What happened to yum and up2date repositories ???
by Casimiro de Almeida Barreto
Hello,
>From my last "yum update" on, neither yum.conf nor yum.repositories.d
nor up2date related configuration hold any data on repositories
anymore... Consequence: I' m not able to yum or up2date.....
The next thing, I tried to download yum and up2date directly from
download.fedora.redhat.com and rpm -Uvh them... No use: configuration is
still missing.
Where I can get the configuration files ???
Best regards,
Casimiro
BTW: I'm running FC3rc2
19 years, 6 months
Self Introduction: Gianluca Sforna
by Gianluca Sforna
Full legal name: Gianluca Sforna
Country, City: Italy, Perugia
Profession: System administration and projects management
Company: Molecular Discovery Ltd.
Goals in the Fedora Project
I would like to see some more chemistry/molecular modeling packages
included. In particular, I would like to package and submit the
OpenMOIV (aka Molecular Inventor 2 aka ChemKit) library.
I am also interested in seeing a broader wi-fi support in the distro.
For example, I am currently using a USR 5410 wifi PC card with my
laptop, so I could try helping the acx100/111 project providing the
most up2date kernel module packages: this would be a nice addition to
both Fedora (more hardware supported) and the acx100 team (more
testing/reports).
Of course, as time and skills permit, I would also like to do some QA
on submitted packages.
I am also really interested in the stateless project, so I am planning
to give it a try in the near future (I have quite a few WS, laptops
and servers running Fedora so updates/upgrades are becoming a full
time work...).
Historical qualifications
This is the first time I am really involved in a community project. In
the past I only did testing and bug reporting on software components
we were using.
I can read (and often understand ;) ) code written in most scripting
languages like Perl, php, Python; lately I am trying to broaden my
skills by studying C/C++, but by no means I consider myself a
"programmer".
I can also use DocBook for writing documentation, as I am using it to
maintain the manuals for my company's products.
In the end, I hope to be helpful to the whole community as much as I can.
GPG KEYID and fingerprint
pub 1024D/707DCD93 2004-10-25 Gianluca Sforna <giallu(a)gmail.com>
Key fingerprint = A4A4 92D2 462E D584 88F5 61F6 0CB3 24A5 707D CD93
sub 1024g/0465DED6 2004-10-25 [expires: 2007-10-25]
19 years, 6 months
Rebuilding Fedora
by Roland Käser
Hello
I would like to build the fedora 2 release for the actual P4 CPU instead
of the i386 packages shipped with the normal iso images.
Is there a howto to automaticly build a new fedora release out of the
srpm isos'
Thanks
Roland Kaeser
Systems Administrator
19 years, 6 months
Introduction: Calvin "Kyndig" Ellis From MudMagic
by kyndig@mudmagic.com
Hello Developer,
I am primarily a webmaster. I have experience in a number of languages, and prefer RedHat (Fedora) as my primary Operating System. I am sending this as a requirement for a software entry into the Fedora release. Recently I have released a stable, OpenSource Mud client for online text games. The client is designed to work on windows and Linux. I currently have releases for RedHat, Fedora, and Windows (NT/XP/2000/98). I have a Debian release in the works that should be available within days.
As per the Fedora Wiki Self Introduction:
# Full legal name
Calvin Ellis
# Country, City
Hinesville, Georgia ( USA)
# Profession or Student status
U.S. Army
# Company or School
University of Maryland student
Your goals in the Fedora Project
* Which packages do you want to see published?
The OpenSource MudMagic Client for online text games.
* Do you want to do QA?
I am open to suggestions.
* Anything else special?
Details of the client can be viewed at sourceforge, freshmeat, or mudmagic
Historical qualifications
* What other projects have you worked on in the past?
I have only worked on my own personal website. Though I have released a popular Java mud client for websites, and develop my own small text gameserver in my spare time.
* What computer languages and other skills do you know?
A firm handle on: HTML/PHP/MySQL/C , studying - C++/Perl/Python, experience in RedHat Network administration, shell script creation for host services, etc..
* Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
If you perform a whois of mudmagic.com, you have my home phone number (can you get any more trustworthy than that?)
