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Outage Notification - 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

There will be an outage starting at 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-07-01 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1496 Reason for Outage: Final migration step for new cvs server. It will hopefully be offline for only 30-45 minutes. The additional time is for some further tuning if needed and some verification steps. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce

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upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my iso-mounted files, how do I do it? i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc.. Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks. Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use apt-cdrom. Thanks. With kind regards, Didier. --- PhD student Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\ didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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orphan most of my packages
by Andy Shevchenko 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hello, I have no more time to support the following packages in the Fedora. jack-audio-connection-kit -- The Jack Audio Connection Kit klamav -- Clam Anti-Virus on the KDE Desktop man-pages-uk -- Ukrainian man pages from the Linux Documentation Project python-alsa -- Python binding for the ALSA library qstat -- Real-time Game Server Status for FPS game servers uniconvertor -- Universal vector graphics translator -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko

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orphaning gdk-pixbuf
by Kevin Fenzi 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Greetings. I just orphaned gdk-pixbuf in pkgdb. It failed the mass rebuild, not much left that depends on it, and nothing I need. ;) % repoquery --source --whatrequires gdk-pixbuf gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm soundtracker-0.6.8-8.fc12.src.rpm xosd-2.2.14-13.fc12.src.rpm So, if anyone really really really wants to keep it alive, feel free to take it and fix it so it builds and works. ;) kevin

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non-responsive icon theme maintainer
by Johannes Lips 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hello, I tried to reach the maintainer of elementary-icon-theme.noarch for several times now.[1] So far I didn't receive any notice if he even read the mails from bugzilla. I don't feel the need to take over the package but if no one else wants to do it. I am ok with caring for it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684664 Best Regards, Johannes [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainer

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bugzilla bugzappers?
by Bert Desmet 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

hi! This is something I got in my mail box today. As I don't have a valid answer for this, maybe someone else can answer for me? cheers, Bert the url of the blog of the guy: http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ == the mail == Dear Fedoracommunity, Over the course of the day I recieved 22^3 mails from your friendly Bug Zapper. Most of those bugs where bugs I had reported upon crashes using bug-buddy. Bugs on different desktop tools such as .. synergy, evolution, gwibber , gnome-settings and probably some others I do understand that I development goes on and on .. and your fancy devs don't care anymore about bugs I reported on Fedora 12 as they are all hacking on Fedora 15. But what I don't get is that non of these bugs was ever touched, they've been automatically created , and automatically closed <a href="http://tieguy.org/blog/2004/09/">Luis</a> already told us ages ago .. that every project needs a bugmaster apparently Fedora replaced that bugmaster with a Bug Zapper. So can someone please explain my why I should continue to try to improve Fedora by reporting bugs ?

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OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?
by Paul Johnson 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) has caused something of a methodological landslide since the early 1990s, helping scholars to model processes that were thought to be too difficult. In Linux, we do not have access to the OpenBUGS GUI, which I've built deb and rpm packages for RedHat, Fedora and Ubuntu. They are available in my webspace and in the project. I wish these could be in the official linux repositories, but I've not tried to put these into an official repository because there are 2 problems that seem prohibitive. First, the (now open) code for OpenBugs is written in Object Pascal and it requires a compiler framework called "Black Box" which is, as far as I can understand, available only for MS Windows. The OpenBUGS team compiles that library, and then for linux we use some accessor scripts to send jobs to it. This, of course, goes against the packaging policy that pre-compiled libraries are prohibited. I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is actually available and open. This is more reasonable than re-packaging the closed Nvidia drivers, for example. Second, there is a little packaging problem for 64 bit systems. The library that is provided is only 32 bit, and to build it for a 64 bit system, there is a somewhat confusing situation. The library itself gets put into /usr/lib, which is supposed to be for 64 bit libraries. And to make the whole thing package up in a workable way, the arch ends up saying the packge is x86_64, even though it is only 32 bit. To run OpenBUGS on a 64 bit system, one h as to install the 32bit libc packages. I've built the RPM on a 32bit system, it comes out with the proper x86 target in the file name,but that package will not instlal on the 64 bit systems. Should it? (As I said, I can build the package on the 64 bit system, and it comes out with a 64 bit file name, but it is really 32 bits.). Oh, bother, this is confusing to me, I can't imagine your situation. http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/i386/kups/packages/ On the other hand, the ones I build on a 64 bit system: Show up with 64bit names even though they are 32 bit programs: http://pj.freefaculty.org/Fedora/14/x86_64/openbugs-3.2.1-1.x86_64.rpm In the current Fedora framework, I can't understand if that is supposed to happen. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas

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Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery
by Hans de Goede 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi all, Just a quick heads-up that I plan to look unto packaging the gnome shell frippery extensions this weekend, if you've the same plans or are already working on this, please let me know. So we can avoid doing double work. I plan to use 1 subpackage per extension of the frippery extension collection, so that people can install only those which they want without automatically getting all of them. Regards, Hans

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Proposal: retire bittorrent
by Paul Howarth 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer ownership. Think carefully before you act though! Dead Upstream: ============== Well, not actually dead but upstream has gone closed-source as of version 6 so it's effectively dead. Old Version: ============ Upstream's last open-source release (code dump really) was 5.3 (http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/) which was little more than a GPL re-licensing of 5.2.2 and a dump of upstream VCS content. Fedora has been stuck with 4.4.0 though with its PyGTK GUI because the "new" GUI in version 5 was a rewrite with wxGTK but it didn't work with wxGTK > 2.6 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/223623) and so was unusable in Fedora. I believe Mandriva "solved" this problem by having transmission obsolete bittorrent-gui and just shipping the console version. Open Bugs: ========== http://bugzilla.redhat.com/189072 (bittorrent doesn't die gracefully) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/189295 (bittorrent is not utf-8 aware) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/237254 (translations not working since python 2.4) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/246879 (LSB-ize initscripts) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/489810 (bittorrent stops seeding files, even when "seed indefinitely" is checked) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/630569 (traceback due to argument parsing error) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/678710 (crash due to not running via provided initscript) http://bugzilla.redhat.com/707637 (RFE upgrade to 5.x) Some of these are probably quite easily fixed by someone that knows their python and is willing to dive into the code but they would have to be prepared to the de-facto new upstream maintainer if they wanted to take it on. Doesn't Obey Protocol: ====================== The bittorrent client is actually blocked on at least one major site due to violating the protocol and hammering the tracker with announcements: http://wiki.dimeadozen.org/index.php/Mainline

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F15: ugly behavior of "df"
by Reindl Harald 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

what triggers that since F15 every bind-mount is displayed in "df" with "ext4" and the full volume-szize and additionally if BIND is running in a chroot FOUR volumes with the size of the root-fs are shown and a normal user gets "access denied"? this is way too much for 3 physical volumes! [root@rh:~]$ /bin/df -hT Dateisystem Typ Größe Benut Verf Ben%% Eingehängt auf rootfs rootfs 29G 8,5G 21G 30% / udev devtmpfs 7,8G 4,0K 7,8G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1,0G 0 1,0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /run /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% / tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 0 7,9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /var/run tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /var/lock tmpfs tmpfs 150M 0 150M 0% /var/www/sessiondata tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 0 7,9G 0% /media /dev/md0 ext4 485M 48M 437M 10% /boot /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /mnt/data /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /home /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /Volumes/dune/www-servers /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /Volumes/dune/www-servers/phpincludes /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% /var/named/chroot/etc/named /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% /var/named/chroot/usr/lib64/bind /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% /var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key [root@rh:~]$ su - harry [harry@rh:~]$ /bin/df -hT Dateisystem Typ Größe Benut Verf Ben%% Eingehängt auf rootfs rootfs 29G 8,5G 21G 30% / udev devtmpfs 7,8G 4,0K 7,8G 1% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 1,0G 0 1,0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /run /dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,5G 21G 30% / tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 0 7,9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /var/run tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 552K 7,9G 1% /var/lock tmpfs tmpfs 150M 0 150M 0% /var/www/sessiondata tmpfs tmpfs 7,9G 0 7,9G 0% /media /dev/md0 ext4 485M 48M 437M 10% /boot /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /mnt/data /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /home /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /Volumes/dune/www-servers /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 474G 3,1T 14% /Volumes/dune/www-servers/phpincludes /bin/df: „/var/named/chroot/etc/named“: Keine Berechtigung /bin/df: „/var/named/chroot/usr/lib64/bind“: Keine Berechtigung /bin/df: „/var/named/chroot/etc/named.iscdlv.key“: Keine Berechtigung /bin/df: „/var/named/chroot/etc/named.root.key“: Keine Berechtigung

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