rawhide report: 20031016 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
XFree86-4.3.0-40
----------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.3.0-40
- More xfs initscript cleanups
- Added XFree86-4.3.0-ia64-drm-locking.patch from John Dennis, to fix DRI
locking deadlock on ia64 architecture (#104338,103936)
* Fri Oct 10 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.3.0-39
- Fixed brown paper bag bug - missing "; then" in if clause of xfs initscript
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.3.0-38.1
- Added conditional option with_bail_on_undef_syms which currently sets
SharedLibraryLoadFlags to "-shared -Wl,-z,defs" in order to cause linking to
fail completely when undefined symbols are found. Mesa compilation blows
up, so I've disabled this option for now until I have proper time to spend
on an investigation sometime in the future.
* Wed Oct 08 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 4.3.0-38
- Updated xfs initscript to improve startup performance by not triggering the
creation of fonts.dir due to new fonts.cache* files being found (#97240).
- Updated xfs initscript to handle Opentype (otf, otc) fonts by calling
mkfontscale + mkfontdir on them.
- Updated xfs initscript to ignore all known font metadata file types when
determining wether or not to trigger mkfontdir on non-truetype/non-opentype
font file types.
- Updated xfs initscript to run fc-cache if fonts.dir files get updated in any
way. This is disabled for fc-cache version 1.0.2 which shipped on Red Hat
Linux 8.0, as it SEGV's for some reason on that release, and 4.3.0 isn't
officially supported for that release.
- Updated xfs initscript to use "grep -qs" instead of output redirection in
all grep invocations, as it is a bit cleaner code, possibly even faster.
- Call mkfontscale in Syriac-fonts rpm post and postun scripts to properly
generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir for these Opentype fonts.
- Added XFree86-4.3.0-missing-lib-sharedreqs.patch to make sure libDPS,
libXmuu, libXfont, libXp, libXpm, libXrandr, and libXv get linked to their
dependant libraries when building XFree86, so that undefined symbols do not
prevent prelinking from working. This solves other problems too, and now
obsoletes the previous XFree86-4.3.0-missing-SharedXfooReqs.patch, and
XFree86-4.3.0-libXrandr-missing-sharedreqs.patch patches as well (#106661)
curl-7.10.6-7
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 7.10.6-7
- aclocal before libtoolize
- move OpenLDAP license so it's present as a doc file, present in
both the source and binary as per conditions
db4-4.1.25-11
-------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 4.1.25-11
- fix multiple-inclusion problem of startup files when building shlibs without
the -nostdlib flag
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com>
- link shared libraries without -nostdlib, which created an unresolvable dep
on a hidden symbol
evolution-1.4.5-4
-----------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.4.5-4
- really, really remove duplicate menu entry (#103826)
firstboot-1.2.4-1
-----------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.4-1
- pull lightrays.png from a different location
fontconfig-2.2.1-6.1
--------------------
* Mon Sep 22 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.2.1-6.0
- Should have been passing --with-add-fonts, not --with-add-dirs to
configure ... caused wrong version of Luxi to be used. (#100862)
* Fri Sep 19 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.2.1-5.0
- Tweak fonts.conf to get right hinting for CJK fonts (#97337)
gdb-5.3.90-0.20030710.41
------------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.41
- Bump up version number.
* Wed Sep 24 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.40
- Fix problem with gcore and single threaded programs. (bugzilla 103531)
* Mon Sep 22 2003 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.39
- Fix call to quit_target from quit_force.
* Sun Sep 21 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.38
- Fix PPC64 push dummy call.
- Re-fix PPC64 return value (had wrong / old patch).
* Sat Sep 20 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.37
- Fix PPC32 return values.
* Sat Sep 20 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.36
- Rewrite ppc64 retun value methods so that they (hopefully)
match the SysV spec.
- Enable ppc64 testsuite.
* Thu Sep 18 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.35
- Hack around problem "break main" vs "break .main" when there is
only a minimal ppc64 symbol table. The former is a function descriptor
and not where you want the breakpoint to go. Only convert descriptors
to pointers when the address is in the ".opd" section.
* Wed Sep 17 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.34
- Fix ppc32 push_dummy_call.
* Tue Sep 16 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.33
- Pack gdb.sum and gdb.log using uuencode and bzip.
