[Announce] Libsmbios available in Fedora. Plus SUSE/Debian status.

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

Note: cross posted to several relevant mailing lists as this is
interesting to each.

	I am pleased to announce that libsmbios is now an official part
of the Fedora/EPEL project, with myself as the maintainer. The first
build of libsmbios (the recently released 0.13.4 version) is available
in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4&5 (EPEL-4 & EPEL-5)
repository, the Fedora Core 6 "Extras" repository, as well as the Fedora
Development repository (will become Fedora 7), so installation of
libsmbios is a "yum install" away. No additional configuration is needed
to install!

	I have sent requests to the Debian and SUSE maintainers of
libsmbios to update their packages to the latest 0.13.4 release, so that
users of these distros can enjoy the new dellWirelessCtl goodness.

	More information about EPEL is here:
http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=78. The EPEL
repositories are intended for installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) and its derivatives such as CentOs and Scientific Linux.

	Additionally, I am preparing firmware-tools and the various Dell
extensions to firmware tools for inclusion in Fedora/EPEL as well. This
should happen over the next couple weeks and will be announced when it
is complete.

Enjoy!
Michael Brown

[root at meb-civic yum.repos.d]# yum install libsmbios-bin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package libsmbios-bin.i386 0:0.13.4-1.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libsmbios-libs = 0.13.4-1.fc6 for package:
libsmbios-bin
--> Processing Dependency: libsmbios.so.1 for package: libsmbios-bin
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package libsmbios-libs.i386 0:0.13.4-1.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================
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 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
Size 
========================================================================
=====
Installing:
 libsmbios-bin           i386       0.13.4-1.fc6     extras
55 k
Installing for dependencies:
 libsmbios-libs          i386       0.13.4-1.fc6     extras
233 k

Transaction Summary
========================================================================
=====
Install      2 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 288 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): libsmbios-bin-0.13 100% |=========================|  55 kB
00:00     
(2/2): libsmbios-libs-0.1 100% |=========================| 233 kB
00:00     
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: libsmbios-libs               #########################
[1/2] 
  Installing: libsmbios-bin                #########################
[2/2] 

Installed: libsmbios-bin.i386 0:0.13.4-1.fc6
Dependency Installed: libsmbios-libs.i386 0:0.13.4-1.fc6
Complete!
[root at meb-civic yum.repos.d]# 
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