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Compose started at Sat Oct 24 06:15:18 UTC 2009
Broken deps for ppc64
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python-mwlib-0.11.2-3.20090522hg2956.fc12.ppc64 requires LabPlot
New package sblim-cim-client2
Java CIM Client library
New package sblim-cmpi-fsvol
SBLIM fsvol instrumentation
New package sblim-cmpi-nfsv4
SBLIM nfsv4 instrumentation
New package sblim-cmpi-sysfs
SBLIM sysfs instrumentation
New package sblim-gather
SBLIM Gatherer
New package sblim-tools-libra
SBLIM Common Resource Access Library for WBEM-SMT tasks
Updated Packages:
DeviceKit-power-012-1.fc12
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* Mon Oct 19 2009 Richard Hughes <richard(a)hughsie.com> - 012-1
- Update to 012
- Detect encrypted swap and prevent hibernate in this case.
- When we do a delayed refresh, actually do 5 x 1 second apart rather
than 1 x 3 seconds which should fix some slow battery devices.
Perlbal-1.70-4.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.70-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PyAmanith-0.3.35-8.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.35-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PyKDE-3.16.3-2.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.16.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PyQuante-1.6.3-2.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PySBIG-0.04-5.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.04-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PySolFC-1.1-9.fc12
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
PySolFC-cardsets-1.1-5.2
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* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1-5.2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
anaconda-12.39-1.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 12.39-1
- More udev fixups for device-mapper and cryptsetup temp devices. (dlehman)
(#526699)
- Use rpm to determine how to set bootloader args and default runlevel
(clumens) (#527520)
- Handle more than x.y version numbers in 'make bumpver'. (dcantrell)
- Mark live device as protected instead of ignoring it. (dlehman) (#517260)
- Don't force logical with a free primary slot and an extended. (dlehman)
(#527952)
- Write LAYER2 and PORTNO correctly as parts of OPTIONS to ifcfg for s390x
(Steffen Maier)
- liveinst: deactivate mdraid arrays before running liveinst (hansg)
(#528235)
corosync-1.1.2-1.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.2-1
- New upstream release fixes major regression on specific loads
eclipse-findbugs-1.3.9-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Jerry James <loganjerry(a)gmail.com> - 1.3.9-2
- Remove explicit versions from the manifest to match the symlinks (bz 530512)
eclipse-setools-3.3.5.1-3.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Dennis Gilmore <denis(a)ausil.us> - 3.3.5.1-3
- bump and tag to get the correct sources file in place
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.3.5.1-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Mar 05 2009 Dave Sugar <dsugar(a)tresys.com> - 3.3.5.1-1
- Update to setools 3.3.5 release
environment-modules-3.2.7b-4.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> - 3.2.7b-4
- Don't load bash init script when bash is running as "sh" (bug #529745)
eqntott-9.0-2.fc12
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evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Lucian Langa <cooly(a)gnome.eu.org> - 0.1.4-5
- add patch2 to fix loading of icons (gtk refuses to load icons with size 0)
farsight2-0.0.16-1.fc12
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* Tue Oct 06 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.16-1
- Update to 0.0.16.
fbreader-0.10.7-4.fc12
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* Sat Oct 17 2009 Michel Salim <salimma(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.7-4
- Provide virtual packages for each available interface
- Use alternatives to select the user interface (see README.Fedora)
gdb-7.0-3.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> - 7.0-3
- Support multiple directories for `set debug-file-directory' (BZ 528668).
