Dia has .la files
by Debarshi Ray
I noticed that the dia package has %{_libdir}/%{name}/*.la files. Any
particular reason for them to be there? Doesn't guidelines ask us to
remove them?
Cheerio,
Debarshi
15 years, 6 months
rawhide netbook resume with xorg intel driver?
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
Has anyone else seen issues with resume with the latest intel 2.5.0 driver
on netbooks. I'm seeing issues on my eeepc 901 which has the intel atom i945
chipset. It had worked previously and resumes OK but I get a black screen
with a cursor and around that a square of garbled bits. Just wondering if
anyone else has seen that of late on any of the random NetBooks with the
same chipset like the various newer eeePCs, Dell mini, Acer aspiron one etc.
Cheers,
Peter
15 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20081031 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Fri Oct 31 06:01:18 UTC 2008
Updated Packages:
NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.0-0.12.svn4229.fc10
-------------------------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1:0.7.0-12.svn4229
- Fix hang in auth dialog (rh #467007)
PackageKit-0.3.9-3.fc10
-----------------------
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.9-3
- Install the usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindQPackageKit.cmake file so we
can build KPackageKit from svn head.
- Fix installing the preupgrade package when we check for distro upgrades
on machines with 32 and 64 bit versions available. Fixes #469172
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.9-2
- Apply a couple of patches from upstream to fix development filtering
and installing the web plugin.
binutils-2.18.50.0.9-7.fc10
---------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.9-7
- Fix %{_prefix}/include/bfd.h on 32-bit hosts due the 64-bit BFD target
support from 2.18.50.0.8-2 (BZ 468495).
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil(a)redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.9-6
- binutils-devel now requires zlib-devel (BZ 463101 comment 5).
- Fix complains on .gnu.linkonce.r relocations to their discarded
.gnu.linkonce.t counterparts.
digikam-0.10.0-0.6.beta5.fc10
-----------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.10.0-0.6.beta5
- digikam-0.10.0-beta5
fedora-release-notes-9.92-4
---------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> - 9.92-4
- Fix URI in Release Notes OMF file (#469179)
gambas2-2.9.0-1.fc10
--------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2.9.0-1
- Update to 2.9.0
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-2b12.fc10
------------------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Lillian Angel <langel(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.6.0-2b12
- Updated icedteasnapshot.
- Fixed post scriptlet to remove gcjwebplugin.so.
- Updated jvisualvm requirement.
- Added build option --with-pkgversion=6b12-Fedora-10
- Resolves: rhbz#428503
- Resolves: rhbz#251829
- Resolves: rhbz#415061
- Resolves: rhbz#452188
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Lillian Angel <langel(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.6.0-1.2.b12
- Added netbeans requirement for devel package.
- Fixed removal of gcjwebplugin.so link when installing plugin package.
- Updated Release.
- Resolves: rhbz#468635
kdegraphics-4.1.2-4.fc10
------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 4.1.2-4
- respin libkexiv2/libkdcraw backport patches
kernel-2.6.27.4-68.fc10
-----------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-67
- radeon: try and workaround AGP badness with kms + enable VRAM mtrr
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Jarod Wilson <jarod(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-66
- Update to latest firewire git code:
* Resolve spb2/ohci module load race causing delayed sbp2 logins (#466679)
* Prevent >256 bus resets from crashing the system (improves #244576)
* Fix assorted memory leaks
* Include timestamps in iso packet headers
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reduce maximum supported CPUs on x86-64 to 64.
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 2.6.27.4-65
- radeon modesetting : misc fixes - rs690, agp unload, module unload warning
kipi-plugins-0.2.0-0.4.beta3.fc10
---------------------------------
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 0.2.0-0.4.beta3
- kipi-plugins-0.2.0-beta3
kphotoalbum-3.2-0.4.20081007svn.fc10
------------------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 3.2-0.4.20081007svn
- respin (kdegraphics)
ldm-2.0.15-1.fc10
-----------------
* Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.15-1
- ldminfod tells LDM client location of Xsession script
fallback to client's known location if ldminfod failed to tell it
- ldminfod moved from ltsp-server to ldminfod package
ltsp-5.1.30-2.fc10
------------------
* Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.30-2
- ltsp-server requires ldminfod
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.30-1
- ldminfod tells LDM client location of Xsession script
fallback to client's known location if ldminfod failed to tell it
- ldminfod moved from ltsp-server to ldminfod package
- Add alsa-plugins-pulseaudio to client chroot, should allow most
localapps to output sound.
