gnupg newpg gpgme gpgme03 cryptplug isuses
by Dennis Gilmore
Recently the version of libgcrypt was increased to 1.1.94 as a result of
this newpg would not build against the newer libgcrypt i sent an email to
gcrypt-devel list and this is what i got back
<quote>
Don't build newpg at all. It has been superseded by gnupg-1.9.x .
You would need an old libgcrypt < 1.1.42 to build it. The configure
sscript was not able to detect newer versions with a changed API.
</quote>
we have a problem here seems we no longer need newpg but we need things it
provides for gpgme gpgme03 cryptplug gpa kgpg (which doesnt complain so
much just says its not there) to get these things it provides we need to
go to the newer gnupg or we need to revert back to the older libgcrypt.
being so late in the cycle i dont know which would be best. so i thought id
ask before filling a bug against something. it does need to be fixed before
final is out as people will complain if they cant decrypt email in kmail or
mutt gpa doesnt work etc. i think we should probably go back to the old
version of libgcrypt
Dennis
19 years, 6 months
sound server
by Havoc Pennington
Hi,
Do we have any comments on the sound server topic from a broader
perspective than only GNOME?
A competing proposal I've heard is to just use ALSA directly.
I believe this is orthogonal to something like Helix/GStreamer which
would both output to the sound server, but the maintainers of those
media frameworks probably care about the discussion.
A nice Fedora goal at some point would be to get all packages using the
same sound setup.
Havoc
19 years, 6 months
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf and Onstream tape drives
by Willem Riede
I'm trying to get Onstream {SC|DI} tape drives - osstX devices - to be
detected and set up correctly in FC3 Test 3, just as stX devices are. In spite
of staring at the startup scripts for some time, I'm not sure where to start.
To quote a segment of my /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
-
class: TAPE
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: st0
^^^ this should be osst0
driver: ignore
desc: "Onstream SC-30"
host: 0
id: 3
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg0
-
class: TAPE
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: st1
^^^ this should be st0
driver: ignore
desc: "Onstream ADR Series"
host: 3
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg6
-
class: TAPE
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: st2
^^^ this should be osst1
driver: ignore
desc: "Onstream DI-30"
host: 4
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg7
-
class: TAPE
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: st3
^^^ this should be st1
driver: ignore
desc: "Conner CTT8000-A"
host: 5
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg8
-
What creates /etc/sysconfig/hwconf? Does it drive everything else?
If not, what is the point at which I should start unraveling this?
Thanks for your help, Willem Riede.
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041026 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
evolution-2.0.2-3
-----------------
* Fri Oct 22 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.2-3
- added requirement on gnutls/gnutls-devel
* Fri Oct 22 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.2-2
- Fix for #132050 (no entry for Evolution in the menus): use the new redhat-evolution.desktop file provided by redhat-menus-1.13
* Tue Oct 12 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.2-1
- Update from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
- Updated dependency on e-d-s from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
- Updated dependency on libgal2 from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3
- Updated dependency on gtkhtml3 from 3.3.0 to 3.3.2
- ppc's mozilla dependency is now in line with the other architectures at 1.7.3
kernel-2.6.9-1.643
------------------
* Fri Oct 22 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Selected bits from 2.6.9-ac3
- Fix syncppp/async ppp problems with new hangup
- Fix broken parport_pc unload
- Stop i8xx_tco making some boxes reboot on load
- Fix cpia/module tools deadlock
- Security fix for smbfs leak/overrun
* Thu Oct 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Misc security fixes from 2.6.9-ac2
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix ia64 module loading. (#136365)
- Enable discontigmem for PPC64
- Disable a bunch of useless PPC config options
- Enable PACK_STACK on s390.
libgal2-2.2.3-3
---------------
* Fri Oct 22 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2:2.2.3-3
- rebuilt
* Thu Oct 21 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
postgresql-7.4.6-1.FC3.1
------------------------
* Sat Oct 23 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 7.4.6-1
- Update to PostgreSQL 7.4.6 (bugs 136947, 136949)
- Make init script more paranoid about mkdir step of initializing a new
database (bugs 136947, 136949)
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 7.4.5-4
- Remove contrib/oidjoins stuff from installed fileset; it's of no use
to ordinary users and has a security issue (bugs 136300, 136301)
- adjust chkconfig priority (bug 128852)
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20041026
-------------------------
system-config-securitylevel-1.4.14-1
------------------------------------
* Mon Oct 25 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4.14-1
- fix creation of relabel
19 years, 6 months
Re: sound server
by Mike Hearn
> Do we have any comments on the sound server topic from a broader
> perspective than only GNOME?
>
> A competing proposal I've heard is to just use ALSA directly.
I've got some notes on how to get hardware accelerated/network
transparent mixing sorted out with minimal effort, which unfortunately I
don't have here. I could post them in a few days, hopefully.
Basically:
- Write an alsa-lib plugin that by default just forwards the audio to
the slave device (ie, is a no-op) but when a magic environment
variable is set or whatever takes the audio and writes it to a
socket created somewhere with the name == pid of process, ie
/tmp/audio-mike/12345
The alsa-lib configuration format allows passing environment vars
as plugin parameters, ie it's all quite flexible with minimal policy
hardcoded.
Typically therefore you'd have the following alsalib plugin pipeline:
default -> as-yet-unnamed-plugin -> [dmix] -> plughw:0,0
- Have a simple GStreamer app that monitors $MAGIC_DIRECTORY and
when a new socket appears that is readable, connect to it and
start downloading the audio direct from the app. You can then
feed it via any GST pipeline you like; ie:
fdsrc ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! tcpsink
(dunno the exact plugin names). Net result is sound-server policy
is very flexible: you can have a dedicated "connect to me" style
server or you can stream it via SSH or via X, or you can forward
audio on a case-by-case basis.