gdm-2.28.1-5.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.28.1-5
- Remove tool tip from login button
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.28.1-4
- Fix autologin window spasms
- Fix autologin timer animation
- Make autologin and multistack play better together
- Add padding to notification tray
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.28.1-3
- Move date from panel to clock tooltip
* Tue Oct 20 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.28.1-1
- Update to 2.28.1
* Tue Oct 20 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 2.28.1-2
- Move shutdown functions to panel from login window
git-1.6.5.1-1.fc12
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* Sat Oct 17 2009 Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> - 1.6.5.1-1
- git-1.6.5.1
* Sun Oct 11 2009 Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> - 1.6.5-1
- git-1.6.5
gnome-desktop-2.28.1-2.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-1
- Update to 2.28.1, translation updates
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-2
- Support proper gamma setting in multihead setups
gnome-screensaver-2.28.0-5.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.28.0-4
- Fix crashes and malfunctions in dynamic multihead situations
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.28.0-5
- Make the dialog ask to be killed after 5 attempts
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.28.0-2
- Use xrandr for gamma fading, if available, to fix fading in
multihead setups
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.28.0-3
- Fix an oversight in the previous patch
gnome-session-2.28.0-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.0-2
- Avoid a crash on certain xsmp error conditions
gnome-utils-2.28.1-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.28.1-1
- Update to 2.28.1
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.28.1-2
- Fix the gsearchtool spinner
gtk2-2.18.3-11.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.3-10
- Tweak tooltip positioning
- Make new tooltip style an opt-in theme choice
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.3-11
- Fix a GtkIconView hang
gtk2-engines-2.18.4-4.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.4-4
- Make Clearlooks opt-in to new tooltips style
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.4-3
- Tweak tooltip appearance
ibus-anthy-1.2.0.20090917-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Takao Fujiwara <takao.fujiwara1(a)gmail.com> - 1.2.0.20090917-2
- Fix bug 526881 - ibus-anthy backtrace is reported by the latest abrt
icoutils-0.28.0-1.fc12
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iksemel-1.4-1.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us> - 1.4-1
- Update to 1.4
- Apply patch from upstream so that gnutls autoconf works.
- Update gcrypt-sha patch so that it applies.
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.3-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
kernel-2.6.31.5-96.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert(a)redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.31.5
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31.5-94
- disable debug + stackprotector
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31.5-95
- re enable MSI
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31.5-96
- Bump NR_CPUS to 256 on x86_64.
- Add two backports (ugh, just had to go renaming perf counters to events...)
for fixing sysprof with perf.
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.31.5-91.rc1
- kms: fix palette
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert(a)redhat.com>
- Fix exploitable OOPS in keyring code. (CVE-2009-3624)
- Fix kernel memory leak to userspace. (CVE-2009-3612)
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert(a)redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.31.5-rc1
- Remove the merged HP DC7900 workaround from iommu-updates patch.
- Drop merged patch:
linux-2.6-raidlockdep.patch
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert(a)redhat.com>
- Disable powersave by default for AC97 audio devices. (#524414)
* Mon Oct 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle(a)redhat.com>
- af_unix-fix-deadlock-connecting-to-shutdown-socket.patch: fix for
rhbz#529626.
* Sat Oct 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert(a)redhat.com>
- Replace linux-2.6-bluetooth-autosuspend.diff with upstream version.
kpackagekit-0.5.0.1-1.fc12
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* Tue Oct 20 2009 Steven M. Parrish <smparrish(a)gmail.com> - 0.5.0.1-1
- Official 0.5.0.1 release
- Includes patch to fix (#469375) default/none issue
nfs-utils-1.2.0-17.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Steve Dickson <steved(a)redhat.com> 1.2.0-17
- Updated to the latest pseudo root release (rel7).
- Added upstream 1.2.1-rc7 patch which fixes:
- Stop ignoring the -o v4 option (bz 529407)
- Allow network protocol roll backs when proto is set
in the config file (bz 529864)
nickle-2.69-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Michel Salim <salimma(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.69-2
- Lower FORTIFY setting; level 2 does not work with gcc 4.4.2
* Fri Sep 18 2009 Michel Salim <salimma(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2.69-1
- Update to 2.69
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.68-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
notification-daemon-0.4.1-0.20090923.4.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.1-1.20090923.4
- Don't abort if gnome-screensaver is not running (#529592)
olpc-kbdshim-7-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Milos Jakubicek <xjakub(a)fi.muni.cz> - 7.2
- Fix FTBFS: use %{ix86} instead of i586 as ExclusiveArch
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Paul Fox <pg(a)laptop.org>
- 7-1
- fix touchpad rotation for F-11, which includes X11 amd/geode
driver that fixes the earlier rotation direction issue.
(2.11.x and later are fixed.)
