/os-prober/
Summary : Probes disks on the system for installed operating systems
Description :
This package detects other OSes available on a system and outputs the results
in a generic machine-readable format. Support for new OSes and Linux
distributions can be added easily.
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Update Information:
This update enhances os-prober's detection capabilities for: OSes on mdraid
partitions, other Fedora installations, and PPC OSes.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 25 2012 Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayat.fwd+rpmchlog(a)gmail.com> - 1.53-2
- Add support for OSes installed on Linux mdraid partitions, bug #752402
- Add Fedora's grub2 config path, fixes generating menu entries for other
installed Fedora's
- Fixed bug in parsing yaboot.conf: accept spaces around '=' for append,
bug #825041
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #752402 - os-prober doesn't find linux OS on mdraid partitions
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752402
[ 2 ] Bug #825041 - grub2 fails on F17 install when multiple distros present
(os-prober)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825041
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update os-prober' 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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