dictionaries, aspell/myspell/hunspell and so on.
by Caolán McNamara
Spell checking in our desktop is sort of a bit messy.
At the moment OpenOffice.org 2.0.X uses hunspell, the successor of
"myspell". Our OOo build has these hunspell libs as part of the OOo
install.
The various hunspell dictionaries are then bundled in each OOo langpack.
I see that our Fedora Thunderbird contains a copy of myspell lib, but no
bundled dictionaries (?) So it's a unfortunate that OOo has dictionaries
for a pile of languages which thunderbird is unaware of, but would be
able to use without (probably) too much effort.
And then we have our traditional aspell and the various aspell
dictionaries.
Recently I see that vim has added some sort of support for using the OOo
hunspell/myspell dictionaries,
(http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/README.txt)
But I'm not sure what our fedora vim's status is here re that.
So, here's the hunspell webpage http://hunspell.sourceforge.net
and some commentary on aspell/hunspell/myspell and firefox
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/016618.html
So what would be our *ideal* situation here ?
>From my side it'd be something like...
a) standalone hunspell (easy)
b) OOo uses standalone hunspell (easy, maybe a bit of tweaking
to autodetect system install dictionaries instead of existing config
files)
c) firefox/thunderbird migrates from myspell to hunspell
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319778) and
autodetects available dictionaries
d) something or other is done to sanity-ify the vim usage of the
hunspell dictionaries to use them directly to avoid the rather baroque
procedure of the vim spell README (?)
e) someone else maintains the various hunspell per-language dictionaries
as separate rpms :-)
f) migrate other stuff from aspell to hunspell ? Add some aspell
compatibility stuff to hunspell to be a drop in replacement for aspell ?
Keep aspell, tweak it to handle hunspell dictionaries ? Ignore that the
hunspell dictionaries are just extended aspell dictionaries, and keep
the parallel set of aspell format dictionaries and aspell.
C.
17 years, 7 months
x server not reading xorg.conf?
by Jason Dravet
Does anyone else running rawhide have the problem of X not seeming to read
xorg.conf? I updated the xorg.conf so my monitor runs at my preferred
resolution. I also had to update the xorg.conf file so my 5 button MS
intellimouse would work properly, I copied my working xorg.conf from FC5 to
rawhide but X does not seem to read it so I don't have my preffered
resolution and my mouse forward and back buttons don't work.
Thanks,
Jason
17 years, 7 months
My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C
by Gilboa Davara
Hello all,
This bug has been originally reported against yum/FC3 by Rahul Sundaram
and continues to thrive...
In essence, once yum begins to download files, it misinterprets Ctrl-C
as "Mirror switch" instead of "Cancel", leaving the user no direct way
to halt yum.
(I usually suspend yum [Ctrl-Z] and then kill it using "killall -9 yum"
which is -far- from being an ideal solution).
Any chance of getting this fixed before FC6?
Gilboa
17 years, 7 months
Libburn umbrella project
by Mario
Libburn umbrella project
The project comprises of several more or less interdependent parts which
together strive to be a usable foundation for application development.
These are libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries which emulate
classical (and valuable) Linux tools.
Our scope is currently Linux 2.4 and 2.6. That might chance in the future to
support other operating systems like BSD, Solaris, and Mac, tho we
are not sure about this at this moment.
We do have a workable code base for burning data and audio CDs. The burn API is
quite comprehensively documented (http://libburn-api.pykix.org) and
can be used to build a presentable application.
We do have a functional binary which emulates parts of cdrecord in order to
prove that usability, and in order to allow you to explore libburn's scope
by help of existing cdrecord frontends.
The project components (list subject to growth, hopefully):
- libburn is the library by which preformatted data get onto optical media.
It uses either /dev/sgN (e.g. on kernel 2.4 with ide-scsi) or
/dev/hdX (e.g. on kernel 2.6).
libburn is the foundation of our cdrecord emulation.
- libisofs is the library to pack up hard disk files and directories into a
ISO 9660 disk image. This may then be brought to CD via libburn.
libisofs is to be the foundation of our upcoming mkisofs
emulation (genisofs).
- cdrskin is a limited cdrecord compatibility wrapper for libburn.
Cdrecord is a powerful GPL'ed burn program included in Joerg
Schilling's cdrtools. cdrskin strives to be a second source for
the services traditionally provided by cdrecord.
cdrskin does not contain any bytes copied from cdrecord's sources.
