June 2004 - devel - Fedora mailing-lists

upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my iso-mounted files, how do I do it? i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc.. Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks. Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use apt-cdrom. Thanks. With kind regards, Didier. --- PhD student Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\ didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken; and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what exactly needs to be fixed. Consider something like this: LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no)) Here's what happens on x86_64: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5 /tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main': /home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to `res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5147: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [ blah blah blah ] | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | char res_query (); | int | main () | { | res_query (); | ; | return 0; | } The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work. The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64 in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype. So, what now?

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APT repository problems with up2date
by Jos Vos 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi, Before I start digging in the up2date code myself, maybe someone can comment on this: I have a problem when using up2date up2date with my self-created APT repositories. When updating, it complains about conflicting files: it just thinks that a long list of directories that are shared among packages conflict with each other. Apt-get itself (and synaptic) seems to work fine with the same repository, only with up2date there is a problem. Also, up2date with a yum repository of then same package set works fine, as does yum itself. FWIW: I generate my APT repositories with --flat --bloat. Cheers, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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gnupg newpg gpgme gpgme03 cryptplug isuses
by Dennis Gilmore 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Recently the version of libgcrypt was increased to 1.1.94 as a result of this newpg would not build against the newer libgcrypt i sent an email to gcrypt-devel list and this is what i got back <quote> Don't build newpg at all. It has been superseded by gnupg-1.9.x . You would need an old libgcrypt < 1.1.42 to build it. The configure sscript was not able to detect newer versions with a changed API. </quote> we have a problem here seems we no longer need newpg but we need things it provides for gpgme gpgme03 cryptplug gpa kgpg (which doesnt complain so much just says its not there) to get these things it provides we need to go to the newer gnupg or we need to revert back to the older libgcrypt. being so late in the cycle i dont know which would be best. so i thought id ask before filling a bug against something. it does need to be fixed before final is out as people will complain if they cant decrypt email in kmail or mutt gpa doesnt work etc. i think we should probably go back to the old version of libgcrypt Dennis

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udev in initrd
by Thomas Woerner 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

There are test packages in http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/UDEV/ for using udev in initrd with persistent devices. Usage ----- - If you want to enable udev in initrd, then install the test packages and create an initrd with mkinitrd. - If you want to turn off udev, set USE_UDEV="no" in /etc/sysconfig/udev. - For another udev root directory (not /dev) set udev_root="/some dir/" in /etc/udev/udev.conf - This will not disable udev in initrd. The result is an unusable initrd - For disabling persistent /dev filesystem set UDEV_KEEP_DEV="no" in /etc/sysconfig/udev. Your /dev filesystem will not be the same in inird and the running system. - You have to recreate the initrd after changing any of these options. Warnings -------- - The new mkinitrd is not tested heavily (especially lvm support). - It will not work with devfs. - Make a backup copy of the original initrd (best is to make an additional boot entry in grub with the new initrd) Information about udev and the new mkinitrd ------------------------------------------- The benefit of udev is that there are only those device nodes which are bound to devices in your computer and that you can have additional device naming schemes like 'by label' or 'by id'. However there is a small problem with dynamic device nodes: For all devices, which are not recognized before a specific module is loaded, there will be no device node until the driver is loaded either by hand of by a program. kudzu would be a good candidate for this, but it has to be started earlier, then. udev is using helpers for additional device naming schemes, which are c programs or shell scripts. Therefore it is necessary to put tools like sed, awk, grep and so on in the initrd. These programs are not small and the initrd would be very big. The solution for this is to use a static compiled busybox, which combines tiny versions of many utilities into a single executable. Thus the new mkinitrd is using busybox for the initrd with udev support. Disabling udev results in a normal initrd with nash. It is easy to modify mkinitrd to build the normal initrd with busybox. Here are the flowcharts for the standard initrd of fc2 (without lvm support) and the udev version: Standard initrd - using nash ---------------------------- 1) mount /proc and /sys in initrd 2) load modules (eg: controller, filesystem) 3) umount /sys 4) locate root device 5) create block devices 6) mount system root on /sysroot 7) change root to /sysroot and initrd to /sysroot/initrd 8) umount /initrd/proc udev initrd - using busybox and ramfs ------------------------------------- 1) mount /proc and /sys 2) mount /dev as ramfs 3) create initial devices (eg: console, null, zero, loopX) and links for std files 4) start udev, use udevsend as hotplug 5) load modules (eg. controller, filesystem) 6) umount /sys 7) locate root device 8) mount system root on /sysroot 9) bind /dev to /sysroot [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"] 10) change root to /sysroot and initrd to /sysroot/initrd 11) umount /initrd/proc 12) umount /initrd/dev [UDEV_KEEP_DEV="yes"] Have fun, Thomas -- Thomas Woerner, Software Developer Phone: +49-711-96437-0 Red Hat GmbH Fax : +49-711-96437-111 Hauptstaetterstr. 58 Email: twoerner(a)redhat.com D-70178 Stuttgart Web : http://www.redhat.de/

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rawhide report: 20040623 changes
by Build System 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

New package howl multicast DNS implementation Removed package pilot-link095-compat Removed package openmotif21 Updated Packages: chromium-0.9.12-26 ------------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt fonts-ja-8.0-15 --------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 8.0-15 - updated Kappa20-0.396 - added mplus-bitmap-fonts-2.2.1 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt g-wrap-1.3.4-7 -------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.3.4-7 - don't run make check on x86_64, it doesn't like new guile - fix build problem on x86_64/s390* * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt gcc-3.4.0-6 ----------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.0-6 - update from gcc-3_4-branch - PRs c++/14007, c++/14930, c++/15096, c++/15947, c++/15967, c++/3518, libf2c/15151, libstdc++/16020, rtl-optimization/15159, target/10129, target/13292, target/15178, target/15550, target/15941 - fix gcc hang in CSE on ppc64 kernel (PR rtl-opt/16114, Richard Henderson) - optimize unsigned int i; ... if (i == 0 || i == -1U) and similar tests gnome-applets-2.6.0-8 --------------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.0-8 - Fix typo with apmd requires im-sdk-11.4-60 -------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-60 - openi18n revision 1772 snapshot build * Thu Jun 17 2004 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-46 - rebuild for fc2 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt iptables-1.2.11-1 ----------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.2.11-1 - new version 1.2.11 isdn4k-utils-3.2-16.p1.1 ------------------------ * Thu May 13 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2-16.p1.1 - fix build problem with gcc-3.4 - fix typo bug in isdnlog, bug #120568 - fix capiplugin for working with pppd 2.4.2, bug #125723 kcc-2.3-22 ---------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 2.3-22 - kcc-2.3-fix-segv.patch: applied to fix segfaults with invalid options. (#126338) - add kcc.1 from Debian package. kernel-2.6.7-1.448 ------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - make kernel-doc and kernel-sourcecode builds independent of eachother - disable kernel-sourcecode builds entirely, we'll be replacing it with documentation on how to use the src.rpm instead for building your own kernel. * Sat Jun 19 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.7-bk2 * Sun Jun 13 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - add patch from DaveM to fix the ppp-keeps-iface-busy bug libgnomeprint22-2.7.0-2 ----------------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-2 - Add Location information to the gpa printer state. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-1 - Update to 2.7.0 CVS - Add current version of patch which implements dynamic updating, using libgnomecups. - Add Requires: libgnomecups. - Add BuildPrereq: libgnomecups-devel. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt libgnomeprintui22-2.7.0-2 ------------------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-22 - Show printers in a tree view. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-1 - Update to 2.7.0 CVS - Pass --enable-gtk-doc to configure - Add current version of patch which handles dynamic updating from libgnomeprint. - Bump required libgnomeprint version. libidn-0.4.9-2 -------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.4.9-2 - add prereq: /sbin/ldconfig - move la file in main package libofx-0.6.6-2 -------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 0.6.6-2 - rebuilt - Add gcc 3.4 patch libwvstreams-3.75.0-1 --------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 3.75.0-1 - version 3.75.0 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt mozilla-1.7-0.3.1 ----------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> - Fix include paths in mozilla-xpcom.pc so that all the paths are included. * Fri Jun 18 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> - Update to 1.7 - New psfonts patch that includes new paths - don't need the x86-64 patch anymore - it's been merged upstream - don't need patch to unblock port 1080 - merged upstream - don't need dnscache patch - merged upstream - don't need screensize patch - merged upstream - don't need the xremote patches anymore * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt openobex-1.0.0-7 ---------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - removed now unneeded glib requirement rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040623 ------------------------- ruby-1.8.1-4 ------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.8.1-4 - updated the documentation. sendmail-8.13.0-1 ----------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 8.13.0-1 - new version 8.13.0 - made /etc/mail/Makefile complain missing sendmail-cf package (#123348) - fixed ownership of %{_includedir}/libmilter (#73977) - moved back to /usr/share/ssl/certs as certificate directory (see sendmail.mc) - extended sendmail.mc for spam protection setools-1.4-4 ------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4-4 - Add support for policy.18 sylpheed-0.9.12-1 ----------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 0.9.12-1 - New upstream release. system-config-samba-1.2.11-1 ---------------------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.11-1 - fix security and guest account defaults (bug #121745) telnet-0.17-29 -------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt unzip-5.51-4 ------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 5.51-4 - Extend max file/archive size to 2^32-8193 (4294959103) bytes vixie-cron-3.0.1-92 ------------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.1-92 - Add fixes from NSA zip-2.3-24 ---------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 2.3-24 - Extend max file/archive size to 2^32-8193 (4294959103) bytes - Include better debugging output for configure script

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How does MIME handling exactly work?
by Gérard Milmeister 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

What is the exact procedure that gnome-vfs2 (as in nautilus) uses to determine the mime-type? Apparently the mime types in /usr/share/mime-info (and in ~.gnome/mime-info) are no longer used. I noticed this, when I tried to create a mime type "application/mathematica" with extension "nb" for Mathematica notebooks. This shows up in gnome-file-types-properties, but other otherwise is completely ignored and gnomevfs-info file://$PWD/measure.nb simply shows: Name : measure.nb Type : Regular MIME type : text/plain So, is it true, that a user can assign an application to a mime type that already exists, but not create new ones? -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi(a)bluewin.ch

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The Fedora Hardware Project - Update
by Scott Sloan 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Just a status update and a question to get some input. Been working on and off on the Fedora hardware project and the items required for the project discussed back in May. Blah Blah Blah, going along great blah blah blah will have a beta site out end of July early August *knock on wood* blah blah blah just Need to iron out some very ugly bugs and posting comments on configurations done first. hope everyone will contribute their thoughts now and then. My brain is throwing red flags up on the issue of site registration and whether or not it's need. I don't like the idea of having it. So I'm looking for suggestions because I don't want the site to become: a forum, or huge list of flame wars. Site is just a database of supported hardware and working configurations to get not supported hardware working. At least that was my take on the project. But if it must be there, I was thinking just for adding and posting configurations. Looking for thoughts, Ideas, or concerns. -- Scott Sloan <devscott(a)charter.net>

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Tetex inter-dependencies: proposed changes
by Leonard den Ottolander 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi, I've been looking a bit at the inter-dependencies that exist between the different tetex packages. F.e. the fact that tetex-xdvi currently needs tetex (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11721) All this is caused because not all files have been moved into the correct packages. For some files this is rather obvious, for others it's more tricky to establish to which package they should belong. My proposal is to move a couple of files from the other tetex packages (mainly from tetex itself) to tetex-fonts, in essence making tetex-fonts a kind of tetex-common package. However no name change or split off is necessary. Dependencies would then become as follows: tetex, tetex-dvips and tetex-afm require tetex-fonts tetex-xdvi and tetex-latex require tetex-dvips (doesn't tetex require tetex-dvips? If it does drop dependency on -fonts, and -latex's dependency on -dvips.) tetex-latex requires tetex (need to investigate tetex-afm a little more) Changes to /usr/share/texmf: - All fonts, including sources and japanese (from tetex-dvips) fonts to tetex-fonts (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/*). Sources are needed to generate font definitions in /var/lib/tex. - /usr/share/texmf/fontname to tetex-fonts (not really necessary, but as tetex-fonts is the central package this is probably a good idea). - /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi is required by tetex, so can't move to tetex-xdvi. Move to tetex-fonts so it's available to both tetex and tetex-xdvi. - Parts of /usr/share/texmf/web2c to tetex-fonts, namely mf-nowin.base, mf.base, mf.pool, mfw.base, plain.base, mktex.opt, mktexdir, mktexdir.opt, mktexnam, mktexnam.opt and mktexupd. Necessary for creation of font definitions in /var/lib/texmf. - All .cnf and .cfg files to tetex-fonts. Changes to /usr/bin: - Move the following binaries to tetex-fonts (all but mfw from tetex): MakeTeXPK, access (needed by texhash), fmtutil, gftodvi, gftopk, gftype, gsftopk, inimf, kpsepath, kpsestat, kpsetool, kpsewhich, kpsexpand, mf, mf-nowin, mft, mfw (from tetex-xdvi), mktexfmt, mktexlsr, mktexmf, mktexpk, mktextfm, ps2pk, texhash(required by %post scripts) and virmf. Necessary for creation of font definitions in /var/lib/texmf. Changes to docs and man pages: - kpathsea and web2c info to tetex-fonts - relevant man pages to tetex-fonts Other changes: - libkpathsea.a and /usr/include/kpathsea headers to tetex-fonts (separate tetex-devel package?). - Cron job to remove unused font definition files to tetex-fonts. - /usr/share/texmf/ls-R and /var/lib/texmf/ls-R files to tetex-fonts. The above changes fix xdvi's dependency on tetex. A spec file (for FC 1) can be found attached to the above bug report. It's quite possible a few more files need to change packages before this is entirely correct. To test correctness of this spec file the various /var/lib/texmf/ directories need to be removed so they can be regenerated on (first) invocation of xdvi (or other programs). Dependencies for tetex-afm might not yet be satisfied (if they are please let me know). Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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Signing an rpm package at build-time automatically
by Didier Casse 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi there! When we built a package, we can sign it at build time by issuing the command: rpm -ba --sign file.spec and it will prompt for something like this: Enter pass phrase: <passphrase> (Not echoed) Now on my system I need to build rpm automatically ( without human intervention)! Is it possible to have my paraphrase being read in a file rather than me sitting in front of the computer and actually typing it? I know it's not a very good idea but my rpms need to be generated automatically daily via cron, and I can't sit behind my pc and type the paraphrase each time one rpm is being built. Can I avoid the prompting of the paraphrase if I want to sign my packages at build-time and everything be done automatically? Thanks. This is for the purpose of a repository and things like these need to be automated when dealing with multiple packages. With kind regards, Didier. --- PhD student. Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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RE: Submission process (was: Re: Self-Introduction: Michael Tiemann)
by Erik LaBianca 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

> > > I'll admit that some of the trouble is more imaginary than real: five > > minutes spent copying, pasting and double-checking can easily seem like > > an eternity, when it's actually a mere five minutes... but why waste > > them, if it can be avoided? > > You cannot avoid human interaction as in setting bugzilla keywords and > replying to comments. You could only avoid that with ultimately trusted > package maintainers who get direct access to a build/publish system. > Absolutely true, although I believe the current system is still daunting for a new packager or reviewer. I'm not sure how to make it less so without compromising quality other than saying that people need to just jump in, and ask for help on the list if needed. Would there be some benefit to having a separate list for Extra's discussion? > > No. It's in fedora.us already in the "stable" repository (much to the > disliking of some people) and the fedora.us build system uses a modified > version, http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~ensc/fedora.us-build/html/ > but that is not an automated build system. > > > Should it be sanctioned as a required tool for packagers? > > No, because it behaves differently than plain rpmbuild. > Nonetheless, we really need to have a build environment that's >easily< available for prospective packagers and QA testers to build packages on. I propose mach, but a lot of people don't like it. Redhat has an internal build system. Are there plans to release it It's been a couple months since I was last harping on the list for some feedback from the powers that be at RedHat regarding the official Fedora Extra's infrastructure. Has there been progress? This issue really needs to be resolved, even if the resolution is "we will eventually take over the fedora.us infrastructure as it stands and abide by the policies decided upon by the fedora.us community" or the other extreme of "we don't like the idea of an official Fedora Extra's after all, do your own thing", or more likely something in between. --erik

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GIF support
by Andres Petralli 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi Everyone, I'm interested in knowing when GIF support will be re-included into packages like PHP, ImageMagick and other image processing and generation tools. GIF, as you might know was covered by patents until the 20th of June 2004. The patents are now expired worldwide and gif code could be easily re-activated in libs like GD and PHP. It was always there, it was just not included into the packages because of the patent problems. So, are there any plans to include gif libs into any packages? It would be great if someone could give me some feedback on this. Thanks, Andres -- Andres Petralli In der Wässeri 43 CH-8047 Zürich andres(a)petralli.com, +41 43 3218066, +41 78 8353537 ICQ: 4685081, MSN: apetralli(a)msn.com, FAX: +41 43 5349810

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Self-Introduction: Michael Tiemann
by Michael Tiemann 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

1. Michael Damian Tiemann 2. USA, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 3. VP, Open Source Affairs (and former hacker) 4. Red Hat, Inc. (in Raleigh) 5. My goals are to push some extra useful packages that are built for other or ancient distros into Fedora Extras. These packages are ones that I believe will greatly expand the relevance of Fedora as a development platform because of the additional communities they bring with them. In particular: * revive blender3d for FC2/Extras (was in FC1/Extras) * add support for the R language (see http://www.r-project.org/) * bring GRASS to Fedora (FreeGIS has been funded to do this) * bring in the latest and greatest free bioinformatics sw * see if the new eGroupware stuff is ready for FC2/Extras As for doing QA, I can certainly do sanity checking of packages that I've built or that others have built but not published to Fedora. 6. Historical qualifications * A long time ago in a galaxy far away, I was a GCC hacker * I know C, C++, and can parse bash, perl, and many other languages * You should trust me because (1) Christian Gafton knows how to find me (I work in the same building) and (2) Warren Togami brought me macademia nuts from Hawaii 7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint: [tiemann@localhost tiemann]$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --fingerprint ea0ac0e4 pub 1024D/EA0AC0E4 2003-08-14 Michael Tiemann (CTO, Red Hat) <tiemann(a)redhat.com> Key fingerprint = F0AD 3368 D24A 56CD A2AD 6A12 CAB3 2E89 EA0A C0E4 sub 1024g/BB6171EB 2003-08-14 [expires: 2008-08-12] M

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new kernel feature in progress
by Arjan van de Ven 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hi, as will be able to see in todays rawhide, we're experimenting with adding a patch for gpg-signed kernel modules. The idea behind this is for the administrator to *optionally* [1] restrict the set of modules that can be linked into the kernel. In selinux context one can even eventually allow different security contexts to load different subsets of modules, by restricting certain contexts to a predefined gpg keys only. The work isn't complete yet by far, this is just a heads up. Input for creative uses of this infrastructure is welcome :) Greetings, Arjan van de Ven [1] And I repeat *optionally*.

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*NEW* upstream nVidia driver v1.0-6106 - 4k-stacks compatible
by Keith G. Robertson-Turner 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html Now we can get busy with an updated RPM. Keep watching http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83 for news. - K.

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Re: gtk2 package changes
by Christopher Aillon 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

On 06/25/2004 09:14 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I've fixed the gtk2 wrt to being parallel-installable on biarch > systems like ppc/ppc64. The changes involved moving the arch-dependent > config files to another directory and adding -32/-64 suffixes to the > installed binaries. This means in particular that packages which install > input modules or pixbuf loaders need changes to their postinstall and > postuninstall hooks. To make this easier, the gtk2 package now installs > two scripts, update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders and update-gtk-immodules, which > expect to be given the host triplet and figure out the binary to call > and the config file location based on that. gqview uses gdk-pixbuf-csource in its makefiles to generate headers, so the suggestions here won't help me at all. But hold up -- why does gdk-pixbuf-csource even need to be arch dependent in the first place? It doesn't generate any arch specific source (and things would seem very broken if it did), so I'm not sure what the advantage of splitting that up is. Chris

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rawhide report: 20040630 changes
by Build System 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Updated Packages: anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040629211549 -------------------------------- authd-1.2.7-1 ------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.7-1 - added Provides to satisfy HP pkg rpm dep (#121447, #111640) - more code cleanup; minimize --resolve dns lookups bug-buddy-2.6.1-1 ----------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.1-1 - update to 2.6.1 cups-1.1.21-1.rc1.2 ------------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.21-1.rc1.2 - Apply patch from STR #743 (bug #114999). eog-2.6.1-1 ----------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 2.6.1-1 - Update to 2.6.1 gawk-3.1.3-9 ------------ * Mon Jun 28 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 3.1.3-9 - fixed "read only one input file on 64-bit architectures" gthumb-2.4.0-1 -------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 2.4.0-1 - Update to 2.4.0 httpd-2.0.50-3 -------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.50-3 - update -proxy11 patch - explain where suexec went if SuexecUserGroup is used but /usr/sbin/suexec is not found * Tue Jun 29 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.50-1 - update to 2.0.50 im-sdk-11.4-63.svn1772.1 ------------------------ * Wed Jun 30 2004 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-63 - remove immodule script requirement, use package requirement of gtk2 only - check existence before running: update-gtk-immodule or gtk-query-immodules-2.0 * Tue Jun 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - im-sdk-11.4-gcc34.patch: applied to fix the build issue with gcc34. * Mon Jun 28 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 1:11.4-62.svn1772 - Fix useage of "/usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules ppc-redhat-linux" to point to right place and architecture initscripts-7.58-1 ------------------ * Tue Jun 29 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 7.58-1 - rc.d/rc.sysinit: hack: make ICE directory on boot (#86480) - set devicetype for xDSL (#126194) - ignore locking failures when starting lvm volumes (#126192, <radu(a)primit.ro>) - unset LC_MESSAGES for rhgb (#126020, <ynakai(a)redhat.com>) - bonding fixes - setsysfont: remove error (#100559) - remove duplicate setting of network routes (#125450) - vlan fixes (#107504, <hrunting(a)texas.net>) - ifup-aliases: remove bogus route setting (#120908) * Tue May 25 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 7.57-1 - readonly root fixes (<alexl(a)redhat.com>) * Tue May 25 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 7.56-1 - special TYPE for qeth devices to differenciate them from ethX kernel-utils-2.4-12.1.139 ------------------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - add rng-tools * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fix #107453 kudzu-1.1.72-1 -------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.72-1 - don't segfault with a zero-byte modules.usbmap lvm2-2.00.19-1 -------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.19-1 - Latest upstream release. Lots of changes (see WHATS_NEW). * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.15-5 - rebuilt * Wed May 26 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.15-4 - clone %description from LVM rpm qt-3.3.2-9 ---------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.2-9 - add sub package config, allow multi lib installation (#126643) rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040630 ------------------------- rusers-0.17-39 -------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 0.17-39 - Added libselinux-devel BuildPreqreq (#124283). system-config-network-1.3.17-1 ------------------------------ * Thu Apr 01 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.17 - translation updates (119610) texinfo-4.7-3 ------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.7-3 - Fix grouping in user-defined macros. xinitrc-4.0.1-1 --------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.0.1-1 - Added fix for switchdesk related bug in Xsession script (#125284) - Integrated input.d modularization support implemented by Jens Petersen based upon idea from Akira Tagoh: - no need to source lang.sh - do not look at LC_ALL - initialize XIM, XIM_PROGRAM, XIM_ARGS, XMODIFIERS and GTK_IM_MODULE unset for consistency and safety - replace all specific locale and IM client config code with trying to load ~/.xinput.d/ll_CC, then /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ll_CC (when they exist for ll_CC locale). Each script is expected to set XIM_PROGRAM, XIM_ARGS, and either XIM or XMODIFIERS directly, and optionally GTK_IM_MODULE if appropriate. - export XMODIFIERS also if it was already initialized

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Packaging: Where to install demo apps to?
by Ralf Corsepius 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Hi, I am preparing a package for submission to Fedora.US/Fedora Extras. This package comes with a couple of demo applications I plan to put into a separate sub-package. Where to install these applications to on FC? What do Fedora conventions recommend? IMO, they should not be installed to bindir (/usr/bin), because these applications are "not really useful". Installing them to datadir (/usr/share) or pkgdatadir (/usr/share/<package>) also does not seem appropriate, because these files are architecture dependent. Remains $libexecdir/<package>. Ralf

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iwconfig not found
by Ben Kuang 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Hi Everyone: Does anyone happen to know why i cant do iwconfig in bash . I am using fedora core 2. When i do $man iwconfig, the man page is there. But when I do $iwconfig, it says command not found. Thanks alot. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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gtk2 package changes
by Matthias Clasen 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

I've fixed the gtk2 wrt to being parallel-installable on biarch systems like ppc/ppc64. The changes involved moving the arch-dependent config files to another directory and adding -32/-64 suffixes to the installed binaries. This means in particular that packages which install input modules or pixbuf loaders need changes to their postinstall and postuninstall hooks. To make this easier, the gtk2 package now installs two scripts, update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders and update-gtk-immodules, which expect to be given the host triplet and figure out the binary to call and the config file location based on that. So, if one of your packages installs an input module or pixbuf loader, please update the post hooks accordingly. You can look at librsvg2 or im-sdk for examples. Regards, Matthias

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rawhide report: 20040629 changes
by Build System 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

