i686 build of Fedora Core
by Angelo
Fedora Core is an excellent distro, it is complete, easy and features a
lot of packages.
I think that the only thing it misses is to release an i686 optimized
version (just like i386 and amd64). Packages compiled with that
optimization would be a lot faster, and i think that 99% of fedora users
run a i686-compatible processor:
- Intel sold starting from 1995: Pentium Pro, Pentium 2, Pentium 3,
Pentium 4
- All AMDs
The i686 is really more powerful, it is pipelined, it features hardcoded
floating point (FPU), it can process more than 1 instruction per cycle..
but all this features are all wasted if it isn't compiled to use them.
GCC can take advantage of all the new instruction provided with i686
really well, the builds will be identical to the i386 one and you can
provide both archs in two different folders.
Just one question, why not ?
Anyway Fedora is the best distro I know.
Regards,
Angelo
19 years, 9 months
rawhide report: 20040730 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
HelixPlayer-1.0.beta20040615-6
------------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.0.beta20040615-6
- Rework Summary a bit
- Minor spec cleanups
MAKEDEV-3.8.3-1
---------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.8.3-1
- use the correct permissions on /dev/ttySG0 and /dev/cusg0
a2ps-4.13b-40
-------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.13b-40
- Use environment variable to pass filenames to shell (bug #128647).
abiword-2.0.9-3
---------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> 1:2.0.9-3
- #126012# some desktop translations
anaconda-10.0.2-0.20040729235825
--------------------------------
* Thu Jul 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
at-3.1.8-56
-----------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com>
- Added POSIX.2 -t option for RFE 127485
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com>
- Had to disable the 'make test' for the build BEFORE
- any changes were made (building on FC2 - perl issue?)
- test.pl generates these 'errors' for what looks like
- valid output to me:
- $ ./test.pl 2>&1 | egrep -v '(^ok$)|(time_only)'
- 1..3656
- not ok
- 'Monday - 1 month': 'Fri Jul 2 18:29:00 2004' =? 'Sat Jul 3 18:29:00 2004'
- not ok
- 'Monday - 10 months': 'Thu Oct 2 18:29:00 2003' =? 'Fri Oct 3 18:29:00 2003'
- not ok
- 'next week - 1 month': 'Mon Jul 5 18:29:00 2004' =? 'Tue Jul 6 18:29:00 2004'
- not ok
- 'next week - 10 months': 'Sun Oct 5 18:29:00 2003' =? 'Mon Oct 6 18:29:00 2003'
- will investigate and fix for next release.
dialog-1.0.20040728-1
---------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 1.0-20040728-1
- new version 1.0-20040728
dovecot-0.99.10.7-1,FC3,1
-------------------------
* Mon Jul 26 2004 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 0.99.10.7-1,FC3,1
- enable postgres and mySQL in build
- fix configure to look for mysql in alternate locations
- nuke configure script in tar file, recreate from configure.in using autoconf
- bring up to latest upstream, which included:
- Added outlook-pop3-no-nuls workaround to fix Outlook hang in mails with NULs.
- Config file lines can now contain quoted strings ("value ")
- If client didn't finish downloading a single mail in 30 seconds,
Dovecot closed the connection. This was supposed to work so that
if client hasn't read data at all in 30 seconds, it's disconnected.
- Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks
dump-0.4b37-1
-------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com>
- 0.4b37
gimp-2.0.3-1
------------
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- version 2.0.3
- buildreq gtk2-devel >= 2.4.0
- use -32 or -64 postfixed binaries if available
* Fri Jul 02 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- use included desktop (#126723), application-registry, mime-info and
icon files
- remove perl cruft (Gimp-Perl is an external package now)
- further spec file cleaning
* Thu Jun 24 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- version 2.0.2
- fix summary (#126682)
im-sdk-11.4-66.svn1833
----------------------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-66.svn1833
- don't replace le.xml.conf when upgrade.
- don't run iiimf-le-tools on %postun when upgrade.
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:11.4-65.svn1833
- update to 2004-07-26-1833 snapshot
- no longer need im-sdk-11.4-gimlet-status-off-string.patch,
im-sdk-11.4-newpy-hide-status-window.patch and
im-sdk-11.4-unit-hide-status-window.patch
- include qt immodule in new subpackage iiimf-qt
- add iiimqcf.pro-build.patch to find include files and libdirs
- define %qt_im_dir to install into
- reset QTDIR for buildroots
- add gimlet-init-visible.patch to make gimlet visible at startup
- no longer run gnome-im-settings-daemon from xinput.d script
- use %snapdate to carry the date of the snapshot
- drop intltools requirement of source pkg
- drop explicit buildrequires and requires for iiimf-gtk
- buildrequire libxml2-devel
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com>
- im-sdk-11.4-iiimsf-xmlconf.patch: applied to determine default LE per
languages.
