rawhide report: 20031021 changes
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Updated Packages:
anaconda-9.0.96-0.20031020190818
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* Mon Oct 20 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-9.0.95-1.200310201633
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man-pages-ja-20031015-1
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* Tue Oct 21 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 20031015-1
- updates to 20031015.
miniChinput-0.0.3-52
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* Tue Oct 21 2003 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 52
- Bug 106807, use Dynamic Event Flow model, XIM updates.
nvi-m17n-1.79-20011024.15
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.79-20011024.15
- nvi-1.79-fix-build-warnings.patch: updated to fix some build warnings. (#105843)
openjade-1.3.2-8
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-8
- Rebuilt.
* Tue Sep 23 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de> 1.3.2-7
- do not link against -lnsl
* Thu Aug 07 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-6
- Rebootstrap to create a libtool that actually works.
* Wed Aug 06 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-5
- Rebuilt.
* Wed Jun 04 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-4
- rebuilt
* Thu May 22 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-3
- Fixes for GCC 3.3.
- Use --parents for %doc.
* Tue Mar 18 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-2
- Provide sgml2xml man page (bug #83759).
- Add devel subpackage.
* Fri Mar 14 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-1
- OpenSP 1.5, openjade 1.3.2.
- Renumber patches.
* Thu Feb 13 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-13
- Add openjade-ppc64.patch
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Tue Jan 07 2003 Jeff Johnson <jbj(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-11
- don't include -debuginfo files in package.
* Thu Dec 12 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Fix typo in description (bug #79395).
* Mon Nov 04 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-10
- Fix DTD retrieval from virtual hosts (bug #77137).
* Sat Aug 10 2002 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt with gcc-3.2 (we hope)
* Mon Jul 22 2002 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-8
- rebuild using gcc-3.2-0.1
* Fri Jun 21 2002 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-7
- automated rebuild
* Thu Jun 13 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-6
- Fix sgmlnorm(1) man page (bug #64136).
- Fix %files list (bug #64323).
* Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-5
- automated rebuild
* Thu Feb 21 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-4
- Avoid bad triggers.
* Thu Feb 21 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-3
- Rebuild in new environment.
* Mon Jan 28 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-2
- Ship man pages.
* Mon Jan 28 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.1-1
- 1.3.1.
- Patches no longer needed: decl, strdup, foo, size_t, 31525, indev,
ligature, twosidestartonright.
- Updated lt patch.
* Mon Jan 14 2002 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-22
- Enable build on GCC 3.0 onwards.
- Run libtoolize.
* Fri Nov 02 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-21
- Enable HTTP support. Now a DocBook XML document can be processed by
either xsltproc or openjade.
* Tue Oct 30 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-20
- Apply twosidestartonright patch from Ian Castle.
* Thu Oct 11 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-19
- s/Copyright:/License:/
- Use %{_tmppath}.
- Fix up libtool libraries (bug #46212).
* Wed Sep 12 2001 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com> 1.3-18
- rebuild with new gcc and binutils
* Fri Jun 15 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-17
- Apply patch from CVS to break up unintentional ligatures (bugs #11497,
* Mon Jun 04 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-16
- Apply the iNdev openjade-1.3.patch patch.
* Tue May 29 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-15
- ldconfig (bug #32824).
- Fix up some libtool problems.
* Fri Apr 27 2001 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.3-14
- rebuild for C++ exception handling on ia64
- build with optimization on ia64
* Tue Mar 13 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Avoid creating bogus TeX output for section headings containing
special characters (#bug 31525).
* Mon Jan 22 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- Apply original autoconf patch to s390 s390x only. This patch can
be deleted once s390* uses a current compiler.
* Fri Jan 19 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Don't conflict with stylesheets; require sgml-common >= 0.5 instead.
- Revert autoconf change, as it's still broken.
* Wed Jan 17 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- fix this autoconf macro to work on all archs :-)
* Wed Jan 17 2001 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- apply patch from Fritz Elfert <felfert(a)to.com>
- removed explicit stripping
- Added autoconf macro for correctly recognizing if size_t
is unsigned int
* Tue Jan 16 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Default catalog file is /etc/sgml/catalog.
* Mon Jan 08 2001 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Conflict with stylesheets (new-trials location changes).
- /usr/lib/sgml -> /usr/share/sgml/%{name}-%{version}.
- Remove %post and %postun.
* Wed Oct 18 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt against g++-2.96-60, fixes jade on alpha
* Wed Jul 12 2000 Prospector <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- automatic rebuild
* Tue Jul 04 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com>
- Rebuild with new C++
* Wed May 31 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- fix several C++ build problems (declarations)
- build against new libstdc++
* Wed May 17 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- build with -O0 on alpha
- fix -j testing
* Fri May 05 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- openjade is maintained, and actually builds. Let's try that.