New package gcc35 Preview of GCC version 3.5 Updated Packages: amanda-2.4.4p3-1 ---------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 2.4.4p3-1 - New upstream version anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040629002614 -------------------------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode arts-1.2.3-3 ------------ * Mon Jun 28 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-3 - add buildrequires on esound-devel (bug #125293) authd-1.2.6-1 ------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.6-1 - incorporated suggestions from Thomas Zehetbauer (#124914) * Sat Jun 26 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.5-1 - clean up src bash-2.05b-42 ------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.05b-42 - Fixed multibyte variable substitution patch (bug #126399). * Thu Jun 17 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2.05b-41 - remove bashbug script/docs to avoid conflicting files in biarch installs. booty-0.39-1 ------------ * Mon Jun 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.39-1 - tweak timeouts to be shorter - use hiddenmenu by default with grub * Wed Jun 09 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - quote appended args (#114174) * Thu May 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - compile fix for newer versions of gcc from Jeff Law dia-0.93-1 ---------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - Update to 0.93 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt glibc-2.3.3-33 -------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-33 - update from CVS - reread resolv.conf for nscd --invalidate=hosts - fix F_GETLK/F_SETLK/F_SETLKW constants on x86_64 for -m32 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 compilations - avoid calling non-existing fcntl64 syscall on ppc64 * Mon Jun 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-32 - update from CVS - FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE support (fix pthread_cond_* deadlocks) - fix backtrace in statically linked programs - rebuilt with GCC 3.4, adjusted ulps and i386 <bits/string.h> * Fri May 28 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-31 - update from CVS - <bits/string2.h> and <bits/mathinline.h> changes for GCC 3.{2,4,5}+ - make c_stubs buildable even with GCC 3.2.x (#123042) gnome-utils-2.6.1-1 ------------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - Update to the new mechanism of updating arch-dependent gtk config files. - Update to gnome-utils 2.6.1 grub-0.95-2 ----------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.95-2 - add patch from Nicholas Miell to make hiddenmenu work more nicely with splashimage mode (#126764) gtkam-0.1.12-2 -------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.12-2 - Fix invalid XML (bug #126811). httpd-2.0.49-8 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.49-8 - split out suexec into httpd-suexec package (#77972) - link to system pcreposix.h to fix including httpd.h ipsec-tools-0.2.5-5 ------------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 0.2.5-5 - rebuild * Fri Jun 25 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 0.2.5-4 - backport certificate validation fixes from 0.3.3 (#126568) kdeaddons-3.2.3-3 ----------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-3 - add gcc34 patch * Mon Jun 28 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-2 - rebuilt kernel-2.6.7-1.459 ------------------ libidn-0.5.0-1 -------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 0.5.0-1 - update to 0.5.0 (#126836) librsvg2-2.6.4-7 ---------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.4-7 - Fix usage of "/usr/bin/update-gtk-immodules ppc-redhat-linux" to point to right place and architecture man-pages-ja-20040615-1 ----------------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 20040615-1 - updates to 20040615. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt perl-5.8.4-3 ------------ * Mon Jun 28 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.4-1 - update to 5.8.4, remove patch 8 php-4.3.7-4 ----------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.7-4 - pick up test failures again - have -devel require php of save release readline-4.3-12 --------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.3-12 - Build requires libtool (bug #126589). redhat-rpm-config-8.0.31-1 -------------------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 8.0.31-1 - Add ppc8[25]60 to rpmrc optflags rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040629 ------------------------- squid-2.5.STABLE5-5 ------------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 7:2.5STABLE5-5 - Merge current upstream patches. - Fix the -pipe patch to have the correct name of the winbind pipe. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon Apr 05 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 7:2.5.STABLE5-2 - Include the first 10 upstream patches - Add a patch for the correct location of the winbindd pipe. This closes bugzilla #107561 - Remove the change to ssl_support.c from squid-2.5.STABLE3-build patch This closes #117851 - Include /etc/pam.d/squid . This closes #113404 - Include a patch to close #111254 (assignment in assert) - Change squid.init to put output messages in /var/log/squid/squid.out This closes #104697 - Only useradd the squid user if it doesn't already exist, and error out if the useradd fails. This closes #118718. switchdesk-4.0.5-1 ------------------ * Mon Jun 28 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.5-1 - fixed wrong output when fvwm is selected #126801 sysklogd-1.4.1-21 ----------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1rh-21 - async logging for mail (#73306) system-config-nfs-1.2.3-3 ------------------------- * Tue Jun 29 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-3 - fix incorrect syntax for multiple hosts with a single mount point texinfo-4.7-2 ------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.7-2 - Build requires ncurses-devel (bug #126600). ttfonts-ja-1.2-36 ----------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.2-36 - removed the glyphs on U+2211,U+221F,U+222E,U+22BF,U+301D,U+301F,U+3231-3232, U+3239,U+32A4-32A8,U+337C-337E,U+33CD which had mapped wrong glyph. (#126075) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt xalan-j-2.4.1-16 ---------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 2.4.1-16 - Work around ecj failure (#126493). xsane-0.92-13 ------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.92-13 - Build requires libtiff-devel (bug #126564).

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User mountable ISO images
by Gérard Milmeister 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

Would it be possible to make .iso images user mountable? At the moment one has to login as root to do "mount image.iso /mnt/image -o loop" It would be nice to right click (non-root) on a image.iso file in nautilus, select "Mount disk image", then a mount point for the image would be created, the image mounted, and an icon would appear in the nautilus "Computer" object. -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi(a)bluewin.ch

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no compat-libstdc++ in development?
by Jack Howarth 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

I noticed that while FC2 contains a copy of compat-libstdc++ (7.4.2-2.96.126) that the current development RPMS are missing this. Is this change slated for FC3 and RHEL 4? I still have legacy binaries here that require compat-libstdc++ making this change most unwanted. Jack

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FIX (sort of): install setup screen freezes
by Richard Emberson 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

> I've got an HP 760n. It can not boot from CD, so I copied vmlinuz and > initrd.img from isolinux into /boot and modified grub.conf. > During the boot the mouse, card and display are correctly > recognized. > > The problem: > > The mouse/keyboard/window freezes within the first couple of > install setup screens. The furthest I got was entering in > my ip address. The earliest freeze occurred when the mouse > (as a pointer, after its an 'X') first appears. > > Any hints as to whats up? The fix!!!! use the text mode installer, not the X-gui. No freezing, installed fedora 2. Rebooted machine after install. First thing it does is puts you into a X-gui based set of windows requiring that you add a user, etc. There is NO way to do this in text-mode. It also starts you at run-level 5. So now the system freezes having spent 1 hour installing it, thinking I was cleaver because I avoided using the X-gui based install setup screens only to find that the first boot puts one right back into the X-gui setup system and it freezes. Curiously, if I then turn off the machine a try again (having no completed the initial boot setup), it starts but hangs after printing the message: Enable Swap space If the turn off the machine and try again, it puts me into the X-gui setup system, and so on; each reboot alternates between the X-gui setup that freezes and the system hanging after printing the swap message. So, I can install fedora 2, I just can not get past the first reboot. My solution, re-install redhat 9. Richard

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bugzilla.fedora.us down?
by Keith G. Robertson-Turner 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

503: Connect failed. connection to bugzilla.fedora.us (128.171.104.141) could not be established. Sat 26 Jun, 11:52:00 GMT+0 - [H]omer

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gnome-utils & rawhide breakage
by Dan Williams 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Barring any new breakage, a fixed gnome-utils should show up in rawhide tomorrow (gnome-utils-2.6.1-1). Dan

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More bad dependencies...
by Casimiro de Almeida Barreto 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

[root@localhost root]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package gnome-utils needs /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0, this is not available. [root@localhost root]# ls -l /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9748 Jun 15 21:13 /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 [root@localhost root]# -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As informações contidas nesta mensagem são confidenciais e endereçadas somente ao destinatário acima especificado. Se você receber esta mensagem por erro, favor notificar o originador imediatamente. Fica, desde já, notificado de que o uso, divulgação, cópia ou alteração desautorizada desta mensagem são estritamente proibidos e passíveis de sanções legais civeis e criminais. Este e-mail deve estar digitalmente assinado utilizando assinatura GNUPG. Caso a assinatura esteja corrompida, favor notificar o originador imediatamente, pois isto pode indicar que a mensagem foi lida ou corrompida por terceiros. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in this message is confidential and intended to the recipients specified in the headers. If you received this message by error, notify the originator immediately. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copy or alteration of this message are strictly forbidden and subjected to civil and criminal sanctions. This e-mail must be digitally signed using GNUPG signature. Should the signature be corrupted, please notify the sender immediately for that may imply that the message was read or tampered by unauthorized people.

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rawhide report: 20040628 changes
by Build System 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Updated Packages: compat-gcc-8-3.3.4.1 -------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 8-3.3.4.1 - update from gcc-3_3-branch - 3.3.4 release - PRs 14936, 2123, bootstrap/14671, bootstrap/15120, c++/14810, debug/14919, libgcj/12475, libgcj/14695, libstdc++/11171, libstdc++/14720, middle-end/15054, middle-end/16038, opt/14749, optimization/11841, optimization/13653, optimization/15296, target/15084, target/15130, target/15301, target/15302, target/15693 - fix ia64 backtrace (#125204) - new demangler for both __cxa_demangle and c++filt, backported from GCC trunk (Ian Lance Taylor, #89228) - fix libffi bug on ia64 (#122923) - make sure compat libstdc++ symlinks are symlinks, not copies of the files (#125931, #126534) gaim-0.79-2 ----------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.79-2 - remove tray icon patch temporarily because it seems to cause more problems than it solves. - provide gaim-devel - CVS backport 128: Cached buddy icons fix im-sdk-11.4-62.svn1772 ---------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:11.4-62.svn1772 - Update to the new mechanism of updating arch-dependent gtk config files. * Fri Jun 25 2004 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-62 - enable sun_le_asia and sun_le_korea for revision 1772 snapshot build - Patch351: im-sdk-11.4-sun-le-asia.patch - Patch352: im-sdk-11.4-sun-le-korean.patch * Wed Jun 23 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - append svn revision to %release (116223) - im-switch: don't override i18n file (Descender,126542) and output string improvements - iiimecf-init.el: don't be the default input method by default kernel-2.6.7-1.457 ------------------ * Sun Jun 27 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - experiment with making the hardlink call in post more efficient - 2.6.7-bk9 memtest86+-1.20-1 ----------------- * Mon Jun 28 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - update to 1.20 rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040628 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.10-3 ------------------------------- * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-3 - Fix some problems generated by turning off tunables * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-2 - Fix post scripts selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.10-3 --------------------------------- * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-3 - Fix some problems generated by turning off tunables * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-2 - Fix post scripts

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smbclient linux fc1 files > 2GByte Prolem?
by Jörn Rink 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi, on my internet router i have install the latest samba server from fc1. I share 2 directories in my network. When i connect with Windows XP, i can copy files greater 2 GByte to the network mountet smb directory. When i use the latest fc1 smbclient, it is not possible for me to copy the same file to this directory. Has the smbclient on linux a 2GByte boundary? -- Nine (not 9) Never trust a hippie

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fix for dual boot CHS not working
by Patrice Dumas 27 Jun '04

27 Jun '04

Hi, I have tried the solution posted on that mailing list to recover dual booting with windows 2000 and it doesn't work. The computer is a Toshiba Portégé 3480CT. Windows 2000 is on the first partition, in a FAT32. I first used a self compiled parted to shrink the fat, the partition table was modified and windows 2000 was unbootable. Then I installed fedora core 2. The partition table was remodified. I can do anything on that computer there is nothing valuable on it. The fedora core 2 is up to date. The windows friendly CHS is 2432,255,63. Booting without hda=2432,255,63, I have: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@sissine root]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 8127 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 * 8129 22345 7164990 83 Linux Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 22345 22950 305235 82 Linux swap Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 22951 38760 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda5 22951 38760 7968208+ 83 Linux [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda # partition table of /dev/hda unit: sectors /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 8191953, Id= c /dev/hda2 : start= 8193150, size= 14329980, Id=83, bootable /dev/hda3 : start= 22523130, size= 610470, Id=82 /dev/hda4 : start= 23133600, size= 15936480, Id= f /dev/hda5 : start= 23133663, size= 15936417, Id=83 [root@sissine root]# ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I try the solution proposed on the mailing list and I get: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 -C2432 /dev/hda Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads Warning: BLKGETSIZE/HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 38760 cylinders Disk /dev/hda: 2432 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 509- 510- 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 510 1401 892 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1402 1439 38 305235 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1440 2431 992 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1440+ 2431 992- 7968208+ 83 Linux New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 63 8192015 8191953 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 8193150 22523129 14329980 83 Linux /dev/hda3 22523130 23133599 610470 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 23133600 39070079 15936480 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 23133663 39070079 15936417 83 Linux Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I try with --force: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --force --no-reread -H255 -C2432 /dev/hda Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads Warning: BLKGETSIZE/HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 38760 cylinders Disk /dev/hda: 2432 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 509- 510- 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 510 1401 892 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1402 1439 38 305235 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1440 2431 992 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1440+ 2431 992- 7968208+ 83 Linux New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 63 8192015 8191953 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 8193150 22523129 14329980 83 Linux /dev/hda3 22523130 23133599 610470 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 23133600 39070079 15936480 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 23133663 39070079 15936417 83 Linux Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy The command to re-read the partition table failed Reboot your system now, before using mkfs If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems to have worked, but windows is still unbootable and nothing changed, and fdisk -l is exactly the same. I tried to boot with with hda=2432,255,63, and it isn't better: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@sissine root]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 510 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 * 511 1402 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1403 1440 305235 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1441 2432 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1441 2432 7968208+ 83 Linux [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda # partition table of /dev/hda unit: sectors /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 8191953, Id= c /dev/hda2 : start= 8193150, size= 14329980, Id=83, bootable /dev/hda3 : start= 22523130, size= 610470, Id=82 /dev/hda4 : start= 23133600, size= 15936480, Id= f /dev/hda5 : start= 23133663, size= 15936417, Id=83 [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 -C2432 /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 2432 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 509- 510- 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 510 1401 892 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1402 1439 38 305235 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1440 2431 992 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1440+ 2431 992- 7968208+ 83 Linux New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 63 8192015 8191953 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 8193150 22523129 14329980 83 Linux /dev/hda3 22523130 23133599 610470 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 23133600 39070079 15936480 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 23133663 39070079 15936417 83 Linux Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) [root@sissine root]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 -C2432 /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 2432 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 509- 510- 4095976+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 510 1401 892 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1402 1439 38 305235 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1440 2431 992 7968240 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1440+ 2431 992- 7968208+ 83 Linux New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 63 8192015 8191953 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 8193150 22523129 14329980 83 Linux /dev/hda3 22523130 23133599 610470 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 23133600 39070079 15936480 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 23133663 39070079 15936417 83 Linux Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy The command to re-read the partition table failed Reboot your system now, before using mkfs If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) [root@sissine root]# ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Still no boot of windows, nothing changed. Any idea where the trouble is? I can give more informations, make some tests. Pat

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rawhide report: 20040627 changes
by Build System 27 Jun '04

27 Jun '04

Updated Packages: checkpolicy-1.12.3-1 -------------------- procps-3.2.1-7 -------------- * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.2.1-7 - Add patch to display vm_size when STATSIZE env set * Tue Jun 15 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 3.2.1-6 - Removed broken SELinux patch to w - Added a better alternative whereby we get less data but don't fall for vanished processes when SELinux is running * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040627 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.10-1 ------------------------------- * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-1 - Update with latest NSA selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.10-1 --------------------------------- * Sat Jun 26 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.10-1 - Update with latest NSA vixie-cron-3.0.1-93 ------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.1-93 - Add fixes from NSA

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Status of GFS licensing/availability?
by Dax Kelson 27 Jun '04

27 Jun '04

Back when Red Hat purchased Sistina in Dec '03 as part of the press release it said, "The integrated team will work to make all of Sistina's technologies open source and available as a part of a subscription in the first half of 2004." See: http://www.sistina.com/pr/03_22redhatsistina.html Just curious if this is still the plan and what the status is? Dax Kelson

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Disk 1 install setup screen freezes
by Richard Emberson 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

I've got an HP 760n. It can not boot from CD, so I copied vmlinuz and initrd.img from isolinux into /boot and modified grub.conf. During the boot the mouse, card and display are correctly recognized. The problem: The mouse/keyboard/window freezes within the first couple of install setup screens. The furthest I got was entering in my ip address. The earliest freeze occurred when the mouse (as a pointer, after its an 'X') first appears. Any hints as to whats up? Thanks. Richard

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rawhide report: 20040626 changes
by Build System 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

New package hal Hardware Abstraction Layer Updated Packages: Guppi-0.40.3-20 --------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt - Add gcc34.patch Pyrex-0.9.2.1-1 --------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - 0:0.9.2.1-1 - New upstream version - Pyrex-0.9-split-base-types.patch synced for new version * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040625172329 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode authd-1.2.4-1 ------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.4-1 - code vet and minor changes re alan@'s comments - default operating mode to alias all usernames as 'nobody' to prevent noobies from getting their mail addr harvested - clean up README documentation cups-1.1.21-1.rc1.1 ------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.21-1.rc1.1 - Fix permissions on logrotate script (bug #126426). dbus-0.21-10 ------------ * Fri Jun 25 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - Workaround added to fix gcc-3.4 bug on ia64 * Fri Jun 25 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - require new Pyrex version and see if it builds this time * Fri Jun 25 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - rebuild with updated Pyrex (0.9.2.1) findutils-4.1.20-1 ------------------ * Fri Jun 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.1.20-1 - Clarify find man page (bug #126098). - Apply changes by Robert Scheck <redhat(a)linuxnetz.de> (bug #126352): - Upgrade to 4.1.20 and some specfile cleanup gcc-3.4.0-7 ----------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.0-7 - fix ppc64 -mminimal-toc (PR target/16195) - fix gnat rpm scriptlets (#126654) ghostscript-7.07-29 ------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 7.07-29 - Prevent pdf2ps generating "null setpagesize" (bug #126446). glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.84 ---------------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - fix mtrr header for x86_64 * Wed Apr 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.46 - ppc/ppc64 mq_* syscall numbers * Fri Apr 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.4-8.45 - update syscall numbers from latest kernel - remove ia32.h and ia32_unistd.h on x86-64 gnucash-1.8.9-2 --------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt gtk2-2.4.1-3 ------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.1-3 - Don't install testgtk and testtext - Rename binaries to -32/-64 (#124478) - Move arch-dependent config files to /etc/gtk-2.0/$host (#124482) - Add wrappers for updating the arch-dependent config files gtkam-0.1.12-1 -------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.12-1 - 0.1.12. - Fix gimp subpackage (bug #125963). k3b-0.11.12-2 ------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0:0.11.12-2 - update to 0.11.12 kdemultimedia-3.2.3-2 --------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.3-2 - rebuilt librsvg2-2.6.4-6 ---------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.6.4-6 - Properly handle updating of arch-dependent config files. (#124483) * Wed Jun 23 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.6.4-5 - PreReq gtk2 instead of just requiring it (#90697) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt mozilla-1.7-0.3.2 ----------------- openhbci-0.9.16-1 ----------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.9.16-1 - update to 0.9.16 - fix gcc34 build problem * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue May 25 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.9.15-1 - update to 0.9.15, fixing plugins (#123909) redhat-rpm-config-8.0.30-1 -------------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 8.0.29-1 - rpmrc patch from jakub to change optflags. * Wed Sep 17 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 8.0.28-1 - Change brp-compress to pass -n flag to gzip (per msw's request) * Tue Jul 15 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 8.0.27-1 - Fix broken configure macro find for config.guess/config.sub - Put host/target/build back for now rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040626 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.9-1 ------------------------------ * Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.9-1 - Update with latest NSA - Add more Colin patches selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.9-1 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.9-1 - Update with latest NSA - Add more Colin patches texinfo-4.7-1 ------------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.7-1 - 4.7. util-linux-2.12a-2 ------------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Thu Jun 03 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.12a-1 - Update to 2.12a - Fix #122448 * Thu May 13 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)RedHat.com> 2.12-19 - Change pam_selinux to run last

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rawhide report: 20040625 changes
by Build System 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Removed package libole2 Updated Packages: MAKEDEV-3.8.1-1 --------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.8.1-1 - create sx8 device nodes a2ps-4.13b-39 ------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.13b-39 - Build requires libtool (bug #125823). anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040624232300 -------------------------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode bind-9.2.3-18 ------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Daniel Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 9.2.3-18 - remove disable-linux-caps * Wed Jun 16 2004 Daniel Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 9.2.3-17 - Update RHEL3 to latest bind cdrtools-2.01.0.a32-1 --------------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 8:2.01.0.a32-1 - new version dhcp-3.0.1rc14-5 ---------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc14-5 - Allow dhclient-script to continue without a config file. - It will use default values. eject-2.0.13-8 -------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Added Chris Woods patches as requested by Al Viro to handle modern namespace mounting and unmount by mount point not device foomatic-3.0.1-5 ---------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0.1-5 - SNMP/IEEE 1284 data for HPLJ4300. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue Jun 01 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> - Build requires a2ps, because foomatic-filters checks for a conversion utility (bug #124931). gaim-0.79-1 ----------- * Fri Jun 25 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.79-1 - update to 0.79 - update desktop patch - update header and pkgconfig locations - update default prefs - FC3 sed behavior workaround - temporarily disable evolution integration * Tue Jun 22 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.78-8 - rebuilt ghostscript-7.07-28 ------------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 7.07-28 - Fix Omni patch assumption about /usr/lib which breaks for multilib architectures. gimp-2.0.2-3 ------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - version 2.0.2 - fix summary (#126682) gtk+-1.2.10-32 -------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - add missing buildrequires (#124159) * Wed Jun 16 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt for RHEL3 U3 katana-1.0.4-4 -------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-4 - Don't choke if there is a $CLASSPATH set. * Mon Jun 21 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-3 - Correctly locate jarfile locators. * Thu Jun 17 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-2 - Correctly locate katana-build.py. kernel-2.6.7-1.456 ------------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.7-bk7 - Add wli's patch to allocate memory bottom up not top down - change some config options in the kernel-sourcecode package that are good for rpm kernel builds but not for custom user builds to more appropriate default values. - reenable kernel-sourcecode again for a few builds * Wed Jun 23 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.7-bk5 - fix tux unresolved symbols (#126532) octave-2.1.57-3 --------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.57-3 - Er, typo in patch (thanks Nils) * Thu Jun 24 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 2.1.57-2 - Fix for #113852 - signbit broken policycoreutils-1.13.3-2 ------------------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.3-2 - Fix fixfiles to handle no rpm file on relabel pvm-3.4.4-21 ------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 3.4.4-21 - Include fix for #110349 (segfaults on x86-64) pyOpenSSL-0.5.1-24 ------------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 0.5.1-24 - rebuilt * Mon Jun 21 2004 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 0.5.1-23 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt qt-3.3.2-8 ---------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.2-8 - add fontconfig fix for qfontdatabase, #123868 - fix some buildrequires problem, #125289 - fix dangling symlink, #125351 - get rid of backup files rhythmbox-0.8.5-1 ----------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.5-1 - New upstream version rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040625 ------------------------- s390utils-1.3.1-3 ----------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2:1.3.1-3 - Fixed another automenu bug with dumpto and dumptofs (#113204). sharutils-4.2.1-21 ------------------ * Thu Jun 24 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.2.1-21 - add builrequires on gettext, bug #126599 system-config-mouse-1.2.7-1 --------------------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.7-1 - remove modifyXconfig function since it isn't needed any more (bug #123565) vnc-4.0-3 --------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.0-3 - 4.0. - No longer need hotspot patch. - Add sparc patch from bug #126382. xpdf-3.00-5 ----------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.00-5 - update t1lib upstream - add cjk font patch, thanks to Yukihiro Nakai, bug #123540 - fix a bug in font rasterizer, bug #125559 - improve menue entry, bug #125850

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More bad dependencies
by John Thacker 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

gstreamer-plugins also depends on gtk+, when it shouldn't. After doing some digging, ldd revealed that the offending file is /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstdvdec.so , the libdv decoder. Doing more digging, I discovered that that's because libdv's pkgconfig file, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libdv.pc , incorrectly claims that it requires glib and gtk+. Actually, the only thing that requires GTK+ is the playdv tool that we ship in libdv-tools. However, a bug in libdv source causes it to pick up those requirements for its pkgconfig file. This has been discussed on the libdv mailing lists, with a patch here, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4431792&forum_id=5458 and the patch incorporated into upstream CVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/libdv/libdv/libdv.pc.in This patch should be incorporated until the next upstream release. If we fix this, we can revert the change in Bug 123367 to add gtk+-devel to libdv-devel's dependencies. As an added bonus, it will eliminate the bogus gtk+ and glib dependencies from gstreamer-plugins, and anything else which uses libdv, once gstreamer-plugins is rebuilt. John Thacker

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Smartcard base components
by Veiko Sinivee 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi Ville, I didn't know that these packages existed already. My objective was really to release RPM-s on my own libdigidoc library and gdigidoc GUI applications that need these packages. This application might (?) work also with Finnish ID cards since it uses (can use any pkcs11 driver really) opensc library. You can find more info about the OpenXAdES format that we are using here http://www.openxades.org. We intend to add other features like cryptography too. Right now it's just a digital siganture application. The modified opensc library I was offering here has been patched by Marie Fischer and Martin Paljak <martin(a)paljak.pri.ee> to support Estonian ID cards. They made some modifications to the code and some ATR strings in the opensc.conf to init the card. Please consult with Martin Paljak as he has developed the last version of this opensc branch. I'd like to see this suff being incorporated in opensc main line and released. Ok how can I help you test these packages you mentioned? I haven't really developed too low-level opensc code yet but I can at least test this stuff. Please provide some more details on how to get the packages from bugzilla.fedora.com. I did a search on opensc and found nothing. Do I need a special user/registration etc. Would you be interested in testing gdigidoc? I'll try to provide Finnish locale support as well. I'm very interested in OmniKey drivers. I have such a device on my laptop and this darn thing prevents me from upgrading the laptop to FC2. It works on Mandrake 9.2 though. I've seen only cm4000 drivers version 2.3.2 on www.omnikey.com. Do they have anything newer? regards, Veiko

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No more kernel-source(code) ??? (was: rawhide report: 20040623 changes)
by Leonard den Ottolander 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi Arjan, > Can you explain to me why I should even bother to go the > more-work route if no matter what I do I get shit thrown at me ? I have no intention to throw shit at you whatsoever. (What is it I said that gives you this feeling?) However, as a member of the community I feel I can bring up issues that concern us, like how changes like these should be communicated (i.e. before the fact, not after). As somebody already pointed out if it is your intention to drop kernel-source(code) it could just as well be the kernel-source switch gets dropped altogether without being pre announced... Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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external modules issues
by Dennis Gilmore 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi, im trying to build an external module for kernel 2.6.7-1.441 the module builds fine when i insert it i get /sbin/modprobe spca50x FATAL: Error inserting spca50x (/lib/modules/2.6.7-1.441/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca50x.ko): Invalid module format dmesg shows spca50x: version magic '2.6.7-1.441 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.7-1.441 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' i changed HOSTCC in /lib/modules/2.6.7-1.441/build/Makefile to be gcc34 thinking it should then build the module using gcc 3.4 but on rebuild i get the same issue. it was working fine not sure when it stopped. ok so the kernel in the build system is using gcc 3.4 to build the kernel. but changing the external module makefile still seems to use gcc 3.3 do we need to change something in the kernel build process so that module building works? do we need to change gcc to 3.4? any ideas? Dennis

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When will LD_ASSUME_KERNEL var be phased out?
by Bob Arendt 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I'm under the impression that RedHat implemented the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable as a clever hack to ease the introduction of the NPTL-enabled kernel and libs with RedHat 9. On the other hand, some development shops I'm working with are (naively?) assuming that LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is a permanent feature that will allow them to run "properly". The questions: - How long will two threading systems be supported via LD_ASSUME_KERNEL? - Will FC3 (and RHEL4?) also support regression via LD_ASSUME_KERNEL? Thanks, -Bob Arendt

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kernel compile produces 1.2+GB of data
by Dax Kelson 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A freshly, not updated FC2 box: du -hs /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.5-1.358/ 220M /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/ make mrproper cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config make oldconfig make du -hs /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.5-1.358/ 1.2GB (or thereabouts) I have done no more examination, before I do, does anyone know what's up? The resultant kernel and modules are fine FWIW, so no problem there, just the size is the issue. On a SUSE Linux 9.1 with the shipped 2.6.4-something, the final du results are ~400MB. -- Dax Kelson <dax(a)gurulabs.com>

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Announcement: improved fedora.us UPDATE submission policy
by Ville Skyttä 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

On behalf of core fedora.us developers, I'm glad to announce the first concrete step of an ongoing work to improve the flow and documentation of the fedora.us package submission process: improved process for package UPDATEs. This updated process is effective immediately. The most noteworthy change is that trusted developers may now self-approve their own updates. More info in Wiki: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy#updates http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraPeople http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PUBLISHCriteria We are working on other process and documentation improvements as well, stay tuned.

