yum download estimates and stalls
by Richard W.M. Jones
I don't want to make unfair comparisons to the famous bug in Windows
Vista[1], but it seems as if when a yum download stalls, then the
estimates can start to look a little large:
rawhide/primar 20% [- ] 0.0 B/s | 2.5 MB 2046434610655583470384211558:24 ETA
# yum --version
3.2.25
Installed: rpm-4.7.1-6.fc12.x86_64 at 2009-11-25 22:30
Built : Fedora Project at 2009-09-21 13:30
Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> at 2009-09-21 12:00
Installed: yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch at 2009-11-25 22:42
Built : Fedora Project at 2009-10-16 20:44
Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-10-14 12:00
Rich.
[1] http://www.istartedsomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/vista47117day...
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14 years, 4 months
Changed license for clojure-1.0.0 (CPL -> EPL)
by Jochen Schmitt
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Hallo,
I want to notifiy you, that the license of clojure-1.0.0 was changed
from the Common Public License to Eclipse Public License 1.0.
Best Regards:
Jochen Schmitt
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14 years, 4 months
Deprecation of LAM/MPI?
by Susi Lehtola
Hi,
First of all, I'm not the maintainer of LAM, but since Doug seems to be
busy with other things I took the liberty of taking things into my own
hands:
I really would like everything to confer to the MPI guidelines in Fedora
13, but the problem is that so far no-one has volunteered to rework the
LAM/MPI package to conform to the new guidelines [1]. IMHO LAM/MPI could
be safely pulled out from Fedora 13, since it was obsoleted by Open MPI
3 years ago.
Any thoughts? Does someone care deeply enough about LAM to take
ownership and fix the package?
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523998
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Fedora Project Contributor
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14 years, 4 months
Heads-up: RPM 4.8.0-beta1 about to hit rawhide
by Panu Matilainen
Now that FESCo has approved new major RPM version for F-13 and the public
beta is officially out... it's going to hit rawhide in a few hours.
Couple of practical issues:
- Soname bump is involved, so anything directly linking to librpm
needs to be rebuilt. This includes deltarpm, gdb, net-snmp, abrt and
a few others.
- The new version has integrated support for extracting OCaml
dependencies, this clashes with the existing ocaml-dependency
extraction mechanism in Fedora. Notably rpm-build conflicts with current
ocaml-runtime, and the ocaml build-macros need updating to let the
integrated pieces do their work.
And of course, watch out for regressions:
>From Fedora POV perhaps the biggest suspect is the python bindings as
they've seen a pretty dramatic cleanup and revamp all over. It's supposed
to be compatible for the commonly used parts (eg yum certainly works fine
with it) but I'd be rather surprised if some rarely used dark corner
hasn't broken up.
Another thing to watch out for is installation (and erasure) ordering. The
algorithm has been pretty much rewritten and produces significantly
different orderings than the previous one. However note that different !=
incorrect, the old algorithm completely blew it up in various dependency
loop cases etc. So if something worked with the previous versions but no
longer does with the new beta, it doesn't automatically mean it's a bug in
the new ordering code: you might've just been lucky. Any regressions
in this area need to be carefully analyzed case by case to determine
whether they're true regressions or just incorrect dependencies in
packages.
- Panu -
14 years, 4 months
orphaned packages
by Parag Nemade
Hi,
I have orphaned 2 packages and have plans to retire them from rawhide.
1) Since last 3 years I am the maintainer for scanbuttond package. I
have one RFE bug open for this package but didn't get time to work on
it as I have no scanner with me to work on it. This package has not
seen any upstream release since its initial version in fedora 0.2.3
which was released in 2006-02-17. Now I have orphaned it and thinking
there should not be any peoples using it.
2) v4l2-tool package is also orphaned. I am the upstream developer as
well as Fedora package maintainer for this. I have stopped development
on this as I have no time and no webcam device to work on. The last
upstream release for this packages was on 28 august 2007.
In case someone is still using these packages and want to maintain
them then please follow
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers....
Regards,
Parag.
14 years, 4 months
Parallel XZ - request for testing
by Jindrich Novy
Hi all,
the Parallel XZ just reached usable state so if you want to take
advantage of parallel LZMA compression, please give it a try before
its inclusion into Fedora.
PXZ homepage is:
http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/
Sources and YUM repos are available at:
http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/node3.html
Please note that it saves most of the compression time for large
files. E.g. file is split to parts of the size of the dictionary for
given compression level (8MiB for default -6 compression) and then
runs compression itself in as many threads as your system allows.
Benchmarks and usage cases are presented on the PXZ homepage.
Thanks,
Jindrich
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14 years, 4 months
Packages looking for new owners
by Trond Danielsen
Hi everyone,
it is becoming clear to me that I can no longer provide the collection
of packages I maintain the love and care that they deserve. If only
there were more hours in a day, but the current situation does no
leave much room for volunteer work on free software :-(. Hopefully I
will find time in the future to return to Fedora related work
The list if packages I maintain is available here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/trondd?acls=owner
I don't mind keeping libopenraw, avrdude and uisp unless anyone
_really_ want to maintain these packages.
Best regards,
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14 years, 4 months