New package bacula Cross platform network backup for Linux, Unix, Mac and Windows
New package hardinfo System Profiler and Benchmark
New package libgeotiff GeoTIFF format library
New package libtimidity MIDI to WAVE converter library
New package m17n-contrib Contributed multilingualization datafiles for m17n-lib
New package mcabber Console Jabber instant messaging client
New package perl-Catalyst-Action-RenderView Sensible default end action for view renders
New package pixman Pixel manipulation library
New package schedtool Tool to query or alter process scheduling policy
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
Updated Packages:
R-mvtnorm-0.8-2.fc8 ------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com - 0.8-2 - Update to 0.8-1, fixes test adminutil-1.1.3-1.fc8 --------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Rich Megginson rmeggins@redhat.com - 1.1.3-1 - updated to version 1.1.3 - fixes bugzillas 246124 and 247192
allegro-4.2.2-2.fc8 ------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl 4.2.2-2 - sync .libdir patch to 4.2.2 and use it again for multilib devel goodness (make allegro-devel i386 and x86_64 parallel installable again)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 4.2.2-1 - update to 4.2.2 - drop .libdir patch - sync .multilib patch
* Fri Jul 06 2007 Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl 4.2.1-3 - Silence output of chcon command in %post, because otherwise users get this: "chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file" when installing with selinux disabled (bz 246820)
alsa-oss-1.0.14-1.fc8 --------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Patrick "Jima" Laughton jima@beer.tclug.org 1.0.14-1 - Updated to match F8 alsa-libs - Changed reference to patch filename
anaconda-11.3.0.9-1 ------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 11.3.0.9-1 - Rebuild keymaps (clumens, #240087) - Fix kickstart docs about dhcpclass (clumens, #248910) - Fix for usb-storage dance (pjones, #247830) - Fix protected partitions problem (clumens) - Improve stage2 generation
bind-32:9.5.0-6.a6.fc8 ---------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 32:9.5.0-6.a6.fc8 - updated to 9.5.0a6 which contains fixes for CVE-2007-2925 and CVE-2007-2926 - fixed building on 64bits
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 31:9.5.0a5-5.fc8 - integrated "autotools" patch for testing purposes (upstream will accept it in future, for easier building)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 31:9.5.0a5-4.1.fc8 - fixed DLZ drivers building on 64bit systems
binutils-2.17.50.0.17-5 ----------------------- * Wed Jul 25 2007 Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com 2.17.50.0.17-5 - add .note.gnu.build-id into default linker script (#249435)
* Wed Jul 25 2007 Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com 2.17.50.0.17-4 - don't kill the %{_gnu} part of target name on arm (Lennert Buytenhek, #243516) - create just one PT_NOTE segment header for all consecutive SHT_NOTE sections
* Wed Jul 18 2007 Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com 2.17.50.0.17-3 - fix for ld --build-id
cone-0.71-1.fc8 --------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Steven Pritchard steve@kspei.com 0.71-1 - Update to 0.71.
* Mon Apr 09 2007 Steven Pritchard steve@kspei.com 0.69-1 - Update to 0.69.
* Mon Aug 28 2006 Steven Pritchard steve@kspei.com 0.68-2 - Rebuild.
