Fedora 16 Update: powertop-1.98-9.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6035
2012-04-18 19:05:07
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Name        : powertop
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.98
Release     : 9.fc16
URL         : http://www.lesswatts.org/
Summary     : Power consumption monitor
Description :
PowerTOP is a tool that finds the software component(s) that make your
computer use more power than necessary while it is idle.

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Update Information:

This is an update that supress displaying power consumption when on AC. In this case the battery charging rate was displayed instead of overall power consumption which was misleading and not compatible with previous powertop 1 behaviour. For more details see the linked bugzilla. This update also adds commands for reproducing the tunings into html log - feature backported from f17.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 17 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-9
- Show power consumption only if discharging
  Resolves: rhbz#811949
* Tue Apr  3 2012 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza at redhat.com> - 1.98-8
- Escape scripts in HTML output
* Mon Mar 26 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-7
- Print commands which reproduce the tunings into html log (html-print-commands patch)
* Wed Mar  7 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-6
- Fixed power_supply units
  Resolves: rhbz#800814
* Tue Feb 28 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.98-5
- Rebuilt for c++ ABI breakage
* Fri Feb 24 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-4
- Backported support for power_supply class
  (add-power-supply-class-support patch)
- Added support for POWER_NOW readings
  (power-supply-add-power-now-support patch)
  Resolves: rhbz#796068
* Tue Jan 10 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-3
- Fixed 'unknown' readings from ACPI meters
  Resolves: rhbz#770289
- Fixed compilation on f17
* Fri Dec  2 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 1.98-2
- Always create params file
  Resolves: rhbz#698020
- Added cache files
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #811949 - On AC powertop shows charging rate as power usage
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811949
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update powertop' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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