-Kyndig
19 years, 6 months
Latest Fedora Core 3 status: kernel testing needed
by Elliot Lee
As of today, almost everything is frozen rock solid for FC3 - the only
changes that should be going in from this point are fixes for
showstopper(*) bugs, and kernel bug fixes.
Because a good amount of kernel work for FC3 happened after the FC3test3
release, the release of the final FC3 has been delayed to November 8. The
extra time will be used only to give extra attention to the kernel, and to
find any showstopper bugs in other parts of the distribution.
Please rigorously test kernel 2.6.9-1.640 from the development tree
(http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/).
Use it! Try to break it! Find big problems with it! File bug reports! And
thanks for making sure that Fedora is as high quality as you want it to
be.
Happy bug hunting,
-- Elliot
(*) A showstopper bug is one that corrupts data storage or severly
impacts the user's basic ability to install and use the system.
19 years, 6 months
Official list of major problems
by Gérard Milmeister
It would be nice to have a list of major problems in the various
releases of FC, preferably on fedora.redhat.com.
Two problems that come to my mind are:
1. cdrecord doesn't work with kernel 2.6.8
2. OpenOffice doesn't display cups properties dialog
I had to search through bugzilla and newsgroups to find out why a
something didn't work and I would have been glad to have a central
location to look up problems.
For each problem, there should be an explanation, a fix if one is
available, when the problem will be fixed, or if there is already update
of the package concerned.
For example for:
1. there would be the advice to use kernel 2.6.7 instead
2. there would be the notice that the updated package version 1.1.2 is
already available.
--
Gérard Milmeister
Langackerstrasse 49
8057 Zürich
gemi(a)bluewin.ch
19 years, 6 months
Preparation for Fedora Extras / fedora.us FC3 rebuild - please list packages in the wiki that don't need to be rebuilded
by Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi *,
I created a page in the fedora.us Wiki with names of packages that
should not be rebuilded by the build team when the rebuild for FC3
happens:
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FC3Status
So, if you have a package in fedora.us that is obsoleted in some form by
a core FC3 package and does not need to be build simply add it to the
list.
To save the time spend by the fedora.us build-team please also add your
package-name to the list somewhere if you know that it won't build
cleanly on FC3.
After the rebuild is done this page should serve as a tracker to
packages that are missing for FC3 and were in FC2/FC1 (build-issues,
unmaintained, ...) like
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FC2Status
does for FC2.
Thanks.
CU
thl
P.S.: No, I'm not a member of the build team, I started this cause I
have a package that should not be rebuilded for FC3.
--
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info>
19 years, 6 months
Excessive syslog output in the absence of removable media
by Willem Riede
I have a PD/CD ATAPI drive with removable media. The PD part gets mapped to
sdc.
When PD media is absent, something in FC3T3 tries to access it roughly every
two
seconds, and each access causes 20 lines of syslog (see below).
Makes for _really_ large logs (> 10 MB/day).
What program/process is doing this? Is it really necessary?
Thanks, Willem Riede.
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current : sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current sd: sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current : sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Current sd: sense key No Sense
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: sdc:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical
block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block
262143
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block
262143
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 0
Oct 23 17:18:54 fallguy kernel: unable to read partition table
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041023 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
desktop-printing-0.17-3
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* Sat Oct 23 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> 0.17-1
- use_usb_if_null patch makes sure that the make and model of the
printer is never null even if hal does not populate the
printer.vendor and info.product fields. (Bug #136666)
gtk2-2.4.13-3
-------------
* Fri Oct 22 2004 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.13-3
- Fix crash with backspace at end of buffer (#136840)
hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8
----------------------
* Fri Oct 22 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.2-8
- use_usb_if_null patch makes sure that the make and model of the
printer is never null even if hal does not populate the
printer.vendor and info.product fields. (Bug #136666)
- (printer_update.hal, printer_remove.hal): Use $UDI instead of
$HAL_PROP_INFO_UDI which in some instances may not be populated
* Tue Oct 12 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.2-7
- Add MatchDriver DBUS method call patch so we can check if the printer has a driver
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20041023
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19 years, 6 months