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NetworkManager-openvpn-1:0.7.0-10.svn3632.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1:0.7.0-10.svn3632
- Fix issue with location of the VPN plugin
PackageKit-0.1.12-10.20080505.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.1.12-10.20080505
- Pull in the new snapshot from the stable PACKAGEKIT_0_1_X branch.
- Fixes rh#445086, which should be a release blocker IMO.
allegro-4.2.2-10.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> 4.2.2-10
- Look for /etc/timidity.cfg instead of /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg,
as the latter is no longer available now that Fedora has switched from
timidity++-patches to PersonalCopy-Lite-patches
glibc-2.8-3
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* Mon May 05 2008 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.8-3
- don't run telinit u in %post if both /dev/initctl and
/sbin/initctl exist (#444978)
- workaround GCC ppc64 miscompilation of c{log{,10},acosh,atan}l
(#444996)
mesa-7.1-0.29.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 7.1-0.29
- mesa-7.1-f9-intel-and-radeon-fixes.patch - Update mesa
package with cherrypicked fixes from master.
- Fixes numerous i965 3D issues
- Fixes compiz on rs48x and rs690 radeon chipsets
ntfs-3g-2:1.2506-1.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 2:1.2506-1
- update to 1.2506
texlive-2007-30.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 2007-30
- fix SELinux contexts everywhere possible, don't allow restorecon
to fail (#444922)
- add missing post/postun scriptlets for subpackages
* Mon Apr 21 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 2007-29
- run restorecon on /var/lib/texmf to avoid access denials
if SELinux is in enforcing mode (#443286, #442161)
* Tue Mar 18 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 2007-28
- xelatex requires xdvipdfmx
texlive-texmf-2007-22.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 2007-22
- release++ to fix tagging issues
* Mon May 05 2008 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> - 2007-21
- fix SELinux contexts everywhere possible, don't allow restorecon
to fail (#444922)
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-24.fc9
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* Tue May 06 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.2.1-24
- fix xinf file to include IGD
xorg-x11-server-1.4.99.901-28.20080415.fc9
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* Mon May 05 2008 Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com> 1.4.99.901-28.20080415
- xserver-1.5.0-compiz-clip-fix.patch: Make compiz stop blinking every
so often. (#441219)
* Mon May 05 2008 Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com> 1.4.99.901-27.20080415
- xserver-1.5.0-hal-closedown.patch: Fix a crash in the hal code when
closing a device.
Broken deps for ppc64
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livecd-tools-016-1.fc9.ppc64 requires yaboot
perl-Test-AutoBuild-darcs-1.2.2-3.fc9.noarch requires darcs >= 0:1.0.0
ppc64-utils-0.14-2.fc9.ppc64 requires yaboot
sectool-gui-0.6.0-1.noarch requires sectool = 0:0.6.0-1
16 years
Help a little, make Fedora 10 a lot better
by Nicolas Mailhot
Mission accomplished?
=====================
It's the half-year mark, a final package set is being spun, blocking
problems have been resolved, the sky is blue… People can now focus on
this version release parties right?
WRONG
It's time to think of the NEXT version release parties. And how to make
the next Fedora version rock so much the parties will be HUGE. In
particular, care of issues that will need a full release cycle to mature
before the next release.
We're not there (yet)
=====================
Such as… fonts. Fedora inherited from Red Hat Linux an impeccable
American server OS pedigree. Unfortunately it also inherited
its American server OS limits. Massive non-English Linux desktop
deployments often use Debian or Debian derivatives. Meanwhile we discuss
English locales support.
Why fonts?
==========
More than flash or mp3 support we need more fonts, so the text that
makes most of our UI renders fine. It does not matter how many cool
features the Desktop team adds in the next cycle — if the UI text
screams to the user “I hate you” he won't install better fonts manually.
He'll switch to a competitor that deploys Fedora-developed features with
nice fonts.
Why fonts? (really)
===================
We need more artsy fonts so the art team can produce all kinds of cool
promotional Fedora material (including release party flyers).
We need more international fonts so regions where the Fedora presence is
currently nil can join the partying.
We need more fonts so the work of all the non-server SIGs is properly
appreciated.
Over all, we need more fonts so users can customize their desktop to the
point they can't envision using something else than Fedora.
Why me?
=======
The situation got a little better during the Fedora 9 cycle. But we're
still badly lagging distributions that have been investing in good font
experience for a long time (Debian, Mandriva). And the Fedora 9 effort
was produced by few people, that can not scale indefinitely.
The Fedora font wishlist has 32 entries today. Not counting the public
font lists it references: only fonts someone explicitly requested.
That's more than 2/3 of the total of our currently packaged fonts.
The list is growing, not shrinking. Many entries have half a year
(before we didn't tack them).
Clearly a targeted effort by new packagers is required to fix the
situation by Fedora 10 time.
It's easy!