* Tue Sep 16 2003 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.32
- Catch errors when quitting so exit of gdb still occurs.
* Mon Sep 15 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.31
- Fix ppc32 use_struct_convention.
* Thu Sep 11 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.30
- Mods to dwarf2-frame.c to work around a lack of GCC/CFI info.
* Thu Sep 11 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.29
- Bump up version number.
* Wed Sep 10 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.28
- Fix a core dump with MI.
- Add new ChangeLog patch for mi changes.
* Thu Sep 04 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.27
- Change the name of the package to gdb64 in ppc64 case.
* Tue Aug 26 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.26
- Add testcase for separate debug info.
* Tue Aug 26 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.25
- fix i386 on x86-64 TLS
- add "base-aug2003" suffix to older x86i386 patch
* Tue Aug 26 2003 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.24
- skip the ppc64 and x86-64 frame redzone.
* Fri Aug 22 2003 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.23
- Relax one testcase in selftest.exp a bit.
- Accept different output as well in thread bt (platform dependent).
- Enable testsuite run for ia64, ppc, s390 and s390x. They are in
reasonably good shape.
* Thu Aug 21 2003 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 0.20030710.22
- Multiple ia64 fixes.
- Fix ia64 printing of function pointers.
- Fix ia64 prologue examination to ignore predicated insns if we
haven't found the return address yet.
- Skip dump.exp testcase for ia64
gimp-1.2.5-1
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.5-1
- 1.2.5 (#101225)
gnome-vfs2-2.4.1-1
------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 2.4.1-1
- Update to 2.4.1, fixes bug #107130
gtk2-2.2.4-5.1
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.2.4-5.1
- Link gdk-pixbuf-xlib against gdk-pixbuf (#106678)
* Fri Oct 03 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> 2.2.4-4.0
- Fix 64-bit problem in gtkimcontextxim.c (#106124)
perl-5.8.1-92
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.1-92
- add srand on fork patch from upstream, as well as test case
python-2.2.3-7
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 2.2.3-7
- use the simpler heuristic for finding the GNU .mo metadata
from python 2.3 (#97796)
* Mon Aug 18 2003 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.2.3-6
- lib-dynload files are not stripped (bug #97264)
* Fri Aug 08 2003 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.2.3-5
- Added missing BuildRequires (bug #101950)
* Thu Jul 03 2003 Mihai Ibanescu <misa(a)redhat.com> 2.2.3-4
- Rebuilt against newer db4 packages (bug #98539)
rawhide-release-20031016-1
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redhat-config-date-1.5.23-1
---------------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.5.23-1
- UTF8-ify po/timezones/de.po (bug #107033)
redhat-config-samba-1.1.4-1
---------------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.4-1
- clarify error message (bug #105045)
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.3-1
- don't allow whitespace in section headers (bug #106880)
redhat-config-xfree86-0.9.12-1
------------------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.9.12-1
- fix bug #106884 for real this time
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 0.9.11-1
- package lightrays.png inside redhat-config-xfree86
rhn-applet-2.1.0-1
------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 2.1.0-1
- added support needed for Fedora Core: Yum repositories,
multiple sources, and possibly no RHN channel
- translation strings update
rhpl-0.118-1
------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 0.118-1
- translate.py: assume UTF-8 if we can't figure out the encoding of a mofile
sylpheed-0.9.7-1
----------------
* Thu Oct 16 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 0.9.7-1
- New upstream release.
