devel-announce July 2007

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Fedora 8 Test 1 slipping
by Jesse Keating 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Due to an ongoing issue with booting many Dells (and some Toshiba) systems via CD, we've had to delay the release of Test1. The good news is that we've found a solution and a new kernel is building in koji as I type this. The bad news is that there is not enough time to get the output of that build and spin it into a set of trees for release on Thursday. As such, we're slipping the release to Tuesday of next week, August 7. This gives us time to consume the kernel build and generate a release candidate tree early tomorrow, and spend all day, and all of Thursday beating on it for real blocker issues. Friday morning is our Go/No Go point. If all things are Go, we'll be handing it off to mirrors and giving them the weekend and Monday to sync up the release. If we're No Go, we will determine then a new release date. All the gory details can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/8/Test1TreeTesting Cheers! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Now Open
by Karsten Wade 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you. Ever find yourself rebuilding one of the high-quality Fedora packages for your EL version because it didn't ship with the EL distro? Friends, there is a new way. May we introduce ... Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) EPEL is a community of package maintainers working from inside of Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL How to use EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse You can look for packages here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#WhereIsTheSoftwareRepositoryLocated Looking for a package not in EPEL or other questions? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ

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Package rebuilds for binutils/gcc bug
by Jesse Keating 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Re https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249435 , there are a number of packages that need to be rebuilt (and subsequently tagged for the test release). The list of packages is the intersection of packages that were built with the combination of binutils >= 2.17.50.0.17-2 && binutils <= 2.17.50.0.17-4 && gcc >= 4.1.2-16 and not noarch. The list is at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/needrebuild While not every package will show errors, we're going to rebuild them just in case. Fedora rel-eng will be working to rebuild these packages today. If you were already rebuilding one of these, please drop a line to rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org so that we don't step on each other. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Frozen for Fedora 8 Test1
by Jesse Keating 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

We have frozen for Fedora 8 Test 1. A "freeze" tag exists, 'f8-test1' that is a container for the packages that are destined to be in Test1 (and rawhide until test1 is fully composed and released to mirrors). As per http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview , builds from devel/ will continue to be tagged with 'dist-f8' and will be picked up by rawhide composes once the freeze is over. If you feel you must have your build in Test1 and it isn't already tagged with 'f8-test1', please follow http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy If you wish to help us get to Test1, please follow http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/8/Test1TreeTesting -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Koji outage
by Jesse Keating 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

Due to some DNS changes this morning, Koji is having troubles contacting the CVS server. We are working as fast as we can to resolve this issue. Thanks. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages
by Bill Nottingham 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee would like to remind maintainers that a license change in a package is a very serious event - it has as many, if not more, implications for related packages as ABI changes do. Therefore, if your package changes license, even if it just changes the license version, it is required that you announce it, whether on this list or fedora-devel-list. Note that any license change to a more restrictive license or license version may affect the legality of portions of Fedora as a whole; ergo, FESCo reserves the right to block upgrades of packages to versions with new licenses to ensure the legal distribution of Fedora. Please contact FESCo if you have any questions. Bill

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Fedora 8 Test 1 Freeze in 5 days
by Jesse Keating 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

That's right, it's about to get a lot colder in here. The Freeze date is set for July 24th, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule To accomplish the freeze, we'll be following our existing policy: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy And for a more overview of what a freeze is please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview#head-f1ce962de535… At this time, the release engineering team will be working hard to resolve the current broken deps and conflicts and upgrade paths issues. Therefor your packages may wind up getting updated by us if you haven't gotten to them yet. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Reminder: Fedora Update Tips
by Warren Togami 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Tips for Fedora Package Maintainers when issuing updates. 1) Push or Revoke Updates-Testing ================================= https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/testing/F7 Please don't forget to deal with your packages sitting in updates-testing. Some packages were sitting here for more than a month. Your Updates Testing package may be marked as "Stable" if they are ready to be pushed as an official update. If you want to cancel an update, or if it was superseded by a newer package, you will want to "Unpush" it. 2) EVR Version Problems ======================= Currently F7 uses Bodhi (the Fedora Updates System) while FE-6 uses the legacy Extras buildsystem. This can sometimes create EVR promotion problems between the distributions. Example: 1) foo-1.2.3-1.fc7 foo-1.2.3-1.fc6 2) foo-1.2.4-1.fc7 is pushed to F7 updates-testing foo-1.2.4-1.fc6 is built for FE-6 3) FC6 version of foo is "newer" than foo in F7, because the FC6 package went directly into the repository while the F7 package is only in testing. Suggested Workaround: Build for FE6 only *after* the F7 update has been officially pushed. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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New Infrastructure Ticketing System
by Mike McGrath 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

The Infrastructure Team has decided to change ticketing systems. The new system is available at: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/report We'll be continuing to set that site up but tickets can now be filed there. The previous ticketing system (at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/) turned out to be a bit to heavy for our teams needs. Using a Trac system feels more natural to us and we suspect it will feel more natural to the community as well. -Mike

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perl-devel will be removed from the f8 buildroots
by Robin Norwood 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi, On Monday, perl-devel will be removed from the f8 buildroots. This means that if you try to build a perl-* package that uses the perl build tools, you will need to add those tools to the BuildRequires for the package. The most common will be: BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) But you should also watch the build output to make sure tests aren't being skipped due to other missing modules. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching

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