- revise Makefile for easier pre-release management
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 6-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
openscada-0.6.4-4.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> - 0.6.4-4
- Fixed the last broken dep
perl-HTML-Parser-3.63-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 3.63-2
- 3.63 CVE-2009-3627
perl-PPI-1.206-1.fc12
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* Wed Oct 07 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal(a)redhat.com> - 1.206-1
- new upstream version
- update build requires
python-psyco-1.6-4.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Milos Jakubicek <xjakub(a)fi.muni.cz> - 1.6-4
- Fix FTBFS: Use %{ix86} instead of i586 in ExclusiveArch
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
sabayon-2.28.0-2.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.0-2
- Move errors to sabayon-apply package
- Only trap Exception on sabayon-apply error
sane-backends-1.0.20-10.fc12
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* Thu Oct 22 2009 Nils Philippsen <nils(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.20-8
- ship adapted udev rules from F-12 on (#512516)
- don't require pam anymore
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Nils Philippsen <nils(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.20-9
- fix device file ownership and mode
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Nils Philippsen <nils(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.20-10
- don't set owner, group or mode as this may interfere with setting ACLs
snake-0.11-0.18.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Milos Jakubicek <xjakub(a)fi.muni.cz> - 0.11-0.18
- Fix FTBFS: bump release to be able to tag in new branch
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.11-0.17
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
sssd-0.7.0-1.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> - 0.7.0-1
- New upstream release 0.7.0
telepathy-farsight-0.0.12-1.fc12
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* Mon Oct 19 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.12-1
- Update to 0.0.12.
towhee-6.2.6-4.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org> - 6.2.6-4
- Fix FTBFS problem caused by behaviour change of openmpi.
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 6.2.6-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
unetbootin-0-6.358bzr.fc12
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Milos Jakubicek <xjakub(a)fi.muni.cz> 0-6.358bzr
- Fix FTBFS: bump release to be able to tag in new branch and sync source name
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0-6.357bzr
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
valgrind-3.5.0-6
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* Fri Oct 23 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.5.0-6
- ppc and ppc64 fixes
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.5.0-5
- add emulation of 0x67 prefixed loop* insns on x86_64 (#530165)
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.5.0-4
- handle reading of .debug_frame in addition to .eh_frame
- ignore unknown DWARF3 expressions in evaluate_trivial_GX
- suppress helgrind race errors in helgrind's own mythread_wrapper
- fix compilation of x86 tests on x86_64 and ppc tests
* Wed Oct 14 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.5.0-3
- handle many more DW_OP_* ops that GCC now uses
- handle the more compact form of DW_AT_data_member_location
- don't strip .debug_loc etc. from valgrind binaries
* Mon Oct 12 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 3.5.0-2
- add STT_GNU_IFUNC support (Dodji Seketeli, #518247)
- wrap inotify_init1 syscall (Dodji Seketeli, #527198)
- fix mmap/mprotect handling in memcheck (KDE#210268)
Summary:
Added Packages: 6
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 47
14 years, 6 months
Fedora 12 Beta now available!
by Jesse Keating
Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release every six months. We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last
important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes
will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora
12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. We invite you to join us
and participate in making Fedora 12 a solid release by downloading,
testing, and providing us your valuable feedback.
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking.
Should you trip across one of them, be sure it gets fixed before release
by reporting your discovery at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Thank you!
What's New in Fedora 12?
* Optimized performance - All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32)
architecture have been compiled for i686 systems with special
optimization for Intel Atom processors used in many netbooks but without
losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. There is a
list of the rare CPUs which will no longer be supported.
* Smaller and faster updates - In Fedora 11, the optional yum-presto
plugin, developed by Fedora contributor Jonathan Dieter, reduced update
size by transmitting only the changes in the updated packages. Now, the
plugin is installed by default. Also, RPMs now use XZ rather than gzip
for compression, providing smaller package sizes without the memory and
CPU penalties associated with bzip2. This lets us fit more software into
each Fedora image, and uses less space on mirrors, making their
administrators' lives a little easier. Thanks to the Fedora
infrastructure team for their work in generating delta RPMs.
* NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements - NetworkManager,
originally developed by Red Hat's Dan Williams, was introduced in Fedora
7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for
distributions everywhere. Enhancements to NetworkManager make both
system-wide connections and mobile broadband connections easier than
ever. Signal strength and network selection are available for choosing
the best mobile broadband connection when you're on the road. Bluetooth
PAN support offers a simple click through process to access the Internet
from your mobile phone. NetworkManager can now configure always-on and
static address connections directly from the desktop. PolicyKit
integration has been added so configuration management can be done via
central policy where needed. IPv6 support has also been improved.
* Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video - For several years, Theora, the
open and free format not encumbered by known patents has provided a way
for freedom-loving users to share video. Fedora 12 includes the new
Theora 1.1, which achieves near-H.264 quality, meeting the expectations
of demanding users with crisp, vibrant media in both streaming and
downloadable form. Thanks to the work of the Xiph.Org Foundation's
Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, sponsored by Red Hat, other Xiph
developers, and the contribution of Mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 can deliver
free media on the web out of the box, using the Theora video and Vorbis
audio formats even better than the previous release of Fedora.
* Graphics support improvements - Fedora 12 introduces experimental 3D
support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out,
install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. On many cards, this
support should allow desktop effects to be used. Kernel mode setting
(KMS) support, which was introduced on AMD hardware in Fedora 10 and
extended to Intel hardware in Fedora 11, is now extended to NVIDIA
hardware as well, meaning the great majority of systems now benefit from
the smooth, fully-graphical startup sequence made possible by KMS. The
Fedora graphical startup sequence now works better on systems with
multiple monitors. Also on multiple monitor systems, the desktop will
now automatically be spread across all monitors by default, rather than
having all monitors display the same output, including on NVIDIA chips
(where multiple monitor spanning was not possible without manual
configuration changes in Fedora 11). Systems with NVIDIA graphics chips
also gain initial support for suspend and resume functionality via the
default Nouveau driver. Initial support for the new DisplayPort display
connector has been added for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia
and ATI systems is already under rapid development and will be included
in the next release of Fedora. Thanks to the Red Hat Xorg team including
Adam Jackson (X server), Kristian Høgsberg (Intel driver), Dave Airlie
and Jerome Glisse (Radeon driver for AMD), and Ben Skeggs (Nouveau
driver for NVIDIA).
* Virtualization improvements - Not content with all the improvements in
Fedora 11, we've kicked virtualization based on KVM up another notch in
Fedora 12. There are extensive improvements in performance, management,
resource sharing, and still more security enhancements. A new library
(libguestfs) and an interactive tool (guestfish) are now available for
directly accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images.
* Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues - Abrt, a tool to
help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks,
is now enabled by default. Abrt collects detailed information
automatically and helps developers identify and resolve issues faster,
improving the quality of individual upstream components and Fedora. The
SELinux alert monitoring tool has also added the ability to report
SELinux issues to Bugzilla quickly and easily with just a couple of
clicks.
* New Dracut initrd generation tool - Up until Fedora 11, the boot
system (initial ram disk or initrd) used to boot Fedora was monolithic,
very distribution specific and didn't provide much flexibility. This has
been replaced with Dracut, an initial ram disk generation tool with an
event-based framework designed to be distribution-independent thanks to
the Dracut team including Harald Hoyer, Jeremy Katz, Dave Jones and many
others. It has been also adopted by OLPC which uses Fedora; OLPC modules
for Dracut are available in the Fedora repository.
* PackageKit plugins - PackageKit now has a plugin which can install an
appropriate package when a user tries to run a command from a missing
package. Another new plugin allows installation of software packages
from a web browser. Thanks to Red Hat's Richard Hughes and the
PackageKit team.
* Bluetooth on-demand - Bluetooth services are automatically started
when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing
initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active
use. Thanks to Red Hat's Bastien Nocera.
* Moblin graphical interface for netbooks - The Moblin graphical
interface and applications are fully integrated thanks to Peter
Robinson, a Fedora Project volunteer, and others. To use it, just
install the Moblin Desktop Environment package group using yum or the
graphical software management tools, and choose Moblin from the login
manager. A F12 Moblin Fedora Remix (installable Live CD) will also be
available.
* PulseAudio enhancements - Red Hat's Lennart Poettering and several
others have made significant improvements to the PulseAudio system.