tcltk-8.3.5-93
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* Wed Oct 15 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 8.3.5-93
- update expect to 5.39.0 (fixes #58317)
- drop first hunk of 64bit patch and rename to expect-5.39.0-64bit-82547.patch
- expect-5.32.2-weather.patch and expect-5.32.2-expectk.patch no longer needed
- update tix url (#101721) [reported by support(a)internetdiscovery.com]
* Wed Sep 17 2003 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com> 8.3.5-92
- rebuild again for #91211
* Wed Sep 17 2003 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com> 8.3.5-91
- rebuild to fix gzipped file md5sums (#91211)
20 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20031015 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
abiword-2.0.0-4
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* Tue Oct 14 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1:2.0.0-4
- remove duplicate desktop file (#107023)
anaconda-9.0.96-0.20031014202343
--------------------------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- built new version from CVS
* Tue Oct 08 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- back to mainstream rpm instead of rpm404
* Mon Sep 09 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- can't buildrequire dietlibc and kernel-pcmcia-cs since they don't always
exist
* Wed Aug 21 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- added URL
* Thu May 23 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add require and buildrequire on rhpl
* Tue Apr 02 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf(a)redhat.com>
- added some more docs
* Fri Feb 22 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- buildrequire kernel-pcmcia-cs as we've sucked the libs the loader needs
to there now
* Thu Feb 07 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf(a)redhat.com>
- goodbye reconfig
* Thu Jan 31 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- update the BuildRequires a bit
* Fri Jan 04 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- ddcprobe is now done from kudzu
* Wed Jul 18 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- own /usr/lib/anaconda and /usr/share/anaconda
* Fri Jan 12 2001 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- sync text with specspo
* Thu Aug 10 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- build on alpha again now that I've fixed the stubs
* Wed Aug 09 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- new build
* Fri Aug 04 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.com>
- allow also subvendorid and subdeviceid in trimpcitable
* Fri Jul 14 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- moved init script for reconfig mode to /etc/init.d/reconfig
- move the initscript back to /etc/rc.d/init.d
- Prereq: /etc/init.d
* Thu Feb 03 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- strip files
- add lang-table to file list
* Wed Jan 05 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- added requirement for rpm-python
* Mon Dec 06 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- rename to 'anaconda' instead of 'anaconda-reconfig'
* Fri Dec 03 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- remove ddcprobe since we don't do X configuration in reconfig now
* Tue Nov 30 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- first try at packaging reconfiguration tool
anaconda-help-9.0.95-1.200310141713
-----------------------------------
evolution-1.4.5-3
-----------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.4.5-3
- Pull in some patches from upstream CVS
* Avoid division by zero with POP (X#41610)
* Don't mangle headers (X#33545)
* Prefix IPV6 numeric hosts properly (X#46006, #105028)
* Use proper function for IPV6 reverse lookups (X#46006)
* Allow timezone offset to be up to 14 hours (X#49357)
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add patch from upstream CVS to fix SMTP syntax problems (#106630)
- really remove duplicate menu entry (#103826)
* Mon Oct 06 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- make redhat-email.desktop symlink relative (#104391)
* Wed Sep 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add ipv6 support per dwmw2's request
gdm-2.4.4.3-7
-------------
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com> 1:2.4.4.3-6.sel
- new patch from George to fix #106189
- change bg color in rhdefaults patch
- turn off SELinux
* Wed Oct 08 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:2.4.4.3-6.sel
- turn on SELinux
gnumeric-1.2.1-1
----------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.1-1
- add %post to install schemas
- 1.2.1
grub-0.93-7
-----------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 0.93-7
- rebuild
* Wed Jul 02 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- Requires: /usr/bin/cmp (#98325)
kernel-2.4.22-1.2093.nptl
-------------------------
* Mon Oct 13 2003 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Back out previous unnecessary commit.
- More changes from 2.4.23pre
- Fix ACPI hang with sysrq & o
- Reenable laptopmode (but not AAM).
- Fix pci_generic_prep_mwi export breakage
- Small ACPI tweaks
- attach_mnt fix
- fix 2.4.x incorrect argv[0] for init
- kupdated: correctly dequeue SIGSTOP signals
- Assorted VM fixes.
- PageReserved memory counting fix
- page->flags corruption fix
- Remove racy optimization from exec_mmap()
- Fix quota counter overflow
- Fix do_proc_readlink failpath
- cciss update: support new controller
- Numerous networking updates.
- Fix potential PPPoE oops
- Clear all flags in exec_usermodehelper
- Clear IRQ_INPROGRESS in setup_irq()
- Numerous NetFilter fixes/improvements.
mozilla-1.4.1-10
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* Tue Oct 14 2003 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> 37:1.4.1-9
- Add langpacks
rawhide-release-20031015-1
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redhat-artwork-0.85-1
---------------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> 0.85-1
- fix icons in gtk theme
redhat-config-boot-0.1.4-1
--------------------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 0.1.4-1
- autofooed and intltoolized r-c-boot
redhat-config-kickstart-2.4.2-1
-------------------------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 2.4.2-1
- call language_backend correctly (bug #103625)
unixODBC-2.2.5-8
----------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Fernando Nasser <fnasser(a)redhat.com> 2.2.5-8
- Move libodbcmyS.so to the main package as well. It is used the
same way as libodbcpsqlS.so.
