REQ: Tripwire developers / testers
by Keith G. Robertson-Turner
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Tripwire development has stepped up a gear and gone beyond the "quick fix"
stage.
The current pre-release in the QA queue WorksForMe® and the binary distro
looks good, but now there is a growing interest in backporting some other
patches and cleaning up the code.
The biggest fix promises to come in the form of cryptlib patches in the
Deb patch, however this patch cannot be applied "as-is" since:
1) ... It's too Debian-centric, and
2) ... It clashes with Paul Herman's tw-20030919.patch
I'm looking to merge competing patches and generally clean up.
Paul has indicated that (time permitting) he will review his code and
submit an overview of his patch, to be documented and included with the
release. I feel this is important, given the scope of the changes.
Meanwhile, I will begin work on the huge array of patches.
I'm requesting help from anyone with even an hour or two two spare per
week, to get development moving again. My current busy schedule (and my
day job) would make progress painfully slow otherwise.
Thanks in advance,
Keith G. Robertson-Turner
tripwire-devel at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk
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20 years, 4 months
fedora naming and google
by Jeroen van Drie
This might seem trivial but might make a WORLD of difference
Searching for things related to rh on google has always been difficult because
the response could apply to 5.2, 7.1, 9.0, or any or all version(s).
Searching for information about an OSX release is much easier because of the
proliferation of the cat names (panther, jaguar, etc) so adding the cat name
to the google query often returns the right answer.
Since google is such an invaluable tool in maintaining a linux machine I would
ask you all to consider and discuss using simple names for each fedora
release, and to refer to the releases by those names and not by version
numbers so that the practise becomes common enough to be a valuable google
property.
Names like
fedora core
fedora quark
fedora proton
(ie simple names from a cohesive list like physics.)
I've installed fedora as my main desktop a few days ago; it's very nice and
polished, very well done everyone!
20 years, 4 months
RFE: Common format for update/errata announcements
by Bernd Bartmann
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Request for enhancement:
Please use ONE common format for Fedora update/errata announcements.
Until today we already got 4 different kinds of subject lines:
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: glibc-2.3.2-101.1
Fedora Core 1 Update: epic-1.0.1-16
Fedora Update Notification: Mozilla [1.4.1-18]
Updated ethereal packages available
I would propose to use the first format listed above with the extension
to replace the prefix [SECURITY] with [BUGFIX] or [ENHANCEMENT] when
appropriate.
Every announcement should be GPG signed.
Also I think it would be better to put the rpm names and the md5sums
into the same line. This would increase readability alot.
And as already requested before can we please get a central web page
containing all update announcements something like
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata.html
Shouldn't these announcements not also be posted at the Bugtraq and
Full-Disclosure mailing-lists?
Filed as RFE bug #111056.
Best regards.
- --
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Bernd Bartmann <Bernd.Bartmann(a)sohanet.de>
I.S. Security and Network Engineer
SoHaNet Technology GmbH / Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11 / 10553 Berlin
Fon: +49 30 214783-44 / Fax: +49 30 214783-46
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20 years, 4 months
changelog display in up2date/yum
by Stephen Reindl
Hi all,
it would be a nice feature to see the changes in a package before the
package is updated. A feature like this is available for Debian (but there
you get a mail at the time you install the packages).
My idea is to give the user the chance to decide by reading the changes of
a package if the update is needed or not.
Regards
Stephen
--
Stephen Reindl
sr(a)stephenreindl.de
20 years, 4 months
Translation project -- Catalan
by Josep Puigdemont
Hi!!
I have recently joined Fedora's translation project, and would like to
start working on the translation to the Catalan language.
I hope I am not posting to the wrong list (should I post at
i18n(a)redhat.com?), if I do, please tell me and accept my apologies :)
I have some questions: I've got CVS access, checked out "translate"
module, and reviewed. Now, Catalan is a new language (there is no ca.po
for any application), so to start with anaconda, for instance, I created
it using msginit like this:
$ msginit --locale=ca -i anaconda.pot
Is that how you would normally do it?
