EPEL Steering Committee's mandate is expiring -- how to move on?
by Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi all!
> The EPEL Steering Committee's mandate for leading EPEL was time-limited
> by FESCo until end of September this year. Well, we are getting closer
> to that date now, so we IMHO should start to discuss how to move on.
> [...]
I just send a mail to fedora-devel-list with this para and some more
details. As most EPEL contributors are likely on that list as well I
avoided to cross-post the mail here and chose to send this heads up here
instead.
If you are not on fedora-devel you can find that mail at:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-August/msg01845.html
Feel free to express you opinion here, but it IMHO would be best for
everyone if we have the discussion just in one place (e.g. fedora-devel).
CU
knurd
16 years, 9 months
Re: rpms/gsm/devel gsm.spec,1.2,1.3
by Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:34:41 -0400, Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann) wrote:
> Author: rathann
>
> Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/gsm/devel
> In directory cvs-int.fedora.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv24408
>
> Modified Files:
> gsm.spec
> Log Message:
> - rebuild for BuildID
> - specfile cleanups
Here's a puzzle to solve:
gsm provides libgsm.so.1
gsm-devel provides libgsm.so.1
required by: ekg - 1.7-1.fc8.i386
required by: ekg2-voip - 0-0.7.20070427.fc8.i386
required by: gsm-tools - 1.0.12-4.fc8.i386
required by: gstreamer-plugins-farsight - 0.12.2-3.fc8.i386
required by: linphone - 1.7.1-2.fc7.i386
required by: sox - 13.0.0-2.i386
required by: ekg - 1.7-1.fc8.i386
required by: ekg2-voip - 0-0.7.20070427.fc8.i386
required by: gsm-tools - 1.0.12-4.fc8.i386
required by: gstreamer-plugins-farsight - 0.12.2-3.fc8.i386
required by: linphone - 1.7.1-2.fc7.i386
required by: sox - 13.0.0-2.i386
$ rpmlsv -p gsm-devel-1.0.12-4.fc8.i386.rpm |grep libgsm
-rwxr-xr-x root root 43548 /usr/lib/libgsm.so
It's not a symlink, but probably a copy of /usr/lib/libgsm.so.1
16 years, 9 months
Idea: easier transition for newcomers from other DEs/OSes
by Martin Sourada
Hi,
It's all about picking default settings new users wish. Imagine a user
who is coming from Windows to Fedora, but he has no clue how linux
works. It would greatly help him if the linux behaved to some extent
similar to Windows - meaning applications look (themes), window's
buttons layout (in this case same), menu layout, keyboard shortcuts etc.
The same for users coming from Mac OS and for users used to Gnome and
switching to KDE and opposite way. The idea is that user selects what he
wants his desktop resemble, and then the usage of the desktop would be
more intuitive to him.
What would we need for that?
1. Check out, how much we can set up GNOME/KDE to look and behave
like other DEs/OSes
2. If some of the stuff which makes this easier is available, but
not in fedora, get it into repository
3. Write a utility that can change the DE's settings to what we
have found in 1.
4. Integrate the utility into anaconda or first boot.
The utility should be pretty straightforward - you will have a bunch of
radio buttons captioned Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X
(dunno version differences though, might need more radio buttons for
that one), GNOME, KDE (for how it should look like) and a two check
boxes with simple description of GNOME and KDE (in the description
should be noted primarily differences between those to, to ease
selection to one who has no idea what GNOME/KDE is; for what will be
used as 'backend').
Just a though... Your opinions? Is it even desirable? Does it make
sense?
Martin
16 years, 9 months
is "ps" broken in rawhide?
by Tom Lane
So I thought I'd be a nice guy and rebuild mysql before the crunch
comes, and behold it doesn't work:
...
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for doxygen... no
checking for pdflatex... no
checking for makeindex... no
checking for icheck... no
checking for ps... ps
checking "how to check if pid exists"... configure: error: Could not find the right ps switches. Which OS is this ?. See the Installation chapter in the Reference Manual.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9309 (%build)
Here's the relevant bit of the mysql configure script:
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking \"how to check if pid exists\"" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking \"how to check if pid exists\"... $ECHO_C" >&6
PS=$ac_cv_path_PS
# Linux style
if $PS p $$ 2> /dev/null | grep `echo $0 | sed s/\-//` > /dev/null
then
FIND_PROC="$PS p \$\$PID | grep -v grep | grep \$\$MYSQLD > /dev/null"
# Solaris
elif $PS -fp $$ 2> /dev/null | grep $0 > /dev/null
The first thing I thought was that ps or sed or grep had disappeared
from the default buildroot, but all three of these are explicitly
reported as found earlier in the configure run. The only other theory
that comes to mind is that ps isn't emitting what it ought to; which
became more probable when I noticed that procps was rebuilt a couple
days ago, but it still doesn't seem real probable.