eog-2.19.4-2.fc8 ---------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 2.19.4-2 - Fix a undefined macro use (#248689)
fuse-2.7.0-3.fc8 ---------------- * Sun Jul 22 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 2.7.0-3 - put pkgconfig file in correct place - enable compat symlinks for files in /bin
* Sat Jul 21 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 2.7.0-2 - redefine exec_prefix to / - redefine bindir to /bin - redefine libdir to %{_lib} - don't pass --disable-static to configure - manually rm generated static libs
* Wed Jul 18 2007 Peter Lemenkov lemenkov@gmail.com 2.7.0-1 - Version 2.7.0 - Redefined exec_prefix due to demands from NTFS-3G
gc-7.0-2.fc8 ------------ * Tue Jul 24 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 7.0-2 - gcinit patch, ABI compatibility (#248700) gcc-4.1.2-17 ------------ * Tue Jul 24 2007 Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com 4.1.2-17 - fix {,Build}Requires from last change (#249384)
gnome-panel-2.19.5-3.fc8 ------------------------ * Tue Jul 24 2007 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 2.19.5-3 - Fix launcher tooltips to react to changes. (#212164)
gnome-speech-0.4.15-2.fc8 ------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 0.4.15-2 - Build the espeak driver and put it in a subpackage
gpm-1.20.1-87.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Tomas Janousek tjanouse@redhat.com - 1.20.1-87 - replace OPEN_MAX with sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), fixing build with 2.6.23 kernel
* Tue Jul 24 2007 Tomas Janousek tjanouse@redhat.com - 1.20.1-86 - don't install t-mouse.el, emacs-common contains a newer version, fixes #249362
kde-settings-3.5-30.fc8 ----------------------- * Mon Jul 02 2007 Than Ngo than@redhat.com - 3.5-30 - fix bz#245100
kdesdk-3.5.7-7.fc8 ------------------ * Tue Jul 24 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> - 3.5.7-7 - don't use %pretrans (#249374)
kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21-2925.14.fc8 --------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Eduardo Habkost ehabkost@redhat.com - Rebase to 2.6.21.6
ktorrent-2.2.1-1.fc8 -------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Roland Wolters wolters.liste@gmx.net 2.2.1-1 - update to bugfix upstream 2.2.1
libXcomposite-0.4.0-1.fc8 ------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 0.4.0-1 - libXcomposite 0.4.0
* Sat Apr 21 2007 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 0.3.1-2 - Don't install INSTALL
libhangul-0.0.6-1.fc8 --------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Hu Zheng zhu@redhat.com - 0.0.6-1 - New upstream release. libpcap-14:0.9.7-1.fc8 ----------------------
libvirt-0.3.1-1.fc8 ------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Daniel Veillard veillard@redhat.com - 0.3.1-1.fc8 - Release of 0.3.1 - localtime clock support - PS/2 and USB input devices - lots of assorted bugfixes and cleanups - documentation and localization improvements
libwnck-2.19.5-2.fc8 -------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com - 2.19.5-2 - Fix a crash on shutdown in the wnck-applet
libxml++-2.18.1-1.fc8 --------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Denis Leroy denis@poolshark.org - 2.18.1-1 - Update to version 2.18.1
meld-1.1.5-2.fc8 ---------------- * Sun Jun 10 2007 Brian Pepple bpepple@fedoraproject.org - 1.1.5-2 - Drop requires on yelp.
mesa-6.5.2-15.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 6.5.2-15 - Add dri_interface.h to mesa-libGL-devel, and conflict with xorg-x11-proto-devel versions that attempted to provide it.
* Tue Jul 10 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 6.5.2-14 - Add mesa-demos subpackage. (#247252)
mod_dnssd-0.5-3.fc8 -------------------
ntfs-3g-2:1.710-1.fc8 --------------------- * Sun Jul 22 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 2:1.710-1 - bump to 1.710 - add compat symlinks
* Wed Jun 27 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 2:1.616-1 - bump to 1.616
ntp-4.2.4p2-2.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com 4.2.4p2-2 - ignore tentative addresses (#246297) - improve init script (#247003) - fix sleep patch - ease Autokey setup (#139673) - change default keysdir to /etc/ntp/crypto - set crypto password in /etc/ntp/crypto/pw - don't use randfile if /dev/urandom is used by OpenSSL - change default statsdir to /var/log/ntpstats/, use statistics type as default filename - package more doc files
pam-0.99.8.1-1.fc8 ------------------ * Mon Jul 23 2007 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 0.99.8.1-1 - upgrade to latest upstream version - add some firewire devices to default console perms (#240770)
* Thu Apr 26 2007 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 0.99.7.1-6 - pam_namespace: better document behavior on failure (#237249) - pam_unix: split out passwd change to a new helper binary (#236316) - pam_namespace: add support for temporary logons (#241226)
* Fri Apr 13 2007 Tomas Mraz tmraz@redhat.com 0.99.7.1-5 - pam_selinux: improve context change auditing (#234781) - pam_namespace: fix parsing config file with unknown users (#234513)
perl-4:5.8.8-22.fc8 ------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Robin Norwood rnorwood@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-22 - Resolves: rhbz#247386 - Use getcwd() instead of cwd() in File::Spec::Unix to avoid forking. - Appy patch to skip hostname tests, since hostname lookup isn't available in Fedora buildroots by design.