Then, once the file is translated, do I have rights to commit (and thus
add a new file) into the repository, or is there someone coordinating
the translation efforts that should do it? Shall I file a RFE requesting
the addition of a new language, maybe?
If it exists a FAQ or documentation about this, let me know!
Thanks,
Josep
P.S.: If there are subscribers here that would like to help to translate
Fedora into catalan, we're going to coordinate from
http://www.softcatala.org/llistes/ (list "Fedora").
20 years, 4 months
Self Introduction: Chuck Mead
by Chuck Mead
1. Charles S. Mead
2. Cary, North Carolina, USA
3. Instructor/Examiner
4. Red Hat, Inc., Global Learning Services
5. Goals:
a. since Fedora is what RHEL will be and I have to teach RHEL I want to
be involved in the development process as much as time permits.
b. I am interested in init and related issues so I would like to do
some things with init when needed.
c. for starters I guess I will work on doing QA with the big pile of
packages at fedora.us.
6. History:
I started using Linux in 1993. Have been using Unix for almost 20 years
now. I am the founder of MoonGroup.com (an independent consulting firm).
Co-founder and past President of the Linux Professional Institute.
Former CTO of LinuxMall (OTC: ebiz). Co-founder and leader of the Lunar
Linux project (source based distro). Instructor/Examiner employed by Red
Hat in the Global Learning Services group.
[csm@dawg csm]$ gpg --fingerprint E1F9D56B
pub 1024D/E1F9D56B 2003-02-24 Chuck Mead (Instructor, GLS) <csm(a)redhat.com>
Key fingerprint = 662A 9CA3 6709 5538 3F73 0872 65FC B48E E1F9 D56B
sub 1024g/E5600C57 2003-02-24
--
Chuck Mead <csm(a)redhat.com>
Instructor II, GLS
Disclaimer: "It's Thursday and my name is Locutus of B0rk!"
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
20 years, 4 months
Re: FC2 and general LDAP Support
by Nils O. Selåsdal
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 16:12, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roland K=E4ser?= wrote:
> Look at the mail from Nicolas Mailhot. This is one of my points. Now, we
> have all the configuration stuff spread over a lot of configuration
> files. This structure is matured since the first version of Unix. But to
> maintain all this files become more worse over the time. Yet the KDE
> comes with a lot of new configuration files so on with every other
> application on the whole system. The redmond bill hat not that many good
> ideas but the one with the registry was a good one. If we wanna make
> linux become a more professional operating system and feels in a more
> homogeneous way. We need to replace all this fragments of configuration
> spread nearly over the whole file system by an more professional way of
> an configuration concept. It doesn't needs all to be changed by the next
> fedora release but I strongly think that to store all the configuration
> settings inside a centralized configuration store whould anymore
> enhance the release. And nicolas has right; if we are the first ones
> who forces this concept it probably becomes a standard in the linux
> distributions.
> And for an other benefit, think about the possibilities of hanging a
> centrailized configuration store for all workstations an servers on big
> network. All the workstation configurations are stored in one single
> place (with backup servers of corse) and needs only to be maintaind at
> this place. I can imagine the next TCO studies from all the business
> analysts for comparing windows with linux. The TCO of linux whould come
> extremly down by using a such concept.
> Was that enough arguments for establishing a ldap server for the user
> records.
Perhaps. On thing is missing though. Someone needs to implement this
and prove it's "better". And since just about each project uses
it's own config file parsing/format, all those need to be enhanced.
Which is a lot of work, and chances are the changes will not get
upstream atleast for a while.
If not, all one adds is yet another config system.
We also have gconf, which might be extended to this concept.
--
Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
20 years, 4 months
ISO build process and tools
by Gil Hauer
Hello,
Can someone describe the build processes of Fedora, from source RPMs to
ISO? Is there a document that describes this somewhere?