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Help Needed: Firefox 0.9 & Thunderbird 0.7
by Warren Togami 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1617 Firefox 0.9 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1765 Thunderbird 0.7 Your help is needed to fix the Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7 packages for Fedora Extras updates. Both have problems that may require upstream help in order to solve. Even if you are unable to program, your assistance in communicating with upstream developers would be greatly appreciated. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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rawhide report: 20040624 changes
by Build System 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

New package authd a RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon Removed package pidentd Updated Packages: Canna-3.7p3-4 ------------- * Thu Jun 24 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 3.7p3-4 - Canna-conf.patch: updated to change the socket file directory under /var/run. - Canna-oldsock.patch: applied to ensure that restarting the daemon works during upgrading. - made /var/run/.iroha_unix at the build time. Glide3-20010520-32 ------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 20010520-33 - Fixed missing dependancy in Glide3 ant-1.5.2-26 ------------ * Tue May 04 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-26 - Rebuild with new compiler. * Thu Apr 15 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-25 - Rebuild with new compiler (#120844). * Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - Rebuilt. ant-1.5.2-30 ------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-30 - Build using new commons-logging. commons-logging-1.0.2-17 ------------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-17 - Don't rearrange the jarfiles. - Don't build lib-org-apache-commons-logging-impl.so. - Fix naming of commons-logging-api.jar (#124695). comsat-0.17-11 -------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt coreutils-5.2.1-17 ------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 5.2.1-17 - Move pam-xauth to after pam-selinux devhelp-0.9-6 ------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - Update ExclusiveArch * Tue Jun 22 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt dhcp-3.0.1rc14-4 ---------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc14-4 - fix inherit-leases patch * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc14-2 - Turn on inherit-leases patch * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc14-1 - User kernelversion instead of uname-r - Update to latest package from ISC - Remove inherit-leases patch for now. dialog-0.9b.20040606-1 ---------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 0.9b.20040606-1 - new version 0.9b-20040606 - new Version scheme * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt emacs-21.3-14 ------------- epiphany-1.2.6-0 ---------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> - Update to 1.2.6 * Tue Jun 22 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> - Update to 1.2.5 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.8 ------------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.8 - Do not xfail signals on i387, convert KFAIL to FAIL and not XFAIL. * Wed Jun 23 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.7 - Fix to ppc64 unwinder - handle glibcs function within syscall function hack. - Update sigbpt.exp, ena-dis-br.exp observer.exp signull.exp, step-test.exp and sizeof.exp, so that test names are architecture clean. - Disable bigcore.exp on PowerPC 64. * Tue Jun 22 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.6 - Merge in mainline testsuite changes up to 2004-06-21. - Re-implement 32 and 64-bit PPC signal trampolines. - Check i386 and amd64 signal trampolines before dwarf2. - Allow tramp-frame when there is a symbol. - Test interaction between single-step, breakpoint and signal. - ABI: Fix PPC64 function parameters, sizeof long-double, and enum return values. gkrellm-2.2.1-1 --------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2.2.1-1 - update to latest stable release gstreamer-0.8.3-1 ----------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.3-1 - Update to 0.8.3, now that I am convinced it is safe. - Remove backported cpufix patch. - "cvs remove" a bunch of obsoleted patches. gstreamer-plugins-0.8.2-1 ------------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.2-1 - Update to 0.8.2, fixes numerous bugs - Remove upstreamed memleaks patch gtkhtml-1.1.9-10 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.9-10 - Added fix for gcc 3.4 howl-0.9.5-4 ------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.5-4 - Fix 64bit issue with interface enumeration hwcrypto-1.0-17 --------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.0-17 - work around newer compiler being more strict about syntax - assume that the 2.6 aep driver will provide the same interface as 2.4's * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 1.0-16 - rebuilt * Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 1.0-15 - rebuilt hwdata-0.122-1 -------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 0.122-1 - Add Vobis monitor to MonitorsDB (bug #124151) kudzu-1.1.71-1 -------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.71-1 - use new sysfs bits for vio probing on iSeries librsvg2-2.6.4-5 ---------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.6.4-4 - PreReq gtk2 instead of just requiring it (#90697) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt pkgconfig-0.15.0-3 ------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 1:0.15.0-3 - fix underquoted definition in pkg.m4 (#116128) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt policycoreutils-1.13.3-1 ------------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.3-1 - Update latest from NSA - Add -o option to setfiles to save output of any files with incorrect context. * Tue Jun 22 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.2-2 - Add rpm support to fixfiles - Update restorecon to add file input support postgresql-7.4.3-1 ------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 7.4.3-1 - Update to PostgreSQL 7.4.3. - Uninstalling server RPM stops postmaster first, per bug 114846. - Fix su commands to not assume PG user's shell is sh-like, per bug 124024. - Fix permissions on postgresql-python doc files, per bug 124822. - Minor postgresql.init improvements. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt printman-0.0.2-4 ---------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.0.2-4 - Readd some lost context menu entries on the job list. rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040624 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.8-1 ------------------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.8-1 - Add Kerberos policy - Update with latest from NSA selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.8-1 -------------------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.8-1 - Add Kerberos policy - Update with latest from NSA setools-1.4-5 ------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4-5 - Add build requires libselinux system-config-display-1.0.16-1 ------------------------------ * Wed Jun 23 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.16-1 - reduce size of monitor-off.png and monitor-on.png to fit in 640x480 (bug #122142) system-config-kickstart-2.5.12-1 -------------------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 2.5.12-1 - use base names for packages (bug #122755) system-config-samba-1.2.12-1 ---------------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.12-1 - use popen instead of system (bug #112528) tcpdump-3.8.2-4 --------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - added flex to BuildRequires * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Sun May 30 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de> - simplify rpm scripts tetex-2.0.2-15 -------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.2-15 - Rebuilt. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0.2-14 - rebuilt * Fri Mar 26 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> - Update varioref (bug #118821). wireless-tools-27-1 ------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - Upgrade to 27.pre23 to get new wireless scanning API wvdial-1.54.0-1 --------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 1.54.0-1 - version 1.54.0 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt xchat-2.0.9-1 ------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 1:2.0.9-1 - Update to 2.0.9 - Fixed the URL handler menu patches to apply. xinitrc-4.0.0-1 --------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.0.0-1 - Created xinitrc-3-stable-branch in CVS for maintaining the 3.x branch of xinitrc. New development will occur in the 4.x releases, intended for Fedora Core 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. - Added back changes from 3.40-1 which were reverted in 3.42-1, as these were intended for development. - Renamed xinput script to xinput.sh to comply with new *.sh policy of scripts in xinitrc.d directory - Do not flag /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* as config files, as they are scripts, not config files. * Wed Jun 23 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 3.42-1 - Reverted changes from 3.40-1, which were intended to be included in Fedora Core 3 development, but accidentally made it into Fedora Core 2 erratum. * Tue Jun 01 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 3.41-1 - Fixed missing quote in xinput script (#123804) xscreensaver-4.16-2 ------------------- * Wed Jun 23 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 4.16-2 - use htmlview for browsing help.

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Preliminary OpenAFS 1.3.x RPM for Fedora Core 2
by Matthew Miller 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I know OpenAFS isn't well-loved at Red Hat, but we're kinda dependent on it here. (Maybe the in-kernel AFS will be a large part of our solution in the future, but it needs a lot more work.) And, as of, um, two days ago, OpenAFS CVS + some patches builds and runs on Fedora Core 2. So, I've put together a preliminary RPM, and I'd like some help making it as perfect as possible. <http://www.mattdm.org/misc/openafs/> Please read the README.RPM and TODO.RPM files included in the src.rpm. (Also conveniently on the above web site, which is a little ugly because I'm lazy.) Specific caveats: it's very cutting edge, and some things (SMP, for example) don't work at all. You may get PAG support if you rebuild your kernel to export the syscall table -- I haven't tried. Otherwise, you won't. Any bugs in the new init script or in the specfile, or suggestions for improvements, please let me know! Thanks! -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>

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sigwaitinfo() does not work in FC2?
by Xu, Jin J 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, all, I wrote a small program to handle thousands of TCP connections and tens of segments each second on each connection. To do this, I use rtsignal to notify application when socket is ready for read. The basic idea of this program is like this: After program start, block the SIGRTMIN and SIGIO in the main thread by: sigset_t sset; sigemptyset(&sset); sigaddset( &sset, SIGRTMIN ); sigaddset( &sset, SIGIO ); pthread_sigmask( SIG_BLOCK, &sset, NULL ); In one thread, accept the connection request and set signal on it: ... Int fd = accept( ......); flags = fcntl(sock, F_GETFL, 0); fcntl(sock, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK | O_ASYNC ); fcntl(sock, F_SETSIG, SIGRTMIN ); fcntl(sock, F_SETOWN, sigpid ); ... And in the work thread, use sigwaitinfo to get the rtsignal from queue. sigset_t sset; sigemptyset( &sset ); sigaddset( &sset, SIGIO ); sigaddset( &sset, SIGRTMIN ); while ( true ) { int sig = sigwaitinfo( &sset, &siginfo ); if ( sig == SIGRTMIN ) { if ( siginfo.si_band & POLL_IN ) { do_read_pack( siginfo.si_fd ); } else if ( siginfo.si_band & POLL_HUP ) { do_disconn( siginfo.si_fd ); } else if ( siginfo.si_band & POLL_ERR ) { do_error( siginfo.si_fd ); } } } This program can work on most of the platforms, but, in FC2, the work thread is blocked on sigwaitinfo while the signal is queuing in the kernel. (I can see the number in /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-nr is increasing rapidly). At last, the queue overflow, and the sigwaitinfo returns a SIGIO. My environments is FC2 (2.6.6-1.435smp) on an old dual P3 Xeon, glibc-2.3.3-27. This program can work in RHEL 3.0 AS (2.4.21-9.ELsmp, glibc-2.3.2-95.6). Has anybody ever meet the same problem as me? Or anybody has any ideas? Thank you in advance - Jin

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Initrd Help - Upgrading the kernel
by Ivan Gyurdiev 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, I'm sorry for posting this but I'd like to ask for a favor. I'm stuck and unable to upgrade the kernel. That's because the initrd (which I need to load xfs) is generated post-install, and losetup does not work on my system. It fails with memlock: Unable to lock into memory. I filed a bug, but after some googling around I found a message from Warren Togami that this issue is kernel-related and has been fixed in later releases. The problem is that I'm stuck at this particular release (414) with no other kernel. Knoppix chroot has some permission issue that won't let me do anything useful. So the favor I'd like to ask is: can someone send me the generated initrd for the 448 kernel, with the xfs module in particular on it? I don't do raid or lvm or anything strange like that. I'd really appreciate some help. I'll test SElinux and the kernel and everything afterwards...

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packages that BuildRequire: gettext that need to change to gettext-devel
by Colin Walters 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, I recently got a bug (#125042) that suggested that gstreamer should BuildRequire cvs. This sounded very odd, so I investigated a bit. It turns out that we invoke the gettext program "autopoint", which internally uses cvs (which seems crack to me, but that's another issue). The "autopoint" program is presently included in the "gettext" package. Since it's really autopoint that requires CVS, it seems to me that the package containing autopoint should BuildRequire: cvs. However, since gettext is essentially part of the base system, this would force cvs in too. So as an alternative, I'd like to move autopoint (and probably more development tools) into gettext-devel. See bug #126071. This brings up the main point: a lot of packages presently BuildRequire: gettext, and I think all of them will need to change to gettext-devel. This is the list from rawhide: [walters@porkchop fc3]$ for pkg in $(ls -1); do (cd $pkg; latest=$(ls -1 | tail -1); if rpm -qp --requires $latest/SRPMS/$pkg-$latest.src.rpm | grep -q gettext; then echo $pkg; fi); done anaconda binutils bug-buddy chkconfig compat-gcc control-center coreutils eog evolution firstboot gcc gcc34 GConf2 gdm gedit ggv gkrellm glib2 gnome-desktop gnome-games gnome-libs gnome-mag gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-themes gnome-utils gnopernicus gnumeric gok gpdf gqview grep gstreamer gthumb gtkhtml3 gtksourceview initscripts k3b kdebase kudzu libgtop2 mc nautilus-cd-burner quota rhpl rhythmbox system-config-printer system-config-samba system-config-securitylevel system-config-users vim xchat xfsprogs

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Watch Out... missing 'localhost'
by Warren Togami 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Please be on the look out for some network configuration tool in FC2 that leaves /etc/hosts without "localhost" entries. I just discovered that my system /etc/hosts was blank with only the following lines after using netconfig and neat several times switching between DHCP, static, and dialup networking... so I don't know what caused it. # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. This seems to have exposed problems of robustness in services IIim and sendmail. Investigating those now. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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Rawhide signatures
by Brian Gerst 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

When I run up2date, I keep getting "Package xxx does not have a GPG signature, Aborting." Are these packages really unsigned or do I not have the right signature imported into RPM? -- Brian Gerst

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midnight commander UTF-8 patches and more
by Leonard den Ottolander 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, Vladimir Nadvornik has made available a few patches to complete / fix the utf-8 patches for the midnight commander at http://www.suse.de/~nadvornik/mc.html . The largest of these (utf8-input patch) does not entirely patch against FC1's mc, but please have a look anyway. It's probably not too hard to fix these rejects. Vladimir also helped me fix one and a half issue (hotkey binding / ampersand badness) with a very simple patch which is inlined in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120735 . How about the Red Hat patches for mc? Will these be merged with upstream before mc-4.6.1? Maybe it's a good idea to join efforts. Vladimir will work on the patches in a couple of weeks. Finally a remark on a couple of other mc issues in bugzilla. The issues below have attached patches and/or are easy fixes and IMO should be included in the next update of mc for FC1 and FC2. Also see http://www.ottolander.nl/bughunt/index.php?package=mc for reference. Two times \0 inserted out of range: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110771 INFO/OBSOLETES always empty in #rpm view: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67341 out dated file in the rpm package: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85073 Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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network connection problems
by Gary Peck 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I've been experiencing a weird network problem ever since installing the last few days worth of Rawhide updates. Connecting to pretty much every known web site works fine, with the exception of my own server at http://realify.com/. Others can connect to realify.com with no problems, and I can ping realify.com successfully. But HTTP, IMAP, etc. connections all hang. I'm completely stumped on this one. In case this is helpful, I've attached the output of tcpdump (reformatted for email) while trying to connect to http://realify.com/ from Firefox. Please let me know if you need any other information. Even a suggestion of what program/library could be causing the problem would be helpful so that I can file a bug for the right component (I'm leaning towards glibc if no one suggests differently). # /usr/sbin/tcpdump -vv host realify.com tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 04:51:06.273466 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 9884, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 6, length: 60) 192.168.2.62.36070 > elmer.realify.com.http: S [tcp sum ok] 3551010669:3551010669(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 65550833 0,nop,wscale 7> 04:51:06.368291 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 39, id 56706, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 6, length: 60) elmer.realify.com.http > 192.168.2.62.36070: S [tcp sum ok] 3538178458:3538178458(0) ack 3551010670 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 29236351 65550833,nop,wscale 0> 04:51:06.368367 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 9885, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 6, length: 52) 192.168.2.62.36070 > elmer.realify.com.http: . [tcp sum ok] 1:1(0) ack 1 win 45 <nop,nop,timestamp 65550928 29236351> 04:51:06.368519 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 9886, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 6, length: 478) 192.168.2.62.36070 > elmer.realify.com.http: P 1:427(426) ack 1 win 45 <nop,nop,timestamp 65550928 29236351> 04:51:06.467619 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 39, id 40030, offset 0, flags [DF], proto 6, length: 52) elmer.realify.com.http > 192.168.2.62.36070: . [tcp sum ok] 1:1(0) ack 427 win 6432 <nop,nop,timestamp 29236361 65550928> After that last packet, Firefox just sits there with the throbber spinning and "Waiting for realify.com..." in the status bar. Looking at the same sequence also in ethereal, it seems that Firefox sends the HTTP GET request, receives a TCP ACK, but then never receives the actual HTTP reply. gary

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Re: Fixing a PDF/Font Issue
by Matthew E. Lauterbach 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:28:40 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: >On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:06:24PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> The problem is that when I print to PDF file using the "create PDF" >> function of the AbiWord print menu, this particular font gets screwed up >> royally. Other fonts I have purchased work just fine. > >If you use the font with another app (say open office) and generate a PDF >do you get the same problem ? Does the pdf read ok with other >tools/systems >(ie is the PDF creation or reading broken ?) > >> Here is the pdf file that produced pdf image: >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fonts.pdf > >My FC2 simply declines to render the bits in that font. > >Alan My FC2 doesn't attempt to display that font either. Also tried it on winXP SP2 with Acrobat Reader 6.0 and it wouldn't display the font either. I'm guessing PDF creation is broken. Matt

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Fedora Core 2 for IA-64
by Lucas Dulley 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Is anyone besides me interest on porting FC2 to IA-64? Has anyone started the port? Thanks, Lucas Peetz Dulley

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message from ldconfig
by Richard Hally 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

When updating many packages from rawhide(with yum) some of then produce the following message: /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is not a symbolic link What is the problem and how do I fix it? Thanks for any help, Richard Hally

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[PATCH] bug in read_ldt()? (resent)
by ra993482＠ic.unicamp.br 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, I think I found a little bug in linux-2.6.6-1.435/arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c. I'm not sure if you already have corrected this one, so here is the patch. :-) Regards, -- Ulisses --- arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c.orig Tue Jun 22 17:40:22 2004 +++ arch/i386/kernel/ldt.c Tue Jun 22 17:40:43 2004 @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ bytes = size - i; if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE) bytes = PAGE_SIZE; - if (copy_to_user(ptr + i, kaddr, size - i)) + if (copy_to_user(ptr + i, kaddr, bytes)) err = -EFAULT; kunmap(mm->context.ldt_pages[nr]); }

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rawhide report: 20040622 changes
by Build System 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

New package evolution-data-server Backend data server for evolution New package jlex Lexical Analyzer Generator for Java Updated Packages: MAKEDEV-3.8-1 ------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.8-1 - rename /dev/carmel to /dev/sx8 (Jeff Garzik) MagicPoint-1.10a-10 ------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.10a-10 - magicpoint-1.10a-fix-gcc34.patch: applied to build with gcc 3.4. * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt SDL-1.2.7-6 ----------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.2.7-6 - fixed gcc34 build problems anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040621190954 -------------------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode ant-1.5.2-29 ------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-29 - Fix dependencies. * Fri Jun 04 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-28 - Build with katana. apmd-3.0.2-24 ------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - avoid xapm build(#108057) aspell-0.50.5-1 --------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 12:0.50.5-1 - update to 0.50.5 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt autofs-4.1.3-8 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer(a)redhat.com> - 1:4.1.3-8 - Change icmp ping to an rpc ping. (Ian Kent) - Fix i18n patch o Remove the extra \" from one echo line. o Use echo -e if we are going to do a \n in the echo string. * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fixed i18n bug #107463 * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fixed i18n bug #107461 balsa-2.0.17-3 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> - rebuild for fc3 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt bcel-5.0-14 ----------- * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 5.0-14 - Build with katana. cdrtools-2.01.0.a27-1 --------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 8:2.01.0.a27-1 - changed version scheme * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt commons-logging-1.0.2-16 ------------------------ * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-16 - Build with katana. - Include the java.util.logging logger now that libgcj supports it. cup-v10k-14 ----------- * Tue Jun 01 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> v10k-14 - Build with katana. - Split java_cup-runtime.jar out of java_cup.jar. - Include the simple_calc example as documentation. * Tue May 04 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> v10k-13 - Rebuild with new compiler. * Thu Apr 15 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> v10k-12 - Rebuild with new compiler (#120844). desktop-printing-0.9.3-1 ------------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.9.3-1 - Update eggcups to 0.9.3 - Require newer libgnomecups * Fri Jun 18 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 0.9.2-1 - Update eggcups to 0.9.2 - Require newer libgnomecups * Tue Jun 15 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.9.1-1 - Update eggcups to 0.9.1 - Require dbus = 0.21 dia-0.92.2-4 ------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt ecj-2.1.3-2 ----------- * Wed Jun 09 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 2.1.3-2 - Work around an optimiser failure somewhere in ecj or gcj (#125613). * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> - Build with katana. evolution-1.5.9.2-1 ------------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.9.2-1 - 1.5.9.2 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Tue Jun 08 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.9.1-3 - Replaced /usr/lib with %{_libdir} in mozills_nss ssl_flags expect-5.39.0-98 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Autopasswd doesnt work and isnt ever going to work with pam around since password setting depends on the modules in use (think "fingerprint" or "smartcard"..). Remove it. firstboot-1.3.15-1 ------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.15-1 - apply patch from mikem in bug #121489 flac-1.1.0-6 ------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.1.0-6 - BuildRequire glib-devel for xmms plugin - BuildRequire nasm gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-8 ------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - Make build * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Fri Mar 05 2004 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 1:0.22.0-6.0.3 - Include /usr/lib/*.la for AS2.1 gimp-2.0.1-8 ------------ * Tue Jun 22 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - build with gcc34 patch (sopwith) glade-0.6.4-13 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 0.6.4-13 - add missing BuildRequires (#125038) glade2-2.6.0-1 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-1 - Update to 2.6.0 glib-1.2.10-14 -------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.10-14 - Make it build with gcc 3.4 glib2-2.4.2-1 ------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.2-1 - Require gettext at build time (#125320) - Update to 2.4.2 (#125736) gnome-spell-1.0.5-6 ------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.5-6 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt gstreamer-0.8.1-5 ----------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.1-5 - BuildRequire gettext-devel * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.1-4 - BuildRequire ghostscript * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.1-3 - Apply register-clobbering patch from upstream CVS. gtkspell-2.0.4-6 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.4-6 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt httpd-2.0.49-7 -------------- * Wed Jun 16 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.49-7 - don't install or use bundled pcreposix.h - bump default MaxClients to 256 - drop default Timeout to 2 minutes - merge from upstream: * add fix for VirtualHost multiple address handling (Jeff Trawick) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.0.49-6 - rebuilt * Thu Jun 10 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.49-5 - remove comments about ScoreBoardFile in httpd.conf - avoid redundant name lookup in pod code - mod_headers: add %{...}s feature for using SSL variables - mod_autoindex: don't truncate output on stat() failure (#117959) - mod_ssl: fix shmcb corruption with small caches (Geoff Thorpe) - mod_ssl: security fix for overflow in FakeBasicAuth (CVE CAN-2004-0488) - mod_deflate: fix memory consumption for large responses - check that suexec is setuid root (André Malo) - worker: add ThreadStackSize (Jeff Trawick) and ThreadGuardSize directives iiimf-le-xcin-0.1.5-4 --------------------- * Tue Jun 22 2004 Leon Ho <llch(a)redhat.com> 0.1-5-4 - backport from cvs - fixed no status window on conversion off - tidy up and seperate out sources - fix up some of the minor codings * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt jaf-20030319-5 -------------- * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 20030319-5 - Build with katana. jakarta-regexp-1.2-16 --------------------- * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.2-16 - Build with katana. javamail-20031006-5 ------------------- * Fri May 28 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 20031006-5 - Build with katana. junit-3.8.1-5 ------------- * Tue Jun 01 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 3.8.1-5 - Build with katana. - Include the AWT runner and some more documentation. k3b-0.11.11-1 ------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0:0.11.11-1 - update to 0.11.11 - add prereq:/sbin/ldconfig * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon May 31 2004 Justin M. Forbes <64bit_fedora(a)comcast.net> - 0.11.10-1 - remove unnecesary [ -z "$QTDIR" ] check - Update to 0.11.10 upstream - remove qt-devel BuildRequires, implied with kde-devel - remove ldconfig Requires, implied - remove i18n docbook patch, fixed upstream. katana-1.0.4-3 -------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-3 - Correctly locate jarfile locators. kdebindings-3.2.3-2 ------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-2 - build with -O0 on ia64, temporary gcc3.4 workaround * Sat Jun 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kdesdk-3.2.3-1 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 2:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kdeutils-3.2.3-1 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kernel-utils-2.4-11 ------------------- koffice-1.3.1-5 --------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4:1.3.1-5 - fix build problem with gcc-3.4 * Fri Jun 18 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4:1.3.1-4 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt libglade2-2.4.0-3 ----------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.0-2 - Require a new enough gtk+ (#117436) libgnomecups-0.1.8.cvs20040621-2 -------------------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.1.8.cvs20040621-2 - Apply little patch to fix inclues * Mon Jun 21 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.1.8.cvs20040621-1 - Update to latest CVS, which includes shiny new async patches - Remove libgnomecups-host.patch, incorporated upstream * Fri Jun 18 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 0.1.8.cvs20040618-1 - Update to latest CVS - Remove some patches man-pages-ko-1.48-14 -------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - man isn't required (there are multiple man page readers), as per other man packages * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt mod_authz_ldap-0.26-1 --------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 0.26-1 - update to 0.26, fix build - add fix for extern/static conflict njamd-0.9.2-12 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 0.9.2-12 - fix build with gcc 3.4+ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt oprofile-0.8-20040511.11 ------------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Will Cohen <wcohen(a)redhat.com> - bump version * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt pam-0.77-47 ----------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fixed the pam_limits fencepost error (#79989) since nobody seems to be doing it pam_krb5-2.1.1-1 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.1-1 - update to 2.1.1 * Wed Apr 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.0-1 - update to 2.1.0 * Tue Mar 23 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.11-1 - update to 2.0.11 pan-0.14.2-8 ------------ php-4.3.7-3 ----------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.7-3 - add gmp_powm fix (Oskari Saarenmaa, #124318) - split mbstring, ncurses, gd, openssl extns into subpackages - fix memory leak in apache2handler; 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Use desktop-file-install for desktop file.