- Fix client boot with F10 iproute
- Debug shells on VT2-VT6 are now disabled by default
edit /var/lib/tftpboot/i386/lts.conf to enable if you need it
mash-0.4.2-3.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.2-3
- Add patch from upstream that hasn't been relased yet.
- Drop patch to ignore F10 key.
mkinitrd-6.0.69-1.fc10
----------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 6.0.69-1
- Make it so we actually handle luks devs, cciss or otherwise. (dlehman)
Resolves: rhbz#468856
perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22-4.fc10
------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> 2.22-4
- Fixed default configuration file reading loadmodule (#448320)
phpMyAdmin-3.0.1.1-1.fc10
-------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Robert Scheck <robert(a)fedoraproject.org> 3.0.1.1-1
- Upstream released 3.0.1.1 (#468974)
plymouth-0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.2.fc10
----------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.2
- Update prompt text colors to be legible on new artwork
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.30.1
- Drop upstreamed patches
- Patch from Charlie to update artwork
- Patch from Charlie to make password screen match animation better
(bug 468899)
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.6.0-0.2008.10.27.8
- Fix escape at password prompt (bug 467533)
policycoreutils-2.0.57-10.fc10
------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-10
- Fix traceback in audit2why
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-9
- Make GUI use translations
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-8
- Fix typo in man page
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.0.57-7
- Handle selinux disabled correctly
- Handle manipulation of fcontext file correctly
pyxdg-0.16-1.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 0.16-1
- update to 0.16
- fix indent bug in DesktopEntry.py (bz 469229)
rhythmbox-0.11.6-15.6005.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 0.11.6-15.r6005
- Update to rev 6005
- Fixes typo in the LIRC config
- Force GConf library location to be a URI on startup
rssh-2.3.2-5.fc10
-----------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> - 2.3.2-5
- Remove pre and post scripts
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456182#c17
selinux-policy-3.5.13-11.fc10
-----------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.5.13-11
- Fix confined users
- Allow xguest to read/write xguest_dbusd_t
* Mon Oct 27 18:00:00 2008 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 3.5.13-9
- Allow openoffice execstack/execmem privs
shared-mime-info-0.51-4.fc10
----------------------------
* Wed Oct 29 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 0.51-4
- Add patch to avoid picture CD being anything with a pictures directory
(#459365)
solar-backgrounds-0.91.1-1.fc10
-------------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Martin Sourada <mso(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.91.0-2
- Bump Release for rebuild
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Martin Sourada <mso(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.91.0-1
- Split into basic wallpapers with standard resolution (for Live CD Spins) and
-extras package with more resolutions
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 0.91.1-1
- Fix 5:4 to be really 1280x1024, not 1280x1014 (add top 10px from dual version)
* Tue Oct 28 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 0.90.0-2
- Split out a -common so we can symlink the wallpapers we need in the KDE theme
- without having to require all the ones we can't use.
solar-kde-theme-0.1.11-1.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> 0.1.10-3
- list 1200x900 (OLPC XO) for 4:3
- list 1280x768 (5:3) as widescreen (used by at least one netbook)
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> 0.1.10-2
- use backgrounds from solar-backgrounds-common (>= 0.91.0, with the new look)
- support aspect ratios in the KDM theme
- add some more 4:3 and 8:5 resolutions to the symlink lists (KDM, wallpapers)
- use solar_wide.png for 800x480 and 1024x600 in KDM and wallpapers
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> 0.1.11-1
- fixes full qualified host name runs past the boundaries (bz#469048)
- removes backgrounds from source tarball
totem-pl-parser-2.24.2-1.fc10
-----------------------------
* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 2.24.2-1
- Update to 2.24.2
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-38.fc10
------------------------------
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 28
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
livecd-tools-019-1.fc10.ppc64 requires yaboot
15 years, 6 months
PackageKit 0.3.10 into F9
by Richard Hughes
I'm asking for your opinions as to whether PackageKit 0.3.10 should be
pushed into F9 as an update. 0.3.10 will be released on Monday, and is
much more feature complete and stable than the 0.2.x series. There have
been 10 releases on the 0.3.x codebase in the last three months. 0.3.x
is API and ABI incompatible with 0.2.x and 0.1.x versions, and has been
in rawhide for a few months now.
