needswork question
by Zoltan Kota
Hi,
I submitted a new package in fedora.us QA (python-bibtex). Hoping that FC1
recode package
will be updated from rawhide (recode-3.6-9 is buggy), I added the keywords
1 and 2 in the keyword field.
My package would work nicely in FC1 if recode were updated. But it isn't,
so my package is in the needswork phase now because it does not build in
FC1. What to do now? Should I remove 1 from keywords? Should I prepare the
srpm under FC2 test2? Or should I wait for the FC2 final release and do it
there?
Zoltan
20 years, 1 month
Fedora Core 2 and SELinux
by Bill Nottingham
Just clarifying what's been posted in a couple of other threads.
SELinux *will* be included in Fedora Core 2 test 3 and the final
Fedora Core 2 release. However, SELinux will be disabled by default.
To install with SELinux support, pass 'selinux' to the installer
on the command line. (Or, configure it appropriately in kickstart).
This was done based on both internal and external testing and feedback
of the current Fedora Core SELinux implementation and policy. At
this point, we feel that it would be potentially damaging to the aims
of both SELinux and Fedora to ship Fedora Core 2 with SELinux
enabled by default.
We're still committed to the integration of SELinux technology,
and we're still working to fix all the bugs we find. Evaluation of
when the right time isto switch it on by default will continue.
What does this mean for those testing with SELinux? Please, continue!
We're still looking to shake out all the issues and make it work.
Thanks,
The Fedora team
20 years, 1 month
Cooperative Bug Isolation Project
by Colin Walters
I was chatting tonight with the guy who maintains the Cooperative Bug
Isolation Project:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/
His work has helped me a lot with Rhythmbox - certainly he's found some
important bugs.
I wonder if it might make sense to include something like this in
Fedora.
It's a really well done project - they have it so users can easily
opt-out (certainly we could change the default to opt-in), and even
include a tray icon. They've thought about privacy a lot:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/learn-more/privacy/
It does kind of go along with Fedora's philosophy of being a proving
ground. Anyways, not something to do lightly of course, but it's a
pretty cool project, and the main author writes *fantastic* bug reports.
20 years, 1 month
x.org DRI/Hardware accel?
by Dax Kelson
Should I bugzilla this, or is it a known issue?
A did a install from Rawhide yesterday (also noted with test2), and on
my laptop with an Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]. I have
no direct rendering.
$ glxinfo | grep rendering:
direct rendering: No
It did work with RHL8, RHL9, and FC1.
20 years, 1 month
RE: Cooperative Bug Isolation Project
by Erik LaBianca
> >
> Could you give an example of what the student would post i.e., the
type
> of information you are looking for?
>
> Richard
>
Thanks for the reply. I owe you a dollar :)
Personally, I'd be particularly interested in things relating to the
Fedora as a community. For instance, the status of Fedora Extra's and
the other community contribution policies. Are these being discussed
internally, or is progress as stagnant as it appears on this list? I do
realize that any posting to the list is an invitation to the peanut
gallery for comment, but I guess that goes with the territory.
Secondly, I'd be very interested in hearing about policy decisions that
are made regarding Fedora. For instance "we decided not to support
kernel 2.4 in FC2 since we're targeting kernel 2.6 for RHEL4". I realize
some of this information has been presented in the past, but I can't
imagine weeks and months go by without any change.
I'd also be interested to hear random "blog" information that provides a
picture of what RedHat folks are working on that relates to Fedora. Such
as "Person's X and Y have been working on integrating selinux policies
for FC2, Person Z is working on a new set of user configuration tools.
Those interested in helping out with these should contact person A." IE
a more user readable summary of the sort of information that can be
gleaned from the commit comments in rawhide report.
Obviously progress is happening on FC2 and at redhat in general, but
from my perspective (monitoring fedora-devel primarily) it's really
tough to know what, exactly. Obviously it's impractical for all
technical discussion to go through the list, but some summary of what's
been going on would help.
Perhaps a periodically updated list of areas where volunteer help would
be most appreciated would be a good idea, too?
Just my $0.02.
--erik
20 years, 1 month
RE: Cooperative Bug Isolation Project
by Erik LaBianca
> >
> > So in the end, people outside of Red Hat feel shitted on, the people
> > inside of Red Hat dont understand why people are always picking on
them,
> > and eventually some psycology doctorate gets another paper on the
> > insanity of mankind.
