Updates on the Fedora CVS server
by Cristian Gafton
We have opened to the public the anonymous access CVS server for Fedora
Core and Fedora Extras. The server lives on http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com
and it has been in use for quite some time now.
The CVS server currently hosts two major projects, with more headed its
way:
1. Fedora Core read-only anonymous mirror for our internal Fedora
development tree. Now you can follow through CVS every commit done by the
Red Hat engineers to the Fedora Core development tree. You can quickly
reference when, where and why certain changes have been inserted into your
favorite packages.
CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/dist
export CVSROOT
2. Fedora Extras repository. Thanks to a group of very dedicated
volunteers the repository has been updated to be compatible with the
Fedora Core 3; we're working on getting an automated build system in place
that will provide binary rpms for all out of this repository.
CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/extras
export CVSROOT
Detailed checkout instructions are available on the CVS server's home
page, at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/
For those that do not want to read instructions and want to get to the
"bleeding edge" as fast as possible, we have daily checkout snapshots
available at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/webfiles/
After unpacking your download, you can issue a "cvs update" to bring the
tree in sync with the latest changes since the archive was created. If
this is the first time accessing the Fedora CVS server, you will need to
do a "cvs login", hit Enter when asked for a password, and then attempt
the "cvs update".
ViewCVS is also available for both of these repositories if you prefer to
browse through the packages:
- Fedora Core: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/?root=core
- Fedora Extras: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/?root=extras
There are also CVS-related mailing lists that you can subscribe to. these
mailing lists publish the CVS commits as they happen. If you are curious,
you can sign up for the mailing lists at the following links:
- Fedora Core:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-cvs-commits
- Fedora Extras:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-commits
Have fun,
Cristian
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Cristian Gafton -- gafton(a)redhat.com -- Red Hat, Inc.
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"Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT
industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software
industry sector."
-- Kenneth Brown, President, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
19 years, 2 months
CVS kernel compile
by Josh Boyer
Ok, so I'm probably an idiot, but can anyone explain to me how to build
the kernel out of CVS?
I've read the cvs.fedora.redhat.com website and done a CVS checkout.
But when I do a 'make sources' it comes up with the following error
after downloading the kernel tarball and merging a bunch of configs:
make: *** No rule to make target `download', needed by `sources'. Stop.
I can't find the download target anywhere. Am I the only one to see
this?
thx,
josh
19 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20050106 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
HelixPlayer-1:1.0.2-2
---------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1:1.0.2-2
- Apply patch from ville.skytta(a)iki.fi to avoid
owning /usr/lib/mozilla (144237)
anaconda-10.2.0.9-1
-------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.2.0.9-1
- Fix some typos (#143257, #144006)
- Fix from Matthew Miller for multiple dns servers (#84409)
- Fix formatting of fcp disks (#144199)
- Include a README for x86_64 images (clumens, #143366)
- Make an x86_64 rescue image (clumens, #143366)
- Add libXfixes for new gtk2
audit-0.6-1
-----------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.6-1
- New version
- Split package up to libs, libs-devel, and audit.
* Mon Dec 13 2004 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.5.6-1
- New version
* Fri Dec 10 2004 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.5.5-1
- New version
findutils-1:4.1.20-8
--------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:4.1.20-8
- Change --context to use fnmatch instead of strcmp
* Tue Dec 07 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Removed "G" and "M" size qualifiers from man page, since support for
those is not in the stable branch (bug #141987).
gcc-3.4.3-12
------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-12
- update from gcc-3_4-branch
- PRs c++/14607, middle-end/19175, rtl-optimization/12092, target/17643
- fix ICE in same_translation_unit_p (#144166)
* Mon Dec 27 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-11
- update from gcc-3_4-branch
- PRs c++/17972, c++/18962, c++/18975, java/14104, libobjc/12035,
middle-end/17930, middle-end/18424, middle-end/18493,
middle-end/18590, middle-end/18730, middle-end/18882,
middle-end/19068, other/18508, other/18665, other/19093,
preprocessor/15167, rtl-optimization/16968, target/16819,
target/17990, target/18002, target/18153, target/19005,
target/19010, target/19028, target/19102, target/19147
- fix ICE in dwarf2out (Devang Patel, Eric Botcazou, #143719,
PR debug/16261)
- fix ICE in reshape_init_array (#143034, PRs c++/18384, c++/18327)
* Mon Dec 13 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.4.3-10
- update from gcc-3_4-branch
- PRs target/18932, target/17025, c++/18731
- fix _Jv_{Start,End}OfInterpreter computation (Andrew Haley, #142611,
PRs java/18036, java/13468)
- avoid multiple evaluation of sqrt and other math builtins when
not -ffast-math (#142603, PR middle-end/18951)
- remove leading underscore from /usr/libexec/getconf/default
symlink target
gpdf-2.8.1-1
------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> 2.8.1-1
- Update
- Remove CAN-2004-0888, it's upstream now
- Remove gnome-vfs-error-checking patch, upstream
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 2.8.0-8.1
- Applied patch to fix CAN-2004-1125 (bug #144210)
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.7-2
-------------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.7-2
- BR gtk2-devel (139151)
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.7-1
- New upstream version
- Add new patch gstreamer-plugins-0.8.7-alsa.patch which obsoletes
gstreamer-plugins-0.7.5-alsa.patch
- Add in speex, tta, apetag plugins
libtiff-3.7.1-3
---------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 3.7.1-3
- Drop the largefile patch again
- Fix a problem with the handling of alpha channels
- Fix an integer overflow in tiffdump (#143576)
man-pages-ja-20041215-2
-----------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 20041215-2
- prefer GNU fileutils's chown(1) rather than gnumaniak's. (#142077)
netpbm-10.26-1
--------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 10.26-1
- update to netpbm-10.26-1, remove jbig, hpcd
- regenerate man pages, remove man pages for non existent binaries
- update security patch, additional fixes
- drop upstreamed misc patch, merge malloc patch with security patch
pam-0.78-3
----------
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 0.78-3
- depend on db-4.3.27, not db-4.3.21.
