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In F9 and F10, hal requires libsmbios and smbios-utils. smbios-utils requires smbios-utils-python, and s-u-p provides dellsysidplugin2. So users upgrading from F9 or F10 to F11 will have had smbios-utils-python pulled in. (Fresh installs of F11 should not, as hal no longer depends on libsmbios or smbios-utils). The libsmbios/smbios-utils* package in dist-f11 is buggy and causing the segfault noted in the above bugzilla at 'yum upgrade' time. So upgraders could easily run into the problem, and be unable to run yum after doing an upgrade. That would be awful.
Plase tag libsmbios-2.2.16-2.1.fc11 into dist-f11 ASAP.
Please note that 2.2.16 has been sitting in the Dell Community repository (built by the OpenSUSE Build Service) since March 24 so I believe this to be a pretty safe update.
http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=libsmbios.git;a=commitdiff;h=b3b25e94ffaa2136f66938884557eb3103ea90ef;hp=05cb862aa3c52422f2700a085876b0e2de45f523
links to the only code patch between 2.2.15 and 2.2.16, which explains the segfault that is triggered by the dellsysidplugin2 yum plugin.
+1
+1, tagged/moved.
Metadata Update from @mdomsch: - Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 11 Final
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