>
> That's all fine and good, in the meantime while the psychology student
> gets his/her paper fedora has fallen apart and it useless to both red
> hat and the users.
>
> -sv
Hear, Hear! It would seem advantageous for RedHat to (hire|recruit) that
fabled psychology student to walk from cubicle to cubicle and post his
findings to the list on a daily or weekly basis. I can't imagine it
would cost much, and the benefit to the community would be extreme.
Heck, if they don't want to pay anyone to do it, I'm sure there are any
number of volunteers on this list who'd be happy to do it for a week or
two at a time for the cost of a plane ticket.
Just look at the excitement caused by the average rawhide report, the
only real "official output" we get from RedHat as a whole as to where
they're headed.
I've got $1.00 that no-one from RedHat responds to this thread, anyone
care to counter?
--erik
20 years, 1 month
rawhide report: 20040420 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
apmd-3.0.2-22
-------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)redhat.com>
- build on ppc too because that emulates APM
arts-1.2.2-2
------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.2.2-2
- #120265 #119642 -devel req alsa-lib-devel esound-devel glib2-devel
dbh-1.0.18-2
------------
* Sun Apr 18 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 1:1.0.18-2
- #121140 explicit epoch in -devel dep
fedora-release-1.92-1
---------------------
fedora-release-1.92-2
---------------------
fontconfig-2.2.1-10
-------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.2.1-10
- Require recent freetype (#109592, Peter Oliver)
- Remove fonts.conf timestamp to fix multiarch conflict (#118182)
- Disable hinting for Mukti Narrow (#120915, Sayamindu Dasgupta)
foomatic-3.0.1-3
----------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0.1-3
- Require appropriate perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_...) symbol (bug #121131).
* Wed Mar 10 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Fix deprecated cast-as-lvalues.
freetype-2.1.7-4
----------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.1.7-4
- Add patch from freetype CVS to fix problem with eexec (#117743)
- Add freetype-devel to buildrequires and -devel requires
(Maxim Dzumanenko, #111108)
glibc-2.3.3-22
--------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-22
- update from CVS
- mq and timer fixes
- rebuilt with binutils >= 2.15.90.0.3-2 to fix IA-64 statically
linked binaries
- fix linuxthreads librt.so on s390{,x}, so it is no longer DT_TEXTREL
* Sat Apr 17 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-21
- disable rtkaio
- update from CVS
- POSIX message passing support
- fixed SIGEV_THREAD support for POSIX timers
- fix free on non-malloced memory in syslog
- fix ffsl on some 64-bit arches
- fix sched_setaffinity on x86-64, ia64
- fix ppc64 umount
- NETID_AUTHORITATIVE, SERVICES_AUTHORITATIVE support
- various NIS speedups
- fix fwrite with > 2GB sizes on 64-bit arches
- fix pthread_getattr_np guardsize reporting in NPTL
- report PLT relocations in ld.so and libc.so during the build
* Thu Mar 25 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-20
- update from CVS
- change NPTL PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP mutexes to spin on SMP
- strtol speed optimization
- don't try to use certainly unimplemented syscalls on ppc64
- kill -debug subpackage, move the libs to glibc-debuginfo{,-common}
into /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/ directory
- fix c_stubs with gcc 3.4
- move all the up to 3 builds into %build scriptlet and
leave only installation in the %install scriptlet
gnome-panel-2.6.0-9
-------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-9
- Install battstat on the default panel on ppc too
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0-8
- Only put the battstat applet on the default panel on ix86 (i.e. the
platforms where apmd is built) - bug #121098
guile-1.6.4-11
--------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 5:1.6.4-11
- Fix post failure and duplicate rpm in database
- Compress NEWS
- other minor cleanups
htmlview-3.0.0-3
----------------
* Sat Apr 17 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 3.0.0-3
- mimic gnome-open if available, otherwise fallback to old htmlview behavior
- fix error handling (karsten)
im-sdk-11.4-40
--------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1:11.4-40
- fixed an owner of im-switch (FC2 BLOCKER #121136)
kdelibs-3.2.2-3
---------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-3
- fix #120265 #119642
* Sun Apr 18 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 3.2.2-2
- #120265 #119642 -devel req alsa-lib-devel esound-devel fam-devel
glib2-devel libart_lgpl-devel
- #88853 BR autoconf automake libpng-devel libvorbis-devel
glib2-devel libtiff-devel
- cups-libs explicit epoch, some cleanups
kernel-2.6.5-1.332
------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.6-rc1-bk3
- add the objrmap vm from the -mm tree; it needs testing
kudzu-1.1.57-1
--------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.57-1
- add probing for VIO bus for iSeries
- add probing for S390 bus for s390
libselinux-1.11.2-1
-------------------
* Thu Apr 15 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.11.2-1
- Add relaxed policy changes
libxml2-2.6.9-1
---------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 2.6.9 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
* Thu Jan 02 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- integrated drv_libxml2 xml.sax driver from Stéphane Bidoul
- provides the new XmlTextReader interfaces based on C# XML APIs
* Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems
libxslt-1.1.6-1
---------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 1.1.6 see http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
* Sun Nov 02 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- cleanup, removal of the deprecated breakpoint library and
automated libxml2 dependancy level in the generated spec file.
* Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems
mysql-3.23.58-9
---------------
* Sat Apr 17 2004 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 3.23.58-9
- remove redundant INSTALL-SOURCE, manual.*
- compress manual.txt.bz2
- BR time
rpmdb-fedora-1.92-0.20040420
----------------------------
strace-4.5.3-1
--------------
* Fri Apr 16 2004 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> 4.5.3-1
- new upstream version, mq_* calls (#120701), -p vs NPTL (#120462), more fixes (#118694, #120541, #118685)
* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 4.5.2-1.1
- rebuilt
* Mon Mar 01 2004 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> 4.5.2-1
- new upstream version, sched_* calls (#116990), show core flag (#112117)
subversion-1.0.2-1
------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- update to 1.0.2
system-config-users-1.2.12-3
----------------------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.12-3
- hide SELinux widgets for now (bug #119941)
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.12-2
- remove *pyc files on ininstall
xmlsec1-1.2.5-1
---------------
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 1.2.5-1
- updated with upstream release from Aleksey
* Wed Feb 11 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 1.2.4-1
- updated with upstream release from Aleksey
* Tue Jan 06 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-1
- updated with upstream release from Aleksey
20 years, 1 month
.pyc files
by seth vidal
In python packages should the .pyc files be included in the package or
not?
up2date has them, system-config-users has them, system-config-packages
does not, nor does system-config-mouse.
ideas?
-sv
20 years, 1 month
Re: .pyc files
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:46, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:29, seth vidal wrote:
> > In python packages should the .pyc files be included in the package or
> > not?
> > up2date has them, system-config-users has them, system-config-packages
> > does not, nor does system-config-mouse.
>
> The .pyc files should probably be included as well as the .py files.
> And it should be done automatically just like the buildroot stripping
> policies because it's slightly tricky to do "right". Nalin wrote a brp
> script to do so a while ago, it just hasn't been integrated into the
> default rpm config (yet)
Any reason to include .py files at all ? Could save some space only
shipping the .pyc files..
20 years, 1 month
Requiring perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_$version)
by Tim Waugh
Here is some spec-file magic that might be useful to others..
Modified Files:
foomatic.spec
Log Message:
* Mon Apr 19 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0.1-3
- Require appropriate perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_...) symbol (bug #121131).
Index: foomatic.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/foomatic/foomatic.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.85
retrieving revision 1.86
diff -u -r1.85 -r1.86
--- foomatic.spec 10 Mar 2004 11:44:40 -0000 1.85
+++ foomatic.spec 19 Apr 2004 11:02:35 -0000 1.86
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Summary: Foomatic printer database.
Name: foomatic
Version: 3.0.1
-Release: 2
+Release: 3
License: GPL
Group: System Environment/Libraries
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
BuildRequires: perl >= 3:5.8.1
BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
Requires: perl >= 3:5.8.1
+Requires: %(eval `perl -V:version`; echo "perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_$version)")
BuildRoot: %_tmppath/%name-%version-%release-root
Provides: perl(Foomatic::GrovePath)
Requires: perl-libxml-enno >= 1.02
@@ -248,6 +249,9 @@
%{_mandir}/*/*
%changelog
+* Mon Apr 19 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0.1-3
+- Require appropriate perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_...) symbol (bug #121131).
+
* Wed Mar 10 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Fix deprecated cast-as-lvalues.
20 years, 1 month
