devel-announce August 2007

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Fedora developers running Rawhide and having source upload issues...
by Jesse Keating 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Curl was recently modified to link against nss instead of openssl for it's ssl capabilities. For some reason, this does not work with our source look aside cache. If you are having issues uploading new sources in your packages and you're using rawhide, make sure that you're using a curl no newer than 7.16.4-2. If you have a newer version, downgrade using the packages found at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13319 We'll work with the curl developers to resolve this issue as soon as possible. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Frozen for Test2
by Jesse Keating 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

We froze for test2 last night. This also marks the Feature freeze and the String freeze for the remainder of the Fedora 8 development cycle. Builds from rawhide will continue to get the 'dist-f8' tag, and will be available in the buildroots to build against. However rawhide will compose from the 'dist-rawhide' tag, which inherits from 'f8-test2'. If you need to get a build into Fedora 8 Test2, please follow http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/TestFreezePolicy For schedule information, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule To see if your build made the freeze cut off, see http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/builds?tagID=25 or simply call 'koji latest-pkg f8-test2 <pkgname>' -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Heads up, slight tree path change
by Jesse Keating 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

As part of a continuing effort to make derivative distributions of Fedora easier, we're making the path names within the tree a bit more generic. Instead of os/Fedora/<packages> the path will now be os/Packages/<packages>. This may cause you some shuffle or churn when syncing, and I apologize for the late notice. We've been having a heck of a time getting a rawhide to compose and I hadn't taken the time to send a mail about this. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Scripted rebuilds coming up for ppc32 selinux fix.
by Jesse Keating 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

There are still a number (237 as of this morning) of packages that need to be rebuilt so that their ppc32 binaries will not cause selinux denials. This is very important to having a successful Fedora 8 Test 2 release for ppc. As such, Fedora Release Engineering will be doing a scripted rebuild of the remaining packages left to rebuild. We will not be fixing any open bugs, doing any license audit, or any other manual type work, it will merely be a scripted bump of the spec file and a build (failures will be investigated). We are not scripting the rebuilds of anything else at this time, just those packages marked as needing rebuild for ppc32 at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/really-need-to-rebuild These builds will begin shortly, after the next update to the really-need-to-build list. We apologize for any inconvenience these automated builds may cause you, especially given such short notice, however it is necessary that we complete these builds in time for Test2. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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Bugzilla Server Outage Announcement
by Dave Lawrence 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

S E R V E R O U T A G E A N N O U N C E M E N T ================================================= Scheduled Date: 8/24/2007 Scheduled Time: 19:00 EDT (-0400) Estimated Time Required: 8-10 Hours Performed By: Red Hat Engineering Operations People/Groups Impacted: Bugzilla/Hardware Catalog Users Site/Services Affected: Bugzilla.redhat.com, Hardware.redhat.com Impact: Bugzilla/Hardware db and web will be completely unavailable until migration is complete. Description: We will be doing the final migration to a new external co-located Bugzilla environment. Changes - Now using native MySQL replication. Master w/ Slave hot backup - Now utilizing two fail over web servers - Login names lowercased: no longer permit mixed case. All duplicates have been removed. - Cookies: authentication has been modified since it is no longer possible to authenticate based on ip address. Everyone will need to re-login. Contact Please email us at bugzilla-owner(a)redhat.com if you have any concerns.

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Perl hiccup in rawhide buildroots
by Jesse Keating 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

A malfunctioning build of perl landed in the rawhide buildroots a few minutes ago. This caused almost every build that started afterward to fail with a mock error 100 (unable to init the build root). I've untagged the bad build of perl and a newRepo task has started that has a better build of perl on it. Once this task (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=113051 ) is done, you'll need to resubmit your builds for rawhide. Very sorry for the interruption in service. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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String Freeze Policy effective from today
by Dimitris Glezos 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hey all. A quick announcement that from today we have a String Freeze Policy active: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy Maintainers of packages that get translated by the Localization Project would want to take a look at the policy, as it describes what to do if you really need to break the freeze date. Reminding that the string freeze for Fedora 8 is the 28th of August, as noted on the Release Schedule. For more information on String Freezes, jump to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Freezes#string On this page there is also a section for Translation Freezes (#translation), which basically is a date where we guarantee translators that all contributions done up to that point will be included in the final Release. -d -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) --

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Notice: Fedora 8 Feature Freeze - 2 WEEKS LEFT
by Warren Togami 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule Feature Freeze for Fedora 8 is coming soon on August 28th. The goal of the feature freeze is to be sure that the components are in a known and tested state before the release of Fedora 8. Notes ===== 1) Top Priority for the freeze are components within the default installations. 2) Secondary in freeze importance are packages within the entire Fedora Collection. Major changes after the Feature Freeze date are highly discouraged. 3) New packages may continue to be added to the devel branch during this period, as long as they do not require major changes of existing packages. 4) Contact FESCo if you need clarification or permission for an exception to the Feature Freeze. 5) If your feature misses the deadline, don't feel too disheartened. The F9 feature freeze is coming ~6 months later. 6) At some (yet to be determined) point we have to stop additions of new packages to F8 when we reach the DEEP FREEZE. This is when we stop the churn of new and updated packages in order to check consistency of the repository prior to the final release. By the calendar, F8 Final devel freeze is currently scheduled for October 23rd. If you have any questions about the Feature Freeze, please ask on fedora-devel-list. Thanks, Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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New packaging guideline: users and groups
by Ville Skyttä 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

A new guideline for handling user and group accounts in packages has been added to the packaging guidelines. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#UsersAndGroups http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/UsersAndGroups

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F8 packagers note: new find-debuginfo.sh script
by Roland McGrath 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Coming soon to a dist-f8 near you will be an rpm-build package that includes a revamped find-debuginfo.sh script. This will be a new rpm-build > 4.4.2.1-3. You can find an unofficial build with the new script right now in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_94236/ Most maintainers should not need to worry about the new script. It should silently do the right thing without any attention from you. If you see any new problems, please harrass me immediately. For any packages doing special non-default debuginfo packaging, please talk to me directly. I've taken care of kernel and glibc, which are the only special cases I know of. The only problem I know to expect is improperly built DSOs, where broken package makefiles run ld -shared directly instead of via gcc. I just posted about the details of this: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-August/msg00135.html If this hits you, it was already a bug in your package, and now the tools are telling you about it early. If you see any messages like: *** ERROR: No build ID note found in ... then look into how the named binaries are linked. If it's not a simple case of changing ld -shared to $(CC) -shared, you can always contact me for help figuring it out. If anything else about the find-debuginfo.sh part of your build.log, or the -debuginfo rpm that results, looks suspect to you, don't hesitate to contact me. The intended changes are the build-id magic, smart handling of hard links and symlinks, and generating all the correct %dir lines. Thanks, Roland

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