Fedora 20 Update: kexec-tools-2.0.4-14.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-22663
2013-12-03 18:07:25
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Name        : kexec-tools
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.0.4
Release     : 14.fc20
URL         : None
Summary     : The kexec/kdump userspace component.
Description :
kexec-tools provides /sbin/kexec binary that facilitates a new
kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a
normal or a panic reboot. This package contains the /sbin/kexec
binary and ancillary utilities that together form the userspace
component of the kernel's kexec feature.

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Update Information:

backport two commits from upstream
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Dec  3 2013 WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-13
- Add rd.memdebug in kdump module
- kdumpctl: Avoid leaking fd to subshell
- makedumpfile: Understand >= v3.11-rc4 dmesg
- makedumpfile, ppc: Support to filter dump for kernels that use CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
* Fri Nov 15 2013 WANG Chao <chaowang at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-13
- makedumpfile: disable mmap()
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kexec-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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