* Thu Mar 09 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- this package is way too huge. strip *everything*
* Mon Feb 21 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- build with CXXFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb" to work around segfault on alpha
* Thu Feb 03 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- strip binaries
* Wed Jan 05 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- sanitize spec file some
* Tue Aug 17 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- fixed conflict problem with sgml-tools
* Sat Jul 17 1999 Tim Powers <timp(a)redhat.com>
- changed buildroot path to /var/tmp
- rebuilt for 6.1
* Fri Apr 23 1999 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm(a)redhat.com>
- quiet scripts
* Fri Apr 23 1999 Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com>
- Made requires for sgml-common into prereq
perl-Net-DNS-0.31-3.2
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 0.31-3.2
- fix interactive build issue
rawhide-release-20031021-1
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redhat-config-nfs-1.1.2-2
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-2
- remove leftover import in mainWindow.py
* Mon Oct 20 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-1
- use htmlview to find default browser (bug #107603)
redhat-config-packages-1.2.6-1
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.6-1
- make timestamp requirements less strict since .discinfo's were
getting truncated timestamps (#105767 and others)
* Wed Sep 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.5-1
- Throw out packages which aren't for our arch earlier (#105005)
* Fri Sep 19 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.4-1
- fix requirement formatting (#104715)
* Thu Sep 04 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-1
- fix help message
* Fri Aug 29 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.2-1
- fix for ppc64 (#103375)
* Wed Aug 20 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.1-1
- fix for case without order in comps file (#102278)
* Tue Aug 12 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.2.0-1
- update for multilib fun
* Fri Apr 18 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.9-1
- we can't check sigs with the db closed (#88343)
* Mon Feb 24 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.8-1
- fix for backwards of what I expected flags stuff in single package mode
(reported on phoebe list)
* Sun Feb 23 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.7-1
- add startup notification
- update translations
* Tue Feb 11 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- update requires on rpm (#84039)
* Sun Feb 09 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.6-1
- various minor bugfixes
* Mon Jan 13 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.5-1
- name change in desktop file
* Fri Jan 03 2003 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.1.4-1
- fix bug #80468
* Thu Jan 02 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.3-1
- add url support (--tree={ftp,http}://) (#79000)
* Wed Jan 01 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-1
- few minor fixes (#80800)
* Sat Dec 28 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 1.1.1-1
- fs for cds can now be udf,iso9660 as well
- fix up state reading to be faster (bug in rpm 4.2 porting)
* Wed Oct 30 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- update to work with rpm 4.2
* Fri Oct 11 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add scrollkeeper to removal blacklist so that we can't mistakenly
most of GNOME (#74958)
- RPMTAG_PROVIDES can be None in some cases; don't try to iterate over
None (#74877)
- don't allow src.rpms to be installed into the database (#75388)
- fix size string translation (#75584)
- fix spanish translation which caused a segfault due to missing </b> (#74973)
- make instProvs and providesDict use lists as their values so we don't
remove packages erroneously if multiple packages provide something (#75661)
- more translation updates
* Tue Sep 03 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- update translations
* Fri Aug 30 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- set hint so that nautilus won't pop up windows while installing
- fix pixmap path for CDs
- add a way for centering for firstboot
- miscellaneous other minor bug fixes
* Thu Aug 29 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- oops, another typo fix build
* Thu Aug 29 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- obsolete gnorpm
- other minor fixes
- fix bad interactions with magicdev
* Wed Aug 28 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add README
* Wed Aug 28 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- handle extra CDs having dependencies on packages within the main distribution
* Tue Aug 27 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- handle multiple CD-ROM drives more sanely
- start handling packages from multiple sources better
- fix textdomain of specspo
* Sat Aug 24 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- fix a typo
* Sat Aug 24 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- Make the single-package tool faster if dependencies are already installed.
- Various other minor bugfixes
* Thu Aug 15 2002 Preston Brown <pbrown(a)redhat.com>
- handle package installation in KDE as well.
* Wed Aug 14 2002 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com>
- new version. Added the single-package tool
* Mon Aug 12 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- another new version with lots more changes
- add sample autorun to included docs
* Tue Aug 06 2002 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com>
- New version
* Sun Aug 04 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- huge numbers of changes. starting to work a lot better
* Fri Jul 26 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- fix desktop file so that we show up in the main apps menu
- fix requires
* Tue Jul 23 2002 Jonathan Blandford <jrb(a)redhat.com>
- Create spec file
redhat-config-printer-0.6.79-1
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.79-1
- 0.6.79:
- Small display bugfix for print.py.
