system-bios-vostro-1500 update will not go away

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Tue Dec 11 00:21:40 CST 2007


On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:20:40AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Just adding this to the mailing list as per the package description 
> instructions.  used apt-get to install the packages as per Matt's 
> instructions.
> 
> All went well, but the BIOS is the same as the one I have (running 
> Ubuntu 7.10, damon at dam-mobile:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.22-14-generic i686) and now it will not stop showing up as an 
> update.  Not so much looking for a fix as just informing the devs of the 
> situation, t he update, I am sure will come.

This is fixed now, thanks to the folks of Ubuntu MOTU.  I had a bug in
my BIOS packaging debian/control file that was causing it.  I've
rebuild all the packages, so on the next install/update it'll be
right.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade


Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux


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