libbonobo-2.6.2-2
-----------------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.2-2
- rebuilt
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.6.2-1
- Update to 2.6.2
libgnomeprint22-2.7.0-3
-----------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-3
- Backport patch to fix crash when no printers are available
- Require pango 1.4
libgnomeprintui22-2.7.1-2
-------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 2.7.1-2
- Add patch which fixes default printer case, minor threading bugs
libselinux-1.15.2-1
-------------------
* Mon Jul 19 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.2-1
- Latest from NSA
man-pages-ja-20040715-4
-----------------------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 20040715-4
- rebuilt
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 20040715-3
- applied a patch to fix crontab.5's typo. (#128623)
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 20040715-2
- fixed wrong filename for in.telnetd.8 man pages. (#128612)
ncurses-5.4-11.fc3
------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 5.4-11
- add latest rollup patches and weekly patches
- remove home/end patch, which is now included in latest
terminfo.src and termcap.src
- add term.sh to /etc/profile.d, reference in /etc/bashrc
- modify term.sh to support rxvt (#122815 comment 93)
* Thu Jul 08 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 5.4-10
- add home/end mappings to gnome definition (#122815)
nss_db-2.2-28
-------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.2-28
- set _filter_GLIBC_PRIVATE instead of overriding findrequires, so that file
colors get marked correctly (originally #128436)
ntp-4.2.0.a.20040616-2
----------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 4.2.0.a.20040616-2
- take chroot in account (bug 127252)
pam-0.77-53
-----------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.77-53
- Close fd[1] before pam_modutilread so that unix_verify will complete
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 0.77-52
- First chunk of Steve Grubb's resource leak and other fixes
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 0.77-51
- Fixed build testing of modules
- Fixed dependancies
policycoreutils-1.15.3-1
------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.3-1
- Latest from NSA
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20040730
-------------------------
selinux-policy-strict-1.15.10-1
-------------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.10-1
- Update to latest from NSA
selinux-policy-targeted-1.15.10-1
---------------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.10-1
- Update to latest from NSA
speex-1.0.4-1
-------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com>
- Update to 1.0.4.
- Include /usr/include/speex
- Include speex.pc
syslinux-2.10-1
---------------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.10-1
- update to 2.10
tcl-8.4.7-1
-----------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 8.4.7-1
- update to 8.4.7
- replace tcl-8.4.5-no_rpath.patch by tcl-8.4-no_rpath.patch
- replace tcl-8.4.5-autoconf.patch by tcl-8.4-autoconf.patch
- no longer obsolete itcl
tk-8.4.7-1
----------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 8.4.7-1
- update to 8.4.7
- replace tk-8.4.5-no_rpath.patch with tk-8.4-no_rpath.patch
- replace tk-8.4.5-autoconf.patch with tk-8.4-autoconf.patch
vixie-cron-4.1-5
----------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 4.1-5
- Added Buildrequires: pam-devel
19 years, 9 months
Xapian packages
by Alan Cox
I've built some initial packages of Xapian and Omega (the package is
xapian-omega as the games folks already have an omege package) and
stuck them on http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/SRPMS.
Xapian (http://www.xapian.org) looks to me a good replacement for htdig
that scales a lot better and can do more stuff. I'm not proposing anyone
changes to it for FC3 but wondering what people think longer term
19 years, 9 months
Latest pam/selinux-policy-strict broken?
by W. Michael Petullo
Login, su, gdm is hanging on my system since I upgraded to pam-0.77-52
and selinux-policy-strict-1.15.8-3.
It looks like the hang is occuring when the pam_unix module is executed
as an account module. Su/pam_unix executes unix_chkpwd, sets up a pipe
and then reads from it. It seems that unix_chkpwd is failing to execute
properly and su is hanging while it tries to read from the pipe. After a
quick look at the code, I'm not convinced that pam_unix tests the exit
value of unix_chkpwd properly.
Here is a strace of an su hang:
[...]
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x300313a8) = 4404
waitpid(4404, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0) = 4404
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
read(3, "12603:0:99999:7:-1:-1", 1023) = 21
read(3,
There is no problem when SELinux is not enforcing its strict policy.
Unfortunately, I don't see any avc errors in my logs related to this.
--
Mike
:wq
19 years, 9 months
Nitpicking updates/testing
by Carlos Rodrigues
Aren't packages in updates/testing supposed to be moved to updates?
Right now there are some packages there that have long been available in
updates (xorg-x11 for instance).
Carlos Rodrigues
19 years, 9 months
modern VoIP client
by Florin Andrei
The VoIP client traditionally included with Fedora is GnomeMeeting. It's
a fine application and it works pretty well. However, it is based on
H.323, which is the old VoIP protocol that's being less used these days.
There's a trend nowadays to start new VoIP deployments using SIP instead
of H.323, or even, in some cases, migrating existing implementations to
SIP.