* Mon Jul 02 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-21 - perl-core metapackage
* Fri Jun 22 2007 Robin Norwood rnorwood@redhat.com - 4:5.8.8-20 - Resolves: rhbz#196836 - Apply upstream patch #28775, which fixes an issue where reblessing overloaded objects incurs significant performance penalty
perl-Taint-Runtime-0.03-1.fc8.1 ------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 0.03-1.1 - BR: perl(Test::More) php-eaccelerator-1:0.9.5.1-3.fc8 -------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Matthias Saou http://freshrpms.net/ 1:0.9.5.1-3 - Include patch to skip the exact PHP version check, we'll rely on our package's php_zend_api version requirement to "get it right".
policycoreutils-2.0.22-8.fc8 ---------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com 2.0.22-8 - Add requires libselinux-python
pungi-0.3.9-1.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com - 0.3.9-1 - Add a few more desktopy things to manifest - Rename f7 files to f8; set up config files for f8test1 - Don't quote things passed to mkisofs, not a shell - Always log stdout before checking for stderr output - Include memtest86+ in the "Fedora" manifest
rsyslog-1.17.2-3.fc8 -------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Peter Vrabec pvrabec@redhat.com 1.17.2-3 - take care of sysklogd configuration files in %post
* Tue Jul 24 2007 Peter Vrabec pvrabec@redhat.com 1.17.2-2 - use EVR in provides/obsoletes sysklogd
rusers-0.17-48 -------------- * Mon Jul 23 2007 Jiri Moskovcak jmoskovc@redhat.com 0.17-48 - Fixed init scripts to comply with LSB standard - Resolves: #247047
sane-backends-1.0.18-12.fc8 --------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Nils Philippsen nphilipp@redhat.com - 1.0.18-12 - fix typo in spec file
* Tue Jul 24 2007 Nils Philippsen nphilipp@redhat.com - 1.0.18-11 - work around udev regexes not matching as they should (#244444)
selinux-policy-3.0.3-6.fc8 -------------------------- * Mon Jul 23 2007 Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com 3.0.3-6 - Fix prelink to handle execmod
setup-2.6.9-1.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 2.6.9-1 - Assigned uid 87 for PolicyKit package (#244950) - Fixed precmd fix if TERM isn't set (#242732)
* Wed Jun 06 2007 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 2.6.7-1 - Fixed precmd setting to behave like bash for (t)csh (#242732)
* Thu May 24 2007 Phil Knirsch pknirsch@redhat.com 2.6.6-1 - Added another set of proposed changes to /etc/csh.cshrc (#199817) - Added missing documentation in /etc/hosts.[allow|deny] (#157053)
system-config-users-1.2.62-1.fc8 -------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Nils Philippsen nphilipp@redhat.com - 1.2.62 - pull in updated translations
tcpdump-14:3.9.7-1.fc8 ---------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar@redhat.com - 14:3.9.7-1 - update to 3.9.7 - with -C option, drop root privileges before opening first savefile (#244860) - update tcpslice to 1.2a3 - include time patch from Debian to fix tcpslice on 64-bit architectures
tkcvs-8.0.4-2.fc8 -----------------
uuid-1.6.0-1.fc8 ---------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Steven Pritchard steve@kspei.com 1.6.0-1 - Update to 1.6.0. - BR Test::More.
w3m-0.5.2-2.fc8 --------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Parag Nemade pnemade@redhat.com - 0.5.2-2 - Build against new gc-7.0 release.