Many bytes have been copied from the message output of cdrecord
runs, though.
See cdrskin/README for more.
- test is a collection of application gestures and examples given by the
authors of the library features. The main API example for libburn
is test/libburner.c .
Explore these examples if you look for inspiration.
We are also currently working on building a python extension (python
2.5) for libburn and libisofs libraries, and we hope we'll be able to
release at least libburn ones along with
our semi-stable 0.2.1 release.
What we are working on here isn't meant to be alternative to schily
stuff, it is meant to be a replacement, and it should also provide
backward compatibility to schily mkisofs and cdrecord thanks to
genisofs (yet to be started), and cdrskin.
Outside our tests, you can try cdrskin with any application which uses cdrecord.
For example you could try to burn a cd with k3b using cdrskin/libburn.
If you want instructions how to talk k3b into doing so, please ask.
Brasero 0.4.90 also has quite functional libburn/libisofs backend if you want
to try it out. http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Brasero
The project webpage is currently situated at http://libburn.pykix.org
The project could need advise from or membership of skilled kernel
people and people who know how to talk CD/DVD drives into doing
things. Nevertheless, there are a lot of areas where you can
contribute as a developer even if you are not into kernel or talking
cd/dvd drives to do things, there are always genisofs, cdrskin,
libisofs, and not-so-low-lever parts of libburn. We also welcome ruby,
perl, c#/mono folks to create language bindings/extensions. The
project could also use testing efforts and bug reports.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Kind regards,
Mario
17 years, 7 months
Broken update path of ypbind in FC5
by Dmitry Butskoy
On 2006.08.07 an update to ypbind for FC5 has appeared: "ypbind-1.19-1".
After that, on 2006.08.21 a new update has been released: "ypbind-1.19-0.2".
Because of "0.2 < 1" in release field, this update takes no effect with
yum-automated updating etc.
Bugzilla ticket for this is #203361
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203361>
It is already third precedent of such issues, see (now closed) #199247
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/199247> and #199248
<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/199248>
The strange situation for me is that this issue was fixed for "rawhide"
only.
After some amount of persistence just the binary "1.19-0.2" rpm for i386
has been removed (i.e. the update has been cancelled), but "1.19-0.2" is
still present for ppc, x86_64 and SRPMS ...
This situation confuses me a little. My doubts is:
- Is it a right way to do such amount of my activity for this kind of bugs?
- What user should do in such case: just ignore the update or to update
manually (rpm --force) ?
- Why I'm the only man who catch such kinds of bug? Whether other people
see it too, or just think that it is not noteworthy?
- Does anybody use ypbind at all? :) If yes, what version now exactly?
Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
--------
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
RHCE
17 years, 7 months
Wishlist: remote install GUI
by Steven Pritchard
A thought came up on IRC earlier that I thought I should record
somewhere:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StevenPritchard/InstallConsole
To summarize, back in the late 90s when I was an HP-UX admin, I
thought that one of the nicer tools HP made was something called
Ignite-UX. It was a GUI that could be used to remotely start an
install of HP-UX. On several occasions, I used to it completely
reinstall dozens of HP-UX workstations all at once.
I think something similar for Fedora would be Really Cool, and I'm
convinced it would be fairly easy to implement by someone who knew
anaconda much, much better than I do. :-)
Steve
--
Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc.
Email: steve(a)kspei.com http://www.kspei.com/
Phone: (618)398-3000 Mobile: (618)567-7320
17 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20060906 changes
by Build System
Removed package eclipse-pydev
Updated Packages:
amanda-2.5.0p2-3
----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 2.5.0p2-3
- move libamclient-*.so to the base rpm, so that multilib support works.
This fixes
bz#205202 File conflicts
anaconda-11.1.0.92-1
--------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 11.1.0.92-1
- fix the build some more
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 11.1.0.91-1
- build fix (pjones)
- traceback fix (dcantrel)
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 11.1.0.90-1
- Update for newer iscsi code
- Fix with yum API change
- More files to restorecon (clumens)
- Don't crash with duplicate repos (clumens)
- Back to clearlooks (notting)
- dmraid for dmraid, not kpartx (pjones)
aqbanking-2.1.0-8
-----------------
* Fri Sep 01 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.0-8
- fix multilib conficts (#205204)
bind-30:9.3.2-40.fc6
--------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> - 30:9.3.2-40
- suppressed messages from bind-chroot-admin
- cleared notes about bind-config
evolution-2.8.0-1.fc6
---------------------
* Mon Sep 04 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1.fc6
- Update to 2.8.0
- Remove patch for RH bug #197868 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #201541 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #201831 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #202383 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #203036 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for Gnome.org bug #352248 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for Gnome.org bug #352423 (fixed upstream).
