Fedora 15 Update: oprofile-0.9.6-20.fc15

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Tue May 3 04:50:50 UTC 2011


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-5097
2011-04-09 05:23:04
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Name        : oprofile
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 0.9.6
Release     : 20.fc15
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:

Re-enable xenoprof support in OProfile. Also some fixes in the spec file.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #687914 - oprofile user without $HOME
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687914
  [ 2 ] Bug #683923 - oprofile-gui is built against qt3
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683923
  [ 3 ] Bug #609614 - oprofile : does not adhere to Static Library Packaging Guidelines
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609614
  [ 4 ] Bug #693596 - OProfile package does not build with Xen support
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693596
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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