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Fernando Nasser <fnasser(a)redhat.com> 2.2.5-7
- Bumped the version so it rebuilds.
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Fernando Nasser <fnasser(a)redhat.com> 2.2.5-4
- Revert previous change and special case libodbcpsql.so and
libodbcpsqlS.so instead. Here is the explanation (from Elliot
Lee):
".so files are only used at link time for normal dynamic libraries.
The libraries referred to here are being used as dynamically loaded
modules, so I guess moving those particular .so files back to the
main package would make sense, but the other .so files should stay
in the devel subpackage."
* Fri Oct 10 2003 Fernando Nasser <fnasser(a)redhat.com> 2.2.5-3
- Moved all the shared library symlinks to the main package.
They were deliberatedly being added to the devel package for
unknown reasons but this was forcing users to install the
devel package always.
- No need to special-case libodbc.so anymore
up2date-4.1.7-1
---------------
* Wed Oct 15 2003 Adrian Likins <alikins(a)redhat.com>
- only download headers approriate to the current machine
vim-6.2.121-1
-------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1:6.2.121-1
- patchlevel 121
- fix buildrequires (#106824, #105832)
wordtrans-1.1pre13-2
--------------------
* Tue Oct 14 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.1pre13-2
- enable fribidi
- fixes utf8 issue
20 years, 6 months
Re: Translations
by Nils O. Selåsdal
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:33, Giacomo Magnini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to the list, and I wish to work on translating Fedora packages
> in my own language (Italian).
> Is someone already working on this? Should I look anywhere else to
> gather more informations?
> Is someone already coordinating the effort?
> Sorry for the slew of questions! :)
> Cheers, Giacomo Magnini.
You should probably join the translation team for your country/language
Seems
http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=it
and perhaps
http://www.it.gnome.org/
are good places to start.
--
Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
20 years, 6 months
Re: Yum'ification of the rhn_applet
by Daniel Veillard
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:22:17PM +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > I have just released an updated version of rhn_applet which
> > should work better for the Fedora framework:
> > - handle Yum repositories
> > - handle multiple repositories
> > - does not require RHN registration
>
> I'd love it to be apt'fied :) Should I file a RFE?
Far more complex to do. You can file it but it will be low
priority (and I'm really busy with libxml2 maintainance right now).
Daniel
--
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veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
20 years, 6 months
Wlan problem and enterprise wlan needs
by Hemgren, Christer
Hello
I 'm using the "Severn Beta 2 (i386)" updated 13 Oct on a Compaq laptop and
are very pleased with it, but i have problem with the PCMCIA wlan cards.
It's got broken after a up2date. I can use the Cisco aironet 350 as i hade
one the install moment but when i shift to "PRISMA2" chipset card Netgear
MA401, it don't work. Kudzu finds it.
The "Netgear MA401" work to associate with the CISCO AP1200 before it got
broken using
iwconfig eth2 essid "secret"
But the Cisco aironet 350 card don't associate using iwconfig, only if it is
a broadcasted ssid (by a sheep 3Com AP at home)!!!! strange!!!
I think the aironet driver works strange in enterprise wlan using EAP. Are
the driver not up to date?
I regally shift wlan card between aironet and the "PRISMA2" card but after
one up2date it stop working for the "PRISMA2" card but i don't now if it was
a kernel or other .rpm package broke it or even when for the matter. I thing
it is a problem with the module.
Both cards works in M$ XP.
Should i go for the new beta to see if there is updates or update this one?
I have try Arjan's "2.6 test7.1.56.rpm" kernel and in that no wlan card or
USB mouse works.
I'm still missing some wlan stuff like Xsupplicant from
<http://www.open1x.org/> http://www.open1x.org/ for secure wlan login using
802.1x (most have in enterprise network) and
a wlan profile manager like Kwifimanager from
<http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/> http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/
so i can have two ore more profiles and change fast from one to another.
