libbind vs. libc & libresolv problems
by Adam Tkac
Hi all,
with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441429 this problem
became serious. We have two DNS resolver related libraries - libbind
from ISC on the one side and on the other side libc + libresolv from
GNU libc. Both libraries contains same symbols, does same work but
GNU libc implementation hides some symbols whose are sometimes needed
and this is reason why people linking against libbind (GNU libc is
stripped libbind source). Bug written above is one example that this
situation has to be solved. When program is linked against NSS and
also against libbind for example (because glibc doesn't provide such
interfaces) all gets broken because both libraries have same symbols
but uses different structures. Best fix is agreement between ISC and
GNU libc upstreams who will use that symbols and who will rename them.
I know this is only dream and it will take very long time (I'm sure
ISC will never change libbind and change in glibc is also nearly
impossible). So there are two ways how solve this problem - make
needed symbols from glibc public and don't link anything against
libbind or drop resolving support from libc and link all against
libbind. I vote for libbind as default resolver library because
maintenance cost of unsupported code in glibc downstream is bigger
than cost of stripped version of glibc. Any hints and ideas around
this problem are welcomed. What's your opinion?
Regards, Adam
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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.
16 years, 1 month
asm/user.h gone AWOL?
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
I'm trying to rebuild mono-debugger but it's failing due
to /usr/include/asm/user.h being missing. I have both the kernel-headers
and glibc-devel packages installed (looking around, it appears the file
belongs in one of these two packages), but nothing.
Any ideas where it lives now?
TTFN
Paul
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16 years, 1 month
pruning the fonts list
by Bill Nottingham
When looking over the LiveCD manifest, and where space is going, I
can't help but notice that a lot of it goes to fonts. Here's the
full list, AFAICT. The number to the left is the size of the package.
I think a good chunk of this could be pruned.
1) Fonts not used by any fontconfig app. I don't think we
ship any apps that aren't fontconfig users on the livecd (and
if we do, we shouldn't...)
7140551 xorg-x11-fonts-misc
3417965 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
1070826 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi
1066029 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi
301748 fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi
2) Bitmap fonts, which almost certainly won't be pulled in
by fontconfig by default.
27332191 fonts-japanese
9241059 baekmuk-bdf-fonts
7049492 bitmap-fonts
1970046 taipeifonts
3) Everything else. These are probably OK. :)
20925196 cjkunifonts-uming
17639727 cjkunifonts-ukai
15613489 dejavu-fonts
13939722 baekmuk-ttf-fonts-batang
10385374 baekmuk-ttf-fonts-gulim
3831790 VLGothic-fonts-proportional
3831447 VLGothic-fonts
3066338 baekmuk-ttf-fonts-dotum
3008781 thaifonts-scalable
2002144 culmus-fonts
1865190 liberation-fonts
1271487 kacst-fonts
1203754 baekmuk-ttf-fonts-hline
966835 paktype-fonts
883992 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
775248 stix-fonts
270427 sarai-fonts
177606 lohit-fonts-telugu
162025 samyak-fonts-devanagari
157561 samyak-fonts-oriya
157390 lohit-fonts-bengali
137277 samyak-fonts-gujarati
113638 lohit-fonts-oriya
97894 lohit-fonts-gujarati
96778 lohit-fonts-hindi
85301 samyak-fonts-tamil
83406 lohit-fonts-tamil
82905 samyak-fonts-malayalam
79482 lohit-fonts-malayalam
39898 lohit-fonts-punjabi
Bill
16 years, 1 month
Fedora 9 Preview: Successful Install Report
by Peter Gordon
I downloaded and installed the Fedora 9 ("Sulphur") Preview release over
the weekend, replacing my current F-8 installation. The following is a
report of my experiences with it, so far.
My hardware is Smolt UUID 6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833 [1].
Anaconda: Everything went fabulously. I easily saved my /home partition
and re-sized some others (all ext3) before installing. The install
actually seemed to take significantly less time than the same Fedora 8
configuration (same box); but I don't know how much of that is
subjective and how much is actually quicker. =)
(Please note, though, that I do not use LVM, nor did I try encrypted
partitions. I don't have a need for either of those options.)
X/RHGB: Beautiful. The new theme work is brilliant. I did not notice any
flicker when starting X initially. It recognized my G965 onboard and
properly used the intel driver. 3-D and XVideo acceleration work as
expected.
Firstboot: No errors or faults. Since I kept my /home partition from the
F8 installation, I rather like how it warned me about the user directory
already existing when I re-created the 'pgordon' user for myself. (Was
that in previous releases?)
Input: Setting up the caps-lock as a compose key for diacritics
(Spanish) was simple as it has always been though GNOME's keyboard
preferences capplet. Getting Japanese input with SCIM was a bit more of
a hassle though. For some reason, even though installed just about
everything I could find SCIM-/Anthy-related, im-chooser still errored
with a "No input methods found" message when I tried to select it.
However, I updated everything to current rawhide using PackageKit and
rebooted; and SCIM+Anthy once again works beautifully and as expected
(Romaji method). My Wacom BambooFun tablet also worked beautifully with
no effort on my part, whereas I had to manually compile and use the
linuxwacom stuff in F8.
(On a side note, I had stability issues with SCIM+Epiphany in F8; but
try as I may, I have yet to be able to produce the same issues on my
Sulphur install.)
PackageKit/PolicyKit: WONDERFUL. I love the work you developers are
doing with these things. The only regression I saw from Pirut/Yumex is
that there was no way to select and install multiple packages at once.
However, I found after some experimenting that I was able to easily
select one package, click Install, then select others and click Install
again, and they would be queued as sequential transactions. Spiffy.
NetworkManager: Another awesome feature. I had been using this in F8,
but with Sulphur, I found it much simpler to edit my DNS settings
through its GUI connection editor [2], instead of having to hardcode a
bunch of IP addresses in /etc/sysconfig files. My home Wi-Fi (802.11b)
works beautifully, and NetworkManager takes care of the nasty
configuration stuffs for me. \o/
SELinux: Happily does its job and stays out of my way, as it should.
I've noticed only that I have yet to notice anything from it, which is a
very good sign. =)
Swfdec: YouTube works beautifully "out of the box" after installing the
various swfdec packages through Anaconda. Yay!
Sulphur is looking AWESOME so far; but I will be sure to file any bugs
should they arise in my using it. =]
[1] http://www.smolts.org/client/show_all/pub_6059d15d-2980-42a7-8027-525b1ec25833
[2] My ISP's DNS is horrendously slow, so I have all of our computers
at home set to use OpenDNS's namservers. Much nicer...
--
Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint:
DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479
16 years, 1 month
F9 and critical Firefox bug 429903 (bmo)
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429903
This is a pretty high profile bug with a lot of activity at the moment and
that has been marked as a blocker:
Mike Shaver: "I tried to convince myself that we would ship with this, but
I don't think we can -- ABP and NoScript are too widely used, and the
failure mode is too painful. Marking blocking, with a heavy heart."
This should probably be tracked closely and any pending fix be incorporated
into the F9 release if possible.
Regards,
Dennis
16 years, 1 month
Extra branch noise
by Jesse Keating
Turns out about 200 packages didn't get branched for F-9 (and there was
no errors either, grr).
I'm doing those now, and instead of incurring another outage, we'll just
let the mail get noisy for a bit. Sorry bout this folks.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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