* Tue Jun 26 2007 Parag Nemade pnemade@redhat.com - 0.5.2-1 - Update to 0.5.2 and remove merged patches. - Build against system gc library. - Add BR: nkf for multipart.cgi. - Don't call unneeded autotool
* Tue Mar 27 2007 Parag Nemade pnemade@redhat.com - 0.5.1-19 - and more cleanup.
wlassistant-0.5.7-3.fc8 ----------------------- * Mon Jul 23 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com 0.5.7-3 - close file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC, try to resolve bz 243509
xawtv-3.95-4.fc8 ---------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Dmitry Butskoy Dmitry@Butskoy.name - 3.95-4 - don't assume v4l-conf as system config util (#249130)
* Tue Jun 26 2007 Dmitry Butskoy Dmitry@Butskoy.name - drop X-Fedora category from desktop file
xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.2-12.fc8 ------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 7.2-12 - Remove dri_interface.h. It's not protocol, it belongs in Mesa.
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 7.2-11 - compositeproto 0.4
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.2-4.fc8 ------------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 7.2-4 - iceauth 1.0.2
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 7.2-3 - xrandr 1.2.2
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-1.fc8 ---------------------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 7.2-1 - setxkbmap 1.0.4 - Arbitrary version number bump, to match X.org release numbering. Why not.
ytalk-3.3.0-7.fc8 ----------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com 3.3.0-7 - release bump and rebuild
yum-3.2.2-2.fc8 --------------- * Tue Jul 24 2007 Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com - 3.2.2-2 - remove yum-updatesd subpackage; moving to the separate version
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.2-1 - 3.2.2 - disable unused installonlyn plugin - set installonly_limit to '2'
* Tue Jul 10 2007 James Bowes jbowes@redhat.com - 3.2.1-2 - defattr, buldarch, and macro suggestions from the merge review
The "repodata" directory is missing: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:00:32 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam@arcor.de wrote:
The "repodata" directory is missing: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
The compose failed in some unknown way :/
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully help with some of the complaints that I have been had. The *big* change is that it's bit split into two pieces: * The actual daemon. This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever touch the rpmdb, etc. Which should keep its memory footprint low. * Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks (+downloads +installs if so configured). Helper isn't threaded, which should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
People prodding and testing at this would be much appreciated; I'm hoping to be able to push this to F7-updates at some point as well. Bugs to bugzilla as usual
Jeremy
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully help with some of the complaints that I have been had. The *big* change is that it's bit split into two pieces:
- The actual daemon. This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever
touch the rpmdb, etc. Which should keep its memory footprint low.
- Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks
(+downloads +installs if so configured). Helper isn't threaded, which should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
People prodding and testing at this would be much appreciated; I'm hoping to be able to push this to F7-updates at some point as well. Bugs to bugzilla as usual
Does this also fix the issue where issuing any yum command wil fail while it is checking for updates? That is the no 1 reason for not to use yum-updatesd.
If it doesn't fix this, maybe the following is an idea: -modify yum to detect if its yum-updatesd which is locking the current yum "database" -if it is yum-updatesd send it a signal to stop doing whats its doing, on which it will finish its current operation, and then release the db. -print: "waiting for yum-updatesdb to release the database" -poll the database lock 2 times a second or so -continue
Regards,
Hans
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:31:02 +0200 Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl wrote:
If it doesn't fix this, maybe the following is an idea: -modify yum to detect if its yum-updatesd which is locking the current yum "database" -if it is yum-updatesd send it a signal to stop doing whats its doing, on which it will finish its current operation, and then release the db. -print: "waiting for yum-updatesdb to release the database" -poll the database lock 2 times a second or so -continue
Just to point out that this could be quite the long wait if you've got yum-updatesd configured to auto install.
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:31 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully help with some of the complaints that I have been had. The *big* change is that it's bit split into two pieces:
- The actual daemon. This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever
touch the rpmdb, etc. Which should keep its memory footprint low.
- Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks
(+downloads +installs if so configured). Helper isn't threaded, which should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
People prodding and testing at this would be much appreciated; I'm hoping to be able to push this to F7-updates at some point as well. Bugs to bugzilla as usual
Does this also fix the issue where issuing any yum command wil fail while it is checking for updates? That is the no 1 reason for not to use yum-updatesd.
While the actual update check is going on, yes, things won't work. But that's just like if you run a yum command while another one is running. The plus side is the thing holding the lock is a separate process that dies and shouldn't just get hung up in thread-land
If it doesn't fix this, maybe the following is an idea: -modify yum to detect if its yum-updatesd which is locking the current yum "database"
We could print out what the process holding the lock is easily enough I guess if people think it would be a substantial help.