- The key point is that in the common case of no network transparency
you can take advantage of dmix mixing (so instant interop with all
other ALSA supporting apps and OSS apps via the alsa LD_PRELOAD
wrapper), and in the case of having a sound card that doesn't suck
you can use hardware accelerated mixing/resampling as ALSA supports
this natively.
- One issue I haven't considered is syncing with X, because I don't
know anything about that. How often do people play movies over a
remote X connection anyway?
The main catch is that it doesn't exist, I just made it up. Somebody
would have to learn ALSA plugin programming then write
as-yet-unnamed-plugin. I don't have time, sorry :(
The other major catch is that obviously it's not portable. To be frank I
don't care about this whatsoever - IMHO audio
mixing/resampling/network-transparency is *not* a desktop level problem,
it's an operating system level problem. If the sound system of other
operating systems don't support automatic software mixing or network
transparency then too bad. However I suspect a proposal based on
leveraging ALSA would go down like a ton of bricks in most portable
desktop projects. There's nothing inherantly unportable about the ALSA
API, but people would still object.
Final catch: in Fedora Core 2 at least ALSA support still seems a bit
buggy. I found running XMMS for long periods with the ALSA plugin caused
a huge memory leak, and also after playing music for a while noise and
corruption started leaking into the audio.
Here is the ALSA dmix bug:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130593
thanks -mike
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041029 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
anaconda-10.1.0.2-1
-------------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.1.0.2-1
- Bring in firefox on upgrade if mozilla/netscape were
previously installed (#137244)
glibc-2.3.3-74
--------------
* Wed Oct 27 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-74
- fix <netinet/udp.h> header
- fix globfree (#137176)
- fix exiting if there are dlmopened libraries in namespaces
other than main one not closed yet
- export again _res_opcodes and __p_{class,type}_syms from
libresolv.so that were lost in -69
gpdf-2.8.0-5
------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 2.8.0-5
- Fix CAN-2004-0888 (xpdf integer overflows)
gpm-1.20.1-66
-------------
* Thu Oct 21 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-66
- avoid spawning multiple copies of inputattach, and kill process
when gpm shuts down (#135776)
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-65
- remove buildroot paths from gpm.info, fixing #135305
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-64
- fixing multilib conflict (#135305):
o remove buildsys check/conditional for gziping info pages (let rpm
do it)
o don't pre-byte-compile emacs code
libgnome-2.8.0-2
----------------
* Mon Oct 18 2004 <jrb(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-2
- change default browser to firefox
* Wed Sep 22 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.0-1
- update to 2.8.0
* Tue Aug 31 2004 Alex Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 2.7.92-1
- update to 2.7.92
mkinitrd-4.1.18-2
-----------------
* Sun Oct 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 4.1.18-2
- require cpio (#136814)
nss_db-2.2-29
-------------
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.2-29
- give makedb support for setting labels on files, and use it (#136522)
openswan-2.1.5-2
----------------
* Thu Oct 21 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.5-2
- don't run by default. again.
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20041029
-------------------------
xinitrc-4.0.14-1
----------------
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.0.14-1
- Fix permissions on Xaccess file (#101065)
- Modified the way ssh-agent is invoked, which greatly simplified the
xinitrc script, and removed the now unneeded SSH_AGENT variable (#134494)
yum-2.1.11-1
------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-1
- update to 2.1.11
- fix config file error handling
- better handling of empty lines/comments in mirror lists
- improve some error messages
* Sun Oct 24 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.10-3.1
- make the cron job executable (#136764)
19 years, 6 months
any chances for some last minute vte changes, or atleast something to consider
by Jon Nettleton
We have all dealt with the good, the bad, and the ugly of
gnome-terminal/vte. Don't get me wrong, it has been my terminal of
choice as long as I have run redhat/fedora. The speed output has
always been an issue for me, but it wasn't until recently that the
tabbed redraw problem became apparent to me. I always switch my
terminal to a black background with grey fonts, so it wasn't until I
started rolling my customized fedora core 2 desktop out to my
coworkers that the multi-tab black background bug was ever a factor.
The speed issue was addresed in the patch attached to this bugzilla,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132770 , which I
have found fantastic. Without the mad skills of this excellent
programmer I addressed the lesser of the two evils, the tabbed black
background bug. My debugging led to a less elegant, but harmless and
effective solution with a patch attached to this bug,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100420 .
Between the two patches I now have a gnome-terminal that just works
how I want it, and how I assume everyone would like it to. These have
been nagging bugs for quite some time. I know getting changes into
vte at the gnome level has been slow, any chance of use addressing the
issues at a distribution level?
-Jon
19 years, 6 months
fedora 3 and mono
by Patricio Bruna V
Hi i just make a pairs of RPM for mono (gtk-sharp exactly) that works
with fedora 3. The packages for fedora 2 in the site mono-project.com
works fine under fedora 3 with this gtk-sharp packages.
you can download from: ftp://ftp.linuxcenter.cl/pub/fedora/core/3/mono/
thats all.
--
Patricio Bruna http://www.linuxcenterla.com
Ingeniero de Proyectos Canada # 239 Piso 5
Red Hat Certified Engineer Providencia, Santiago - CHILE
Linux Center Latinoamerica Fono: +56 2 2745000, Fax : +56 2
2747075
19 years, 6 months
LTSP or Stateless Linux
by Adriano Galano
Hello:
Could sometbody tell me the differences between LTSP and Stateless
Linux project? How they compares? In wich situations is more
recomendable one type of the architecture or other?
Best regrards,
-Adriano
--
Adriano M. (bryam) Galano Díez
In LiNUX and FLOSS since 1992 (R)
19 years, 6 months