Modern VoIP PBX implementations, proprietary or open source, tend to
support SIP out of the box, with H.323 often as an afterthought. See
Asterix.
It is probably worth keeping GnomeMeeting around, since it proved itself
as a reliable tool, but perhaps it is time to keep up with the evolution
of the technology and offer a SIP client with Fedora. I suggest
Linphone:
http://www.linphone.org/?lang=us&rubrique=1
Despite what the homepage makes you believe, it seems to also support
video, not just audio (but i didn't verify that myself):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/linphone-users/2003-12/msg00030.html
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20video
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
19 years, 9 months
rawhide report: 20040729 changes
by Build System
Removed package licq
Updated Packages:
MAKEDEV-3.8.2-1
---------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.8.2-1
- create /dev/ttySG0 and /dev/cusg0 (Erik Jacobson)
abiword-2.0.9-2
---------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> 1:2.0.9-2
- #128004# fix irritating windows looking filenames for generated pngs
authd-1.4.1-1.fc3
-----------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.1-1
- only scan for ESTABLISHED connections
- extra debug output for crypto
* Mon Jul 26 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.0-1
- revise makefile; don't over-optimize as gcc can produce bad code
- ptr cleanup when multiquery and missing /proc/net/tcp*
- improve create_opt (error handling, debugging, identifiers)
- add --prefix option for matching IPv4 to IPv6
bash-3.0-1
----------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0-1
- 3.0.
dialog-1.0.20040721-1
---------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 1.0-20040721-1
- new version 1.0-20040721
festival-1.4.2-25
-----------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.2-25
- Update for gcc 3.4
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.2-24
- Use shared libraries to reduce package size
- Don't ship patch backup files
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.86
----------------------------
* Thu Jul 29 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- update limits.h to reflect NR_GROUPS change
gnome-bluetooth-0.5.1-3
-----------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.1-3
- added build dependency for librsvg2-devel
gnumeric-1.2.13-1
-----------------
* Tue Jul 27 2004 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> 1.2.13
- update to 1.2.13
- #107278# --without-bonobo, help is fairly nonfunctional otherwise
grip-3.2.0-2
------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 3.2.0-2
- rebuilt
- add vte-devel to BuildRequires
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.2-6
-------------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.2-6
- Really restore ffmpegcolorspace
- Reinstate checks for exact plugins installed, i was a
bit shortsighted in removing it
- BuildRequire libtheora-devel
- Ensure we disable faad and sndfile even if they are installed
kernel-2.6.7-1.499
------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.8-rc2-bk6
- make a start at splitting up the execshield patchkit
libgnomecups-0.1.9-1
--------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.1.9-1
- Update to 0.1.9
- Remove includes patch
libwvstreams-3.75.0-2
---------------------
* Mon Jun 28 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 3.75.0-2
- added libwvstreams-3.75.0-stringbuf.patch (114996)
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20040729
-------------------------
selinux-policy-strict-1.15.9-1
------------------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.9-1
- Fix audit2allow by adding auditallow load_policy to unconfined_t
selinux-policy-targeted-1.15.9-1
--------------------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.9-1
- Fix audit2allow by adding auditallow load_policy to unconfined_t
spamassassin-3.0-3.pre2
-----------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 3.0-3.pre2
- 3.0 pre2
vixie-cron-4.1-4
----------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 4.1-4
- Fix crontab to do SELinux checkaccess
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> - 4.1-3
- Fixed bug 128701: cron fails to parse user 6th field in
- system crontabs (patch15)
vorbis-tools-1.0.1-4
--------------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild
yaboot-1.3.12-7
---------------
* Wed Jul 28 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.12-7
- Add yaboot.conf as ghost
* Sat Jul 10 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.12-6
- Rebuild
19 years, 9 months
FC3 test1 and HPT374
by Noel Bourke
Hi all,
There's a bit of a kernel problem with test1 and HPT374 RAID controllers
Output:
PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit address for device 02:06.2
PCI: Unable to issue memory range * to device 02:06.2
Seems to be an existing kernel prob. I'm checking it out anyways.
Noel Bourke
19 years, 9 months
Device Setup Packages
by Jeff Pitman
Hi:
Wouldn't it be nice to somehow encapsulate all of the Device Setup
HOWTOs on the Internet into some repository of packages that configures
the machine for its particular installed devices? The first area of
need would be for laptops using a common package format that brought in
the necessary drivers and edited /etc/modprobe.conf for the user.
In light of this, it would also be nice if there was a /etc/modprobe.d
directory so that these types of packages can add/remove configurations
for network, usb, irda, thinkpad drivers, sound, ppp, etc. etc.
Maybe the user could run a kudzu-like command that would then make
package recommendations?
It would be a big effort, but I think a lot of people would benefit from
this stupification step. What do you think?
take care,
--
-jeff
19 years, 9 months