yum update displaying weird text with wildcards
by David Timms
Hi, since fedora-devel repo is having trouble (libosp.so.4 for
openjade), I've been updating by using wildcards:
# yum --disablerepo=extras-development update s* t* u*
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Could not find update match for s*
Could not find update match for tall mc
Could not find update match for u*
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
#
I can't imagine where the "t*" could be getting turned into "tall mc" (I
wondered if I or the repo had been hacked!). It doesn't seem to cause
further problems with the update, but that's not finished yet.
18 years, 3 months
xorg package names aren't starting at 7.0
by David Timms
What reasoning lies behind the choice of version numbering for the new
X.Org X11R7.0 packages in rawhide.
FC4 updates-released used: xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
FC5 test1 development uses: xorg-x11-apps-1.0.0-1
Wont this would confuse many who will be getting R7.0 (now released) ?
DaveT.
18 years, 3 months
Build Report rawhide
by Don Springall
Did the build system go kaboom last night or is it still running ?
18 years, 3 months
Re: fc5 kernels after 1788 have excessive, kernel overhead
by Anne & Lynn Wheeler
> Will this hit a system with EXT3->LVM->MDRAID1 particularly hard? Took
> about two hours to do a local install (with a largish set of packages
> but not everything) which I seem to remember took about 3/4 of an hour
> before.
>
> During installation ext3_xattr_block_set and r1bio_pool_alloc show as
> the top guzzlers, totalling 1.5 billion allocations between them,
> obviously plenty of disk writing going on ...
long running application doing enet to disk transfer sustains
2.6mbytes/sec transfer with 20% cpu busy (mostly non-kernel time).
post-1788 kernel, it is 100% cpu (mostly kernel time) and 600kbytes/sec
sustained (an increase of over 20times in total cpu executed per byte
transferred and possibly an increase of 100times in kernel cpu executed
per byte transferred).
18 years, 3 months
Upstream changes
by Don Springall
It is 5 days away from the next scheduled devel freeze for test 2. I don't
get the feeling yet that things have settled down. I thought that this time
around we would see a lot less of "upstream" changes such as the move to
gnome 2.13.4 and still more gcc and glibc changes. Isn't it kind of risky to
be making those kind of changes now ?
18 years, 3 months