- Update patch for Gnome.org bug #351332 (partially fixed upstream).
* Thu Aug 31 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.7.92-8.fc6
- Add patch for RH bug #203036.
- Disable notification-cleanups patch.
evolution-connector-2.8.0-1.fc6
-------------------------------
* Mon Sep 04 2006 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1.fc6
- Update to 2.8.0
- Remove patch for Gnome.org bug #349949 (fixed upstream).
fedora-logos-1.1.49-1.fc6
-------------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 John (J5) Palmieri <johnp(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.49-1
- New graphics for fc6
- Remove the 4:3 background and add 5:4 ratio background
gamin-0.1.7-6.fc6
-----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 0.1.7-6
- Remove last regular timers from gamin
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 0.1.7-5
- Use sigaction to reset old signal handler (from cvs)
- New inotify backend from cvs (based on gnome-vfs code)
- Only create timer on demand
- This should fix #204906
glibc-2.4.90-29
---------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.4.90-29
- randomize resolver query ids before use instead after use (#205113)
- fix resolver symver checking with DT_GNU_HASH (#204909)
- put .hash section in glibc libraries at the end of RO segment
when .gnu.hash is present
gmime-2.2.3-3.fc6
-----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.2.3-3
- fix gmime-config multilib conflict (#205208)
gnome-menus-2.16.0-2.fc6
------------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> - 2.16.0-2.fc6
- Remove menu editor (bug 205210)
gtk2-2.10.3-1.fc6
-----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.10.3-1.fc6
- Update to 2.10.3
* Fri Sep 01 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.10.2-6.fc6
- Fix a problem with entering Hangul in entries
* Thu Aug 31 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.10.2-5.fc6
- Fix problems with listing printers
- Stop cursor blinking after a while, to save energy
guile-5:1.8.0-8.20060831cvs
---------------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> - 5:1.8.0-8.20060831cvs
- make triggerin scriptlet a bit safer
gwenhywfar-2.3.0-3
------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.0-3
- fix multilib conflicts (#205213)
initscripts-8.39-1
------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.39-1
- translation updates
- Handle partitions on multipath/dmraid better (<pjones(a)redhat.com>)
- make /dev/mapper/control ourselves (<pjones(a)redhat.com>)
- init.d/network: simplify 'status' call
- fix actual 169.254 networks (#203591)
- rc.sysinit: don't run vgscan (#191879)
- init.d/halt: don't umount /dev/root<foo> (<oblin(a)mandriva.com>)
- rc.sysinit: catch more dmraid errors (#200683)
- support 'tmp' option in /etc/crypttab (#201382, <mitr(a)redhat.com>,
<lv(a)lekv.de>)
- IPv6 updates (<pb(a)bieringer.de>, includes a fix for #143452)
kudzu-1.2.53-1
--------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.53-1
- don't build/ship module_upgrade
libtiff-3.8.2-6.fc6
-------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 3.8.2-6
- fix CVE-2006-2193, tiff2pdf buffer overflow (#194362)
- fix typo in man page for tiffset (#186297)
- use %{?dist}
libvirt-0.1.5-3
---------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.1.5-3
- patch from danpb to support new-format cd devices for HVM guests
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 0.1.5-2
- reactivating ia64 support
mailcap-2.1.23-1.fc6
--------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 2.1.23-1
- add video/x-flv to mime.types (#205239)
man-pages-ja-20060815-2
-----------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 20060815-2
- man-pages-ja-20060815-204667-nfs.5.patch: fixed nfs.5
- man-pages-ja-20060815-204664-write.2.patch: fixed write.2
- man-pages-ja-20060815-178955-at.1.patch: fixed at.1
openssl-0.9.8b-6
----------------
* Sat Sep 09 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> 0.9.8b-6
- fix CVE-2006-4339 - prevent attack on PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures (#205180)
openssl097a-0.9.7a-8
--------------------
* Sat Sep 09 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> 0.9.7a-8
- fix CVE-2006-4339 - prevent attack on PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures (#205180)
pirut-1.1.12-1
--------------
* Wed Sep 06 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.12-1
- minor fix
* Wed Sep 06 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.11-1
- Some minor fixes
- Catch a download error (#204957)
- Clean up after cancelling the dep check (#205027)
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.10-1
- Don't pop up the puplet notification more than once
- Some updates for yum API deprecations
pkgconfig-1:0.21-1.fc6
----------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:0.21-1.fc6