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Java development on Fedora
by W. Michael Petullo 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Recently, I noticed that gcc's SRPM contains libswt-gtk2.spec. However, I have not yet seen this package in Fedora's development packages. Is this package on its way? Also, are there any plans to configure gcc with --enable-java-awt=gtk? My understanding is that this is required to get the GTK2 AWT peer built. Currently, I can't execute gcj-built AWT code natively or using gij. However, Sun's JVM will execute the same gcj-built AWT code fine. I understand that gcj's AWT is under development but I would like to be able to help test. -- Mike

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eggcups has quit unexpectedly
by Brian Millett 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Looks like the desktop-printer package needs to be updated. Printing causes a popup dialogue stating that application /usr/sbin/eggcups has quit. Trying to rebuild the desktop srpm does not work. rpmbuild --rebuild /opt/src/SRPMS/desktop-printing-0.9-1.src.rpm Installing /opt/src/SRPMS/desktop-printing-0.9-1.src.rpm error: Failed build dependencies: dbus-devel = 0.20 is needed by desktop-printing-0.9-1 but the latest is dbus-devel 0.21-6. Trying to recompile the desktop-printing srpm after setting the dependency to be BuildRequires: libgnomeui-devel, dbus-devel => 0.20 fails with eggcups-ec-job-model.o(.text+0x63f): In function `job_changed_cb': : undefined reference to `gnome_cups_job_clone' eggcups-ec-job-model.o(.text+0x684): In function `job_changed_cb': : undefined reference to `gnome_cups_job_clone' eggcups-ec-job-model.o(.text+0x85f): In function `job_done_cb': : undefined reference to `gnome_cups_job_clone' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [eggcups] Error 1 So the API has changed, so I guess I'll wait for the update. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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Fixing a PDF/Font Issue
by Michael A. Peters 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

First off I must admit that I need to install FC2 final before I do any further investigation - but I can't do that, an app I need does build in FC2T2 (and works in updated T3) does not build in FC2 final, so I can't update until the developer releases an official fix (coming soon). Here's the issue. Out of several commercial ttf fonts that I have purchased, one does not *fully* work in FC2T3 It behaves exactly as expected in AbiWord both on screen printing to my LaserJet 4 (using CUPS) The problem is that when I print to PDF file using the "create PDF" function of the AbiWord print menu, this particular font gets screwed up royally. Other fonts I have purchased work just fine. I would like to know how I can determine if it is a font problem or an application problem (I am for now assuming it is a gnome-print problem) - and once that is determined, how to get it fixed. If it is a font problem then clearly it needs to be reported as a bug to the font foundry. If it is a gnome-print problem, then it needs to be fixed in the OSS world. Unfortunately it is a commercial font - but it is not an expensive one, and I would be willing to purchase license for a QUALIFIED fedora developer to fix the issue, assuming it is a Fedora bug and not a font bug. I can not pay the salary of the developer, just the font license to verify the bug. Assuming it isn't magically fixed by installing FC2 and running yum update, how do I go about getting it fixed? The font is Schreibmaschine Here is what it looks like in AbiWord: http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fonts.png Here is what it looks like when printed to PDF: http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fonts-gpdf.png Here is the pdf file that produced pdf image: http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/fonts.pdf All my myfonts.com fonts are installed in /usr/share/fonts/purchased and a proper fonts.dir and fonts.scale is in that directory - all of them work in AbiWord and other apps that use ttf fonts - all EXCEPT the Schreibmaschine font work fine when printed to pdf. The font is from http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/schreibmaschine/

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source vs. sourcecode
by Scott Sloan 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

This was pointed out over on fedora-list the lastest kernel src package is kernel-sourcecode. Although I can understand what the package contains, neither apt or yum knew it was an update to kernel-source. Is the naming switch from source to sourcecode an Error or a new naming standard? -- Scott Sloan <devscott(a)charter.net>

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X86_64 -- 3w-9xxx.ko Not Building
by Janina Sajka 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

I find I'm unable to build this driver for my 3Ware 9500. Have others had success under the 2.6.6-1.435 kernel? I am on Vacation from 21st June'2004 - 31st July' 2004. If you have any queries, Please contact IT helpdesk they will forward to concern person during my absence. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

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Re: [PATCH] version and release macros
by Leonard den Ottolander 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

(Cross posting from the rpm list as I prefer to address a larger audience.) Hello Jeff, I wrote: > Referring you to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124364 for the > patch.) > Attached is a patch that fixes this issue for the above macros, as well > as the backward compatibility macros %{PACKAGE_VERSION} and > %{PACKAGE_RELEASE}. And again you throw me a WONTFIX. I can understand you don't have time to write patches for every small bug yourself, but I do not understand why you reject a good patch for a real bug (macros %{version} and %{release} (ao) returning wrong values). I don't want to m/take this issue too personal, but I do take offense from this attitude. It severely decreases my motivation to contribute to this "community project" Fedora. This patch NOT ONLY fixes the backward compatibility macros %{PACKAGE_VERSION} and %{PACKAGE_RELEASE} BUT ALSO the currently supported macros %{version} and %{release}. If you provide these macros for users to configure their build environment they should return the correct values. This patch makes it so. Hence if it is correct it should be applied. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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Self-Introduction: Daniel McNamara
by Daniel McNamara 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

As per the requirements: 1. Daniel McNamara 2. Australia, Canberra 3. Sys Admin/Teacher 4. Code Fish / Canberra Institute of TAFE 5. Your goals in the Fedora Project My mainstream job involves using RHEL and as such I'd like to see additions made into Fedora that would flow on nicely onto this. I also use Fedora as my base for my servers for other projects I run and with my role as a part time teacher in Linux Sys Administration I'd like to make sure my students have an excellent system to work with. * Which packages do you want to see published? Quite a few but at this point I'll be submitting mod_security * Do you want to do QA? Would like to but depends if I have the time. 6. Historical qualifications I'm not a programmer. I have limited skills in working with compiling programs and so forth but I do have experience in what systems need, what good default settings are and how good packaging can make a sys admins task a lot nicer. * What other projects have you worked on in the past? None. This my first foray into the development world. I have worked as a sys admin for several years in an ISP and personal environment. * What computer languages and other skills do you know? Worked with PHP, python, perl and shell scripting. Worked with PHP+MySQL apps and maintain a number of systems with custom scripts for clients. As mentioned I am not a programmer. My area of work is building and maintaining multiple servers for many purposes (mail/web/auth for my ISP work, same for my personal work and training systems for my teaching work). * Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt? Well being Australian I'm obviously descended from convicts right :) However my work in the anti-phishing field (see http://www.codephish.info) should show that I don't believe in stuffing people around. pub 1024D/BBFC3CFC 2004-06-19 Daniel McNamara (Dawnstar - Code Fish) <daniel(a)codefish.net.au> Key fingerprint = 278E 74B1 3ED3 7AE8 81C4 E0DD C712 7F86 BBFC 3CFC sub 2048g/AB10F866 2004-06-19 (Note - I'm new to the whole GPG thing so theres a good chance I've stuffed something. I also created some keys a while back but never used them and lost them. As such there may be some dodgy keys around for my email address. Apologies for that) -------------------------------------------------- Sent from Code Fish Web Mail Code Fish - Fishing for clues http://www.codefish.net.au --------------------------------------------------

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rawhide report: 20040621 changes
by Build System 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Updated Packages: gmp-4.1.3-2 ----------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt gstreamer-plugins-0.8.1-5 ------------------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.1-5 - rebuild to lose gtk+ 1.2 dependency * Tue Jun 15 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.1-4 - BuildRequire libghttp-devel kdeaddons-3.2.3-1 ----------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - 3.2.3 release kdeadmin-3.2.3-1 ---------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kdeartwork-3.2.3-1 ------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 * Mon May 24 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-3 - fix file conflict with other kde packages kdeedu-3.2.3-1 -------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 * Wed Apr 14 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-2 - fix some broken code kdegraphics-3.2.3-1 ------------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kdemultimedia-3.2.3-1 --------------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 * Wed Jun 02 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.2-3 - remove -O0 on s390/s390x/ia64 kdenetwork-3.2.3-1 ------------------ * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 release kdepim-3.2.3-1 -------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kdetoys-3.2.3-1 --------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 7:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 kernel-2.6.7-1.441 ------------------ * Sat Jun 19 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.7-bk2 libdv-0.102-4 ------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0:0.102-4 - gtk+ doesn't need to be in the .pc file (committed upstream, reported - don't require gtk+-devel for -devel package (unneeded) to fedora-devel-list by John Thacker) libidn-0.4.9-1 -------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Robert Scheck <redhat(a)linuxnetz.de> 0.4.9-1 - upgrade to 0.4.9 (#126353) pccts-1.33mr33-11 ----------------- * Mon Jun 21 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.33mr33-11 - update syntax patch for gcc-3.4 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040621 ------------------------- spamassassin-3.0-2.pre1 ----------------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 3.0-2.pre1 - 3.0.0 pre1 - remove unnecessary patches applied upstream - update krb5 backcompat patch wordtrans-1.1pre13-7 -------------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.1pre13-7 - fix build problem * Sun Jun 20 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.1pre13-6 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt

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rpmbuild-nonroot %{version} interpreted incorrectly
by Leonard den Ottolander 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Hi, When using Mike Harris' rpmbuild-nonroot setup (except for the no archs hack) I have a problem building rpm. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124364 . rpmbuild -bp rpm.spec fails: error: File /data/rpmbuild-fc1/rpm-1.8.1/rpm-4.2.1.tar.gz: No such file or directory It looks like the last "Version:" (popt's) is being used in the path expansion for %setup. $ rpm --showrc | grep sourcedir RPM_SOURCE_DIR="%{u2p:%{_sourcedir}}" RPM_SOURCE_DIR="%{_sourcedir}" -14: _sourcedir %{_topdir}/%{name}-%{version} -14: _specdir %{_sourcedir} The latest "Version:" tag in the spec file is the one for popt. It looks as if this value is substituted for %{version}. How can this be fixed? Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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Mod_authz_ldap
by Ivan Gyurdiev 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

...I assume I'm doing something wrong here. That has to be the case, because otherwise mod_authz_ldap.so is just a dead symlink (to mod_authz_ldap.0.0.0) preventing my httpd from launching and it's been that way since it was merged. What am I doing wrong?

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Re: fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 4, Issue 57
by Rrc 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

I am on Vacation from 21st June'2004 - 31st July' 2004. If you have any queries, Please contact IT helpdesk they will forward to concern person during my absence. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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[PATCH] GSSAPI authentication for wget (resend)
by Felipe Alfaro Solana 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

I forgot to send the patch. Here it is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello, I have always missed the GSSAPI authentication feature of the KRB5 FTP command line tool included in Fedora Core 2 krb5-workstation package, so I have implemented it for wget. The attached patch adds automatic GSSAPI authentication in wget 1,9.1. The only change in behavior is that, before performing an anonymous plain-text login, the AUTH GSSAPI command is sent to the remote FTP server. If the remote FTP server supports GSSAPI authentication, via the ADAT command, GSSAPI authentication is negotiated between the wget client and the remote FTP server. Please, feel free to use and review this patch. I have used code from krb5-workstation to implement the GSSAPI authentication for wget. There will be probably many bugs. I have tested it against the FTP server available in Fedora Core 2 krb5-server package, and two remote servers: HEANET.ie and Rediris.es. Thank you very much.

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[PATCH] GSSAPI authentication support for wget
by Felipe Alfaro Solana 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Hello, I have always missed the GSSAPI authentication feature of the KRB5 FTP command line tool included in Fedora Core 2 krb5-workstation package, so I have implemented it for wget. The attached patch adds automatic GSSAPI authentication in wget 1,9.1. The only change in behavior is that, before performing an anonymous plain-text login, the AUTH GSSAPI command is sent to the remote FTP server. If the remote FTP server supports GSSAPI authentication, via the ADAT command, GSSAPI authentication is negotiated between the wget client and the remote FTP server. Please, feel free to use and review this patch. I have used code from krb5-workstation to implement the GSSAPI authentication for wget. There will be probably many bugs. I have tested it against the FTP server available in Fedora Core 2 krb5-server package, and two remote servers: HEANET.ie and Rediris.es. Adding it to the SRPM package is straightforward. NOTE: I've submitted this patch upstream to the wget mantainer in the hope they will accept it. Don't know if I should open a bugzilla report with this patch, or else wait until the maintainer merges it upstream. I appreciate any comments on this. Thank you very much.

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Kernel Stack Sizes
by Steve Brenneis 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

I searched the archives of the list for discussion on this topic and couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me why the Fedora 2.6 kernels are configured for 4K stacks? This breaks a wide variety of device drivers including the bundled firewire driver, linuxant Broadcom driver loader, and the nVidia graphics driver. Is there a plan to correct this? Should I file a bug? -- Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis(a)surry.net>

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Packages with newer upstream versions
by Jose Pedro Oliveira 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

package(s) upsteam rawhide ======================================= acpid 1.03 1.02 alsa-* 1.05(a) 1.0.[34] busybox 1.00-pre10 1.00-pre8 cdrtools 2.01a31 2.01a27 ctags 5.5.4 5.5.2 dietlibc 0.26 0.25 freeradius 1.00-pre2 0.9.3 gd 2.0.26 2.0.21 gimp 2.0.2 2.0.1 k3b 0.11.11 0.11.9 kde 3.2.3 3.2.2 lftp 3.0.6 2.6.12 mod_perl 1.99_14 1.99_12 mozilla 1.7rc3 1.6 net-snmp 5.1.2-pre2 5.1.1 openldap 2.2.13 2.1.29 openssl 0.9.7d 0.9.7a perl 5.8.4 5.8.3 postgresql 7.4.3 7.4.2 samba 3.0.5-pre1 3.0.3 ?? (FC1 updates => 3.0.4) sed 4.1 4.0.9 subversion 1.0.5 1.0.4 vim 6.3.006 6.2.532 + several perl modules Note: A couple of these packages were already mentioned in previous posts. Regards, jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *

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libdigidoc & gdigidoc
by Veiko Sinivee 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Hi folks, I'd like to contribute some code to Fedora Core. I have developed both libdigidoc (C library for handling digitally signed xml documents conforming to ETSI (ETSI TS 903101)) standard and gdigidoc (a C++ GUI application using GTKmm and libdigidoc that provides a graphical user interface to this library). Now I'd like to propose you to include these products in Fedoras next release. Please vist the project site at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gdigidoc. All the RPM-s there have been built on FC2 so it might work on your system. You must have openssl >= 0.97 and GTKmm 2.2.x (not yet the 2.4.x release but I'll fix that soon). In this site you'll find also FC2 RPM-s for pcsc-lite-1.2.0 smartcard daemon and opensc-0.8.1. This is not my code but my application depends on it and I created RPM-s for it. I intend to create some RPM-s for some smart-card reader devices as well. regards, Veiko Sinivee

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870 updates later...
by Brian Millett 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Wow! I'm impressed. There were a few issues yumming the massive updates: 1) For some reason, my .ICEauthority file was chowned to root:root. Changed that bask and X11 started. 2) For my dhcp setup, had to fix the /sbin/dhclient-script to allow routing. 3) php4.3.7 needed to be reconfigured and compiled due to looking/needing libintl.so.3. Other than that, wow, just fantastic. As right now, for me, just evolution dependencies Package evolution needs libsoup-2.0.so.0, this is not available. Package evolution needs libgtkhtml-3.0.so.4, this is not available. Package evolution needs libgal-2.0.so.6, this is not available. Package evolution needs libgal-a11y-2.0.so.6, this is not available. Great Job !! -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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Re: fedora-devel-list Digest, Vol 4, Issue 56
by Rrc 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

I am on Vacation from 21st June'2004 - 31st July' 2004. If you have any queries, Please contact IT helpdesk they will forward to concern person during my absence. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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rawhide report: 20040620 changes
by Build System 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Updated Packages: anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040618182046 -------------------------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode apr-util-0.9.4-16 ----------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 0.9.4-16 - have -devel require matching release of apr-util * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt ethereal-0.10.4-4 ----------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.10.4-4 - don't require gtk+ 1.2 now that we're building against gtk2 grip-3.2.0-1 ------------ * Sun Jun 20 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 3.2.0-1 - update to latest stable version - remove obsolete locking and cdparanoia patches * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt kudzu-1.1.70-1 -------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.70-1 - fix build with gcc 3.4 netpbm-10.19-9 -------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - merged fix for pnmrotate crash freeing wrong number of rows rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040620 ------------------------- sane-frontends-1.0.12-3 ----------------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.12-3 - remove no longer valid requires on old gtk+ and gimp subversion-1.0.5-2 ------------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Thu Jun 10 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.5-1 - update to 1.0.5 sysklogd-1.4.1-20 ----------------- * Sun Jun 20 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de> - do not set bsd compat on sockets #123912 - fix empty log lines #125679 * Fri Jun 11 2004 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1rh-18 - make the race for -HUP a little bit smaller * Wed Jun 09 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1rh-17 - don't escape UTF-8 (#89292, #71170, #112519)

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Bad dependencies (ethereal-gnome, sane-frontends)
by John Thacker 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Several packages have recently switched from using gtk1 to gtk2, generally a Good Thing. However, many of these packages are older and explicitly include Require lines in their spec files for gtk+, rather than relying on rpmbuild automatically picking up the dependencies. This means that we have some packages that require gtk1 when they shouldn't. ethereal-gnome - Bug #120896 enabled gtk2 as of version 0.10.3-2, but package still Requires: gtk+>=1.2. Present in FC2 and development sane-frontends - Development now has 1.0.12, which automatically compiles against gtk2 instead of gtk1. But, spec file Requires: gtk+ >= 0.99.13. Also, incidentally, sane-frontends seems to explicitly Require gimp >= 1.1.25, which I don't think is necessary either, especially since xscanimage isn't shipped in the package favor of Xsane. (If we did ship xscanimage, it would now build against and require gimp2 anyway.) Problem only in development. On a side note, grip needs to be updated in development from 3.0.7 to the new stable 3.2.0, which uses gtk2 and GNOME2, eliminating yet another gtk1 application. It's been out since April 15th or thereabouts. John Thacker

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rawhide report: 20040619 changes
by Build System 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Removed package sawfish Removed package librep Removed package rep-gtk Removed package iscsi Updated Packages: Glide3-20010520-31 ------------------ * Fri Jun 18 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fixed gcc 3.4 compile breakage. It remains to see if it works. If not I'd try turning off aliasing in gcc * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt Maelstrom-3.0.6-6 ----------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt - Add gcc34.patch PyQt-3.12-3 ----------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.12-3 - rebuilt against gcc 3.4 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040618012737 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode apmd-3.0.2-23 ------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - gcc34 fix * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt apr-0.9.4-16 ------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt arts-1.2.3-2 ------------ * Thu Jun 17 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-2 - rebuild * Mon May 31 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-1 - update to 1.2.3 * Thu May 13 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.2-3 - add patch to enable PIE build of artsd bogl-0.1.9-33 ------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0:0.1.9-33 - fix build with gcc 3.4 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt checkpolicy-1.12.2-1 -------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.12.2-1 - Latest from NSA * Thu Jun 17 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.12.1-1 - Update to latest from NSA dictd-1.9.7-3 ------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.9.7-3 - fix build with gcc34 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt dietlibc-0.26-2 --------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.26-2 - fix up config patch for 0.26 * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.26-1 - update to 0.26, fixes build with gcc 3.4 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt freeglut-2.2.0-13 ----------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-13 - Rebuilt with gcc 3.4 for FC3 development * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-12 - rebuilt gdm-2.6.0.3-1 ------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:2.6.0.3-1 - update to 2.6.0.3 (fixes bug #117677) gnome-applets-2.6.0-7 --------------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt - Remove ifarch'd buildrequires on apmd gnome-python2-2.0.0-6 --------------------- gnome-terminal-2.6.0-4 ---------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-4 - patch a build busting type mismatch in libegg files * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt grub-0.95-1 ----------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.95-1 - update to 0.95 - drop emd patch, E-MD isn't making forward progress upstream - fix static build for x86_64 (#121095) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Wed Jun 09 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos (#120837) kdbg-1.2.9-6 ------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt kde-i18n-3.2.3-1 ---------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 - get rid of old brokon kde-i18n-ko - add some new languages kdebase-3.2.3-1 --------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3-1 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt kdegames-3.2.3-2 ---------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-2 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Wed Jun 02 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.3-0.1 - update to 3.2.3 kdelibs-3.2.3-2 --------------- * Thu Jun 17 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-2 - rebuilt * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon May 31 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to KDE 3.2.3 - remove some patch files, which are now included in 3.2.3 kdevelop-3.0.4-1 ---------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.0.4-1 - update to 3.0.4 * Thu Apr 15 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.0.3-2 - fixed multiple duplicate names, bug #117940 mkinitrd-3.5.24-1 ----------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.5.24-1 - fix usb-storage detection with 2.6 (#126309) * Tue May 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.5.23-1 - add support for RAID6 * Wed May 12 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - add support for multipath personality from Tom Callaway (#120379) nfs-utils-1.0.6-30 ------------------ pdksh-5.2.14-26 --------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - EASYFIX (#125678) - add/remove alias /usr/bin/ksh, pdksh names. Fix inadequate grep anchors on remove script. Fix wrong permissions if upgrading with umask 077. policycoreutils-1.13.2-1 ------------------------ * Fri Jun 18 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.2-1 - Update with NSA Latest quanta-3.2.3-1 -------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-1 - update to 3.2.3 * Sun Apr 11 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-0.1 - 3.2.2 release * Fri Mar 05 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.2.1-1 - 3.2.1 release redhat-artwork-0.97-2 --------------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon Jun 14 2004 Chris Lee <clee(a)redhat.com> 0.97-1 - Fix reversed printer-broken and printer-default icons rhpl-0.145-1 ------------ * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.145-1 - improved lib64 detection, rebuild with gcc 3.4 * Wed May 05 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.144-1 - open cd device with O_NONBLOCK so eject ioctl works (#122524) rpm-4.3.2-1 ----------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon Jun 14 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.3.2-0.3 - add 'requires' and 'conflicts' tag aliases. - python: return ds, not tuple, for ds iteration. - python: permit integer keys to ts.dbMatch(). - xml: use <foo/> markup for empty tags. - xml: <integer/> instead of <integer>0</integer> markup. - fix: disable fingerprint generation on kernel paths. * Tue Jun 08 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.3.2-0.2 - lua embedded in rpmio. - use lua to identify desired selinux file context regexes. rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040619 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.7-1 ------------------------------ * Fri Jun 18 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.7-1 - NSA Update * Thu Jun 17 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.6-1 - Another NSA update. - Added Russell's rpm patch - Added netlink patches selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.7-1 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.7-1 - NSA Update * Thu Jun 17 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.6-1 - Another NSA update. - Added Russell's rpm patch - Added netlink patches sip-3.10.2-2 ------------ * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt timidity++-2.11.3-11 -------------------- * Sat Jun 19 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - fixed compiler reported bugs unixODBC-2.2.8-6 ---------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt xinetd-2.3.13-4 --------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 2:2.3.14-4 - Add patch to fix #126242: banner's don't work * Thu Jun 17 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> - Remove the configuration for the no-longer-present "services" service. Closes #126169 xterm-191-1 ----------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 191-1 - Updated main tarball to xterm-191 for FC3 devel - Disabled xterm-resources-redhat.patch to see what if anything breaks, as it no longer applies cleanly. Hopefully we can just ship stock xterm resources now, although I realize that is more likely to be a pie in the sky fantasy once the bug reports trickle in from this change. ;o) * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 179-8 - rebuilt * Thu Jun 03 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 179-7 - Rebuilt for FC3 devel yaboot-1.3.12-3 --------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.12-3 - s/Copyright/License/ - fix build with gcc 3.4 * Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Mon May 24 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.3.12-1 - update to 1.3.12 yp-tools-2.8-5 -------------- * Fri Jun 18 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> - Fix buffer overflow (non security) thanks to D Binderman

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Fedora.us sync with devel
by Ivan Gyurdiev 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

Why is there no repository for the fedora.us packages that's in sync with fedora development? I've noticed fedora-devel packages tend to update in batches in order not to break dependencies. It becomes a pain to make fedora devel work with fedora.us packages against the last release. Isn't the idea to merge the two anyway? When will that happen?

