Bug Day 6: Doin' the Configure Tool Cha-Cha
by Jef Spaleta
Nov. 19, 2003 Bug Day Topic:
Bug squashing for the redhat-config-* packages
That's right...tomorrow is another bug day!!!!! But this time its
official, bug days now get a passing mention at:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/
Little birdies have told me, that certain people are agitating for a
chance to get their hands dirty working with some of the config tools.
So why not start by first trying to get a handle on all the open bugs
that are sitting in bugzilla right now and close as many as possible.
And if your lucky...there might even be a bug that you can dig into and
submit a patch for. And, hopefully people will be standing by in
#fedora-bugs on the Freenode.net irc network to help you if you have any
questions on how to master bugzilla diving.
Here's a pre-built query showing all the open bugs for the
redhat-config-* tools:
http://tinyurl.com/vmh2
A Note. Please try to use the formatted triage->reason syntax
when annotating bug reports ( http://www.fedora.us/wiki/TriageComment ).
Example if you find an old unresolved bug report that is clearly fixed
in the current release, please add the comment "triage->currentrelease"
If you are unsure which reason is most appropriate, stop into
#fedora-bug irc channel and ask for assistance.
A second note. Just as a reminder, it might be good to glance over the
wiki for the Fedora Triage effort:
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraTriage
In other news.....
Fedora.us is still in great need for community members to do QA.
There are 280+ packages waiting for QA ( http://www.fedora.us/QA ).
Please read http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy
and get involved in the community QA process on the community submitted
packages. So please take a look over the list of packs in the QA list,
and see if there are packages there you want to see published..pick
one..and pitch in to the QA process for the package you love.
In other, other news....
Paul Nasrat is working on hacking up some example code
to interface with the xmlrpc interface to bugzilla. I'll let him
fill you in on the details when he's ready to show off his mad skills.
But i mention it here because, I hope his experimental tools are
something that can become the basis for ease-of-use tools to work with
bugzilla to do triage and fedora.us(or extras/alternatives) package
submit/QA down the road. Since tomorrow(err i mean today) is config
tool bughunt day...i thought it appropriately ironic to mention that I'm
hoping for a config tool just to help do bughunting.
-jef"it just wouldn't be right...if a can of whoopass cola..tasted
good"spaleta
20 years, 5 months
FC1 on a VAIO
by Michael P. Soulier
Hey people,
I while back I installed RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO, and it
automagickally detected my pcmcia CD-ROM with no problems at all. I was
quite disappointed to find that FC1 failed to do so. When prompted to
select a driver for it, none of the pcmcia drivers on the list worked.
We would seem to need a little regression in this release for
laptops. Let me know if I can help.
Cheers,
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <michael_soulier(a)mitel.com>, 613-592-2122 x2522
6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Networks Corporation
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
20 years, 5 months
frustration: mailing lists and bugzilla reports
by Gene C.
While this message will ultimately meet the "requirements" for reporting to
this list ("is this a bug"==fedora-list, "here is a proposed
patch"==fedora-devel-list, and "here are some rpms to
test"==fedora-test-list), I am going to take the opportunity to comment on a
couple other items.
First, I can empathize with those posting to this list about bugs rather than
fedora-list because the fedora-list has a too low signal-to-noise ratio. The
problem described below has been posted to the fedora-list but has received
little in comments. Few Red Hat folks seem to read the list (noteable
exception is Bill Nottingham) and I cannot blame them due to the S/N ratio.
Second, I have a question concerning bugzilla reports. Many reports appear to
stay in a "NEW" status for a very long time (sometimes forever). While some
individuals may be away due to circumstances such as vacation, being sick,
etc., I would expect that some attention would be paid to these reports. It
is frustrating when they appear to be ignored and the bug continues ... like,
why bother reporting it when the report is ignored.
Case in point concerns the working of the gnome panel drawers in Fedora Core
1. During the test cycle when I found that drawers were not
converting/working, I reported that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107648
I then found another report
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104492) and closed mine
in its failure.
2. I continued to hope that this would be fixed in FC1 but when it was not, I
looked at bugzilla.gnome.org and found that the problem had been found and
fixed in cvs (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121072). Now the
report in the Red Hat bugzilla had a number of other bugs marked as dups so
this was something bother a lot of individuals. The problem had been fixed
in cvs around 16 Sep so there was lots of time to get this fixed before FC1.
This is frustrating.
