Re: [Server-devel] Need help: mounting usb devices on headless machines
by Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM, James Cameron <quozl(a)laptop.org> wrote:
> Don't know about Fedoristas, but on Debian and derivatives this is what
usbmount is a slightly longer and nicer version of that, which will
- mount various partitions if various partitions are available
- run scripts from a foo.d directory using run-parts
- various options including logging
See for yourself here -
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/usbmount/trunk/usbmount/usbmount?op=file&rev=0...
Having it as a middle-tier does a couple of things
- insulates the other packages from HAL/udev changes. Is it
udev_volume_id or vol_id?
- each FS get mounted once and but N scripts from different packages
can be listening for that mount event
my plan is to add beeps too, with a special beeping pattern if
something goes wrong. Time for a "learn morse-code" activity on the
XO?
cheers,
m
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15 years, 9 months
Release tarballs for OLPC software?
by Robin Norwood
Hi,
So after working on this list:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#Easy
It turns out there simply aren't tarball releases easily available for
some of the packages (I noted the ones I couldn't find above). I
talked to Scott, and he says:
"""
You can download tarballs directly from our gitweb instance
with a URL like:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/olpc-contents;a=snapshot;h=olpcc...
...but the aforementioned git issue with submodules means you'd need
two source lines, one for the main git module and one for the
submodule. Hrm. I can make sure the submodule uses the same tag as
the parent, so both of the source lines can be constant (using the
%{version} macro)...
Maybe I should just suck it up and post tarballs somewhere.
"""
So, my question is, do we need to ask Scott to put tarballs online
somewhere for these packages, or can the SRPMS at
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/repos/joyride/ count as the upstream
sources, since they contain the tarballs we'd build from anyway?
Does anyone know the answer to this?
Thanks,
-RN
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Red Hat, Inc.
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15 years, 9 months
Fwd: Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from
by Martin Langhoff
Hi!
This is a trivial package that is rather outdated, and the old version
has a bug that is affecting me on the XS. I am not sure how responsive
Axel Thimm ( the current packager of fakeroot) is - not much wrt
fakeroot anyway :-) - see the email below...
If an updated version gets into F9 ( thanks to magic fairies :-) ) I
can rebuild it for F7.
It is a bit awkward that Clint is not publishing the tagged tarballs
(AFAICS!). Makes it hard to package an updated version. There is the
tla sources :-/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Subject: Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from
To: Development discussions related to Fedora
<fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>, Clint Adams <schizo(a)debian.org>,
Axel.Thimm(a)atrpms.net
Hi!
Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected
by a somewhat nasty race condition.
The bug was characterised here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with
trivial repo steps here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was
fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.
Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included.
Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a
package for the school server and offer it here.
To Clint - looking for a link to the latest version to grace this
email, I cannot find a source package or a tagged package anywhere.
The most recent release I can see on Debian is 1.9.5 on Lenny and
1.9.6 on Sid, but there are no upstream tarballs on Alioth. Fakeroot
is useful on many platforms - is it possible to arrange for publishing
the tarballs somewhere?
cheers,
m
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15 years, 9 months
I'm at OLPC offices next week -- meet next Friday?
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi all. Sorry I've been a bit absent from the list. Trying to lay aside
other responsibilities to "clear the decks" for OLPC work.
I know I proposed Friday meetings, and then disappeared -- but my goal is
to have a meeting on IRC next Friday. More on this next week.
Thanks to everyone who has pitched in so far.
--g
15 years, 9 months