Debian and Fedora distro development
by Przemek Klosowski
A longtime Debian developer Michael Stapelberg described his
frustrations with their distribution development environment
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/
Many points are spookily similar to issues in Fedora, as discussed on
this list, for instance the automation of large-scale changes,
especially as it intersects with individual packagers' autonomy. I
thought it's a good read for people who care about Fedora infrastructure.
5 years, 2 months
perl-true license change
by Paul Howarth
For your information:
perl-true's license has changed from "Same as Perl" (GPL+ or Artistic) to "Artistic 2.0".
This happened when the version changed from 0.18 to 1.0.1 today. I've
built the newly-licensed version in f30 and rawhide.
Regards, Paul.
5 years, 2 months
[Modularity] Team IRC meeting minutes (2019-03-12)
by Nils Philippsen
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#fedora-meeting-3: Weekly Meeting of the Modularity Team
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Meeting started by nils at 15:00:00 UTC.
Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-3/2019-03-12/modularity....
Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-3/2019-03-12/modularity....
Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-3/2019-03-12/modularity....
Meeting summary
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* Roll Call (nils, 15:00:00)
* Agenda (nils, 15:04:04)
* #112 Discussion: Module lifecycles (nils, 15:04:05)
* #126 Automatically track refs in a module yaml file (nils,
15:04:05)
* #112 Discussion: Module lifecycles (nils, 15:05:18)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/modularity/issue/112 (nils, 15:05:18)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2027 (nils, 15:05:18)
* proposed to leave EOL field empty until maintainers know they want
to retire a module, and when (nils, 15:09:23)
* still being reviewed by FESCo (nils, 15:09:47)
* #126 Automatically track refs in a module yaml file (nils, 15:25:06)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/modularity/issue/126 (nils, 15:25:07)
* ACTION: contyk updates the ticket with the available options (nils,
15:54:20)
* revisit this issue next week (nils, 15:54:38)
Meeting ended at 15:57:36 UTC.
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* contyk updates the ticket with the available options
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* contyk updates the ticket with the available options
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5 years, 2 months
Fedora 30 chroots now available in Copr
by Jakub Kadlcik
Hello,
I've just enabled F30 chroots in Copr.
The projects that have "Follow Fedora branching" enabled, have them
automatically activated as well builds from rawhide forked into them.
Jakub
5 years, 2 months
Re: Non-responsive maintainer Chris Lalancette (clalance)
by Miro Hrončok
On 12. 03. 19 13:44, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Sorry for not responding earlier.
>
> I'm not really involved with imagefactory at all, though I am still the
> maintainer of Oz. As Daniel pointed out, you'll want to start with Ian Mcleod
> for that package (he can point you in the right direction).
Thank You. Could you please give the package to Ian, so there is no such
confusion in the future?
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5 years, 2 months
HEADS UP: dhcp will ship bunded bind libraries
by Pavel Zhukov
All,
tl;dr dhcp 4.4.1 will not require bind-export-libs and will bring
dhcp-libs-static with bundled version of libisc/libdns/etc
As ISC dropped support of single thread build of BIND libraries [1] and
dhcp requires one we decided to not patch dhcp/bind build scripts anymore
and ship bundled bind libraries just like upstream (ISC) does it. It will
allow to update BIND in Fedora to newest version. So dhcp 4.4.1 can be
expected in rawhide/F31 soon!
I'm aware of FPG recommendation to avoid shipping of bundled libraries due
to its maintenance cost but maintaining of heavy patched build sctipts and
inability to ship newer versions are even worse.
I have not find any application in Fedora repository which link with
libdhcp/libomapi. Please let me know if you aware of any.
[1] https://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.13.3/RELEASE-NOTES-bind-9.13.3.html
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Pavel
5 years, 2 months
What pulls in weak dependencies?
by Vít Ondruch
Hi,
Running `dnf update`, it tries to install:
~~~
... snip ...
Installing weak dependencies:
mkpasswd x86_64 5.4.1-3.fc31
rawhide 39 k
... snip ...
~~~
Trying to query for weak dependencies, nothing requires it:
~~~
$ sudo dnf repoquery --whatrecommends mkpasswd
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:13 ago on Fri Mar 8 23:51:51 2019.
$ sudo dnf repoquery --supplements mkpasswd
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:53 ago on Fri Mar 8 23:51:51 2019.
~~~
So I wonder how I am supposed to know, why DNF is trying to install such
packages.
Vít
5 years, 2 months