==========
Font packaging is not hard:
1. we've got good official streamlined packaging guidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Packaging
2. most font upstreams make few releases; you don't have to track them
closely
A font package is perfect for would-be packagers that need to to learn
the ropes on a simple package. A font package is perfect for experienced
packagers that do not have the time to take care of another time-waster.
Let's party!
============
So here's the deal:
A. We need 32 packagers to adopt a font in the SIG wishlist:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline#wishes
(Including fonts best packaged locally. It's a chicken-and-egg problem:
we won't get local packagers before Fedora is attractive enough for them
to join)
B. We need them to package their font by Fedora 10 alpha¹
C. *Then* we can have huge Fedora 10 parties
D. For Fedora 11, repeat with “getting better than the competition” as
objective
¹ So the result can be tested and the eventual buglets resolved
upstream and in fontconfig before the final release
--
Nicolas Mailhot
16 years
Kerneloops?
by Andy Lawrence
Had a Kerneloops message pop up today, said something about a critical
error, didn't bother to tell me what the error was!
Where is this stored, doesn't seem to be in the normal log locations?
--
projecthuh.com
All of my bits are free, are yours? Fedoraproject.org
16 years
Upstream developers mainting there own package in Fedora and nothing else
by Hans de Goede
Hi All,
After the sponsor discussion we recently had, I decided I've been neglecting
the sponsoring and went and took a look at the FE-NEEDSPONSOR queue.
One of the reviews this has got me involved in is fpm2:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444830
This review is special as the upstream developer is submitting the package, and
he has stated that for now he has no interest in doing other Fedora work.
I believe that it is good to have upstream maintain packages for there own
software, even if that is the only thing they do within Fedora, so I've
proposed the following procedure to the submitter:
--
Ok, we currently don't really have any special rules for an upstream maintainer
becoming a maintainer of its own software within Fedora, but this is definitely
something we want. So I would like to propose the following:
1 I review fpm2, you make any necessary changes etc, until I approve fpm2
2 Once fpm2 is approved you can request cvsextras membership in the account-
system and I'll sponsor you
3 Given that you're new at packaging I'll then co-maintain fpm2 with you
(mostly looking over your shoulder I'm more then busy enough as is).
4 Please refrain from touching other peoples packages as you've not been
through the normal showing the ropes process involved in sponsering
5 If you want to submit another package please let me know then we can continue
the sponsor process there.
Does this sound like a plan?
--
And now I'm wondering what others think of this and if maybe we should get some
kinda special procedure for this? This has lead to me thinking that we really
need the special new contributer group which was proposed by I believe Jesse,
which is to be a special group for new contributers which would not give them
access to anything outside their own packages.
Regards,
Hans
16 years
Help with hal-acl-tool crashes?
by Jesse Barnes
I filed 439938 awhile ago, which reports a problem with permissions not being
set correctly on /dev/snd and other devices at login time. If I restart the
HAL daemon after I login, the acls are updated and things work, but in trying
to find a workaround I discovered that hal-acl-tool was crashing (info in the
bug). Anyone have ideas about this? The bug hasn't seen any updates, so I
figured I'd try to get some more eyes on it...
Thanks,
Jesse
16 years
Monodevelop and video card recommedations
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Double pronged email this...
1. Can anyone recommend an AGP card which will allow me to run 3D graphics
without using non-GPL drivers? I want to move away from nVidia for the time
being. Nothing against their cards, just that to use 3D, I need to use their
drivers.
2. Monodevelop (rawhide) currently has a problem - no editor. For that to
work, it has to have gtksourceview2-sharp installed. Currently, this is only
available from the Novell ftp site. Not really a problem, nor is the licence.
However, the package will still need to be approved. Given that monodevelop is
pretty useless without the editor, is there a fast track way to get
gtksourceview2-sharp into rawhide?
TTFN
Paul
--
Programmer, GirlGamer
www.girlgamer.com
16 years
Eclipse Web Tools, Data Tools and EMF
by Mat Booth
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Hi all,
I'd like to eventually get the Web Tools and Data Tools projects for
Eclipse into Fedora, but I see that EMF, which is a prerequisite for
both, has been orphaned in F9.
Does anyone mind if I have a bash at resurrecting the EMF package?
Regards,
Mat
- --
Mat Booth
www.matbooth.co.uk
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16 years
Re: XFCE Spin: gnomebaker instead of brasero?
by Christoph Wickert
Am Montag, den 05.05.2008, 12:22 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > what about gnomebaker instead of brasero? This should remove
> > dependencies on nautilus-burn and gnome-mount and afacs the applications
> > works fine and does everything we need. It still requires gconf and some
> > other gnome stuff, but us will save us some more space.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> I am not so sure about changing the default of a fairly crucial program
> this late. I haven't done any testing with gnomebaker. Perhaps you can
> post to fedora-devel list and gather some opinions?
That's what I did with this mail. Opinions anyone?
>
> Rahul
Christoph
16 years