-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-16984 2012-10-26 19:20:13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : pcp Product : Fedora 18 Version : 3.6.9 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp Summary : System-level performance monitoring and performance management Description : Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management. The PCP open source release provides a unifying abstraction for all of the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to latest PCP sources, and resolve these bugzillas: - Fix pmcd sigsegv in NUMA/CPU indom setup (BZ 858384) - Fix sar2pcp uninitialised perl variable warning (BZ 859117) - Fix pcp.py and pmcollectl with older python versions (BZ 852234) - Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb). - Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly) - Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree. - Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling. - Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world. - Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. new upstream release new upstream release - Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb). - Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly) - Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree. - Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling. - Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world. - Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. new upstream release - Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb). - Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly) - Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree. - Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling. - Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world. - Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. - Added the python PMAPI bindings and an initial python client in pmcollectl. Separate, new package exists for python libs for those platforms that split out packages (rpm, deb). - Added a pcp-testsuite package for those platforms that might want this (rpm, deb again, mainly) - Re-introduced the pcp/qa subdirectory in pcp and deprecated the external pcpqa git tree. - Fix potential buffer overflow in pmlogger host name handling. - Reworked the configure --prefix handling to be more like the rest of the open source world. - Ensure the __pmDecodeText ident parameter is always set Resolves Red Hat bugzilla bug #841306. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #858384 - pmcd segv during linux-pmda query https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858384 [ 2 ] Bug #859117 - sar2pcp warnings: use of uninitialized value .... line 171 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859117 [ 3 ] Bug #852234 - pcp 3.6.6-1 pcp.py fails to compile with python2.4 in epel5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852234 [ 4 ] Bug #841306 - libpcp additional decoder hardening https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841306 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pcp' 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 GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
