Fedora 12 Update: oprofile-0.9.6-5.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-6672
2010-04-16 23:15:18
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Name        : oprofile
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.9.6
Release     : 5.fc12
URL         : http://oprofile.sf.net
Summary     : System wide profiler
Description :
OProfile is a profiling system for systems running Linux. The
profiling runs transparently during the background, and profile data
can be collected at any time. OProfile makes use of the hardware performance
counters provided on Intel P6, and AMD Athlon family processors, and can use
the RTC for profiling on other x86 processor types.

See the HTML documentation for further details.

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Update Information:

Rebase to OProfile 0.9.6 fixes the following Problems    - opcontrol cannot
start daemon in timer mode  - Improper handling of separate debuginfo files  -
XML callgraph output has no symbol-level sample counts  - Correct handling of
debuginfo in separate files rhbz554639
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 14 2010 Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 0.9.6-5
- Handle debuginfo section differences. rhbz554639
* Fri Dec 11 2009 Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 0.9.6-2
- Clean up oprofile.spec file.
* Tue Nov 24 2009 Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 0.9.6-1
- Rebase on OProfile 0.9.6.
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 0.9.5-4
- Switch to using ExcludeArch.
* Wed Oct  7 2009 Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> - 0.9.5-3
- Allow timer mode to work.
- Correct location for addditional files in man pages. Resolves: rhbz #508669
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #554639 - opreport does not seem to support separate debuginfo
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554639
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update oprofile' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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