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video in the desktop
by Thomas Vander Stichele 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

With Theora having reached a bitstream-frozen status, and a beta1 release imminent, what are people's thoughts on the Fedora site about video applications in the desktop release ? This is the first time a royalty-free video codec is in a releasable and supportable state. Also, the GStreamer+totem stack should be a shippable solution supporting Theora very soon now. I'd love for it to be included in the base Fedora desktop, together with a few applications like the upcoming gst-recorder so that people can finally record and play video out of the box (even though not yet all formats, at least from a legal perspective). Also, for the fedora.us people - what should we do when wanting to provide theora to pre-FC2 ? Theora requires a 1.1 version of ogg - does that mean that everything we build for FC1 and older that wants to use theora has to go in patches ? Thanks, Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> I'll take a quiet life a handshake of carbon monoxide <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/

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Re: Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream versions]
by PLinnell 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

> > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:16:33 -0700 > From: Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu> > Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream > versions] > To: jpo(a)di.uminho.pt, Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com> > Message-ID: <1087528593.2696.185.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:51, Jos Pedro Oliveira wrote: > > package(s) upsteam rawhide > > ======================================= > ghostscript 8.01 7.0.7 > > GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (from the main Ghostscript maintainers, they > dropped the official GNU affiliation after 7.0.7 essentially because of > disagreements with the FSF so it's no longer called GNU Ghostscript) was > announced without much fanfare in February (strangely there is no > release announcement on the ghostscript.com web page but there was an > announcement on the mailing list [1].) I haven't tried it yet and can't > vouch for how useful an upgrade this is but it can be found here: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=10873… > ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar.b… > > (Note that it's now in the GPL directory as opposed to the gnu directory > of the Ghostscript FTP site.) Is the Fedora version so heavily patched > that an upgrade would be difficult? (The Fedora package has certainly > gone through quite a few iterations and seems to have a bunch of > patches.) > > Cheers, > Per > > [1] http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html > > -- > Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu> > Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University I have filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126326 This is a bear of a package to build and include all the extra printers it supports. Updating this is not a trivial job, even with the new auto* stuff used to build GS. GPL GS 8.02 is expected to have CUPS integration of some sorts, but I would not expect it soon. T. Waugh might not talk to me in IRC anymore ;) Cheers, Peter

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how to override kernel modules?
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

>From what I have read in the list, FC >= 1 has a /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates directory where kernel modules could be dropped to override modules that are included in the standard kernel. Apparently that is not happening. The kernel modules in the "updates" directory are always showing up in modules.dep _after_ the kernel modules in the main tree. Anything I need to do to change this? -- Fernando

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if you shutdown your pc and have apps open the apps don't "stop" the shutdown and ask to save
by lupus 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

If you shutdown your pc and have apps open the apps don't stop the shutdown and ask to save. Is this the fault of the apps developers or is because there is no function to "stop" shutdown by an app? -- lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium)

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Self-Introduction: Neil Horman
by Neil Horman 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hey all! My Name is Neil Horman and I'm interested in getting more involved in the open source community. I've read the self introduction guide on fedora.redhat.com and am please to introduce...me :) Name: Neil Horman Location: Raleigh, North Carolina Profession: Software Engineer Employer: Red Hat My Goals For Fedora: As far as the Fedora project as a whole goes, I'd like to see it move into a role that makes it the best Linux development platform in the world (i.e. the bleeding edge of application and kernel development). I'd like to see it have the most comprehensive package list of any distribution available, with documentation that accurately details the development state and stability of each package. Personally, I'd like to start using Fedora to build my experience in package development and maintenence. In a former life I developed linux device drivers, and one day I would like to return to that, but before I do, I'd really like to get more involved in the community development process, so that if/when I take on more/other development roles, I have a good understanding of how the development/qa/release process works. Historical Qualifications: My previous emplyoment was largely closed source, so I was afforded little opporunity to participate without making people (bosses) nervous. However, in my personal time, I've manged to participate by submitting feature and bug fix patches to several projects, including ddd, ethereal, cscope, and a few (internally at Red Hat) for the kernel. In my last job, I developed device drivers for network switches that ran embedded linux, so I have a strong interest in NIC driver development as well. I've also tried to be active in comp.os.linux.development.* newsgroups. I should have a number of entries in the archives... :) Gpg Key ID: pub 1024D/92A74FA1 2003-08-28 Neil Horman <nhorman(a)redhat.com> Key fingerprint = 00BE 52A6 EB8E 979F 117E 101D 33E6 C4A1 92A7 4FA1 sub 2048g/C6D2F3B3 2003-08-28 I think thats about it. I'll be posting my cscope rpm up here, as soon as I think its up to snuff (shouldn't be too long). Thanks for your time, and I'm looking forward to getting more involved. Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman(a)redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://www.keyserver.net ***************************************************/

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new kernel naming convention?
by Brian Millett 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

After yuming the current bleed from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6, I noticed a new version convention. kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.437É¤ kernel-2.6.7-1.437É¤ kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.437É¤ Is this OK? thanks, just currious. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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Re: Kernel Stack Sizes
by Kenneth Porter 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:03 PM -0400 Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis(a)surry.net> wrote: > I searched the archives of the list for discussion on this topic and > couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me why the Fedora 2.6 kernels > are configured for 4K stacks? A little googling turned up this technical explanation: <http://lwn.net/Articles/84583/> I'm unclear why the pages need to be physically contiguous, though. Is this a limitation in the x86 architecture? I'm also curious if there are any good static analysis tools that can be run against the kernel source to compute worst-case stack depth? Surely someone in the gcc group has come up with such a critter?

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ForteMedia FM801 alsa module missing from FC2 kernel
by Arnaud Abélard 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hello, Is there any special reason why the ForteMedia FM801 alsa module isn't compiled in the FC2 kernel? Not that a lot of ppl have that kind of card, but at least some do ;-) Arnaud Abélard

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dependency problems with gettext and subversion
by Richard Hally 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Below is the console output from trying to do 'yum update' on development. It show that there are some dependency problems that have been happening since last week. Would the people rsponsible for these packages please straighten this out, Thanks and of course please let me know if I have done something incorrectly wrt updating. Richard Hally [root@new2 root]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .Package php needs libintl.so.3, this is not available. Package xemacs-common needs libintl.so.3, this is not available. Package xemacs needs libintl.so.3, this is not available. Package xemacs-nox needs libintl.so.3, this is not available. [root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ....Unable to satisfy dependencies Package subversion needs libswigpy.so, this is not available. Package gettext-devel needs gettext = 0.14.1-6, this is not available. Package subversion-perl needs libswigpl.so, this is not available. [root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext\* --exclude=subversion\* update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ....Unable to satisfy dependencies Package mod_dav_svn needs subversion = 1.0.4-2, this is not available. [root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext\* --exclude=subversion\* --exclude=mod_dav_svn update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [update: sysklogd 1.4.1-18.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user command. [root@new2 root]#

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RE: new kernel naming convention?
by Kenneth Benson 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

You, Jef, are an evil person. =) > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Spaleta [mailto:jspaleta@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:11 AM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > Subject: Re: new kernel naming convention? > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:03:37 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad > <tarjei.knapstad(a)predichem.com> wrote: > > > > Check the recent archives for this list and fedora-test for more. > > I dont think he's commenting about the change to "sourcecode". > I think the comment was about the non-ascii character > dangling off the end. > Which i think its a particularly new twist just in arjan's > p.r.c at the moment. > I think this is the first time i've seen a package version with a > release number that used non ascii characters. It will be fun to watch > how this sort of thing breaks existing tools > that have been explicitly or implicitly assuming ascii. > > -jef"contemplating building a package that just uses symbols as its > release number"spaleta > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >

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RE: Kernel Stack Sizes
by Kenneth Benson 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Get ready to watch this happen in the M$ world. XP service pack 2 is due to break a lot of things because of the security patches (which is just about all of the service pack =P) Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Brenneis [mailto:sbrenneis@surry.net] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:13 PM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > Subject: Re: Kernel Stack Sizes > > > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:05, Peter Maas wrote: > > > I have downloaded the linuxant kernels and installed > them. The nVidia > > > drivers and ndiswrapper work after a fashion. However, I > just discovered > > > that the sound drivers in FC2 no longer work as well. As > much as I would > > > like to reap the benefits of the 2.6 kernel, heigh-ho > heigh-ho it's back > > > to FC1 I go. Or maybe I'll try Mandrake. > > > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > This is not a Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, Suse, etc issue > here, this is a, > > After vanilla kernel 2.6.6, 4K stacks are enforced, Linus > has spoken from on > > high, the discussion about it being in the kernel is over. > From this point > > on its all about bugfixes, if you find a problem, notify > the person in > > charge of fixing it. > > I understand all of this on a philosophical level and from the kernel > purist point of view. I guess my point is that the most > beautiful kernel > in the world doesn't do anyone any good if it won't operate > the hardware > that is being supplied with most of the systems being sold > today. Isn't > it the responsibility of the distributions to provide a full O/S that > functions on as many systems as possible? Red Hat has certainly never > been shy about distributing modified kernels before now. That > is more a > matter of survival than of purity. > > Another point: Linux has made great strides with the hardware > vendors. A > few short years ago, a company like nVidia would never have even > considered producing a Linux driver, binary or otherwise. Does it make > sense now to get up in their faces and say, in essence, "you > will now do > things to suit us?" Remember, they have little or no incentive to do > anything for Linux. > > I'm not advocating that Linux should dumb down for the masses > and end up > being just another M$ Windows, but I think it is a wise team that > recognizes every user of their O/S is not interested in being a kernel > hacker. I have built my share of custom kernels to suit > arcane hardware > and I have even written some device drivers myself, but I don't have > time to do that constantly and neither do the majority of Linux users. > > Just my $0.02. > > -- > Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis(a)surry.net> > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >

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unscribe me
by A S Alam 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

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Need help with k3b
by Eric Tanguy 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

when i try to use k3b as user i have an error (255) and the process stpos whereas when i try the same thing as root all is fine. in the help menu, the system verification say that cdrecord and cdrdao have to run as root to work properly. It seems that i have to use the k3b setup program which disappear from fc2 because we don't need it. How can i do to have my burner working fine with k3b as user ??? Thanxes. Eric

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Openldap-servers RPM, Samba RPM and perl-LDAP RPM
by Gavin Henry 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I think the replies to my comments below are very valid and should be taken into account for the RPMs in subject. Could we change these or is there a reason for outdated tools? Comments? Thanks, Gavin. - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Samba/LDAP how-to in OO format Date: Wednesday 16 Jun 2004 21:22 From: "Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson(a)gwi.net> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn(a)redhat.com> Gavin Henry wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wednesday 16 Jun 2004 03:28, David Trask wrote: >>http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/Samba-LDAP.sxw >> >>here's the Samba LDAP how-to in OO format > >I have 3 points and one request: > >1. The backend ldap should be bdb not ldbm (discussed very indepth on the >OpenLDAP lists). > >2. You should really have access controls on the LDAP database, as anyone > can hen read your hashed password over the wire, unless, which I didn't > notice, you only have the LDAP server listening on localhost? > >3. You should be using TLS. > >4. Could you do a wee conclusion, rounding everything off. > > >Would you mind if some of us add the 3 points above in? > >Lastly, this is great document and must of taken you ages. ALl it needs is >someone to start this of, then others can help. > >Due you mind if I forward this to the fedora-docs list as they can do all > this for us? All good suggestions, some of which David and I have already discussed. He expressed to me that he wanted to first get it working, and then go back and work to incorporate better security such as you have indicated. Thanks for working to move this along with other doc folks in implementing them. Comments: Re 1. In that case why is bdb not the default in slapd.conf as provided by the FC2 openldap-servers rpm? I suspect that David simply used what was there, not changing the backend. I'm not trying to disagree - just to point out that if this is now the standing recommendation then in addition to changing the how-to it should be changed in the slapd.conf provided by the rpm. Re 2. Definitely, although the issue is actually whether ldap directory users have query or update access to other users' hashed passwords. The over the wire comment relates to the TLS recommendation. Re 3. Definitely. Other points: 5. The smbldap-tools provided by the FC2 samba rpm under /usr/share/samba-n.n.n/LDAP/smbldap-tools are out of date. They should either be brought current, or removed and placed in a separate smbldap-tools rpm _included_ in FC2 distro with a pre-requisite of the perl-LDAP rpm, which in turn requires other perl- rpms. I believe this change would avoid the need for any of the CPAN steps, and allow installing the smbldap-tools from the FC2 distro. 6. The how-to should include using slappasswd to create a good password hash for inclusion within slapd.conf in lieu of the default password. 7. Yum would work just as well as apt. Perhaps alternative commands for updating and installing rpms either way would make the how-to equally as friendly to people who prefer yum. I hope the community does remedy all those points to give this very useful document a more robust treatment of security, and make FC2 a little less complex to implement samba/ldap on. Chris - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------- "Spend less! Do more! Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net Chris Johnson, RHCE #807000448202021 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 587369 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com Open Source. Open Solutions. http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0Lg/eWseh9tzvqgRAp4mAJ99PTa47HiQJfI+wUy7XN5K23uJdwCgpXqE o0rexzWkM+aB3sA7xTTKhLE= =nqE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: kernel-source vs. kernel-sourcecode (please revert)
by Pete Zaitcev 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:18:22 -0400 Aaron Bennett <aaron.bennett(a)olin.edu> wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >The kernel-doc documentation explains it for 2.6, > >if your module is called foo.c you make a Makefile with > >obj-m := foo.o > >in it, and do > >make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=$PWD modules > >to build your module. > Where is that? > [root@burton kernel-doc-2.6.6]# > [root@burton kernel-doc-2.6.6]# fgrep -li "make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build" * Aaron is right. What the kbuild/modules.txt actually documents is: Often modules are developed outside the official kernel. To keep up with changes in the build system the most portable way to compile a module outside the kernel is to use the kernel build system, kbuild. Use the following command-line: make -C path/to/kernel/src SUBDIRS=$PWD modules It does NOT document /lib/modules/`uname -r`, because it is a distribution specific convention. Expirienced developers "know" how to figure the rest, but as Axel's googling aptly demonstrated, Internet is full of idiots, and the "right" knowledge just drowns in the noise. I always send vendors to http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/notes/Makefile.arjanv Which is not an optimal way to document. It is essentially a tribal knowledge enshrined. Mind if I file a bug against kernel-doc "Document path to correct correct module headers"? -- Pete

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Re: documentation "out there" (was Re: kernel-source vs. kernel-sourcecode (please revert))
by Pete Zaitcev 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:47:49 -0700 Joe Christy <joe(a)eshu.net> wrote: > Vis-a-vis Arjen's note of 06/15/2004 02:35 PM: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:33:57PM -0700, Joe Christy wrote: > > make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=$PWD modules_install > > afaik.... > Being a conservative soul, I tried that, passing the -n flag to make: > > [root@woof ltmodem-2.6-alk-4]# make -n -C /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/build SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules_install > -bash: PWD: command not found You are trying to use make(1) syntax in the shell. If you insist on braces, use curly braces, like ${PWD}. Also, NEVER BUILD AS root. -- Pete

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Why are DVB modules missing from kernels newer than FC2 GA?
by Ronny Buchmann 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

It is really annoying that features are suddenly disappearing with updates. Is there some reason these were disabled or has it been by accident? (When) will they reappear? -- http://LinuxWiki.org/RonnyBuchmann

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Re: Generating rpm spec from autoconf/automake packages for Fedora
by "Nils O. Selåsdal" 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:00, Didier Casse wrote: > Dear All, > I am trying to convert some autonconf/automake packages or > libraries to rpms. Well to generate the spec, fitting > the > > ------------- > ./configure > make > make install > ------------- Take a look at the fedora .spec template at http://www.fedora.us/docs/spec.html Now, remember that one doesn't use ./configure in a .spec usually, but rather %configure , that will try to make the make install install it temporary while packaging in non default location, such as /var/tmp/foo-2.4.3-root/ , now when you do an rpmbuild , and if it fails, you can just go to /var/tmp/foo-2.4.3-root/ an look at which files it installed. > is straightforward! But the autoconf packages install lots of files around > the system. > > So the problem lies in dealing with the part: > > %files > %defattr(-,root,root) > %{_bindir}/ Never do the above , it will make the package own the bindir (usr/bin), you don't want that. use %{_bindir}/* > %{_libdir}/lib* > %doc AUTHORS > %doc COPYING > %doc README > > > where we have to specify all the files that have been installed. Since the > autoconf/automake packages have not been made by me, I do not know which > files are being installed and I have to do everytime a "make install" to > watch which files are being installed! A good packager must know every file of a package ! > Now is there a way to convert all these autoconf/automake packages > directly to rpms or is there a systematic/automated system to know which > files are being installed and fit directly in the specs? See above. > Now bear in mind that there are several of these packages and it would be > tedious compiling and looking at one by one to know which files is being > installed and the name of the files and location can change anytime. These > packages weren't created by me so I have no control over them! Thanks for > any kind help. You really only need to know each directory it places files in, and which directories the package should own. >

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Re: patch for dhclient-script
by Pete Zaitcev 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:36:27 -0500 (CDT) "Brian Millett" <bpm(a)ec-group.com> wrote: > For what its worth, I noticed that with the rawhide update on Sat, June > 12, the dchp client no longer routed. I determined that before > dhclient-script finished, there were two entries for default: > > default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 I'm wondering where does the first entry originate? > But then when dhclient-script would finish, the default gw for 192.168.0.1 > world be deleted leaving only the * default gateway. The following patch > resolves this, but I do not know it it messes other things. > diff -wruN /tmp/sbin/dhclient-script dhclient-script > --- /tmp/sbin/dhclient-script 2004-06-12 16:31:29.000000000 -0500 > +++ dhclient-script 2004-06-13 12:11:56.000000000 -0500 > @@ -128,12 +128,14 @@ > elif [ $relmajor -lt 2 ] || ( [ $relmajor -eq 2 ] && [ $relminor -eq 0 > ] ) then > ifconfig $interface inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 \ > broadcast 255.255.255.255 up > + #Add route to make broadcast work. Do not omit netmask. > + route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 > else > ifconfig $interface 0 up > fi > > # Add route to make broadcast work. Do not omit netmask. > - route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 > + #route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 > > # We need to give the kernel some time to get the interface up. > sleep 1 The patch essentially backs out the change and returns to what fc2 ships. I'm cc-ing this to Daniel in case he hasn't seen this. -- Pete

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CryptoLoop question
by StoneBeat 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Hi, i have some partitions encrypted with cryptoloop compiled in kernel 2.6.3 Searching in google i have read about cryptoloop broken compatibility between > kernel 2.6.3 and < kernel 2.6.3. I want to upgrade my kernel but if i must remake my partitions i want to know before. thanks

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rawhide report: 20040616 changes
by Build System 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Updated Packages: abiword-2.0.7-1 --------------- * Thu May 20 2004 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> 1:2.0.6-1 - 2.0.7, new version + gcc34 fixes rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040616 ------------------------- system-config-bind-2.0.2-8 -------------------------- * Tue Jun 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.1-8 - Fix Zone handling of SOA Records

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Generating rpm spec from autoconf/automake packages for Fedora
by Didier Casse 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Dear All, I am trying to convert some autonconf/automake packages or libraries to rpms. Well to generate the spec, fitting the ------------- ./configure make make install ------------- is straightforward! But the autoconf packages install lots of files around the system. So the problem lies in dealing with the part: %files %defattr(-,root,root) %{_bindir}/ %{_libdir}/lib* %doc AUTHORS %doc COPYING %doc README where we have to specify all the files that have been installed. Since the autoconf/automake packages have not been made by me, I do not know which files are being installed and I have to do everytime a "make install" to watch which files are being installed! Now is there a way to convert all these autoconf/automake packages directly to rpms or is there a systematic/automated system to know which files are being installed and fit directly in the specs? Now bear in mind that there are several of these packages and it would be tedious compiling and looking at one by one to know which files is being installed and the name of the files and location can change anytime. These packages weren't created by me so I have no control over them! Thanks for any kind help. With kind regards, Didier. --- PhD student. Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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Missing security / bugfix advisories for FC1 / FC2
by Bernd Bartmann 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Again there are still some security / bugfix advisories missing: FC1 - - gaim-0.77.2.FC1 (already obsoleted by gaim-0.78-1.FC2) - - recode-3.6-12.0 - - rsync-2.5.7-5.fc1 FC2 - - nfs-utils-1.0.6-22 - - cdrtools-2.01-0.a27.4 - - xinitrc-3.41-1 - - gnome-session-2.6.0-4 - - ethereal-0.10.3-2.2 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA0DZkkQuIaHu84cIRAqTbAKClymiXKSsYLxOZZEeYTHUWvnJqNwCfXAqW SY5yBLlE4PulISMwvcDMo/k= =Q2S7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: 'unable to relabel' in /dev.... MAKEDEV-3.7-2
by Russell Coker 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:13, Tom London <selinux(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Running off of the development tree, MAKEDEV-3.7-2 creates lots of new > files. Running 'fixfiles relabel' or 'setfiles -v $FC /dev' generates > lots of error messages like: > > /dev/ptyu7: Permission denied > /usr/sbin/setfiles: unable to relabel /dev/ptyu7 to > system_u:object_r:device_t The /dev/[tp]ty[abcdepqrstuvwxyz][0-9a-f] device nodes do not work on SE Linux and almost certainly never will. I am under the impression that /dev/[tp]ty* are strongly deprecated and not used in any software we ship. Is it time to completely remove them from Fedora? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page

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How can we help with Firefox 0.9 package?
by Steven Garrity 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

As most of you have probably already seen, Firefox 0.9 has been released. Among the updates pertinent to Fedora are newly native (or native-ish) menus (they look/feel great). Perhaps this is already underway, but how can we help get Firefox 0.9 out for Fedora? According to the original announcement [1] the Firefox/Thunderbird packages have been "heavily patched and polished to integrate nicely into the Preferred Applications framework of FC2". So, I presume the new release isn't trivial. Any info is appreciated - thanks, Steven Garrity [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg04041.html

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Re: Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement
by Bryan Clark 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

I've updated the GNOME HIG, adding a section reflecting the situation wrt the Name + GenericName menu item name creation. The problem with a cat of Name + GenericName is that it doesn't always work for languages other than English. To reflect this problem the HIG now requires that the Name field use the "[Proper Name] + [Generic Name]" format where the Generic Name is purely derived from the applications functionality (like "Web Browser") and the proper name is one it's project name (like "Mozilla"). Thus the .desktop entry for the GenericName field is the applications functionality without the proper name. Cheers, ~ Bryan ~~ Red Hat Desktop Interaction Designer ~~

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Bugzilla bug for kernel-sourcecode
by Dax Kelson 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

FYI https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126077 Add comments as you see fit. -- Dax Kelson <dax(a)gurulabs.com>

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Lost advanced configuration in k3b
by Eric Tanguy 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

I'm trying to run k3b as normal user and i know that i have to configure it using advanced configuration but i can't find it in menu : i just have k3b configuration. So i don't know how to find it. please help me. Eric