Improved mixer logic makes volume control more fine-grained and
reliable. Integration with the Rygel UPnP media server means you can
stream audio directly from your system to any UPnP / DLNA client, such
as a Playstation 3. Hotplug support has been made more intelligent, so
if you configure a device as the default output for a stream, unplug
that device -- causing the stream(s) to be moved to another output
device -- and later replug it, the stream is moved back to the preferred
device. Finally, Bluetooth audio support means pairing with any
Bluetooth audio device makes it available for use through PulseAudio.
* Lower process privileges - In order to mitigate the impact of security
vulnerabilities, permissions have been hardened for many files and
system directories and process privileges have been lowered for a number
of core components that require super user privileges. Red Hat's Steve
Grubb has developed a new library, libcap-ng, and integrated it into
many core system components to improve the security of Fedora.
* SELinux sandbox - It is now possible to confine applications' access
to the system and run them in a secure sandbox that takes advantage of
the sophisticated capabilities of SELinux. Dan Walsh, SELinux developer
at Red Hat, explains the details at
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html
* Open Broadcom firmware - The openfwwf open source Broadcom firmware is
included by default. This means wireless networking will be available
out of the box on some Broadcom chipsets.
* Hybrid live images - The Live images provided in this release can be
directly imaged onto a USB stick using dd (or any equivalent tool) to
create bootable Live USB keys. The Fedora Live USB Creator for Windows
and the livecd-tools for Fedora are still recommended for data
persistence and non-destructive writes. Thanks to Jeremy Katz.
* Better webcam support - While Fedora 11 improved webcam support, in
Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less
expensive webcams. Red Hat's Hans de Goede, developer of the libv4l
library, has more details on his continuous upstream webcam support
enhancements at http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6989.html.
* GNOME 2.28 - The latest version of the GNOME desktop includes the
lighter Gnote replacement for Tomboy as the default note application,
and Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default instant messenger. The new
volume control application, first seen in Fedora 11, has been improved
to restore some of the popular functionality from earlier releases
without making the interface too complex.
* GNOME Shell preview - Fedora 12 includes an early version of GNOME
Shell, which will become the default interface for GNOME 3.0 and beyond.
To try it, install the gnome-shell package, and use the Desktop Effects
configuration tool to enable it. It will only work correctly from the
GNOME desktop environment, not others such as KDE or Xfce. This is a
preview technology, and some video cards may not be supported.
* KDE 4.3 - The new KDE features an updated "Air" theme and fully
configurable keyboard shortcuts in Plasma, improved performance and new
desktop effects in the window manager, a new bug reporting tool, and a
configuration tool for the LIRC infra-red remote control system.
* Cool new stuff for developers beginning with Eclipse Galileo, which
includes more plugins than ever before. Perl 6 is now included, along
with PHP 5.3. For Haskell developers, the Haskell Platform now provides
a standardized set of libraries and tools. But one of the biggest
changes for developers is that most of the nice new features of Fedora
12, from Bluetooth to WebCams is implemented through underlying
libraries, and many of the improvements will be included simply by
relinking your application. Also available in this release are SystemTap
1.0 for improved instrumenting and debugging of binaries, complete with
Eclipse integration, and the newest NetBeans IDE for Java development.
* Cool new stuff for sysadmins includes added functionality for
clustered Samba services (including active/active configurations) over
GFS2; and the ability to boot a cluster of Fedora systems from a single,
shared root file system.
* Multi-Pointer X - The update to X.Org server 1.7 introduces the X
Input Extension version 2.0 (XI2), with much work contributed by Red
Hat's Peter Hutterer. This extension provides a new client API for
handling input devices and also Multi-Pointer X (MPX) functionality. MPX
functionality allows X to cope with many inputs of arbitrary types
simultaneously, a prerequisite for (among others) multitouch-based
desktops and multi-user interaction on a single screen. This is
low-level work that applications and desktop environments will
incrementally take advantage of in future releases. More details are
available in the Release Notes and in the XI2 tag of Peter Hutterer's
blog at http://who-t.blogspot.com/search/label/xi2
A full feature list is available on the wiki at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList
OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
Draft release notes and guides for several languages are available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts.html
--
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14 years, 6 months
Major reorganization of TeX Live packages
by Jindrich Novy
Hi,
I would like to announce couple of major changes in the TeX Live 2009
repository.