Uploading 0.3.10 also allows us to build KPackageKit for F9, which is
quite nice to use now. Something for all the KDE people.
gnome-packagekit is also much more user friendly and all the
transactions should be much faster.
If there are any early adopters keen to try a package (please!), can you
please download a automatically generated git-snapshots here
http://www.packagekit.org/packages/ and:
* yum remove PackageKit gnome-packagekit
* rebuild PackageKit-x.srpm
* install PackageKit-x-*.rpm
* rebuild gnome-packagekit-x.srpm
* install gnome-packagekit-x-*.rpm
* reboot
Please send error reports to me, or the PackageKit mailing list.
If there are no user regressions, I'll build this in f9-updates-testing,
and then push it out using bodhi.
Thanks,
Richard.
15 years, 6 months
Fedora on EEE?
by Matthew Woehlke
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to find
>> something better; how's Fedora on those?)
>
> Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2.
> All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and
> a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.
Cool. Got any "how to" pages handy?
Anyway, a couple question about Fedora on EEE...
- Does Fedora know about multi-touch? (The default Xandros uses
multi-touch for scrolling, not very reliable but still nice to have.)
- What FS is best? (Given that you're dealing with a SSD.) Also, does
the lack of swap cause any "interesting" problems? Any other caveats
related to the SSD?
- Does compiz run? ;-)
--
Matthew
Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.
--
This was, apparently, beyond her ken. So far beyond her ken that she
was well into barbie territory. -- J. D. Baldwin (from cluefire.net)
15 years, 6 months
Re: X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10
by Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 5:31pm, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik(a)greysector.net) said:
> > As long as I keep loosing my network connection upon log-out,
> > NetworkManager is not an option and has no place on my machines.
>
> Right-click -> "Edit connections", pick your preferred setting,
> click on 'System setting'.
Right-click on what? I run fvwm. How are non-DE users supposed to
interact with NM?
> (Note: Not valid for WPA, etc. That doesn't work outside of NM anyway...)
Yes, yes it does. And it should.
(P.S. Sorry for the thread breakage -- I'm a digest subscriber.)
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
15 years, 6 months
A suggestion regarding new features
by Dax Kelson
Progress is great, new shiny frobnicators are wonderful. What many
people (myself included) object to is when old behaviors and
compatibility is broken NEEDLESSLY. Let's have our cake and eat it too!
When implementing new features what about using a decision tree that
looks like the following:
======================================================
Step 1. Does $NEWFEATURE implementation change old behaviors or break
compatibility?
a) NO -> Great go for it! Let's all eat cake!
b) YES -> See step 2
Step 2. Can $NEWFEATURE be implemented so that it doesn't change old
behaviors or break compatibility?
a) NO -> Uh oh, see step 3.
b) YES preserve both -> Excellent. Let's all eat cake!
c) YES preserve compatibility -> Great no "exceptions". Let's all eat
cake!
Examples of "2c" include GRUB, udev/hal, ALSA, hda -> sda, LVM, FACLS
on /dev files, CUPS, POSIX CAPs to replace SUID, etc. All distros moved
these features in relative unison so I can toss that old knowledge out
of my brain (and documentation).
Step 3. Does the benefit of $NEWFEATURE outweigh the cost of changing
the old behavior or breaking compatibility? Obviously this can be
subjective.
a) NO -> Good effort. Have you considered picking one of the other many
areas in Linux that need improving and working on that?
b) YES -> OK, $NEWFEATURE must be really awesome. Please double check
that you can't resolve this in Step 2. So Step 2 is a no go? OK, let's
do it.
