FWN/Beats/Announcements

Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

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Updates

Paul Frields worte[1] about the update problem affecting D-Bus. "Recently, an update of D-Bus software package in Fedora 10 caused the substantial breakage of some applications, including PackageKit."

The announcement includes instructions that explain how a user can update the system manually using yum on the command-line, and return to business-as-usual.

If you are unable to perform a normal system update using PackageKit and need help, please read the full announcement.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00012.html