Could someone who has rawhide tip installed check the behavior of
"ps p $$" ?
If you want to see the failing build job:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=128973
mysql last built successfully two weeks ago, and I hadn't changed
anything except to add BuildRequires: gawk.
regards, tom lane
16 years, 9 months
buildid and g77
by Patrice Dumas
Hello,
I get a failure in Matt rebuilds for cernlib-g77 which is built with
g77:
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /builddir/build/BUILD/cernlib-g77-2006
extracting debug info from /var/tmp/cernlib-g77-2006-17.fc8-root-mockbuild/usr/bin/nyshell-g77
*** ERROR: No build ID note found in /var/tmp/cernlib-g77-2006-17.fc8-root-mockbuild/usr/bin/nyshell-g77
Could it be because it is built with g77?
Is there a workaround?
--
Pat
16 years, 9 months
need help with a intltool problem
by Christoph Wickert
Hi all,
I need help with a build-error I don't understand. gwget doesn't build
any longer on devel with intltool 0.36.1.
> Making all in data
> make[2]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gwget-0.99/data'
> LC_ALL=C ../intltool-merge -s -u -c ../po/.intltool-merge-cache ../po gwget.schemas.in gwget.schemas
> Possible unintended interpolation of @INTLTOOL_ICONV in string at ../intltool-merge line 96.
> Global symbol "@INTLTOOL_ICONV" requires explicit package name at ../intltool-merge line 96.
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ../intltool-merge line 263.
> make[2]: *** [gwget.schemas] Error 9
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gwget-0.99/data'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/gwget-0.99'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.95455 (%build)
>
>
> RPM build errors:
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.95455 (%build)
I the patched intltool-*.in files from the source to 0.36.1, but no
luck, still the same error.
Full buildlog can be found at:
http://linux.dell.com/files/fedora/FixBuildRequires/mock-results-core/i38...
TIA
Christoph
16 years, 9 months
So Cal Linux Expo Announces Women in Open Source Call For Papers
by Gareth J. Greenaway
August 25, 2008
The Linux Expo of Southern California is proud to announce their second Women
in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February 8th, 2008
in conjunction with the 6th Annual So Cal Linux Expo.
Continuing our efforts to encourage women of all ages to be a part of the free
and open source community, we invite you to showcase your work on Free and
Open Source projects. Join us in sharing your accomplishments, success
stories, and advancements.
Past attendees at this event have included women in technology, teachers, and
parents of young girls.
Widespread acceptance of the Linux Expo and participation by the user
community have established SCALE as the premiere Open Source conference in
the Southwest. 2008 marks the sixth year that SCALE has been engaging and
inspiring the open source community. Our event is uniquely community-based
and attracts a wide variety of sponsors, non-profit groups, user groups, and
attendees.
The Call For Papers for the Women In Open Source conference can be found here:
http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/documents/scale6x-wios-cfp.pdf
--
Gareth J. Greenaway | g(a)socallinuxexpo.org
Voice - 877-831-2569 x130
Southern California Linux Expo
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
16 years, 9 months
Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2007-08-25
by Fedora Koji Build System
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 6: 5
clamav-0.88.7-4.fc6
emacs-common-muse-3.11-1.fc6
libextractor-0.5.18a-1.fc6
ntfs-3g-1.810-1.fc6.1
pan-0.132-1.fc6
Changes in Fedora Extras 6:
clamav-0.88.7-4.fc6
-------------------
* Sat Aug 25 2007 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.88.7-4
- fixed DOS in HTML normalizer (backported from 0.91.2)
emacs-common-muse-3.11-1.fc6
----------------------------
* Sat Aug 25 2007 Jonathan G. Underwood <jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> - 3.11-1
- Update to version 3.11
libextractor-0.5.18a-1.fc6
--------------------------
* Sat Aug 25 2007 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.5.18a-1
- updated to 0.5.18a
- renamed 'extract' program to 'libextractor-extract'
- installed info file
ntfs-3g-1.810-1.fc6.1
---------------------
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.810-1
- bump to 1.810
- fix license tag
- rebuild for ppc32
pan-0.132-1.fc6
---------------
* Sat Aug 25 2007 Alexander Dalloz <alex {%} dalloz {*} de> - 1:0.132-1
- Update to 0.132
For more information about the built packages please see the repository
or the Fedora Info Feed: http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/
16 years, 9 months
Removed files
by Adrian Reber
Today i received following email from AIDE on our system:
---------------------------------------------------
Removed files:
---------------------------------------------------
removed: /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K90network
removed: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K90network
finished after 270 seconds
This is Fedora 7 and I have updated it just 2 days before to the latest
updates. I have no idea how this could happen. Does anybody have an
idea. I looked through the changelogs of the updated packages but found
nothing. According to our logs there was nobody logged in as root so
that it is a bit strange that two files have been deleted.
Adrian
16 years, 9 months