Fedora Core 5 Test Update: mkinitrd-5.0.32-2

[David Cantrell]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-945
2006-08-30
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Product     : Fedora Core 5
Name        : mkinitrd
Version     : 5.0.32
Release     : 2
Summary     : Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
Description :
Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd)
images.  These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block
device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to access the root filesystem.

In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any
SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module.  Since the
kernel needs to read those modules, but in this case it isn't able to
address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used.  The initial
ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and
is available to the kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded.  The
ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and allows the kernel to
mount the root filesystem.  The mkinitrd program creates such a
ramdisk using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.

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Update Information:

mkinitrd needed rebuilding against parted-1.7.1.
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* Wed Aug 30 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> - 5.0.32-2
- Rebuild against new parted in FC5 (#189708)

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/

5bd22f8c19510c1c0ef60c66cd73a4a19855ad1e  SRPMS/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.src.rpm
5bd22f8c19510c1c0ef60c66cd73a4a19855ad1e  noarch/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.src.rpm
5ca2d6192c43e39c6bd1968769d661f62c62c3f2  ppc/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.ppc.rpm
f93df2e9029290ad3365466ac110b29033cc9cbf  ppc/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.ppc.rpm
97e05efdff2b597051cd87ff0855ba4498a8e5cf  x86_64/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.x86_64.rpm
881eafb2a967789592b5abf393828a54e89c3159  x86_64/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.x86_64.rpm
895127e49db53665328bc13a9cbfad5607e9f8f8  i386/mkinitrd-5.0.32-2.i386.rpm
c9d59d3ec72d2c26d631b3efa416db89d85f29a0  i386/debug/mkinitrd-debuginfo-5.0.32-2.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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