Thanks,
Gil
20 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20031126 changes
by Build System
New package gcc-ssa
Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...) (GCC SSA snapshot)
New package system-switch-mail
The Mail Transport Agent Switcher
Updated Packages:
SDL-1.2.6-2
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.2.6-2
- removed rpath
- using O3 instead of O2, now (SDL_RLEaccel.c compile error)
- added BuildRequires for nasm
* Tue Sep 02 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.2.6-1
- new version 1.2.6
arts-1.1.93-0.2
---------------
* Tue Nov 25 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 8:1.1.93-0.2
- enable support alsa
cups-1.1.19-15
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.19-15
- no rpath in cups-config anymore
ethereal-0.9.16-3
-----------------
* Tue Nov 25 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 0.9.16-3
- Added BuildRequires for elfutils-devel (#89466).
- Fixed buggy desktop entry (#105704).
- Fixed out of bound array access (#110749).
kdeartwork-3.1.93-0.1
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* Wed Nov 12 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleanup
kdegames-3.1.93-0.1
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* Tue Nov 11 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleanup specfile
- remove some patch files, which are included in new upstream
kdemultimedia-3.1.93-0.1
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* Tue Nov 11 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.1
- 3.1.93 (KDE 3.2 Beta1)
- cleanup rpm file list
kdenetwork-3.1.93-0.2
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.1.93-0.2
- fixed link problem with ssl
* Mon Nov 10 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleaned up rpm file list
kdepim-3.1.93-0.1
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* Thu Nov 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleanup
kdetoys-3.1.93-0.1
------------------
* Wed Nov 12 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleanup specfile
- remove some unneeded patch files
kdeutils-3.1.93-0.1
-------------------
* Wed Nov 12 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta1
- cleanup specfile
kdevelop-3.0.0b1-0.1
--------------------
* Thu Nov 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 8:3.0.0b1-0.1
- 3.0.0 Beta1
- po files moved in kde-i18n
- cleanup
* Tue Oct 21 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- add a %clean specfile target
lv-4.50-1
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 4.50-1
- New upstream release.
here is this release of note.
- [4.49.5.a]
- Added ISO-8859-10,11,13,14,15,16.
- Changed coding system names for '=' key.
- [4.49.5.b]
- Updated KSX1001 <-> Unicode mapping table.
- [4.49.5.c]
- Input coding detection improved.
- -D option now specifies default (fall-back) coding system, not default EUC coding system.
- Output coding detection based on LC_CTYPE locale.
- [4.49.5.d]
- Checks $EDITOR and $VISUAL variables when invoking an editor.
- [4.49.5.f]
- Initialize file->used[] in FileAttach() in file.c to avoid segfault in lgrep.
- [4.5.0]
- added polling function for regular files with slightly modified patch from Pawel S. Veselov <vps(a)manticore.2y.net>.
- enabled itable cache.
- Big5 to Unicode mapping didn't work at all (fixed offset of coding system table)
(See http://lists.debian.or.jp/debian-devel/200311/msg00006.html)
- fixed editor call not to return by SIGINT unexpectedly.
pciutils-2.1.11-3
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.1.11-3
- remove a few calls to ->error() in the sysfs code
policycoreutils-1.2-9
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.2-9
- Change run_init.console to run as run_init_t
quanta-3.1.93-0.2
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* Tue Nov 25 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.2
- add fix to build against new libxml2 >= 2.6
* Thu Nov 13 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.1.93-0.1
- KDE 3.2 Beta 1
- cleanup
- add devel package
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031126
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sane-backends-1.0.13-2
----------------------
* Tue Nov 25 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.0.13-2
- no rpath in sane-config anymore
usermode-1.69-3.sel
-------------------
* Tue Nov 25 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.69-3.sel
- Fix handling of roles from console file
* Fri Nov 14 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com>
- don't disable use of deprecated GLib and GTK+ APIs, reported by the
mysterious Pierre-with-no-last-name
vsftpd-1.2.1-1
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* Mon Nov 24 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.2.1-1
- update to 1.2.1, which fixes #89765 and lot of other issues
- remove manpage patch, it isn't required anymore
- clean up init script
- don't use script to find libs to link with (lib64 issues)
20 years, 4 months