3. OK, so was the update simple ... yes. Looking at the update in the gnome
cvs, only one file was hit by the update -- button-wedget.c. I created a
patch for only button-widget.c which incorporated updates from the gnome cvs
-- by the time I got to it, there had been three updates: the drawer fix plus
two other patches which did some minor changing of text messages. While the
text message updates also hit other modules, to have them only
button-widget.c did not appear to cause any problems. I have attached the
patch to bugzilla 104492 as a proposed fix.
4. I also built some rpms with the patch and have posted them to anonymous
ftp at ftp://czarc.net/pub
The status of the bugzilla report as of today: still marked as new.
Frustrating.
--
Gene
20 years, 5 months
Where are Fedor 1 Updates ???
by clemens@dwf.com
There USED to be a large number of updates to Fedora on
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/en RPMS. (k12ltsp,
stable, testing, unstable, updates)
Suddenly they are gone.
What I find today is about a dozen files in
ftp://ftp.fedora.us/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386
are these the 'real' updates, and if so, what was the LONG list of
updates I was seeing (and applying) before????
Anyone know what is going on ????
--
Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
20 years, 5 months
bugzilla for fedora?
by Neal D. Becker
I'm interested in installing bugzilla for local use. Is there any package for
fedora?
20 years, 5 months
Floppy boot install of Fedora for CD install via USB Sony DVD DRX-500ULX?
by Mark G. Spencer
I'm about to try and install Fedora on an older laptop that only has a floppy drive and USB. I have a USB DVD drive that I would like to use to install the Fedora CD's. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm going to try the standard bootdisk.img on Fedora Core 1 CD1 and hope that it allows the DVD drive via USB to be used for installation. ;)
Thanks,
Mark
20 years, 5 months
Mozilla hangs after latest glibc updates
by Christopher A. Williams
I just updated FC1 this morning from Fedora Updates. There was a glibc
update and a couple of others there.
Now, mozilla hangs anytime you highlight the address bar or try to type
in any new location. Anyone else notice this?
Thunderbird seems to have the same problem as well. Wound up having to
D/L Opera just to be able to browse reliably.
Cheers,
Chris
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"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' someone else's dog around."
--Cowboy Wisdom
20 years, 5 months
Fedora Core 1 Test Update: sed-4.0.8-2
by Jakub Jelinek
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-015
2003-11-17
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Name : sed
Version : 4.0.8
Release : 2
Summary : A GNU stream text editor.
Description :
Sed (Stream EDitor) is a stream or batch (non-interactive) editor.
Sed takes text as input, performs an operation or set of operations on
the text, and outputs the modified text. The operations that sed
performs (substitutions, deletions, insertions, etc.) can be specified
in a script file or from the command line.
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Update Information:
Sed in Fedora Core 1 (and earlier distributions) was not using fastmap
for regular expressions. Fastmap can speed up regular expression
searching a lot, in some cases as much as 10 times.
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* Fri Nov 14 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.0.8-2
- enable --without-included-regex again
- use fastmap for regex searching
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
SRPMS/sed-4.0.8-2.src.rpm
md5 sum: 60f3893e55566ddbcc8893f670958684
i386/sed-4.0.8-2.i386.rpm
md5 sum: b9e3e156f3e19de3b99ea02a9bd1b782
i386/debug/sed-debuginfo-4.0.8-2.i386.rpm
md5 sum: e1ee4346eedee46a4a995625680eab38
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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20 years, 5 months
Fedora Core 1 Test Update: initscripts-7.42.1-1
by Bill Nottingham
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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-016
2003-11-17
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Name : initscripts
Version : 7.42.1
Release : 1
Summary : The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts.
Description :
The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot
your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down
cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and
deactivate most network interfaces.
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Update Information:
This fixes some xDSL problems, and also gets rid of warning messages from
KDE's pty helper while fixing talk and mesg for those logged in on ptys.
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* Mon Nov 17 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 7.42.1-1
- fix /dev/pts mounting (#110209)
- fix xDSL and other interfaces (#109601)
- get rid of ethtool error message from ifup
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
SRPMS/initscripts-7.42.1-1.src.rpm
md5 sum: f4418f8b0fc9df8e4f2e82692ece4814
i386/initscripts-7.42.1-1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: a2451ec13cbfc929300981d972598e83
i386/debug/initscripts-debuginfo-7.42.1-1.i386.rpm
md5 sum: d95105dac6b80241e438fcd151da7dfa
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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20 years, 5 months