The main improvements are:
* TL2009 now contains virtual provides to resolve dependencies among
.sty files. This assures you have a complete set of other styles
installed in order to use one. To install a particular style you can
do e.g. "yum install 'tex(upref.sty)'" and you needn't to know it comes
from texlive-amscls package. The exception are dependencies to styles
which are either commercial (such as mathtime.sty) or not available from
CTAN. These styles were blacklisted and dependency generator ignores
them.
* Upgradability from older TeX Live 2007 is now improved. You may
remember that the biggest problem with upgrading TL is not in TeX Live
itself but in utilities around it, like xdvipdfm, psutils, etc. that
needs older kpathsea library than shipped with TL2009. I've done some
modifications so that starting with texlive-2007-45 and higher, both
newer and older libraries can coexist. So you should be able to run
your F11 apps linked against old kpathsea together with new TL2009.
* a version string was added to noarch packages to allow to upgrade
all of the noarch packages even if upstream hasn't done any
modifications. This allows me to not to break upgrade path if some
major packaging changes are made and these packages need to be rebuilt.
* TL packages released under GFSL license are now added.
In case you have an older TL2009 installed on your system from the
testing repository, please consider removing it and installing again.
Thanks,
Jindrich
--
Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/
14 years, 6 months
FESCo meeting summary for 20091023
by Jon Stanley
=======================================
#fedora-meeting: FESCo meeting 20091023
=======================================
Meeting started by jds2001 at 17:00:33 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-23/fedora-meeting...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* Documentation (jds2001, 17:03:23)
* AGREED: when a policy decision is made not applicable to FPC, then
the meeting chair will change the keyword of the ticket from
"meeting" to "writeup", and assign it to a specific person
(jds2001, 17:13:17)
* open floor (jds2001, 17:13:32)
* there's a beta. it has blocker bugs. fesco encourages people to fix
them. (jds2001, 17:14:58)
* AGREED: non-trivial wallpaper changes after Tuesday will be
rejected. The KDE SIG will work with that schedule (jds2001,
18:46:31)
Meeting ended at 18:47:22 UTC.
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* Kevin_Kofler (97)
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* skvidal (44)
* notting (44)
* mccann (24)
* dgilmore (15)
* halfline (14)
* stickster (11)
* j-rod (10)
* Oxf13 (10)
* sharkcz (6)
* rdieter (5)
* zodbot (4)
* Southern_Gentlem (2)
* drago01 (2)
* nirik (0)
* dwmw2 (0)
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14 years, 7 months
Re: Action Tags concept
by Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:46:36PM +0200, Martin Bacovsky wrote:
> On Thursday 22 October 2009 16:33:06 you wrote:
> >
> > I like this concept. How does it relate to tagging?
> > * As a replacement for tagging
> > * As a separate feature from tagging
> > * In addition to tagging where some output utilizes both tags and actions
> I was thinking of replacing current tags, because I'm affraid users will be confused by two kinds of
> tags. On the other hand I would keep categories imported from .desktop files (readonly/searchonly).
>
So I think we might be committed to having freeform tags for its use as a
comps replacement and grouping mechanism. I'm not 100% sure though. There is
overlap::
python-openssl
tags: python, module, ssl, encryption, hashing, binding, MIT
Tasks: Use this to write programs in python that can communicate with
network services over SSL
Use this to write python programs that encrypt, decrypt, and hash data.
Actions: python programming, network programming, encryption programming?,
decryption programming? hash programming?
So there's some things that aren't captured (for instance that this is
licensed MIT (which may not be an issue, we can grab that from the license
tag) and that this is a binding (which I don't see how to capture in an
action).
There's also some things that I wonder about a bit -- hash programming
and encryption progamming are awkward phrases -- makes me wonder if that's
trying to shoehorn a concept into the wrong tool. How will user's know to
find the action encryption programming, hash programming, python
programming? How will we compose the actions into tasks?
Also, how do we get the users to only enter actions(verbs) and not nouns
when supplying new actions for a package?
-Toshio
14 years, 7 months
Action Tags concept for Fedora PkgDB
by Martin Bacovsky
Hi,
I am working on online application database which is becoming part of Fedora PkgDB.
