Fedora 19 Update: kexec-tools-2.0.4-5.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11653
2013-06-25 20:46:30
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Name        : kexec-tools
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.0.4
Release     : 5.fc19
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:

This release mainly includes improvement of dracut-kdump.sh, adding debugging tips into howto doc, fixing dd progress bar showing.
This release mainly optimise code related to network part and add drm modules for kdump.
This release mainly add selinux support, and several updates.
This release contains network enhancement and adding vmcore-dmesg support.
Upgrade kexec-tools to 2.0.4 with bug fixes
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 25 2013 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-5
- monitor-dd-progress fix
- rawdump: only show dd progress bar when core_collector is not makedumpfile
- kexec-tools.spec: replaces scriptlets with new systemd macros
- dracut-kdump.sh: umount fs right before kdump exit
- dracut-kdump.sh: recursively umount fs and its submounts
- dracut-kdump.sh: cleanup - using local variable names instead of $1/$2 in functions
- dracut-kdump.sh: name the invalid vmcore to vmcore-incomplete
- dracut-kdump.sh: Output top level information about the kdump progress.
- kexec-kdump-howto: Add a section for debugging tips
* Tue Jun 18 2013 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-4
- dracut-module-setup.sh: improve the approach to get a bridged interface list
- dracut-module-setup.sh: cleanup - use kdump_get_mac_addr() function
- dracut-module-setup.sh: use kernel exported mac address in kdump_get_mac_addr()
- dracut-module-setup.sh: use perm addr of slaves to setup bonding network
- kdump: Do not output debug messages by default
- dracut-module-setup.sh: kdump module depends on drm module
- mkdumprd: return error if no write permission on save path of server for ssh
* Thu Jun 13 2013 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-3
- mkdumprd: remove -M option for dracut
- kdumpctl: add selinux relabel when service startup
- depends on dracut selinux module
- dracut-kdump.sh: umount rootfs after dump_to_rootfs
- kdump.sysconfig: append "panic=10" to kdump cmdline
- kexec-kdump-howto: grubby is suggested modifing kernel cmdline
- kexec-tools.spec: removes kexec udev rules for s390
- kdump.sysconfig: Add option action_on_fail and set its default as continue
- Add tab key as delimiter for core_collector in kdump.conf
- redirect stdout to stderr
* Tue May 14 2013 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-2
- kdump: Save vmcore-dmesg.txt before saving vmcore
- Remove "ip=" overwrite to 40ip.conf
- Add support for bridge over bond/team/vlan.
- Fix bonding options syntax and get all specified options from ifcfg file.
- add dracut_args option to kdump.conf
- kexec-tools.spec: Add ethtool to dependency.
- error out if dump target is encrypted
* Wed Apr  3 2013 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> - 2.0.4-1
- Delete several patches which have been merged into kexec-tools-2.0.4
- Revert: Release 2.0.3-72
- Release 2.0.3-72
- Pull kexec-tools-2.0.4
- Check if block device as dump target is resettable
- mkdumprd: add function perror_exit
- Deprecate blacklist option
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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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