Great work guys.
tanks
Christer Hemgren
Network Admin/Engineer
20 years, 6 months
Re: RPM problem: prereq: <file> not honored in upgrade ordering?
by Jef Spaleta
Pekka Savola wrote:
> Basically, yes. Precisely, it calls 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps'
--nodeps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
should you expect correct package ordering...if --nodeps is used?
if you aren't checking dependancies when doing the package
upgrade/install....HOW does rpm know to order a packagelist a certain
way...using --nodeps argument you tell rpm to ignore dependancy
issues...im actually shocked autoupdate doesn't break all the time.
if autoupdate is using --nodeps to install packages...that is pretty
much going to shortcircuit whatever care rpm takes with resolving
dependancies...including installation ordering. if autoupdate is using
--nodeps, then i say its pretty much a problem with autoupdate and not
rpm...and therefore very very much off topic to any fedora discussion or
red hat linux discussion since autoupdate is a 3rd party tool outside of
the distro.
Using --nodeps is not wise, unless you know what you are doing. And I
certaintly don't think an automatic tool should be using --nodeps.
--jef"Smokey the Bear says: Prevent dependancy breakage, don't use
--nodeps"spaleta
20 years, 6 months
Japanese Font Antialiasing - Where did it go?
by Matt Jones
Hi - I just noticed that the font antialiasing seems to have stopped
working for Japanese fonts. Admittedly, I haven't been using japanese on
rawhide for about 3 weeks, but I have no clue what's going wrong.
When i run LANG=ja_JP gedit i get nasty non-antialiased text, which used
to not happen. Glancing at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, I see some comment
about disabling antialiasing for korean, japanese and chinese fonts, yet
when I re-enable (change a false to a true) it via that xml file,
nothing changes.
I've recently installed some new fonts, but none should affect japanese
language support (all dealing with Mathematica 5).
Does any one else get this problem (if thats what it is) - you can run
'LANG=ja_JP gedit' if you have ja fonts installed to check - and has
anyone figured out what's going on?
Matt Jones
20 years, 6 months
Distribution Size
by Dan Ulinski
I have tried to install the servern release now for a couple of times. I
have allocated about 6.6 GBytes to distribution
And still while the installation is going on it fails because of not
enough disk space for temp files created while the installation
is processing rpm-s.
In this case shouldn't the size of the distribution that Anaconda uses
for checking available disk space include the size
of the temp files needed to complete the installation?
Not just the end size of the distribution.
Thanks,
Dan
20 years, 6 months
Contributing packages
by Gérard Milmeister
Hi,
I would like to contribute RPM packages to the Fedora project.
I am especially interested in development tools like
programming languages etc... I think these packages
would go into fedora-extras. However there doesn't seem
to be any information about repositories. There is also
no information about non-free packages, i.e. software
only available as binaries.
How should I proceed?
Other questions:
What if developers of software already built RPM
packages? Is it alright to repackage them?
Sometimes it is quite difficult to create pure
source packages, for example Haskell compilers
that need a Haskell compiler to bootstrap. Is it
possible in this case to package binaries within
a source package?
What is the policy regarding Java software? Will there
be an RPM for Sun's JVM in Fedora?
Regards,
Gérard
20 years, 6 months
TV and radio apps
by Florin Andrei
Probably too late to include them in the upcoming release, but perhaps
nice to consider for other future releases:
Currently, the functions of radio and TV/analog video player are covered
by xawtv. There are quite a few shortcomings of this package. Perhaps
better replacements would be:
- tvtime http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/
Has filtering abilities. Can deinterlace the image, hence the image
quality is so much higher (no more interlacing artifacts). Has a nicer
and more clever interface. Even searching for new channels is far easier
and it's a full-GUI task (well, not exactly a classic GUI, but
everything happens right on the display, like many TVs and standalone
DVD players do). Generally, a lot more flexible, powerful and feature
rich.
Main quality: the image is far better than with xawtv.
Main drawback: can't find any.
- gqradio http://gqmpeg.sourceforge.net/radio.html
Has an interface that makes sense. Can do autoseek. You can label the
stations. Everything is GUI-able. On the eye-candy side, it has skins.
Main quality: at least has a GUI. :-)
Main drawback: it's a GUI app. :-)
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Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
20 years, 6 months