-if it is yum-updatesd send it a signal to stop doing whats its doing, on which it will finish its current operation, and then release the db.
Can't really do this -- you can't just interrupt the metadata download or package installation, etc. But the time period for which it should have the lock held should be able to be much more constrained now and if it gets stuck, should be far more debuggable
-print: "waiting for yum-updatesdb to release the database" -poll the database lock 2 times a second or so -continue
This could also be done, but I'm not convinced that it's better than just dropping you back to a prompt. The difference is # yum update ... Lock is held by yum-updatesd-helper. Spinning until released. Hit ctrl-c to exit. ... ... ... Got it, carrying on
vs
# yum update Lock is held by yum-updatesd-helper. # (wait here, do other tasks, etc) # yum update
Jeremy
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:31 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully help with some of the complaints that I have been had. The *big* change is that it's bit split into two pieces:
- The actual daemon. This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever
touch the rpmdb, etc. Which should keep its memory footprint low.
- Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks
(+downloads +installs if so configured). Helper isn't threaded, which should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
People prodding and testing at this would be much appreciated; I'm hoping to be able to push this to F7-updates at some point as well. Bugs to bugzilla as usual
Does this also fix the issue where issuing any yum command wil fail while it is checking for updates? That is the no 1 reason for not to use yum-updatesd.
While the actual update check is going on, yes, things won't work. But that's just like if you run a yum command while another one is running. The plus side is the thing holding the lock is a separate process that dies and shouldn't just get hung up in thread-land
If it doesn't fix this, maybe the following is an idea: -modify yum to detect if its yum-updatesd which is locking the current yum "database"
We could print out what the process holding the lock is easily enough I guess if people think it would be a substantial help.
It would be a start, but see below.
-if it is yum-updatesd send it a signal to stop doing whats its doing, on which it will finish its current operation, and then release the db.
Can't really do this -- you can't just interrupt the metadata download or package installation, etc. But the time period for which it should have the lock held should be able to be much more constrained now and if it gets stuck, should be far more debuggable
With installation I agree, but yum-updatesd installing packages is not the default. And the meta datadownload needs to be done one way or the other, so the time lost while waiting for updatesd todo this is later won again.
-print: "waiting for yum-updatesdb to release the database" -poll the database lock 2 times a second or so -continue
This could also be done, but I'm not convinced that it's better than just dropping you back to a prompt. The difference is # yum update ... Lock is held by yum-updatesd-helper. Spinning until released. Hit ctrl-c to exit. ... ... ... Got it, carrying on
vs
# yum update Lock is held by yum-updatesd-helper. # (wait here, do other tasks, etc) # yum update
There are 3 important differences:
1. Despite recent cleanups yum still isn't exactly instant, so usually I type "yum -y foo bar" and then switch away, only to find yum-updatesd was holding the lock when I look to see if yum is finished
2. There is no way to tell when yum-updatesd is finished so one still needs todo the polling manual, very anyoing. Or as I do just kill it and disable it in ntsysv (which AFAIK is not what we want).
3. I give various Linux labs, where students often need to install package foobar, because I try to make my labs excercises as real life as possible (debugging bugs in bugzilla for example) and thus not all needed packages are installed in advance. To you and me the difference is as you describe above, to them however its the difference between yum working as expect and remarks along the lines like: "Hans it isn't working" or "WTF does this error mean?", so to regular end users the difference is huge.
Regards,
Hans
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 03:33 -0400, Build System wrote:
New package yum-updatesd Update notification daemon
FYI -- this is a new and reworked yum-updatesd that should hopefully help with some of the complaints that I have been had. The *big* change is that it's bit split into two pieces:
- The actual daemon. This is small, listens to dbus, and doesn't ever
touch the rpmdb, etc. Which should keep its memory footprint low.
- Helper process that's forked off to do actual update checks
(+downloads +installs if so configured). Helper isn't threaded, which should avoid some of the problems that have been cropping up.
Now that we've got system bus activation landing in Rawhide anytime soon (it was recently committed upstream) you probably don't even need to start yum-updatesd at all.
David