Important note about FAS Certs and lookasie cache
by Mike McGrath
The short version (as paraphrased by tibbs):
20:01 < tibbs|h> nss-3.12.6-7 doesn't work, 3.12.6-12 works.
The longer version: A recent update to fas included an upgrade of the OS
to the RHEL6 alpha. One unintended consequence of this is we're now
generating pkcs#8 keys instead of rsa. This caused some older nss
libraries to function differently which caused lookaside cache uploads to
fail (lookaside is where the tarballs go when you build a new package).
So, if you're finding yourself unable to upload to lookaside cache. Make
sure you update your version of nss. (F13 should be available now, F12
recently got enough karma to push and it should be available soon).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-Mike
12 years, 9 months
Orphan packages retired for F-14 (and rawhide)
by Bill Nottingham
In accordance with the normal process, the following packages have been
orphaned for Fedora 14 and rawhide.
JSDoc
bzr-gtk
cdf
crun
django-authopenid
drpython
fedora-security-guide-en-US
fet
fish
gg2
gnomecatalog
gperiodic
impressive
kasablanca
kflickr
lazygal
libmspack
mapbender
mediawiki-HNP
mediawiki-StubManager
minirpc
nettle
nget
nodm
pAgenda
papercut
pastebin
php-channel-phpdb
php-pear-Phlickr
php-pear-creole
php-pear-pake
php-pear-propel_generator
php-pear-propel_runtime
poker-engine
poker-eval
poker-network
poker2d
poker3d
poker3d-data
pyfacebook
pypoker-eval
python-numarray
python-urllib2_kerberos
qosmic
tanukiwrapper
tinyows
tpb
tremfusion
twitux
windowlab
x2vnc
xenwatch
Bill
12 years, 9 months
Request compose of image for Software Review UI from Releng
by Noriko Mizumoto
Hi Release Engineering team
F14 collection packages should be built with latest translation by
today, 26-Aug. Could you please kindly compose the image with those
latest packages for software translation review?
Translators are scheduled to have review and correct software
translation in built UI between 2010-08-30 to 2010-09-07 (deadline).
Thank you so much for you help.
noriko
12 years, 9 months
dist-f14-updates-testing tag/untag koji notices
by Rex Dieter
You may have noticed notices landing in your mailbox today similar to:
foo-1.0-2.fc14 successfully untagged from dist-f14-updates-testing by
rdieter
You should be able to safely ignore all those, as the mess I caused
trying to clean up some koji tags got sorted out. My apologies.
-- Rex
12 years, 9 months
Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Alpha!!
by Dennis Gilmore
The Fedora 14 "Laughlin" Alpha release is available! This release offers a
preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under
development. Catch a glimpse of the future:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
== What is the Alpha release? ==
The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 14 in a form that anyone
can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and
identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A
Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very strong resemblance to the
third and final release. The final release of Fedora 14 is due in November.
We need your help to make Fedora 14 the best release yet, so please take a
moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things
that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it --
every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of
Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid
distribution. (Read down to the end of the announcement for more information
on how to help.)
Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B. Laughlin,
whose fields of research have included, among other things, the topic of
emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of individual components
interact to produce a system that is more complex than the sum of its parts -
a perfect description of an open source community.
==Features==
This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the
hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free
software. Examples include:
* '''System and session management.''' Fedora 14 introduces '''systemd''', a
smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons
that services we all use every day - such as '''NetworkManager''' and
'''PulseAudio''' - rely on.
* '''Desktop virtualization'''. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines
moves a step closer with the introduction of '''Spice''', a complete open
source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops.
* '''Faster JPEG compression/decompression'''. The replacement of
'''libjpeg''' with '''libjpeg-turbo''' brings speed improvements to a wide
range of applications when handling images in JPEG format, including photo
managers, video editors and PDF readers.
* '''New and updated programming languages'''. Fedora 14 sees the introduction
of '''D''', a systems programming language combining power and high
performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to '''Python''',
'''Erlang''', and '''Perl'''.
* '''Better tools for developers'''. Simpler, faster debugging with '''gdb'''
indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well as new
versions of '''NetBeans''' and '''Eclipse'''.
* '''The latest desktop environments'''. '''KDE 4.5''' introduces window
tiling and better notification features, along with many stability
improvements. '''Sugar 0.90''' features major usability improvements and
support for 3G networks.
* '''Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™'''. The '''MeeGo™ Netbook UX
1.0''' provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building
on the foundations laid by '''Moblin''' in previous Fedora releases.
* '''Fedora on the cloud'''. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be
provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud
computing platform to use the latest Fedora.
* '''IPMI server management made simple'''. New to Fedora 14 is
'''ipmiutil''', an easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility
that allows a wide range of management functions to be performed with just a
few commands.
* '''Support for SCAP'''. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for
the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to
automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined
security configuration.
* '''Perl 6 support with Rakudo'''. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an
implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine,
which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to
Perl 6.
* '''More powerful data analysis'''. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one
of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that
Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of '''ROOT''', an obejct-oriented,
open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis
developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular '''R''' statistical
programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons.
These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future
releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and
helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open
source technology.
A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList
We have nightly composes of alternate spins available here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
== Issues and Details ==
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report
bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes
ATI/AMD Radeon|In particular, if a blank screen is presented during
installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#radeon-anaconda
== Contributing ==
Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues
please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever.
Thank you, and we hope to see you in the Fedora project!
12 years, 9 months
Reminder: Build F-14 collection packages for all language translators
by Noriko Mizumoto
Fedora collection packages maintainers
Please pick up latest translation and build your package with it for
translators by 26-Aug. On 27-Aug, Release Engineering team will compose
the image for software translation review in UI. Then all language
translators will be able to review and correct their translation in UI
until the deadline.
Notice that this build request is for translators' review in UI, and
different from the rebuild planned between 2010-09-07 to 2010-09-14.
Thank you so much for your help.
noriko
12 years, 9 months
Orphaning packages
by Eric Christensen
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I am orphaning the following packages:
fedora-security-guide-en-US -- A Guide to Securing Fedora Linux
php-LightweightPicasaAPI -- A lightweight API for Picasa in PHP
php-pear-File-Bittorrent2 -- Decode and encode data in Bittorrent format
php-phpSmug -- PHP wrapper for the SmugMug API
xinha -- A WYSIWIG HTML editor component in Javascript
zikula-module-MultiHook -- MultiHook is a simple replacement for the old
AutoLinks module for Zikula
zikula-module-News -- Manages news articles on your Zikula site
zikula-module-Polls -- Simple voting system for Zikula
zikula-module-advanced_polls -- Advanced voting system for Zikula
zikula-module-crpTag -- Simple Zikula component for tagging items, based
on hooks
zikula-module-menutree -- Menutree allows to create multilevel,
hierarchical (tree like) menu for Zikula
zikula-module-scribite -- Integration of several JavaScript text editors
with Zikula
Thanks,
Eric
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