Online Application Database was separate project called Amber in the past, but as there had been
similar features developed in the Fedora PkgDB, we decided to merge our efforts.
In Amber definition there is suggested different concept of apps organization. I like the rasoning
there and would like to implement it in pkgdb. I'd like to know your opinion on this.
In Online Application Database definition, there are defined two primary use cases I am trying to
address:
1/ I want to do 'X' with my computer.
Where 'X' might be quite complex task like 'Import videos from my camera and put them on
YouTube'
2/ I can already do 'X' with my computer, but maybe I can do it better with different software.
There are also some suggestions how to achieve this there.
For more information look at Amber definition -
https://fedorahosted.org/amber/wiki/Definition.
I followed some of the suggestions and this is how I would like to implement it in Fedora PkgDB:
Task
-----
- Task is container that will allow us to break complex task into more 'atomic' parts. This should
allow us to create toolsets needed for completition of complex tasks.
- Task consits of one or more Actions.
- Actions shall be added by creating new Action or by choosing from the list of the existing ones.
- Task shall be defined by pkgdb users .
Example:
Task: Import videos from my camera and put them on YouTube
Actions: [Capture video, Edit video, Encode video, Upload video to YouTube]
Action
--------
- Action is atomic task
- Action shall be defined by PkgDB user either as part of Task definition process or as standalone
entity.
- Actions should be used instead of current tags. (I believe replacing current tags would help to
avoid confusion from two kinds of tags.)
Application tagging
-----------------------
There is not much difference against current tagging system.
Users shall be tempted to input verbs instead of nouns:
"I use this application to ________________ and give it ***** stars."
Input box shall feature AJAX search for existing actions to reduce duplication.
User ratings (http://mbacovsk.fedorapeople.org/Amber/mockups/Fedora_app_page.png) shall be updated
accordingly.
Note: I am thinking of keeping categories imported from .desktop file as read only information
Search
---------
Both Tasks and Actions shall be included among other targets for search (app names, descriptions,
comments, etc)
Does it make sense?
Do you think it would be acceptable/ understandable for common users?.
Any comments and ideas will be appreciated.
Regards,
Martin
14 years, 7 months
rawhide report: 20091023 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Fri Oct 23 06:15:16 UTC 2009
Broken deps for i386
----------------------------------------------------------
openscada-visStation-0.6.4-3.fc12.i686 requires openscada-Special-FlibSYS
Broken deps for x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------
openscada-visStation-0.6.4-3.fc12.x86_64 requires openscada-Special-FlibSYS
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
python-mwlib-0.11.2-3.20090522hg2956.fc12.ppc64 requires LabPlot
New package cvc3
Validity checker of many-sorted first-order formulas with theories
New package django-flash
A Django extension to provide support for Rails-like flash
New package django-typepad
A helper Django app for making TypePad applications
New package evolution-couchdb
An evolution backend to CouchDBs for PIM information
New package mingw32-freeglut
Fedora MinGW alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)
New package python-batchhttp
Parallel fetching of HTTP resources through MIME multipart
New package python-oauth
Library for OAuth version 1.0a
New package python-remoteobjects
An Object RESTational Model
New package python-tg-devtools
Development tools and templates for TurboGears2
New package python-typepad
Connectivity to the TypePad API through remote objects
New package typepad-motion
A microblogging application for building online communities
Updated Packages:
blazeblogger-1.0.0-1.fc12
-------------------------
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian(a)when.com> 1.0.0-1
- update to new upstream release
evince-2.28.1-3.fc12
--------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-2
- Provide some hint if search is not available
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Marek Kasik <mkasik(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-3
- Add evince-thumbnail-allocation.patch (checks whether
- GdkPixbuf was allocated correctly)
f-spot-0.6.1.3-1.fc12
---------------------
* Sun Oct 04 2009 Christian Krause <chkr(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1.3-1
- Update to 0.6.1.3 (BZ 526217)
- Remove two upstreamed patches
- Use a slightly different fix for the cairo-devel dependency
(suggested by upstream)
* Wed Sep 30 2009 Christian Krause <chkr(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.6.1.2-3
- Add patch to fix f-spot crash when using "soft focus" and cairo-devel
was not installed (BZ 526563)
- Minor spec file beautification
febootstrap-2.5-2.fc12
----------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Richard Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> - 2.5-2
- New upstream release 2.5.
