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×Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework, designed to install
from a live CD/DVD/USB environment to a hard disk. It includes a graphical
installation program based on Qt 5. This package includes the Calamares
framework and the required configuration files to produce a working replacement
for Anaconda's liveinst.
Update Information:
A security update that fixes Calamares bug CAL-405:
When installing with a LUKS-encrypted
`/` partition, Calamares was always creating a keyfile to decode `/` and storing
it in the initramfs. It did that even with an unencrypted separate `/boot`
partition. As a result, the keyfile would be stored in cleartext on the `/boot`
partition, and it was possible to unlock the `/` partition without ever entering
a passphrase. This completely defeated the security of LUKS. Please note that
this only affects manual partitioning. The automatic partitioning never leaves
`/boot` unencrypted (and it is, in fact, recommended to also always encrypt
`/boot` when doing manual partitioning). This update fixes the `dracutlukscfg`
module to not add the keyfile to `install_items` in the `dracut` configuration
(so that `dracut` will not include it onto the initramfs) if `/boot` is separate
and unencrypted.
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-561a937494 2016-12-01 14:02:42.299707
Name : calamares Product : Fedora 25 Version : 2.4.4 Release : 5.fc25 URL : https://calamares.io/ Summary : Installer from a live CD/DVD/USB to disk Description : Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework, designed to install from a live CD/DVD/USB environment to a hard disk. It includes a graphical installation program based on Qt 5. This package includes the Calamares framework and the required configuration files to produce a working replacement for Anaconda's liveinst.
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade calamares' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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