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rawhide report: 20040615 changes
by Build System 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Updated Packages: MAKEDEV-3.7-2 ------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.7-2 - add hvsi0 and hvsi1 devices on s390 (David Howells) * Wed Jun 09 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 3.7-1 - sort devices for a better overview (s390) - add scsi devices for zfcp disks (s390) * Sun May 30 2004 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de> - simplify the pre script for MAKEDEV/dev ethereal-0.10.4-2 ----------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 0.10.4-2 - Include ia64 segfault patch (#113726). expat-1.95.7-2 -------------- * Fri Jun 11 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 1.95.7-2 - fix: malloc failure from dbus test suite (#124747). gcc-3.4.0-5 ----------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.0-5 - update from gcc-3_4-branch - PRs ada/14150, c++/14211, c++/15076, c++/15227, c++/15862, c++/15875, c++/15877, libstdc++/15775, rtl-optimization/15296, rtl-optimization/15761, target/13312, target/13803, target/14567, target/14960, target/15191, target/15653, target/8309 - don't optimize out Inf - Inf, Inf / Inf and 0 * Inf unless -ffast-math, as they should generate runtime exception (PR middle-end/15945) - add libgnat-3.4.so and libgnarl-3.4.so symlinks - disable Ada support on 64-bit arches and PPC32 for now, xnmake is deadly broken - if Ada support is disabled, Obsolete older gcc-gnat and libgnat in gcc rpm - add Provides libstdc++34 resp. libgcj34 in libstdc++ resp. libgcj packages glibc-2.3.3-32 -------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-32 - update from CVS - FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE support (fix pthread_cond_* deadlocks) - fix backtrace in statically linked programs - rebuilt with GCC 3.4, adjusted ulps and i386 <bits/string.h> * Fri May 28 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-31 - update from CVS - <bits/string2.h> and <bits/mathinline.h> changes for GCC 3.{2,4,5}+ - make c_stubs buildable even with GCC 3.2.x (#123042) * Fri May 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-30 - fix pthread_cond_wait on architectures other than IA-32 and x86_64 gnome-session-2.6.0-5 --------------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-5 - Prevent having duplicate packages in different collections * Mon Jun 14 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-4 - Use desktop-file-install instead of patching session-properties.desktop. Add X-Red-Hat-Base category. joe-3.1-2 --------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 3.1-2 - Rebuild nfs-utils-1.0.6-24 ------------------ * Mon Jun 14 2004 <SteveD(a)RedHat.com> - Removed sync warning on readonly exports. - Changed run levels in rpc initscripts. - Replaced modinfo with lsmod when checking for loaded modules. * Tue Jun 01 2004 <SteveD(a)RedHat.com> - Changed the rpcgssd init script to ensure the rpcsec_gss_krb5 module is loaded openssl-0.9.7a-38 ----------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 0.9.7a-38 - Updated ICA engine IBM patch to latest upstream version. procps-3.2.1-5 -------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.2.1-5 - Fix FAQ Line rpm-4.3.2-0.3 ------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.3.2-0.3 - add 'requires' and 'conflicts' tag aliases. - python: return ds, not tuple, for ds iteration. - python: permit integer keys to ts.dbMatch(). - xml: use <foo/> markup for empty tags. - xml: <integer/> instead of <integer>0</integer> markup. - fix: disable fingerprint generation on kernel paths. rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040615 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.4-6 ------------------------------ * Mon Jun 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-6 - Remove uwimapd patch selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.4-6 -------------------------------- * Mon Jun 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-6 - Keep version with strict policy unzip-5.51-2 ------------ * Tue Jun 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 5.51-2 - Rebuild

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Building installation images
by David Woakes 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Could someone tell me how to build installation iso's which incorporate the recent change made to the Kernel in FC2 to allow it to boot on a Via C3 processor please. David Woakes -- t 0131 447 0509 m 07966 444 615 f 07970 205 091 e david(a)mitredata.co.uk

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[Fwd: OpenLDAP 2.2.13 "stable"]
by Dax Kelson 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Time to upgrade rawhide to OpenLDAP v2.2? -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Kurt D. Zeilenga <Kurt(a)OpenLDAP.org> To: openldap-announce(a)OpenLDAP.org Subject: OpenLDAP 2.2.13 "stable" OpenLDAP 2.2.13 is now considered the most "stable" release of OpenLDAP Software available: http://www.openldap.org/software/download/ The OPENLDAP_STABLE cvs(1) tag has been moved forward to OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2_13: http://www.openldap.org/software/repo.html For definitions of "stable" and "release" versions of OpenLDAP Software, please see the FAQ: http://www.openldap.org/faq/?file=225 Users of prior release and stable versions of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade. Enjoy! Kurt -- Dax Kelson <dax(a)gurulabs.com>

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kernel module packages
by Thomas Vander Stichele 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hello everyone, I've incorporated the feedback I received on my kernel module packaging proposal and rebuilt the -devel package as well as the kernel modules. I've now succesfully made packages for hostap, ipw2100 (which needs hostap) and pwcx, for both 2.6 FC2 and 2.4 FC1. I'd appreciate it especially if some FC1 people try them out. Packages are up at http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/pkg/fedora-2-i386-fedora-stable/ and http://thomas.apestaart.org/download/pkg/fedora-1-i386-fedora-stable/ I'll be submitting the kernel module packages themselves to f.us shortly. If anyone still has suggestions for kernel module projects to package, let me know. Thanks Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> You may not believe me, baby, when I tell you that I am Mr. Superlove <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/

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dhclient caused no routing
by Brian Millett 15 Jun '04

15 Jun '04

Hi, the dhclient-3.0.1rc13-1.i386.rpm from rawhide caused the dhcp client on my laptop to not route. Did not have a default gateway. Downgraded to dhclient-3.0.1rc12-7.i386.rpm and routing (gateway) returned. What changes happened in the updates that caused this? dhcp-3.0.1rc13-1 ---------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc13-1 - Update to latest package from ISC * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc12-9 - add route back in after route up call * Wed Jun 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc12-8 - add alex's dhcp-3.0.1rc12-inherit-leases.patch patch I'm running: Linux localhost 2.6.6-1.427 #1 Thu Jun 10 09:33:46 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Thanks. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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rawhide report: 20040614 changes
by Build System 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Updated Packages: rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040614 -------------------------

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rawhide report: 20040610 changes
by Build System 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

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rawhide report: 20040613 changes
by Build System 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Updated Packages: policycoreutils-1.13.1-2 ------------------------ * Sat Jun 12 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.1-2 - Fix run_init to use policy formats * Wed Jun 02 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.1-1 - Update from NSA rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040613 -------------------------

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syslogd not working after 6/12/04 update
by Brian Millett 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

All I get in the /var/log/messages is: Jun 13 11:24:21 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 13 11:24:21 localhost Jun 13 11:24:21 localhost last message repeated 233 times Jun 13 11:24:23 localhost Jun 13 11:24:23 localhost last message repeated 7 times Something tells me this is wrong. -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement
by Ivan Gyurdiev 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi, I posted this in bugzilla, but I was told it should have been posted here instead. There are some trivial issues with icons and menus under GNOME, which are annoying and I think should be fixed. ================================================================ Description of problem: Comments below refer to GNOME and the mix between fedora, fedora.us, and livna.org: ========================================================= 1) Half of my icons depress on mouseover (rhythmbox, totem, gimp, easytag, scribus, def. icon), and half just light up (xcdroast, gaim, thunderbird, firefox, screenshot, lock, logout, sound-juicer, menu icon). Why is that? 2) Also...why are some of the icons so awful. The easytag icon is completely unreadable - it's a bunch of color dots spelling easytag! Could there at least be fewer colors? The xcdroast icon seems rather ancient compared to other icons of better quality. dillo, rclock, xtide, commander editor, Kandy, soundtracker, aterm still have no icons.. 3) The menus have been critiqued in all the Fedora Core reviews, and I have to agree - why are half the menu entires filled with names like CD Player, Address Manager, Digital Camera Tool...and the other half contain Ethereal, Kopete, KPPP and other application names that will confuse a new user. 4) Why is it that the package htmlview installs /usr/share/applications/redhat-email.desktop and /usr/share/applications/redhat-web.desktop, which link to the correct apps, when those just result in me getting duplicate menu entries for my desired email and web agents. 5) What do the More <X> submenus accomplish, when it's not clear what the criteria is for what goes in them? 6) Why do the gnome menus appear all in one giant column where I have to scroll (at rather slow speed) to get anywhere, while under KDE they appear in multiple columns? 7) I am stupid and erased my home icon some time ago in GNOME, but now I want to give spatial nautilus a chance. How do I get it back? Surely there must be a way to do this?

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rawhide report: 20040612 changes
by Build System 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

New package libwmf Windows Metafile Library Removed package gcc34 Updated Packages: anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040611135644 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 11 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode apr-0.9.4-15 ------------ * Thu Jun 10 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 0.9.4-15 - add support for setuid/setgid/sticky bits (André Malo) - add apr_threadattr_{guardsize,stacksize}_set() (latter by Jeff Trawick) cvs-1.11.17-2 ------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.11.17-2 - rebuild * Thu Jun 10 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.11.17-1 - update to 1.11.17, which includes those last few fixes * Fri May 28 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - add security fix for CAN-2004-0416,CAN-2004-0417,CAN-2004-0418 (Stefan Esser) db4-4.2.52-4 ------------ * Mon Jun 07 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.2.52-4 - remove dangling symlinks (#123721 et al). - remove db_cxx.so and db_tcl.so symlinks, versioned equivs exist. - apply 2 patches from sleepycat. - resurrect db4-java using sun jvm-1.4.2. - cripple autoconf sufficiently to build db4-java with gcj, without jvm. - check javac first, gcj34 next, then gcj-ssa, finally gcj. - add ed build dependency (#125180). dhcp-3.0.1rc13-1 ---------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc13-1 - Update to latest package from ISC * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc12-9 - add route back in after route up call * Wed Jun 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc12-8 - add alex's dhcp-3.0.1rc12-inherit-leases.patch patch gcc-3.4.0-4 ----------- glibc-2.3.3-31.1 ---------------- * Wed Jun 09 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-31.1 - rebuild with gcc 3.4 gnome-session-2.6.0-3 --------------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-3 - Add terminating list delimiter to OnlyShowIn entry of session-properties.desktop * Fri Apr 16 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-2 - #110725 BR automake14 autoconf gettext httpd-2.0.49-5 -------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 2.0.49-5 - remove comments about ScoreBoardFile in httpd.conf - avoid redundant name lookup in pod code - mod_headers: add %{...}s feature for using SSL variables - mod_autoindex: don't truncate output on stat() failure (#117959) - mod_ssl: fix shmcb corruption with small caches (Geoff Thorpe) - mod_ssl: security fix for overflow in FakeBasicAuth (CVE CAN-2004-0488) - mod_deflate: fix memory consumption for large responses - check that suexec is setuid root (André Malo) - worker: add ThreadStackSize (Jeff Trawick) and ThreadGuardSize directives jcode.pl-2.13-11 ---------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 2.13-11 - make noarch again (fixes #125395) - make doc into %doc - many spec fixes kernel-2.6.6-1.427 ------------------ * Thu Jun 10 2004 Arjan van de Ven - disable mlock-uses-rlimit patch, it has a security hole and needs more thought - revert airo driver to the FC2 one since the new one breaks * Tue Jun 08 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Update to 2.6.7rc3 lam-7.0.6-2 ----------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 7.0.6-2 - Build for correct libaio deps. * Wed Jun 09 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 7.0.6-1 - Really re-enable C++; import 7.0.6 from upstream libselinux-1.13.3-2 ------------------- * Sun Jun 13 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.3-2 - Fix selinux_config to break once it finds SELINUXTYPE. rpm-4.3.2-0.2 ------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 4.3.2-0.2 - lua embedded in rpmio. - use lua to identify desired selinux file context regexes. rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040612 ------------------------- setools-1.4-2 ------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4-2 - Fix install locations of policy_src_dir subversion-1.0.4-2 ------------------ * Mon Jun 07 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-2 - add ra_svn security fix for CVE CAN-2004-0413 (Ben Reser) * Fri May 28 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-1.1 - rebuild for new swig sysklogd-1.4.1-18 ----------------- * Fri Jun 11 2004 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1rh-18 - make the race for -HUP a little bit smaller system-config-netboot-0.1.3-6 ----------------------------- * Thu Jun 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.3-5 - Fix internationalization calls in pxeos and pxeboot tar-1.14-1 ---------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 1.14-1 - upgrade to 1.14. uucp-1.07-1 ----------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)jbj.org> 1.07-1 - upgrade to 1.07.

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USB CD/DVD Burner
by Eric Tanguy 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

When i hotplug my plextor cd/dvd burner i can't mount it. When I look to dmesg i can see this : usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using address 4 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: DVDR PX-708A Rev: 1.06 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 USB Mass Storage device found at 4 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 but when i try to mount with a cdrom in it: mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/archos mount: périphérique spécial /dev/sr0 n'existe pas When i try to use k3b to erase a cdrw (for example), k3b see the burner but after i have an error 255 from cdrecord. I can't see what will be the problem because it worked fine with FC1. Thanxes

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Can rpmfind.net be removed from the mirrors list ?
by Yusuf Goolamabbas 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi, If I run up2date -u on an FC2 box, sometimes it will pick up the mirror at rpmfind.net. This mirror doesn't seem to have the rpm headers in the right location. Here's a sample of the error which I've seen from the initial days of FC2 release $ sudo up2date -u http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2 using mirror: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/… http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 using mirror: http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/ There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/2/i386//headers/header.info Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found Could the list of up2date-mirrors be updated to reflect the known/working mirrors ? Regards, Yusuf -- Yusuf Goolamabbas yusufg(a)outblaze.com

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Self Introduction: Mark Johnson
by Mark Johnson 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

> 1. Full legal name > 2. Country, City > 3. Profession or Student status > 4. Company or School Mark Richard Johnson US, Carrboro NC Profession: Technical Writer Red Hat, Inc. > 5. Your goals in the Fedora Project > > * Which packages do you want to see published? I would like to provide and maintain the following (mostly DocBook-related) packages for Fedora: - docbook-html-forms - docbook-jrefentry - docbook-mathml - docbook-simple - docbook-slides - docbook-slides-demo - docbook-website - mathml-dtds - html-dtds-4.01 I package and maintain all of the above (except for html-4.01) for the Debian Project, so I could do many of the updates/bug fixes on both Fedora & Debian packages at the same time. Timeframe: a month or so. > * Do you want to do QA? I'd like to, but I simply don't have the time. > * Anything else special? Nope. > 6. Historical qualifications > > * What other projects have you worked on in the past? I've been a Debian developer for about five years now, mostly concentrating on packaging XML & SGML resources. I also serve as editor/author of the Debian XML and SGML policies. [1,2] In particular, I worked closely with a number of Debian XML/SGML developers on the design & implementation of fully standards-compliant XML catalog system, complete with packaging tools that simplify the registration of XML resources in the Debian XML catalog system. I also serve as the official Debian delegate to OASIS [3] - the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards - where I serve on both the DocBook Technical Committee and the Entity Resolution Technical Committee. The latter being the body that developed the XML Catalogs specification. [4] I'm a member of the DocBook Open Repository at Sourceforge, though have been largely inactive lately due to other committments. I was also involved in a project to form a FreeStandards [5] LSB [6] Workgroup tasked with developing XML & SGML modules for the LSB Standard. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground due to a lack of funding. If necessary, I can provide links to many of the documents associated with the project, and to the mailing list archives, as well. > * What computer languages and other skills do you know? I'm very familiar with authoring documents in DocBook, and have developed a package [7] that turns GNU Emacs into a very user-friendly XML/SGML editing environment. The package is meant to make it easy for new Emacs users to quickly get up to speed writing in DocBook. I have a page of links [8] to some of the docs/stuff I've worked on/written. > * Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt? For a number of reasons: - I'm a well-established member of the free software/open source development community. (Google me and XML.) - I work for Red Hat, Inc., and so it's in my own best interest to make a positive contribution to the Fedora project. > 7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint > > * Be sure that your GPG key is uploaded to pgp.mit.edu. Done. > * Your GPG fingerprint mjohnson$ gpg --fingerprint C07DE242 pub 1024D/C07DE242 2003-11-26 Mark Johnson (harco) <mrj(a)debian.org> Key fingerprint = DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242 sub 1024g/FCE2BA69 2003-11-26 Thanks, Mark References: [1] http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/xml-policy/ [2] http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/sgml-policy/ [3] http://www.oasis-open.org [4] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/4952/wd-entity-xml-catalo… [5] http://www.freestandards.org [6] http://www.linuxbase.org [7] http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/psgmlx [8] http://www.duke.edu/~mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Mark Johnson <mjohnson(a)redhat.com> Red Hat Documentation Group <http://www.redhat.com> Tel: 919.754.4151 Fax: 919.754.3708 GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242

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kernel 2.6.6-1.427, usb burner and k3b
by Eric Tanguy 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

i update kernel to 2.6.6-1.427 to make my usb burner working and it's ok except that it seems that i have to run cdrecord and k3b as root to have the right to burn. How to enable user burning ?? Thanxes

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patch for dhclient-script
by Brian Millett 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

For what its worth, I noticed that with the rawhide update on Sat, June 12, the dchp client no longer routed. I determined that before dhclient-script finished, there were two entries for default: default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 But then when dhclient-script would finish, the default gw for 192.168.0.1 world be deleted leaving only the * default gateway. The following patch resolves this, but I do not know it it messes other things. diff -wruN /tmp/sbin/dhclient-script dhclient-script --- /tmp/sbin/dhclient-script 2004-06-12 16:31:29.000000000 -0500 +++ dhclient-script 2004-06-13 12:11:56.000000000 -0500 @@ -128,12 +128,14 @@ elif [ $relmajor -lt 2 ] || ( [ $relmajor -eq 2 ] && [ $relminor -eq 0 ] ) then ifconfig $interface inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 \ broadcast 255.255.255.255 up + #Add route to make broadcast work. Do not omit netmask. + route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 else ifconfig $interface 0 up fi # Add route to make broadcast work. Do not omit netmask. - route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 + #route add default dev $interface netmask 0.0.0.0 # We need to give the kernel some time to get the interface up. sleep 1 -- Brian Millett Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms (314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds." bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn

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packaging installed documentation
by Shahms King 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

Are there any guidelines on how to deal with "extra" documentation installed by a package? I'm thinking specifically of newer versions of gtkmm which install documentation in /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-$major.$minor manually. Is it better form to just leave it where it is and use an absolute %doc reference or move it back to the source tree and use a relative reference so RPM puts it in /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}-%{release} ? -- Shahms King <shahms(a)shahms.com>

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/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is not a symbolic link ?
by Lars G 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

hi devs after updating rawhide 20040612 i get this error with ldconfig. /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is not a symbolic link best lars

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init patch
by Russell Coker 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

I've been having some problems with the init patch for SE Linux. Firstly it seems that L_VB is not the correct option for calls to log() as syslogd is not started at that stage. L_VB expands to (L_CO|L_SY) where L_CO (for console logging) is all that's required. For reasons that I have not determined console logging doesn't seem to work. But it seems to me that log(L_CO, ... isn't the right way to go either. As the code in question will be run by init at first startup when the kernel will already have stdout pointing to /dev/console, why not just use printf() to display log messages? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page

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Automake in FC2
by Sam Varshavchik 12 Jun '04

12 Jun '04

aclocal in automake 1.8 is very noisy: /usr/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK /usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB /usr/share/aclocal/gdk-pixbuf.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GDK_PIXBUF /usr/share/aclocal/gconf-2.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 /usr/share/aclocal/gconf-1.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GCONF Plenty more of the same. Should this be bugzillaed against each package that installs these macros?

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Grub + DualBoot + ChainLoader
by Morteza A. Nia 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

I was installed FC2 on my PC (HDD with one Disk) , 1 month ago , but on my friends' pc ( HDD with 2 disks) the Grub use chainloader for M$ WindowsXP but it couldn't load WindowsXP by chainloder. and did not know chainloader command on hda , .. ( else hda ). if you know, so help me! ;) Tanx. Morteza A. Nia

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Static routes. a default static-routes file.
by Naoki 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi all, I'm thinking we should have an /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file with some commented examples as default. Anybody agree or am I silly? -n.

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update etiquette
by Steven Pritchard 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

What's the right way to get an update into FC1? Bugzilla(.redhat.com) a polite request? Submit an update to fedora.us? One of the packages I'm working on for fedora.us (perl-Cache-Cache, required by perl-HTML-Mason) asks for Digest::SHA1 >= 2.02, and the current version in FC1 is 2.01. (The current upstream version is 2.10, which appears to have a lot of bugfixes, including one that seems to remove the necessity for perl-Digest-SHA1-utf8.patch.) In this case, it's a fairly trivial package, but I have a feeling this will come up again... Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve(a)kspei.com http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320

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Dovecot and mailbox eating
by Alan Cox 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Our current dovecot is 0.99.10.4 The author writes: | Released 0.99.10.5 version. Most importantly fixes mbox corruption in | certain situations, hopefully it was the only one. Fixes other non-mbox | problems as well, so this is a recommended upgrade. Only new feature is | MySQL authentication. is anyone looking at/packaging .5 given .4 corrupts mailboxes ?

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samba 3.0.3-5 bug...?
by MG 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi! I think the samba 3.0.3-5 has a bug in FC2. The simple share cannot work. My smb.conf: # ------------------------------ [global] username map = /etc/samba/smbusers server string = SAMBA host password server = None security = share workgroup = group client code page = 852 character set = ISO8859-2 hosts allow = 192.168.21. public = yes browseable = yes [Install] comment = Install path = /mnt/hda4/Install public = yes browseable = yes # ------------------------------ The win9x clients cannot browse the "Install" share, because samba asks the password. Why? :O It write nobody user and password the smbpasswd file. If I remove the nobody entry from smbpasswd, then after next start samba write it back in smbpasswd. In FC1 it was not problem. :( Why does samba ask the password while the share is public(!)?? Bye! Gabor

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samba-3.0.4-1.FC1 update printing bug
by Aurelien Bompard 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi all The new version from FC1 updates broke the printing system on my PDC. I use the following setting : print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -o raw %s With drivers on the clients. With the update, the printer was just spitting raw Postscript characters. Reverting to samba-3.0.0-15 fixed it. The printer is an HP Laserjet 4100M. If you need any more info, I'd be glad to help. Aurélien -- http://gauret.free.fr ~~~~ Jabber : gauret(a)amessage.info "Penser est facile, agir est difficile, mais agir selon sa pensée est ce qu'il y a au monde de plus difficile" -- Leonard de Vinci

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CPAN spec file generator needs testing, feedback
by Steven Pritchard 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

I've mentioned here before that I've written a script to build "correct" (in other words, "will pass QA") spec files for perl modules. Thanks to José Pedro Oliveira, the output of the script is now *very* close to the "official" fedora.us spec template. The script seems useful enough that I'd really like some more feedback on it. It can be found here: http://www.silug.org/~steve/software/scripts/perl/cpanspec Besides trying to be correct, the script *tries* to automatically determine BuildRequires, BuildArch, package description, and which files are documentation. The generated spec files *will* have to be edited, but hopefully only slightly. Some notes: * Since there doesn't seem to be a way to guess the license, the script now uses the string "CHECK(GPL or Artistic)" so that rpmlint will complain and remind the packager/reviewer to actually verify the license. * The template includes BuildRequires: perl >= 1:5.6.1 I've left that out because I see any reason to clutter up fedora.us packages with cruft for unsupported releases. If anyone feels strongly that I'm wrong here, please let me know why. * The template includes chmod -R u+w $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/* I've gone a step further and made that "u+rwX,go+rX,go-w". IMHO, if we're going to touch each file, we may as well *really* touch each file. ;-) Again, if anyone thinks I'm wrong, please tell me why... * The description is reformatted using Text::Autoformat. If you want to test the script, perhaps this would be a good excuse to QA my perl-Text-Autoformat package. :-) https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1354 Otherwise, you can comment out a couple of lines (the "use" line and the one that calls autoformat()). Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve(a)kspei.com http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320

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rawhide report: 20040611 changes
by Build System 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

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proposal: best practices for cron jobs in RPM packages
by Florin Andrei 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