======================================================
Your initial goal SHOULD BE TO AVOID A STEP 3 RESOLUTION IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
Many people have voiced concerns that to many $NEWFEATURES are going
straight to Step 3 without exploring a Step 1 or Step 2 resolution.
No sane person would prefer a Step 3 resolution versus a Step 2
resolution.
The issue with "BetterStartup" having the side effect of moving X to
tty1 vs tty7 can go from the current Step 3 $NEWFEATURE back to a "Step
2b" $NEWFEATURE. Let's all eat cake!
How? It has already been pointed out that a VT switch doesn't imply a
flicker (aka a mode change). You can switch VTs without "flicker". After
the kernel has set the mode (which happens for all VTs), then plymouth
starts X on tty7 and starts X. No flicker, plus we have preserved
compatibility and not changed behaviors.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
15 years, 6 months
Seeking comaintainers
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
I am seeking additional maintainers for the following packages. I am
working remotely for a while and on a connection with strict download
limits so won't be able to pay much attention to these packages for
sometime.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/sundaram
bcrypt -- File encryption utility
checkgmail -- System Tray Application that checks a Gmail Account for
New Mail
dbench -- Filesystem load benchmarking tool
lxsplit -- File split / merge utility
ms-sys -- Create DOS/MS-compatible boot records
pdfmerge -- Command line utility program for merging PDF files
pyroom -- PyRoom is a full screen text editor and a clone of Writeroom
rssh -- Restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp
sarai-fonts -- Free Sarai Hindi Truetype Font
Issues:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464325 - Pyroom needs to be
updated to the latest upstream version
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456182#c17 - Adding rssh to
the shell file using post scripts turned to be a bad idea and this needs
someone to just remove the script and do a rebuild.
Even if you are not interested enough to be a co-maintainer, if anyone
wants to help out in fixing these simple issues, that would be great.
Rahul
15 years, 6 months
Seeking New Maintainers: viaideinfo, pidgin-libnotify
by Peter Gordon
Hi, all.
I am in need of new loving owners for both of these packages, which are
low-maintenance, having seen little to no recent upstream activity.
I have not orphaned them in PkgDB yet as I feel it is very unfair to the
community to simply drop my maintainership of these packages on the
verge of a new GA release cycle. So, for the near future I will happily
continue caring for them as best I can; but due to lack of appropriate
hardware and interest, respectively, I will likely be unable to properly
resolve any bugs or issues that arise in them.
***
viaideinfo [1,2] is a small piece of software created by Gentoo/kernel
developer Daniel Drake, which supersedes the functionality provided
by /proc/ide/via in older VIA IDE driver code and keeps it in userspace.
However, with the recent failure and replacement of my mother's desktop
machine, I no longer have any hardware with VIA chipsets in it.
Even though it has seen only very minor up- and downstream activity
recently, I feel that as a hardware-specific tool, it would be best
served by a maintainer who actually has the hardware in question so that
it can properly be tested/debugged as necessary.
[1] http://reactivated.net/software/viaideinfo/
[2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/viaideinfo
***
pidgin-libnotify [3,4] is plugin for Pidgin (formerly Gaim) which shows
configurable notifications for various actions (such as buddies signing
on or off, someone saying your name in a chat, etc.).
Since its initial packaging in December of 2006, its only major upstream
update has been for the Gaim --> Pidgin name change. Also, starting in
August of last year, I became the primary maintainer of Empathy and have
since been a strong proponent of the Telepathy stack, and a member of
the Fedora Telepathy SIG [5]. As someone who longer uses Pidgin (and
thus, this libnotify plugin), I feel it would be best served by a new
maintainer who actively uses it and is interested in its further
development.
[3] http://gaim-libnotify.sourceforge.net/
[4] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/pidgin-libnotify
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Telepathy
***
Thanks, and Regards.
--
Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
「ゴードン・ピーター」
15 years, 6 months
