Bug 468637 - firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell too old to flash newer bioses
Summary: firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell too old to flash newer bioses
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firmware-tools
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Michael E Brown
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-27 01:11 UTC by Rudolf Kastl
Modified: 2009-06-16 02:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.1.2-4.3.fc10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-06-16 01:30:09 UTC
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Description Rudolf Kastl 2008-10-27 01:11:28 UTC
Description of problem:
upstream release of firmware tools is 2.1.1 while we have 1.4 in the rawhide repos. same for firmware-addon-dell

this makes updating to recent bioses fail actually because of a too old version of the flashing tools.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:16:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:00:04 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update firmware-addon-dell'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-5066

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:05:05 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firmware-addon-dell'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-5004

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:05:32 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firmware-tools'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-4998

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:07:28 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update firmware-tools'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-5109

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:08:54 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firmware-addon-dell'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-5117

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-05-19 02:12:15 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update firmware-tools'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-5143

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 01:29:47 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 01:46:52 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 02:01:07 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 02:02:00 UTC
firmware-tools-2.1.5-1.1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 02:09:32 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-06-16 02:15:30 UTC
firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-4.3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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