(sorry for the cross-post, but the potential audience for the proposal is quite large) (i'll start with a particular case, then develop the issue towards more general aspects) I'm looking at the clamav-db-0.72-1.1.fc2.dag package. It's pretty cleanly built (which is a feature of that entire repository, kudos to Dag Wieers!), however, my pet peeve with it is the freshclam cron job. By default, the package relies on the /etc/cron.daily/freshclam script to perform the update. That means the job is run whenever the cron.daily job is set to. FC2 by default sets cron.daily to run at 04:02 AM every day. Due to timezone dispersion, the clamav-db users of Dag's repository will run that cron job pretty much around the clock, but still all of them will run it at XX:02 - two minutes after :00 each hour. Yet still probably most of them are in timezone bunches: Northern America (3 timezones), Europe (about 2), parts of Asia (2...3 timezones) so the timezone dispersion is perhaps not as even as it seems. This will create artificial spikes on the ClamAV servers, making it more difficult for the ClamAV team to continue to provide the free service to the community. The problem is yet more alleviated somehow by the fact that database.clamav.net is a distributed database. Still the load spike problem still remains (it's just not as big). The solution to it is to spread the load created by all those .dag.i386.rpm users even further. However, changing the schedule of a job in /etc/cron.daily cannot be done by the sysadmin without affecting all other jobs in that directory. I think i have an improvement. Why use a file in /etc/cron.daily which has all those disadvantages (creates load spikes worldwide, it's hard to change) and not just stick a file in /etc/cron.d ? After all, that's what the FC2 MRTG package does, and it does it successfully. It's much easier to change: each file in /etc/cron.d can be adjusted to its own schedule. It's a lot more fine-grained: a sysadmin could configure it to run every hour, every half an hour, every 5 minutes on Fridays 13th or other weird combinations. Better yet, the %postinstall RPM macro could go ahead and fill up upon install a random 0...59 value for the minutes field and a random 0...23 value for the hour field, this way making things a lot easier for the ClamAV database servers. In fact, /etc/cron.d seems to be the ideal spot to stick cron jobs for RPM packages. There are very few applications that need cron jobs to be run exactly once a day/week/month in every conceivable situation, and most of those are actually within tightly interlocked sequences such as: run logwatch/webalizer first, then anacron, then finally logrotate. So, what i'm saying is, perhaps the authors of custom RPM packages (and even the non-custom ones, the ones included with the distribution) should use more aggresively /etc/cron.d to run the cron jobs for their packages. You get more flexibility, ease of administration, more intelligent behaviour of the system overall (see the automatic randomization of the schedule after installing the package). /etc/cron.daily confines the packages to quite tight limits; sometimes that's good (see above mention about cron sequences) but i believe it's usually not optimal. Sure, the sysadmin can change everything in a package, including the ways cron jobs are set. But, as i painfully noticed after upgrading my home server to FC2, the more you deviate from the trodden path, the more work you end up doing. Note: I believe (but i'm not sure) that crond must be notified after adding/removing a file to/from /etc/cron.d - if that's true, then any package adding/removing a script to/from /etc/cron.d should do a "service cron reload" in the %postinstall and %postun macros. That's not hard and it's actually an elegant solution. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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rawhide report: 20040608 changes
by Build System 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Updated Packages: ash-0.3.8-19 ------------ * Mon Jun 07 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 0.3.8-19 - Remove alpha-specific hacks; no longer necessary + cause builds to break. cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-4 ------------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.1.18-4 - enable sql auxprop support in a subpackage - include LDAP_SASLAUTHD documentation file (#124830) * Fri Jun 04 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - turn on ntlm devlabel-0.48.03-1 ------------------ dietlibc-0.25-2 --------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.25-2 - use old qsort implementation, it was faster for our purposes * Wed May 26 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.25-1 - update to 0.25 krb5-1.3.3-8 ------------ * Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.3.3-8 - rebuild * Fri Jun 04 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.3.3-7 - rebuild * Fri Jun 04 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.3.3-6 - apply updated patch from MITKRB5-SA-2004-001 (revision 2004-06-02) nss_ldap-220-1 -------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 220-1 - update to 220, pam_ldap 169 * Thu Apr 15 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> - fail at build-time if the modules produced can't be loaded - fix missing module in pam_ldap build openssh-3.8.1p1-1 ----------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.8.1p1-1 - request gssapi-with-mic by default but not delegation (flag day for anyone who used previous gssapi patches) - no longer request x11 forwarding by default openssl-0.9.7a-37 ----------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 0.9.7a-37 - build for linux-alpha-gcc instead of alpha-gcc on alpha (Jeff Garzik) rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040608 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.4-2 ------------------------------ * Mon Jun 07 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-2 - Add most of Russell's mods * Mon Jun 07 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-1 - Handle newrole changes for new design - Update to latest from NSA selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.4-2 -------------------------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-2 - Apply allot of Russell's mods * Mon Jun 07 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.4-1 - Handle newrole changes for new design - Update to latest from NSA subversion-1.0.4-1 ------------------ * Sat May 22 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.4-1 - update to 1.0.4 * Fri May 21 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.3-2 - build /usr/bin/* as PIEs - add fix for libsvn_client symbol namespace violation (r9608) * Wed May 19 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.3-1 - update to 1.0.3

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Multiple LUN support?
by Hugh Caley 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Is Fedora still distributed without multiple LUN support by default? If so, I wonder what the advantage is to that? Hugh -- Hugh Caley | Unix Systems Administrator | CIS AFFYMETRIX, INC. | 6550 Vallejo St. Ste 100 | Emeryville, CA 94608 Tel: 510-428-8537 | Hugh_Caley(a)affymetrix.com

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syslog snafu
by Richard Hally 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

What has happened to syslog? below is the tail of /var/log/messages. This is with kernel-2.6.6-1.422 and everything updated to the current /devel. I have tried both enforcing and permissive modes and rebooted, relabeled and still do not get anything but the date-time and hostname. It's somewhat difficult to work on SELinux without messages! Thanks for any help, Richard Hally Jun 8 23:51:49 new2 ntpd[2486]: synchronized to 209.132.176.4, stratum=1 Jun 8 23:59:21 new2 ntpd[2486]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 Jun 9 00:02:34 new2 ntpd[2486]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 Jun 9 02:16:46 new2 su(pam_unix)[3648]: session closed for user root Jun 9 03:44:41 new2 su(pam_unix)[3909]: session opened for user root by richard(uid=500) Jun 9 15:00:22 new2 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jun 9 15:00:22 new2 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Jun 9 15:00:24 new2 syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded Jun 9 15:00:24 new2 exiting on signal 15 Jun 9 15:00:25 new2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 9 15:00:25 new2 Jun 9 15:00:25 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 9 15:00:27 new2 Jun 10 03:16:10 new2 Jun 10 03:19:38 new2 last message repeated 20 times Jun 10 03:31:56 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 10 03:33:38 new2 last message repeated 11 times Jun 10 03:36:13 new2 Jun 10 03:36:14 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 10 03:36:14 new2 exiting on signal 15 Jun 10 03:36:14 new2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 10 03:36:14 new2 Jun 10 03:36:14 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 10 03:36:17 new2 Jun 10 03:37:12 new2 Jun 10 03:40:08 new2 last message repeated 30 times Jun 10 03:40:45 new2 last message repeated 9 times Jun 10 03:40:46 new2 Jun 10 03:40:46 new2 Jun 10 03:40:54 new2 last message repeated 21 times Jun 10 03:40:54 new2 Jun 10 03:40:54 new2 Jun 10 03:40:54 new2 Jun 10 03:40:58 new2 last message repeated 17 times Jun 10 03:40:58 new2 exiting on signal 15 Jun 10 03:42:31 new2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 10 03:42:31 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 last message repeated 331 times Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 last message repeated 7 times Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:42:33 new2 Jun 10 03:43:16 new2 last message repeated 194 times Jun 10 03:46:58 new2 last message repeated 13 times Jun 10 03:49:32 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 10 03:49:33 new2 last message repeated 2 times Jun 10 03:49:33 new2 Jun 10 03:49:33 new2 Jun 10 03:50:12 new2 last message repeated 11 times Jun 10 03:50:50 new2 last message repeated 31 times Jun 10 03:50:50 new2 Jun 10 03:50:50 new2 Jun 10 03:50:51 new2 last message repeated 6 times Jun 10 03:50:51 new2 Jun 10 03:50:51 new2 Jun 10 03:50:51 new2 Jun 10 03:50:54 new2 last message repeated 17 times Jun 10 03:50:54 new2 exiting on signal 15 Jun 10 04:03:27 new2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 10 04:03:27 new2 Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 last message repeated 308 times Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 last message repeated 6 times Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 Jun 10 04:03:28 new2 Jun 10 04:03:29 new2 Jun 10 04:03:29 new2 Jun 10 04:03:30 new2 Jun 10 04:04:15 new2 last message repeated 175 times Jun 10 04:07:53 new2 last message repeated 15 times Jun 10 04:10:49 new2 Jun 10 04:11:11 new2 last message repeated 9 times Jun 10 04:11:11 new2 Jun 10 04:11:11 new2 Jun 10 04:11:12 new2 last message repeated 6 times Jun 10 04:11:12 new2 Jun 10 04:11:12 new2 Jun 10 04:11:12 new2 Jun 10 04:11:15 new2 last message repeated 17 times Jun 10 04:11:15 new2 exiting on signal 15 Jun 10 04:12:41 new2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 10 04:12:41 new2 Jun 10 04:12:41 new2 last message repeated 245 times Jun 10 04:12:42 new2 Jun 10 04:12:42 new2 last message repeated 5 times Jun 10 04:12:42 new2 Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 last message repeated 5 times Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 last message repeated 6 times Jun 10 04:12:43 new2 Jun 10 04:13:29 new2 last message repeated 94 times Jun 10 04:13:37 new2 last message repeated 8 times Jun 10 04:13:37 new2 Jun 10 04:13:38 new2 Jun 10 04:13:46 new2 last message repeated 12 times Jun 10 04:13:55 new2 Jun 10 04:14:17 new2 Jun 10 04:17:10 new2 [root@new2 log]#

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xorg and IBM Thinkpad T30
by Hetz Ben Hamo 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi, I'm using FC2 with IBM Thinkpad T30, and so far it works great with xorg version of X11. However, when I'm using the docking port and booting the T30 without opening it, I get a 640x480 resolution on my CRT, no matter how much I fiddle with xorg.conf.. Anyone on the list had this problem? it only happends when the machine is closed and powered from the docking port... Thanks, Hetz

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X not starting with intel 845 graphics
by Mountz, Charles 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Can't start X on Dell GX260 with intel 845 graphics card, any ideas?

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Self-Introduction: Alan Olsen
by Alan 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Name: Alan Olsen City: Portland, Oregon, USA Profession: Systems Administrator/Programmer Company or School: King Cycle Group Your goals in the Fedora Project: Making Fedora work. Adding packages that I find useful. Fixing problems so it "just works". Which packages do you want to see published? I will have to dig out my list... par2cmdline, various backgrounds and art packages, a handful of security packages, and whatever else I find useful that do not exist in the various repositories. Do you want to do QA? Yes. I am writing a few tools to automate some of that process. (Automatic cross-repository conflict resolution.) Anything else special? I have some design ideas that I will be writing soon. Some ideas to make the installed a little more useful and a little less braindead. Historical qualifications I worked on the distribution builds for early versions of Immunix 7.3, as well as security patches and other distribution related work. I am an active contributor to the Fedora lists, among other things. What other projects have you worked on in the past? Immunix. I have contributed patches to other projects, including the kernel. I used to be the admin for perl.org. (I administered 18+ mailing lists there, including perl5-porters.) What computer languages and other skills do you know? C, C++, Perl, some Python, shell scripting, some assembly and whatever else I need to know for any given project. Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt? Because I don't know where you live? You need references? I can get a few... (But then again, they may need references as well...) GPG KEYID and fingerprintpub 1024D/E482605D 2004-05-04 Alan Olsen <alan(a)clueserver.org> Key fingerprint = FB1D 5AED 27C1 7202 86E8 6F2F 38FB EE80 E482 605D sub 2048g/94D56BDF 2004-05-04 -- Alan <alan(a)clueserver.org>

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Re: X not starting with intel 845 graphics
by j.mwebb＠comcast.net 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Check out the bios setting in the Dell, and increase the memory size. > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

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Re: Shrinking/splitting up core -- New tag, instead of modifying Core
by Bryan Smith 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

William Riede wrote: > Understood. But for that to start happening for applications that are > now part of the standard distribution, but wouldn't be in a slimmed > down core is a major setback in my opinion. I can only see the > downside of reducing core, no upside. > I guess I'll just have to agree to disagree with those that hold the > opposite view. And I agree. That's why I was advocating that Fedora "Core" _not_ be touched. But we create a new "tag" and give people the option to start from there. Instead of doing #1 in this post: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00295.html I saw we don't touch Fedora "Core." We just create something anew, but leave "Core" for compatibility. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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rawhide report: 20040609 changes
by Build System 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

New package ecj Eclipse Compiler for Java New package numactl library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines Removed package python-optik Updated Packages: anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040609011809 -------------------------------- * Wed Jun 09 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode cdrdao-1.1.9-1 -------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.9-1 - version 1.1.9 cdrtools-2.01-0.a27.5 --------------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 8:2.01-0.a27.5 - added privacy patch - added second utf8 patch - added type patch - removed silly warnings * Fri May 07 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 8:2.01-0.a27.4 - oops, wrong version in dvdrecord Obsoletes dhcp-3.0.1rc12-7 ---------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0.1rc12-7 - set device on default gateway route gaim-0.78-7 ----------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.78-7 - CVS backport 125: MSN disconnect on non-fatal error fix 126: Paste html with img crash fix 127: Misplaced free fix gettext-0.14.1-6 ---------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Leon Ho <llch(a)redhat.com> - use --without-included-gettext to avoid the need of libintl.so (#125497) - remove preloadable_libintl.so ltrace-0.3.32-3 --------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 0.3.32-3 - buildreq elfutils-libelf-devel (#124921) mutt-1.4.1-7 ------------ * Tue Jun 08 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 5:1.4.1-7 - link urlview against ncursesw (fixes #125530, indirectly) openmotif-2.2.3-3 ----------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 2.2.3-3 - fixed popup menus fail on Tarantella/VNC (#123027) - fixed character not supported problem (#124960) - fixed data out of bounds bug (#124961) python-2.3.4-3 -------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-3 - Added an optik.py that provides the same interface from optparse for backward compatibility; obsoleting python-optik rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040609 ------------------------- squirrelmail-1.4.3-1 -------------------- * Mon Jun 07 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> 1.4.3-1 - upgrade to 1.4.3a. - retain stuff after version when adding release to it. * Wed Jun 02 2004 Gary Benson <gbenson(a)redhat.com> - upgrade to 1.4.3. sysklogd-1.4.1-17 ----------------- * Wed Jun 09 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1rh-17 - don't escape UTF-8 (#89292, #71170, #112519) udev-026-3 ---------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 026-3 - fixed UDEV_REMOVE=no * Tue Jun 08 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 026-2 - udev-026 - preserve ownership of device nodes, which already exist - do not remove device nodes if UDEV_REMOVE="no" - added volume_id - build with klibc * Wed May 26 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 025-1 - udev-025 - added ata_identify - build nearly all with dietlibc unzip-5.51-1.1 -------------- * Tue Jun 08 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 5.51-1.1 - Update to 5.51; remove dotdot patch.

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Re: Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel? -- not "lite" (386/486 @ 400MHz+, 256MB RAM)
by Bryan Smith 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > i386 still being around would be a reason to not even bump the minimum > architecture to i486. But I am not sure if Fedora/RHEL would be the > proper distributions to put on such devices. I'd assume the main > packages (kernel and glibc) need to be rebuild (or replaced in the > case of glibc) for such devices anyway, looking at their size... Ever seen a i386/486 core running at 400MHz? With 256MB of RAM? And a 20GB disk? I think the thing I'm having trouble conveying here is that there are literally dozens of companies selling systems just like this. Modern speeds, moderately sized memory and disk, with a low-power, "system-on-a-chip" that is a i386/486 core. This isn't about a "lite" distro. These systems have the "performance/resources" covered. We're not talking about memory, disk or performance limitations. We're talking about ISA compatibility. You don't hear about it because you don't see it. But there are black box solutions out there (millions). And it's much nicer if a distro supports them out-of-the-box. I'm not talking a "lite" distro. I'm talking about a i686 optimized distro that runs on i386 ISA. Heck, those i386/486 cores are pretty optimized themselves. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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Bad WindowMaker patch in use; correction attached
by Alexey Spiridonov 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hello, Alex Perez, a GNUstep package maintainer, brought to my attention that the WindowMaker packages distributed on www.fedora.us use an old and _broken_ version of my GTK2 patches. This is probably due to the fact that my corrected patch was missed and not merged into CVS (and still isn't...), and has happened through no fault of Fedora developers. In the meantime, I've been running with the corrected patch for around 8 months with essentially no problems; I know for a fact the previous one had many annoying focus bugs. To help out Alex (as he was worried about that Fedora was using), I made a backport of the correct patch against 0.80.2; it is attached. I hope you find it useful. Below is my letter to Alex. *** Hi Alex, The attached patch *should* work quite well for fixing 0.80.2's focus problems. I say "should" because it's a straight backport of the patch that works well for CVS, and I haven't tested it very long. The "timidity -im" Open dialog doesn't get focused properly yet, but all other Motif transients I've found do. There will be an update if I am able to find what's wrong in that case. Please let me know if you have trouble. Best regards, Alexey

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S3 sleep with kernel 422 and ATI Radeon problem
by Philip Balister 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

On my Dell D600 and the 422 kernel I can suspend and resume my laptop. (After unloading some USB stuff). However when I resume the video display shows only coloured vertical lines and the backlight slowly increases in brightness. I have seen references to some patches to help Radeon video cards return from sleep. DO I need to find these and apply them somewhere to make S3 work? I am guessing I resumed because C-A-D will reboot the laptop. Video card is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02) Thanks, Philip

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Re: P2 CPU "class, " but 386/486 ISA "core" are commonplace -- AMD5x86 = 486 ISA
by Bryan Smith 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Cyrix had the same issues. Not only was the Cyrix 5x86 also only a 486 > ISA, but the 6x86 through P200+ (150MHz) was _still_ a 486 ISA. Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi Bryan, > FYI P200+ = 166 MHz. Not the original Cyrix 6x86. They all had a fixed 2.0x multiplier. 55MHz * 2 = 110MHz (P133+) 60MHz * 2 = 120MHz (P150+) 66MHz * 2 = 133MHz (P166+) 75MHz * 2 = 166MHz (P200+) Yes, the original Cyrix 6x86-P200+ ran the PCI and ATA beyond spec, or at async on select chipsets. The latter 6x86"L" and M2s stuck with a 66MHz FSB, including for the P200+. I believe they were 66MHz * 2.5x. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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v4l2 driver parameters
by Eric Tanguy 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

I try to set some parameters for v4l2 by defauly such as normid, audio mode, ... I think it's possible to set their in /etc/modeprobe.conf but i don't know exactly how. Could you help me ?? Thanks Eric

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Status and outlook of LSB and FHS compliance of Fedora.
by Phil Knirsch 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hi folks. I've been looking at how well Fedora is compliant with the latest LSB and FHS specifications lately. I came up with a small list of packages that, due to the change in the latest FHS-2.3 and the addition of /srv and /media would seem likely candidates for partiall data migration to /srv: bind arpwatch mailman krb5-server httpd tomcat htdig openldap mysql namazu inn postgresql webalizer vsftpd Quite a few of those packages could keep their data in /var as their are either minor packages or uncritical in general. Only bind, httpd and vsftpd are the really imporant packages with lots of data. Bind will stay where it is mainly for historical reasons as everyone excpects /var/named to exist and contain all the important bind configuration and data. That only leaves vsftpd and httpd. The problem with those packages is how to ensure and guarantee a 100% safe data migration of data during an upgrade. For that reason we probably will keep them where they are for now, too. For httpd it would also probably brake quite a few 3rd party applications that either directly write to /var/www/html or which do some other work with /var/www and expect it to be there as currently. So mainly for historical and data migration reasons we have decided to only provide /media and /srv for FHS-2.3 compliant applications in the near future but won't move any of the existing package data there for now. Hope this explains a little our reasoning and motivations related to and concerning the LSB/FHS and where we stand and want to go in the future. Any comments/concerns/ideas/flamewars are, as always very welcome. :-) Read ya, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Development | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <phil(a)redhat.de> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.

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Dropping python-optik?
by Mihai Ibanescu 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hello, As of python 2.3, Optik is included in the mainline python (although it's called optparse now). Fedora currently ships python 2.3.3 (2.3.4 in rawhide), so we may consider dropping the python-optik package. If we are to do this, the main python package would have to obsolete python-optik and have a virtual provides for python-optik; but then again, if your script worked with optik it would have to adjust its imports to use optparse instead. So it's quite messy. Any preference on how to handle this? Drop the package and deal with the mess? Keep the package and deal with the mess? :-) Cheers, Misa

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Re: P2 CPU "class, " but 386/486 ISA "core" are commonplace -- embedded developers use what they know ...
by Bryan Smith 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Although a very simplistic viewpoint, eWeek's Peter Coffee pointed out this exact phenomenon: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1607953,00.asp Far too many times, developers plunk a full, desktop-level OS on embedded systems _when_ the have the CPU, memory and disk resources to run it. As an engineer who worked years in this industry, I can tell you this with certainty. That's why many projects just opt for the extra goodies in an embedded board -- so they can run a full-up OS. So, again, I re-iterate that Fedora Core should continue to be at least an i486 ISA compatible distro. To keep engineering support at a minimum on embedded platforms that have the power and resources to run a full distro. It's more than just install-time, but service-time too. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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Re: P2 CPU "class, " but 386/486 ISA "core" are commonplace -- AMD5x86 = 486 ISA
by Bryan Smith 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Per Bjornsson wrote: > Pentium = 586 obviously. I like to refer to it as the Pentium ISA. The "586" moniker can be marketing-based. > Also a 586: > "The ÉlanSC520 microcontroller combines a 32-bit, low-voltage Am5x86 > CPU with a complete set of integrated peripherals..." No. The AMD 5x86 is a 486 _ISA_. The name "586" is _marketing_. Understand that the AMD 5x86 _is_ the AMD 486 with some performance tweaks (FSB, speed, cache, etc...). It's a 486 _ISA_. The AMD 5x86 _pre-dates_ the K5. It was always debated if the K5 was Pentium or 486 ISA. It seemed thave some issues with some Pentium instructions. The K5 redesign, or those with more than a 120MHz "rating" -- wasn't actual speed, were based on the 2nd generation NexGen Nx586 with FPU. The original NexGen Nx586 was a 4-issue i386 if you can believe that! I believe these latter K5s were i486 ISA with most Pentium ISA compatibility. [ NexGen's RISC86 sub-ISA core is at the heart of all current AMD processors ] It actually wasn't until the AMD K6 that it was fully Pentium ISA compatible. Cyrix had the same issues. Not only was the Cyrix 5x86 also only a 486 ISA, but the 6x86 through P200+ (150MHz) was _still_ a 486 ISA. I don't think it was until the "L" version or the "M2" that Cyrix made it to full Pentium ISA compliance. > Basically I think that I'm more or less agreeing with you: Fedora > shouldn't dump old ISAs unless there is a real, tangible gain; moving > beyond 486 doesn't really seems to give us that. Where we differ is > that I think that ignoring the 386 by explicitly using NPTL is a good > idea and very much in line with the Fedora goals. If NPTL require an 486 ISA, then a 486 ISA should be the standard, I'll concede. There are various segmenting/table paging issues that I understand even the 386 MMU doesn't handle. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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RE: QA Application XML save formats.
by Toshio Kuratomi 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

> Sorry I haven't been following your qa-assistant very closely, I don't run > X most of the time. I did download the rpm from sourceforge, and took a look > at it. I'm assuming that version doesn't know how to save the .xml files you > referred to? > Yes. I wanted to get some feedback on the XML save format before releasing something that has a format that's just going to be changed in the next version. I've put up a snapshot of my current tree here (using the current DTD): http://qa-assistant.sf.net/snaps/ It has "save as" functionality but loading is currently broken. > Since you have taken the time to encapsulate the checklist as an XML file, > I think we should all start adopting THAT as the canonical reference, > including going so far as to write an xslt sheet to render it as html and > posting it on the website. > > I've created a first round xslt stylesheet, which can see the results of at > http://www.ilsw.com/~erik/fedoraus.xml > > The xslt stylesheet is at > http://www.ilsw.com/~erik/checklist.xsl > I like that idea alot. Your stylesheet is nice too. The text of the various entries could use some going over by others since they're currently just my interpretation of the wiki and a few other non-controversial suggestions. They could probably do with a bit of reformatting as well as I didn't anticipate them being displayed on a web page. > I also spent some time thinking about how to integrate our code. I'm going to > throw out an idea here, and you can see what you think. If you look at the > changes I made to the first couple of entries in fedoraus.xml, you can see I > added a <script> section, with some simple code in it. My thought is that the > best way to enforce a policy is to put the code to do it in the same place as > the policy definition, aka the checklist definition. > This is a great plan. I've been trying to think of the best way to add automated checking into QA Assistant and this definitely beats the pants off of anything I was thinking of. I'd call it <test> instead of <script> as that's more specific to what we're doing but the idea seems very sound. I'd like to integrate some sort of signature on the checklist though. That way people can tell they're about to execute a script that's part of an official Fedora Checklist, Michael Schwendt's Alternate Fedora Checklist, or Vader's Join The Darkside Luke Checklist. Not sure the best way to achieve this so the programs that utilize the checklist can check it, though. > I also created a simple python script to walk through the checklist, find the > scripts, and run them. With some tweaking, I think it could work admirably > both for an unattended checker, or integrated into a gui like yours. The > script is at http://www.ilsw.com/~erik/runchecklist.py > > Outstanding issues: > We need to agree on a way to define input parameters to pass into scripts, > ie things like a gpg keyring file, or the srpm filename, or ??? You can see > I started doing this, but I haven't finished the job by any means. > Do we want to allow different scripting languages to be used? For most scripting languages we could write the variables directly into the scriptlets. Alternately we could pass them as environment variables and have the script (or shell wrapper) compose them. Using these methods we don't need to worry about the order of the arguments, just what they are named. What things would it be okay for the scriptlet to ask for? Somehow the program either has to know or ask the user to supply the information the script wants in the first place. Should we have <param name="srpm_filename" query="What is the SRPM filename?"> so the program can supply srpm_filename if it already knows it or query the user for it when the script runs? > We need to agree on an output method. I think the easy way to do it is by > mapping return codes to states like I show in the example, or taking the > entire textual output of the program and matching it to a state name. We can > do both, they're both easy. > Return value is good for most things but sometimes the scriptlet could return a better output message than the program would otherwise. I don't want to teach the program what to do for each individual case in the checklist, however. Should we have a tag specify if it returns a message? <message>True</message> Should such scripts output the message as the last line? (We could have all scriptlets be in python and run them in-process so we can retrieve complex return values directly....) > Other comments: > I'm not sure I entirely understand the difference between qasave.dtd and > checklist.dtd. My personal preference is to generate the qasave dtd (xml > schema would be better) and xml directly from the checklist xml. Then there > is 1 and only 1 definition of the policy, description, and storage format. > Could definitely be done. Frugality of disk space led me to define two separate formats but now that I've implemented it once I think it adds unnecessary complexity. My thought on creating one format are that we'd have a base checklist that merged the checklist.dtd and qasave.dtd information together. The resolution would be set to 'Needs-Reviewing' for all entries. When a program ran through a checklist and wanted to save state it would write out a complete checklist file that was based on the original but with changes where the user changed states, edited the output message for a review item, etc. The properties element could use some reworking here as well. The base checklist could specify the properties the checklist supports and the type each is. [Thought: perhaps all input that the scriptlets could use should be a checklist property. Are there times when a scriptlet would need to know something that wasn't a property? gpg keyring is really a program preference for instance... I'd store preferences in GConf and the scriplets could extract it... but you might not want the command line script to need GConf (GConf isn't graphical, but it isn't something you expect a standard command-line app to need....)] > I think the checklist probably needs to carry more of the policy information > we've argued about (and not decided on) with it. IE I'd like for each entry > to have a "class" or something indicating if it was a Blocker, Non-Blocker, > Important, or Cosmetic only. > Each checklist item has a list of allowable resolution states: Needs-Reviewing, Pass, Fail, Non-Blocker, Not-Applicable. Each item must have Pass and Needs-Reviewing. Depending on whether I thought the item was definitively a Blocker or Minor or could fall into either category I added other resolutions. We could change names, add resolution states, and reassign which set of resolutions are available for each item pretty easily. Will that work or do you think we should have actual "classes" that predefine which set of resolutions are available? We'd still need to have the states array as we need to set the output messages on a per state basis.... > I think the checklist xml also needs to carry whatever information might be > needed to create a QA report in the affirmative or negative for that > particular entry. IE you should be able to create some sort of human friendly > listing of the packages status by transforming a "checklist data file" and a > "checklist" together. Maybe you already have this? > If I understand what your asking, this is basically what QA Assistant does. (Or will once loading of save files works correctly.) There might be some value to creating a command line tool to do this as well. Perhaps the commandline script that runs tests embedded in the checklist could use xml as its internal representation and then xslt transform it into a QA Report. Then, run-checklist.py --notest save.xml could do the transform on a saved checklist without running any new tests. -Toshio -- _______S________U________B________L________I________M________E_______ t o s h i o + t i k i - l o u n g e . c o m GA->ME 1999