policycoreutils-1.19.3-1
------------------------
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19.3-1
- Update to latest from NSA
* Merged fixfiles and restorecon patches from Dan Walsh.
* Don't display change if only user part changed.
redhat-artwork-0.120-2
----------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.120-2
- rebuild so that gtk engine ends up in the right place for gtk+ 2.6.x
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050106
---------------------------
selinux-policy-strict-1.19.17-2
-------------------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-17-3
- Change to use typeattribute
- Update to latest from NSA
selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.17-3
---------------------------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-17-3
- change to require checkpolicy >= 1.19.2
- Change to use typeattribute
- Update list of booleans
- Update to latest from NSA
syslinux-3.02-2
---------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 3.02-2
- Beehive doesn't let you build in scratch and then build someplace else,
arrrrgh.
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 3.02-1
- 3.02
- Make the spec a little closer to hpa's.
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 3.00-2
- make tag says the tag is there, make build says it's not.
Bump release, try again.
vnc-4.0-12
----------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.0-12
- Don't use initlog in the initscript.
* Fri Dec 31 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Cookie generation improvement from Jon Peatfield.
xmms-1:1.2.10-11
----------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.10-11
- Change BR on mikmod to mikmod-devel (138057)
19 years, 2 months
some changes for (slightly) faster boot
by Bill Nottingham
In tomorrow's rawhide should be kudzu-1.105-1 and initscripts-8.02-1.
These implement various changes for speeding up bootup some:
- removal of initlog and minilogd
Basically, the things that were logged before syslog started were
generally uninteresting, and it added a surprising amount of delay
to the bootup. There should/will be a better mechanism
for recording whether services start succesfully added at some point
later.
- hack to allow kudzu to read the devices from a socket from kmodule
This allows hardware probing to be done only once; the specifics of
where/how kudzu is run in this setup may be tweaked slightly - the
initscript may be moved. kudzu also runs without interaction
now, and just does the configuration of whatever it finds.
The combination of these should speed up the boot a somewhat
noticeable amount of time compared to stock FC3. Currently, there
are the following issues:
- text boot is now more noisy
initlog did hide some spew from various services; this needs cleaned up.
- things that try to call initlog will simply fail
openssh and Canna should be fixed. Other things will need fixed.
I suppose a initlog wrapper that accepts the same syntax and just
'execs' may be useful, but it's probably best to do a clean break
and see what happens.
Bill
19 years, 2 months
NetworkManager borks at my wlan card...
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak
I am using a laptop where i have one wired ethernet interface (eth0),
and an adm8211 cardbus WLAN interface (eth1) - which is correctly set up
by kudzu as a wlan interface. It all works - as long as i disable
NetworkManager (netplugd works)...
If i start the NetworkManager service, the whole computer seems to
freeze about one secound, and then its fine for about a secound...
Something which makes the laptop unusable. "top" shows "NetworkManager"
running with 50% CPU. Hmm.. I smell a bug...
I also can't find any way to start that nifty little tray applet...
Kyrre
19 years, 2 months
Using consolehelper/userhelper
by Remco Poelstra
Hi,
I asked the following question on fedora-list, but didn't receive an
answer. I hope someone here can help me.
I was looking for a system-install-packages sort of program that could
resolve dependencies via yum. I couldn't find any, but since I believe
Fedora/Redhat will provide one eventually, I thought of making a quick
hack to get it done.
I wrote a python script, which calls yum in a gnome-terminal. I then
copied the configuration from system-install-packages. When I now run my
program, all I get is a 'The password you typed is invalid. Please try
again'. It didn't even ask me a password....
What did I do wrong? When I start system-install-packages, it works all
perfect.