- Update to 0.21
policycoreutils-1.30.28-2
-------------------------
* Fri Sep 01 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.30.28-2
- Apply patch
readahead-1:1.3-2
-----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 1:1.3-2
- update lists of files
scim-1.4.4-34.fc6
-----------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.4-34
- remove dist tag from xorg-x11-xinit requires
- remove scim-bridge-qt from xinput script for now
- buildrequire gettext instead of gettext-devel
* Fri Sep 01 2006 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.4-33
- update xinput.d script for scim-bridge
- improvements to menu and full/half width icons (Andy Fitzsimon)
* Thu Aug 24 2006 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.4-32
- revert tray icon to a button to get transparency working (#198259)
- better full/half icons (Andy Fitzsimon)
- silence remove of old alternatives (#203794)
selinux-policy-2.3.12-1
-----------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.3.12-1
- Update to upstream
sendmail-8.13.8-2
-----------------
* Mon Sep 04 2006 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- unify sendmail.mc
- remove version information from sendmail helpfile
system-config-bind-4.0.1-1.fc6
------------------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> - 4.0.1-1
- package version bump
thunderbird-0:1.5.0.5-5
-----------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.0.5-5
- Update nopangoxft.patch
- Fix rendering of MathML thanks to Behdad Esfahbod.
- Update start page text to reflect the MathML fixes.
- Enable pango by default on all locales
- Build using -rpath
- Re-enable GCC visibility
tomboy-0.4.0-3.fc6
------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.0-1
- Update to 0.4.0
vim-2:7.0.086-1
---------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 7.0.086-1
- Patchlevel 86
* Mon Sep 04 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 7.0.083-1
- Patchlevel 83
vixie-cron-4:4.1-64.fc6
-----------------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano(a)redhat.com> - 4:4.1-64
- include system-auth for session in crond.pam, it now avoids
using pam_unix if the process is crond
xen-3.0.2-33
------------
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-33
- update pvfb patch based on upstream feedback
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-31
- re-enable ia64.
* Thu Aug 31 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-31
- update to changeset 11405
yum-2.9.6-1
-----------
* Wed Sep 06 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.6-1
- update to 2.9.6
* Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.5-5
- update to current CVS snap (20060906) in advance of the final 2.9.6 tarball
- bring back the installonlyn fixes
Broken deps for ia64
----------------------------------------------------------
virt-manager - 0.2.1-1.ia64 requires python-xeninst >= 0:0.90.1
xen - 3.0.2-33.ia64 requires python-xeninst
17 years, 7 months
Advanced mdadm options supported in FC6 ?
by Davide Bolcioni
Greetings,
I was wondering if some of the "advanced" options in md(4), e.g.
write-behind and write-mostly for RAID, are going to be supported
in FC 6 Anaconda/Disk Druid ?
Thank you for your consideration,
Davide Bolcioni
--
There is no place like /home.
17 years, 7 months
Re: default font "fixed" in xorg 7.1
by Dan Horák
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:59:54 -0400
>> But doesn't the situation without the %{_x11fontdir}/misc directory
>> mean, that there was not any fonts.dir (or any other) file created in
>> this directory normally during the postinstall script? That the
>> uninstall process will remove all files (*.pcf.gz and fonts.alias) and
>> also the misc directory? For example when postinstall script failed?
>
>The change above only affects the uninstall case where we're really
>uninstalling the package (as opposed to uninstalling as part of an upgrade).
>The script in the if-case is run after uninstalling to update the fonts.dir.
>The change makes sure that we don't run mkfontdir if the uninstall actually
>removed that directory. Some font packages share a font directory (such as
>the misc directory) so uninstalling a font package doesn't necessarily remove
>the directory, in which case we need to regenerate fonts.dir.
I have done a rebuild of the tinyerp package in mock. The xorg-x11-fonts-package should be OK, but the problem must in the Xvfb server binary. When running Xvfb without explicit -fp it cannot find the "fixed" font. But when I add "-fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc", it runs OK. Looking into the Xvfb binary with strings found out that it really doesn't know any font path. There is no /usr/share/X11/fonts or the X default /usr/lib/X11/fonts path encoded in the binary. Looks like I will do a bugreport into Bugzilla.
Dan
17 years, 7 months