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Error rebuilding Arjan's 422 kenrel
by Chris Kloiber 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

I don't have it on my screen anymore to copy, but having rebuilt the 422 kernel, I am getting errors for unpackaged debug files like /usr/lib/debug/<kernel-ver>/System.Map and others. I see that most of the logic for building the kernel-debuginfo rpm has vanished, perhaps this is just a holdover? -- Chris Kloiber

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fc2, xorg, 2.6.x, scheduling latency peaks
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

Hi all. I'm trying to track the cause of high scheduling latency peaks in FC2 that make the system unusable for low latency audio work. Test systems: PIV laptop, radeon video chipset, AMD64 desktop, radeon video chipset. How I test: I run the Jack (Jack Audio Connection Kit) sound server with 2 or 3 128 frame buffers for low latency operation through the Qjackctl gui front-end. I then start GUI apps that use Jack (for example Freqtweak, Hydrogen and Jamin). I see plenty of buffer xruns of varying durations during the app load process and afterwards. The same (laptop) system booting FC1 + XFree + 2.4.26 + low latency patches has rock solid performance and no xruns in the same conditions. If I boot FC2 into 2.4.26 + low latency patches I _still_ see xruns, so it looks like the kernel itself is not triggering them. At least not all of them. I have no hard data but the xruns appear to coincide with X activity. If I turn off video acceleration I see _more_ xruns (significantly more). If I switch to the vesa driver I still see xruns (so it would seem that the radeon driver itself is not to blame). Does anyone out there know if something has changed between XFree and xorg that may account for this change in behavior? Thanks for _any_ help.... (I also tried several other configuration options for xorg.conf with no effect whatsoever[*]). -- Fernando [*] and even tried to downgrade to FC1's XFree86 just to see if I could isolate the cause but the result was too unstable and messy to draw any conclusions :-)

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Re: Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE
by Richard Emberson 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

SUCCESS (see below) Richard Emberson wrote: > I have an older machine that can not boot from cdrom. Also, I had > some user data in one of the accounts. > > So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted > disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted: > > mount /dev/cdrom > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img > umount /mnt/cdrom > and add entry like: > title Fedora Core 2 Installation > root (hd0,0) > kernel /FC2-install > initrd /FC2-install.img > to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot) > > Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and > after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that > I should click the reboot button ... which I did. > > Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the > grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so > and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install. > > hmmm..... > > I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1 > and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was > successful and that I should click on the reboot button. > > Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1 > and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and > compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success. > > I tried one more time with the same result. > > So how do I break out of this? I really dont care about either > php or compat-db, I'd like to somehow bypass installing them and > get on with the boot. Are there parameters one can give at the grub > command line to force a kernel load? > > Help! Thanks. > > > > Richard > > Thanks to the many replies. What I ended up doing .... My original system had two scsi disks: disk1 with /boot and / and the other, disk2, with /home and /usr/local and I did not want to lose /home and /usr/local - which is why I wanted to upgrade, not install. So I bought a new scsi (I do plan to build a new machine at home some time this Summer, so its not as extreme as one might think) using it to replace disk2 and did a redhat 9.0 on my old machine. I then mounted FC2 disc1 and copied vmlinux and initrd as described above. I then via grub booted using the FC2 code and did a full install. It worked. Now I can just replace the new disk2 with the old and the upgrade is complete. IMPORTANT: the first time I did this - yes I did this twice - I for some unknown reason had disk1 contain /boot and /usr while the new disk2 had / - the redhat 9 install succeeded this succeeded but not the subsequent FC2 install!! - so the second time I had disk1 contain /boot and / while the new disk2 had /home and /usr/local and for this combination FC2 install (after installing redhat 9 a second time) worked. Thanks again. Richard

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rawhide report: 20040607 changes
by Build System 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Updated Packages:

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SUMMARY: 3 similar, but distinct, discussions on "Core" changes ...
by Bryan Smith 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

I just wanted to take the time to introduce this post, possibly as a reference for others to send when it gets difficult to look at the similar, but distinct differences between these discussions. 1. Minimizing, shrinking, splitting up "Core" 2. 386/486/etc... Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) compatibility 3. A "common denominator" Fedora package set 1. Minimizing, shrinking, splitting up "Core" Trying to address the bloating of "Core" at the same time as addressing the legacy support path of Red Hat Linux (RHL). This is the discussion most people assume is always going on. Be sure it's not #2 or #3 below. 2. 386/486/etc... Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) compatibility This is _not_ about a "lite" distro. Numerous vendors are selling literally millions of "high speed" chips with lots of memory and storage built around them, but they are "system-on-a-chip" systems. Most have an i486 ISA compatible core -- despite being marketed as a "Pentium II/III class." They are more than capable of running GNOME so, again, it's _not_ about a "lite distro." And yes, Linux runs on _many_ of them today! These are not just "speciality" systems, but kiosks, terminals, etc... -- so it makes sense from an engineering standpoint to offer Fedora while makes it far easier for engineers to maintain a distro. To this point, Red Hat has stood by with target i386, optimize for i686. That addresses the majority of the modern chips out there within 5-10% of optimal performance, while preserving compatibility. But it seems NPTL will force the i486 issue, and the question is should we just move the "target" higher than i486 and break compatibility? And should be just start targetting i486 anyway? Because of these SoC systems are still around, and _will_ be for years to come, there is no reason to go beyond targetting i486 IMHO. Since none I know of are i386, and i486 offers all sorts of paging and other capabilities, there is little reason not to move away from i386. Combined with the i686 optimizations, it's a great setup, and the kernel/GLibC is still available in a CPU-optimized version. _Furthermore_, with x86-64 now being adopted, there is little sense to optimize default packages any farther than i486, as most modern systems are going to be x86-64 in short order, with a x86-64 built distro. 3. A "common denominator" Fedora package set Lastly and more eccentric, I'm talking about taking the "minimization" to a new level. The idea here is to provide a "common denominator" Fedora package set. More than the 90MB "minimal" install, but one that distro off-shoots, corporations, developers and others can use as a "base." It's _not_ an end-user usable distro. But it _is_ a bootable distro with a GUI, just enough to fetch everything else via Apt/Yam. And it doesn't have too much where people would disagree. The Rules: - All packages must be in Fedora "Core" (no Extras) - No package included may have a dependency on another included - If dependency issues arise, work with Fedora "Core" to see the dependencies are either corrected, changed in a future version, segmented into multiple packages or just don't use the package (if at all possible) The Goals: "Common Denominator" - For new off-shoot distros (e.g., should be a subset of Cobind) - For developers (e.g., want to know what libraries to aim for) - For corporations (e.g., who will maintain their own internal repository, and just need a standard, "base" install) Eventually: Additional distributed package management tools/support Ideal/Future: The package lists would be included as part of "Core" -- e.g., Quark: Std Desktop -- Minimal Quark: LAN Server -- Directory/Name/Time Server Quark: LAN Server -- File/Print Server Quark: LAN Server -- Kerberos Distribution Center (KDC) Quark: WAN Server -- Directory Quark: WAN Server -- FTP/Web Quark: WAN Server -- Remote Access etc... In every case, the service support is _minimal_, very basic. The idea is to start "small" (e.g., PHP is not even included, so the web server is _basic_), and move from there. Furthermore, the "Server" components are easily separated out and not included if desired, for a "pure" desktop base. The Design: - Services: A. All basic clients/services for authentication, directory and network access B. All basic UNIX bash shell scripting, plus Perl and Python C. Console configuration tools (Newt libraries) D. Distributed package manager (Apt, possibly Yum) - GUI: E. Simple GTK+ or Qt-based GUI (elementary GTK+/Qt support) G. Perl/Python bindings for GTK+/Qt H. GUI configuration tools (GTK+ libraries) I. GUI distributed package manager (Synapic) What window manager is used? I don't know. But it _must_ be in Fedora "Core" itself. Maybe just XFWM will do (but not the full XFCE framework), now that XFCE is included in Fedora Core 2. This is just to get the system "up and running" with a GUI. All other customization is done post-install with distributed repository access. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- b.j.smith(a)ieee.org

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Fedora Documentation
by Alan Cox 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Has anyone come across any good tools to manage a "bookshelf" of online documentation and books in general. Thinking about the big documents relevant to Fedora and credibly maintained (ie not download the howto's) I rapidly got past 20 good free/shippable documents. The trouble is they are in multiple formats even if they could all be output as PDF. - GNU manuals like the Emacs manual are generally texinfo but very comprehensive - Other online books are docbook (3,4,sgml and xml) - Some stuff is in OpenOffice - One or two are in weird "see we followed the license" xml but rescuable A properly organised bookshelf seems an ideal thing to have, I'm just wondering about tools

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Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI RAID-1 driver
by Dario Lesca 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Does anyone have experience installing FC1 or FC2 on a system with an adaptec ultra320 scsi card? The latest driver available from adaptec is for RH9. Do you know if this driver is okay? Is avaiable a driver version for FC1 (kernel 2.4) or FC2 (kernel 2.6) ? Many Thanks -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca(a)solinos.it>

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kernel-module rpms under FC2
by Aaron Bennett 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I need to package ndiswrapper (from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) for Fedora Core 2. I'm planning to follow the Fedora.us packaging guidelines as I'd like to see the package included in Fedora Extras at some point. ( Also, they seem like fairly sensible guidelines. ) I've found these kernel-module specific guidelines from the Fedora.us wiki. They are pretty interesting, however, according to the author, they are also outdated and possibly not relevant to 2.6 kernels. http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackagingKernelModules Does anyone have any feedback or suggestions on how packaging kernel modules should work with Fedora Core 2? Cheers, Aaron Bennett - -- Aaron Bennett UNIX Administrator Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAvzTEc0PuKgpwjc4RAmY0AKCapVoXCrEEqWj8jS3BfRTpaRmVgwCfZQfW K8YvgrPPrwKwnM/GaXhxM14= =aTTk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Inflation of explicit build requirements
by Michael Schwendt 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

The appearance of explicit build requirements like 'gcc-c++', 'cpp' (!), 'perl' or even 'sed' in a couple of src.rpms indicates that there are different opinions on what packages are considered as belonging into a fundamental build environment. I'm afraid that if this trend continues, packages will soon buildrequire 'make', 'findutils', 'gcc', 'gawk' and others. This kind of inflation of explicit build dependencies would be both insane and limiting. Limiting in that it enforces dependencies on fragile package names and specific compiler packages. Insane in that some programs, such as those in the 'coreutils' suite, should be expected to be installed even in a minimum build system. If such build dependencies are added only to fix the chroot'ed build environments as set up by tools like 'mach', package developers, please fix mach's default config (yes, mach can be customized!) instead and include more common tools in the 'build' definition. C++, Python and Perl are way too common. Even rpm-build requires and uses Perl already. With regard to 'cpp', the C preprocessor, it is required by 'gcc' already. 'sed' or /bin/sed are required by many other core packages, such as 'initscripts' or 'dev'. Additionally, when building for Fedora.us Extras (and 'mach' has special target definitions for fedora.us), there is the 'fedora-rpmdevtools' package which depends on a set of very common development packages (some which are required by rpm-build already anyway) and which are available in the build system: /bin/bash, /bin/sh, bzip2, cpio, diffutils, gcc, gcc-c++, gzip, make, patch, perl, python, redhat-rpm-config, rpm-build, rpm-python, sed, tar, unzip Please, let's avoid inflation of explicit build requirements in spec files. End-users either have the 'development-tools' (as defined in comps.xml) installed or not. If not, their src.rpm rebuild attempts would fail anyway when configure scripts check for GCC. So don't aim at complete build requirements to please end-users. Better let's discuss whether above set should be extended. E.g. with 'gettext' and 'desktop-file-utils', as they are needed by many src.rpms.

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BogoMips strange behaviour
by StoneBeat 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hi i have a strange behaviour with kernel 2.6 and BogoMips: [root@laptop tmp]# dmesg | grep -i bogo Calibrating delay loop... 2777.08 BogoMIPS --- [root@laptop tmp]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping : 0 cpu MHz : 1400.686 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 991.81 --- As you can see if i do "dmesg" my bogomips are 2777.08 but if i do "cat /procp/cpuinfo" i only see 991.81. Some info: [root@laptop tmp]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) [root@laptop tmp]# uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.3-2.1.253custom #1 Sat Mar 20 01:52:05 CET 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [root@laptop tmp]# rpm -qa | grep -i kerne kernel-doc-2.6.3-2.1.253 kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253 kernel-source-2.6.3-2.1.253

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Re: Why are there only i686 and i586 Versions of glibc and kernel?-- not "lite" (386/486 @ 400MHz+, 256MB RAM)
by Matthew E. Lauterbach 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:30:30 -0500, Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I'd rather see something like, in staggered order of >dependancy: > >Core - (no, really, CORE. No X, no gcc, just the hard base.) Desktop >Development Multimedia Extras I think that some sort of setup like this would be beneficial. With the advent of advanced installation tools such as apt and yum the necessity to provide every package in the core has greatly decreased. I know I don't like to download 4+ CDs if I only want to do a minimal install. The only restriction I would put on the Core would be to try to make it fit on one CD. A really stripped down Core will hamper new Linux users as much as the current setup. Specifically, some sort of GUI based method would be needed to provide access to the Desktop packages. I know that 3 short years ago the fact that Slackware booted into run-level 3 instead of 5 drove me away from that distro. In hindsight it is simple to type 'init 5' onto the CLI and be in the more comfortable graphical environment. The fact that RedHat will install a graphical desktop by default (with no need to use the CLI until I am ready to that plunge) is very beneficial to those of us trying to make the switch from the Redmond OS to Linux. Also, I don't think that anyone says the following things enough: Fedora Core 1 was a great operating system. Fedora Core 2 is a great operating system. Sure there is work to be done, but Fedora is working. I use it at home on my Athlon64 3000+. I have installed both the x86 and x86_64 versions. Keep up the good work. Matthew E. Lauterbach Ex-Windows and X Windows user

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irda problems [FC2]
by k b 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

hello, and excuse me for posting this to the devel list, i just hope some of you can help me and others struggeling with this issu (and creating a better working version for the next fedora). i am trying to get the idra (infrared) services to work with my mobile phone, but it does not seemt to work. here is what i have done and how some config files look. i have fedora core 2, kernel 2.6.5-1.358 (selinux=0). dmesg |grep -i tty reports ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A the second is the infrared port. i used setserial the following way: setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 the devices look like: crw-rw---- 1 root root 161, 0 Jun 6 13:11 ircomm0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Jun 6 13:11 ttyS1 modules.conf empty modprobe.conf # Note: for use under 2.4, changes must also be made to modules.conf! alias eth0 e100 alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs46xx alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty # alias char-major-161-* ircomm-tty alias irda-dongle-0 tekram alias irda-dongle-1 esi alias irda-dongle-2 actisys alias irda-dongle-3 actisys alias irda-dongle-4 girbil alias irda-dongle-5 litelink alias irda-dongle-6 airport alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin alias irda-dongle-8 ep7211_ir alias irda-dongle-9 mcp2120 alias irda-dongle-10 act200l alias irda-dongle-11 ma600 options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 # NSC driver on a IBM Thinkpad laptop alias irda0 nsc-ircc # IRLAN # But currently the IrLAN protocol is no longer maintained # by the Linux/IrDA core team. alias irlan0 irlan install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove sound-slot-0 then to have my nokia 6110 mobile phone (with hardware modem) to speak with the computer i have previously been able to do: irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s and then use the /dev/ircomm0 port for communication. however now when i run irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s i get the following in the messages log. Jun 6 13:31:09 computer irattach: irattach: tty: set_disc(11): Bad file descriptor Jun 6 13:31:09 computer irattach: Stopping device /dev/ttyS1 Jun 6 13:31:09 computer irattach: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS): No such device Jun 6 13:31:09 computer irattach: exiting ... i have looked at the descriptions at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO/index.html this has helped before, but this time, nothing. any help would be appreciated. kb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Intel® 536ep V.92 modem (PCI) chipset driver & 2.6 kernel under FC2
by Cosmin Hanulescu 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Has anyone been able to port the driver provided by Intel for the modem chipset mentioned in the subject line to the 2.6 kernel? Regards,

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Re: small improvements for fedora 3: sound mixing
by Christian Paratschek 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

> The problem is that dmix doesn't work for all apps. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.xine.devel/7058/ > > is an article of one complaint, for example. > > Bill > hmmm... i wouldn't call that a problem. it only needs to work for the apps that are included. who cares if xine works - it is not included in fedora anyway. my point is: proper soundmixing should be a goal for fc3. i don't know which ways there are to achieve this goal, if its dmix or anything else, but it needs to be done (imho). christian

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rawhide report: 20040606 changes
by Build System 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Updated Packages: fedora-logos-1.1.26-1 --------------------- * Sat Jun 05 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.26-1 - provide: system-logos gaim-0.78-4 ----------- * Sat Jun 05 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 0.78-4 - CVS backport 123: jabber disconnect fix 124: log find click fix rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040606 -------------------------

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Creating RPMs
by William M. Quarles 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Hi, I don't know much of anything about creating RPMs from scratch, but I was watching the rebuilding of an SRPM on my computer, to which I passed the --target=i686 flag, and its compilation lines looked like this c++ -c -I./lib/wx/include/gtk-2.4 -I../include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -D__WXGTK__ -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D_IODBC_ -O2 -MMD -pthread -Wall -fPIC -o tbargtk.o ../src/gtk/tbargtk.cpp Now -march=i686 is not showing up anywhere in there. Did the packager do something wrong, or is it normal for the flag to not get passed to C++ compilation lines during a rebuild? Thanks, William

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Up2date url's with user:password@host format
by Jos Vos 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Hi, As up2date does not support url's of yum or apt repositories that contain the well-known "user:passord@host" format for repositories that need authentication (because Python's urllib2 does not support this format), I have implemented this myself. Furtherore, the "user:password" is replaced by "USER:PASSWORD" (literally) at the places where it is displayed in the GUI. See also bugzilla bug (RFE) #125391. I will add my patch there later (after some cleanup) and hope that the up2date maintainers pick it up and modify and/or enhance it as far as needed. Cheers, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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rawhide report: 20040604 changes
by Build System 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

New package Pyrex A compiler/language for writing Python extension modules. Removed package anaconda-images Updated Packages: SysVinit-2.85-29 ---------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.85-29 - Add MLS Support to selinux patch * Thu Jun 03 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.85-28 - fix overrun of argv[0] (#125172, #124813, <alexl(a)redhat.com>) * Wed Jun 02 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.85-27 - cleanup logic some anaconda-10.0.1-0.20040604015457 -------------------------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com> - built new version from CVS * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - require system-logos and anaconda-help, obsolete anaconda-images * Fri Apr 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - Update description, remove prereq on stuff that was only needed for reconfig mode coreutils-5.2.1-13 ------------------ * Thu Jun 03 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 5.2.1-13 - Change su to use pam_selinux open and pam_selinux close cups-1.1.21-0.rc1.1 ------------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.21-0.rc1.1 - 1.1.21rc1. - No longer need str716, str718, authtype or encryption patches. dbus-0.21-5 ----------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt * Thu May 27 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - added my Python patch - took out the qt build requires - added a gtk+ build requires * Fri Apr 23 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - Changed build requirement to version 0.9-3 of Pyrex to fix problem with builing on x86_64 fedora-logos-1.1.25-1 --------------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.25-1 - add anaconda bits with fedora logos freeradius-0.9.3-4.1 -------------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 0.9.3-4.1 - fixed BuildRequires for gdbm-devel gettext-0.14.1-4 ---------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Leon Ho <llch(a)redhat.com> - add conditionals for patch and requires auto* (#125216) kernel-2.6.6-1.414 ------------------ kudzu-1.1.69-1 -------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.69-1 - look for the right X server (#125169, <alexl(a)redhat.com>) - configure X even in non-interactive mode * Mon May 24 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.68-1 - fix checking of modules loaded which have a - in their name as /proc/modules will contain an _ instead, this time for the !loader case (#122983, at least) openssh-3.6.1p2-36 ------------------ * Thu Jun 03 2004 Daniel Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.6.1p2-36 - Change pam file to use open and close with pam_selinux pam-0.77-44 ----------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.77-44 - Add MLS Support to selinux patch * Wed Jun 02 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.77-43 - Modify pam_selinux to use open and close param * Fri May 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.77-42 - Split pam module into two parts open and close php-4.3.7-1 ----------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.7-1 - update to 4.3.7 - have -pear subpackage require php of same VR * Wed May 26 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.6-6 - buildrequire smtpdaemon (#124430) - try switching to system libgd again (prevent symbol conflicts when e.g. mod_perl loads the system libgd library.) quagga-0.96.5-0 --------------- * Tue May 04 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 0.96.5-0 - New upstream version - Change includedir - Change the pre scriptlet to fail if the useradd command fails. - Remove obsolete patches from this .spec file and renumber the two remaining ones. rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040604 ------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.13.3-2 ------------------------------ * Thu Jun 03 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.3-3 - Handle updating /etc/selinux/config selinux-policy-targeted-1.13.3-2 -------------------------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.13.3-3 - Handle updating /etc/selinux/config strace-4.5.4-1 -------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> 4.5.4-1 - new upstream version, more ioctls (#122257), minor fixes system-config-printer-0.6.101-1 ------------------------------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.101-1 - 0.6.101: - Set LANG=C before running /usr/sbin/alternatives in places not fixed last time (bug #124217). tftp-0.36-1 ----------- * Thu Jun 03 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 0.36-1 - Update version

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Windows Applet wnck-applet
by _v00d00101_ 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

The wnck-applet refuses to work at present, along with the window switcher. Ive tried restarting to no effect. The only change ive made a lately was a temporary fix to the nvidia card problem by compiling a new kernel with an 8k stack. Could this be the problem? Either way i go i lose something, one way lets me play games, the other loses my window manager. :/ Hopefully nvidia will sort out the driver problem soon and i can move back to the stable kernel. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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rawhide report: 20040605 changes
by Build System 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

New package module-init-tools Kernel module management utilities. Removed package modutils Updated Packages: chkconfig-1.3.11-1 ------------------ * Fri Jun 04 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.3.11-1 - fix LSB comment parsing (#85678) coreutils-5.2.1-14 ------------------ * Fri Jun 04 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 5.2.1-14 - Fix selinux patch causing problems with ls --format=... (bug #125238). cups-1.1.21-0.rc1.2 ------------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.21-0.rc1.2 - Build for dbus-0.21. - Fix SetPrinterState(). * Thu Jun 03 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> - Use configure's --with-optim parameter instead of setting OPTIM at make time (bug #125228). dbus-0.21-6 ----------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - Moved dbus-viewer, dbus-monitor and dbus-glib-tool into the dbus-glib package so that the main dbus package does not depend on glib (Bug #125285) docbook-style-xsl-1.65.1-2 -------------------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.65.1-2 - Fix strange filenames (bug #125311). gconf-editor-2.6.0-2 -------------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-2 - Add BuildRequires: perl-XML-Parser (bug #124168) gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-2 ----------------------- * Sat Apr 17 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0.1-2 - #111123 BR scrollkeeper gettext, some minor cleanups kernel-2.6.6-1.422 ------------------ * Fri Jun 04 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> - fix the mlock-uses-rlimit patch * Wed Jun 02 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com> - Add ppc64 (Mac G5) postfix-2.1.1-1 --------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 2:2.1.1-1 - new version 2.1.1 - compiling postfix PIE - new alternatives slave for /usr/lib/sendmail python-2.3.4-1 -------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-1 - Updated to 2.3.4-1 with Robert Scheck's help (bug #124764) - Added BuildRequires: tix-devel (bug #124918) rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040605 ------------------------- vim-6.2.532-4 ------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 6.2.532-4 - enable build on ppc* vixie-cron-3.0.1-88 ------------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.1-88 - Add patch to allow it to run in permissive mode. xsane-0.92-11 ------------- * Fri Jun 04 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.92-11 - Fix GIMP plug-in package (bug #125254).

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