So more info:
--------------
$ ls -lh /usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 2 23:10 /usr/bin/system-install-packages
-> consolehelper
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 3 20:54 /usr/bin/uniXp-install-packages
-> consolehelper
--------------
$ ls -lh /usr/sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 83 Nov 15 18:29 /usr/sbin/system-install-packages
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 233 Jan 4 00:16 /usr/sbin/uniXp-install-packages
--------------
$ ls -lh /etc/security/console.apps/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Nov 15 18:29 system-install-packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Jan 3 20:50 uniXp-install-packages
--------------
$ ls -lh /etc/pam.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 276 Nov 15 18:29 system-install-packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 276 Jan 3 20:50 uniXp-install-packages
--------------
$ cat /usr/sbin/uniXp-install-packages
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
os.execvp('gnome-terminal',['gnome-terminal','-x','sh','-c','yum install
test; sleep 5'])
--------------
Of course the script doesn't do anything usefull at the moment, but I
like to get it working this way first....
Does anybody have any idea what I did wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Remco Poelstra
19 years, 2 months
4G/4G kernel patch dropped
by Kenneth Porter
I just saw the announcement of a new Fedora kernel with this change note:
> A large change over previous kernels has been made. The 4G:4G memory
> split patch has been dropped, and Fedora kernels now revert back to
> the upstream 3G:1G kernel/userspace split.
A bit of googling indicates that the 4G:4G patch is needed for systems with
a lot of RAM (eg. 32 GB or more) because the kernel memory tables scale
with the size of physical memory and a 32 GB system uses 0.5 GB for the
table, half the kernel space available to a 3G:1G system. A 64 GB system
won't boot because all of kernel memory is needed for the table.
<http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.1/0246.html>
Was this reversion done for performance or for some other reason? I'd guess
most consumer systems won't need 4G:4G as they won't have anything like
that much memory, and it only makes sense for an enterprise class server.
19 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20050105 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
bison-2.0-1
-----------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 2.0-1
- new upstream version
cups-1:1.1.23-1
---------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.1.23-1
- 1.1.23.
ethereal-0.10.8-2
-----------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal(a)redhat.com> 0.10.8-2
- fixed linking for libethereal.so
exim-4.43-4
-----------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com> 4.43-4
- Fix buffer overflows in host_aton() and SPA authentication
gnome-speech-0.3.5-5
--------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.3.5-5
- New patch gnome-speech-0.3.5-java-configure.patch to
allow to explicitly disable Java
- Use it
- New patch gnome-speech-0.3.5-no-gnome-common.patch
gnutls-1.0.20-5
---------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> 1.0.20-5
- add gnutls Requires zlib-devel (#144069)
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050105
---------------------------
ruby-1.8.2-1
------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1.8.2-1
- New upstream release.
- ruby-1.8.1-ia64-stack-limit.patch: removed - it's no longer needed.
- ruby-1.8.1-cgi_session_perms.patch: likewise.
- ruby-1.8.1-cgi-dos.patch: likewise.
- generated Ruby interactive documentation - senarated package.
it's now provided as ri package. (#141806)
selinux-policy-strict-1.19.16-1
-------------------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-16-1
- Update to latest from NSA
selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.16-1
---------------------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-16-1
- Update to latest from NSA
sylpheed-1.0.0-1
----------------
* Wed Jan 05 2005 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.0-1
- New upstream release.
system-config-display-1.0.25-1
------------------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.0.25-1
- Only merge hardware_state if defined (#143944)
- Only print card if verbose (#143271)
system-config-services-0.8.17-1
-------------------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 0.8.17-1
- throw away stderr to not be confused by error messages (#142983)
totem-0.100-2
-------------
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> - 0.100-2
- Grab patch totem-0.100-desktopfile.patch from CVS to fix
missing menu entry (144088)
- Remove workaround for desktop file being misinstalled, fixed
by above patch
xchat-1:2.4.1-2
---------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 1:2.4.1-2
- Add Dan Reed's CTCP patch to support multiline messages (#136545)
xscreensaver-1:4.18-16
----------------------
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:4.18-16
- Add patch to spec file to change defaults
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:4.18-15
- Remove xscreensaver-config-tool after some discussions with
jwz.
- Take out some additional screensavers
19 years, 2 months
kernel 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 and gdb
by Tyler Larson
When attempting to debug any program while using the newest kernel
(2.6.9-1.724) under FC3, I invariably get the following error
immediately upon executing the program:
warning: Child process unexpectedly missing: No child processes
Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.
The program no longer exists.
I'm no kernel hacker and have no idea where the problem might lie,
or what package needs to be fixed. But I've tested this problem with
the same result on two boxes with very different hardware configurations.
Below is a transcript of replicating this problem, just in case there's
some detail you can spot that I missed.
--------------------------------------------------------------
[tylerl@tyler2 ~]$ cat >test.c<<END
> int main(int argc,char *argv[]) {
> return 0;
> }
> END
[tylerl@tyler2 ~]$ gcc -g test.c -o test
[tylerl@tyler2 ~]$ gdb test
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db
library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/tylerl/test
warning: Child process unexpectedly missing: No child processes
Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal.
The program no longer exists.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb)
19 years, 2 months