- Remove BR upx (not needed by upstream).
- Two more scripts / manpages.
gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux-0.10.15-8.fc12
---------------------------------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 0.10.15-8
- Update code from gst-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.16-5.fc12
-------------------------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 0.10.16-5
- Update farsight plugins from -bad
- Drop copy/pasted rtpmanager plugin, it's now in -good
gtk2-2.18.3-8.fc12
------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.3-8
- compose-sequences.patch: update compose sequences to what's currently in
libX11 git.
kdelibs-4.3.2-4.fc12
--------------------
* Mon Oct 12 2009 Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl(a)redhat.com> - 4.3.2-4
- khtml kpart crasher nr. 2 (rev.1033984)
parole-0.1.90-3.fc12
--------------------
python-tw-forms-0.9.8-1.fc12
----------------------------
* Thu Oct 01 2009 Luke Macken <lmacken(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.8-1
- 0.9.8
* Wed Aug 12 2009 Luke Macken <lmacken(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.7.2-1
- 0.9.7.2
roundcubemail-0.3-2.fc12
------------------------
* Thu Oct 22 2009 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> = 0.3-2
- Macro fix, BZ530037.
smolt-1.4-4.fc12
----------------
* Tue Oct 13 2009 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> 1.4-4
- Fixing firstboot for F-12
sugar-0.86.3-1.fc12
-------------------
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian(a)when.com> - 0.86.3-1
- Sporadic freezes while scrolling journal #1506
- Suppress race condition with Journal appearing on sugar startup #1373
- Alt+Space not working to show/hide the tray #1476
sugar-toolkit-0.86.2-1.fc12
---------------------------
* Wed Oct 21 2009 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian(a)when.com> - 0.86.2-1
- Do not stop processing motion-notify-event #1507
telepathy-gabble-0.8.7-1.fc12
-----------------------------
* Wed Oct 14 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.7-1
- Update to 0.8.7.
* Fri Oct 09 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.6-1
- Update to 0.8.6.
virtaal-0.4.1-1.fc12
--------------------
* Fri Oct 16 2009 Dwayne Bailey <dwayne(a)translate.org.za> - 0.4.1-1
- Update to 0.4.1
- New translations: Turkish, Finnish, Vietnamese
- Updated translations: Russian, Dutch and Zulu
- More complete handling of "recent files" (bug 1120)
- Better alignment with the GNOME human interface guidelines (bug 1095)
- More reliable ways of obtaining the default font settings (bug 1092)
- Better handling of HTML tags in the Apertium MT module
- Small layout improvements (bug 1045, 1138)
- Depend on Translate Toolkit 1.4.1 for fixes to XLIFF, placeable and tmserver
Summary:
Added Packages: 11
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 16
14 years, 7 months
Re: Major reorganization of TeX Live packages
by Jiri Cerny
Hi Jindrich,
(sorry for not replaying to the original message, I was reading the
list through archives)
I was using TeXLive 2009 repository before, without any problem. After
seeing your message,
I followed the instruction
> In case you have an older TL2009 installed on your system from the
> testing repository, please consider removing it and installing again.
and after 'yum install texlive' I get a lot of missing dependencies.
Installing texlive requires
dvipdfm from the F12/rawhide repository, which requires kpathsea from
the same repository and which in turn
requires texlive-2007. Will it be fixed with texlive-2007-45 build?
Another, probably related issue: Why there is not a xdvi (and also
dvipdfm) binary in the Texlive 2009 repository. Should one use the
one from F12? This seems strange to me to have such mixture of 2007
and 2009 versions.
Jiri
14 years, 7 months
pxe-kexec
by Ed Swierk
A few months ago I put together a package for pxe-kexec, a tool that
uses kexec to boot already-running machine from a PXE server, which is
handy for kicking off OS installs remotely. The package has been
reviewed and is ready to go, except I'm not sponsored and haven't
found the time to become one.
Given my priorities I don't think I'd make a very responsive
maintainer for pxe-kexec, but if anyone is interested in stepping in,
please be my guest.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508352
--Ed
14 years, 7 months