- Don't adjust LogLevel when printing a test page (bug #107537).
redhat-config-users-1.2.3-1
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Brent Fox <bfox(a)redhat.com> 1.2.3-1
- use htmlview to find default browser (bug #107604)
rhgb-0.11.1-2
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s390utils-1.2.1-3.1
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.1-3.1
- rebuilt
* Mon Oct 20 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.1-3
- Small fix for the new automenu patch, default section didn't work correctly
* Mon Oct 20 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.1-2.1
- rebuilt
* Fri Oct 17 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.1-2
- Patched new zipl to be backwards compatible to old multiboot feature.
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 2:1.2.1-1
- second round at updating to 1.2.1
* Thu Oct 09 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- first round at updating to 1.2.1
* Sat Sep 27 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- add /boot/tape0 for .tdf tape boots
* Fri Jul 25 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- apply dasdfmt patch from 1.2.1
* Fri Jun 20 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.1.7-1
- Updated to latest upstream version 1.1.7
* Fri May 02 2003 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev(a)redhat.com> 1.1.6-7
- Fix usage of initialized permissions for bootmap.
* Tue Apr 29 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- add extra tape loader from Pete Zaitcev
* Mon Apr 14 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2:1.1.6-5
- drop cpint support
* Mon Mar 24 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.1.6-4
- use multiboot as default
- add option to disable multiboot
* Sat Mar 22 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.1.6-3
- add multiboot patch
* Mon Mar 10 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.1.6-2
- added percentage patch (used by anaconda to display progress bars)
* Thu Feb 27 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.1.6-1
- Updated to newest upstream version 1.1.6
* Tue Feb 04 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.1.5-1
- Updated to newest upstream version 1.1.5
* Tue Feb 04 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.1.4-3
- install libraries in /lib*, not /usr/lib*, they are required
by some tools in /sbin
* Sun Feb 02 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- fix filelist to not include debug files
* Fri Jan 24 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 1.1.4-1
- Updated to latest upstream version of IBM.
- Removed all unecessary patches and updated still needed patches.
- Fixed version number. Needed to introduce epoch though.
- A little specfile cleanup.
- Dropped oco-setver and oco-convert as we don't need them anymore.
* Wed Jan 22 2003 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 20020226-4
- Added ExclusiveArch tag.
* Mon Oct 21 2002 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 20020226-3
- Removed fdisk -> fdasd symlink. Is now provided by util-linux.
- Disabled f5 patch for s390x for now. Enable it later for newer kernels again.
* Mon May 27 2002 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com>
- Fixed dasdview to build on kernels > 2.4.18.
* Wed Apr 24 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add IBM 5 patch
* Tue Jan 29 2002 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add IBM 4 patch
- add profile.d scripts to set correct TERM in 3270 console
* Tue Dec 18 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add cpint programs
* Mon Nov 26 2001 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 20011012-6
- fix for #56720
* Thu Nov 15 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add fdisk - > fdasd symlink
* Mon Nov 12 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add IBM patch (11/09/2001) and redo percentage patch
* Thu Nov 08 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- re-enable DASD if dasdfmt is interrupted with Ctrl-C
* Mon Nov 05 2001 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de> 20011012-4
- added s390-tools-dasdfmt-percentage.patch
* Mon Oct 22 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- remove postinstall script
* Mon Oct 15 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- add IBM's s390-utils-2.patch
- add console to securetty
* Mon Oct 01 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- added oco-setkver and oco-convert
* Fri Aug 31 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- don't write error message in silent mode
* Thu Aug 23 2001 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.de>
- added s390-tools-dasdfmt-status.patch
* Tue Aug 21 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- update to the version from Aug 20
* Tue Aug 14 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- fix permissions
* Mon Aug 13 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- rename package to s390utils. s390-tools is no longer needed.
* Thu Aug 02 2001 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de>
- initial build
xinitrc-3.34-1
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* Mon Oct 20 2003 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 3.34-1
- Changed the default background colour argument passed to xsetroot in both
the Xsession and Xsetup_0 scripts from "#5477A0" to "#20305A"
20 years, 6 months
Re: Submitting packages
by Gérard Milmeister
Michael,
Thanks for clearifying.
It may probably a good idea to put a little more information on this on
the Fedora home page, so that potential contributors know what to
expect.
As for the QA process, it is clear that this should be strict. However I
wouldn't agree with arguments like "Do we really need that?" or "Why
three Prolog implementations, one should be enough". For the Fedora Core
this policy is the right one, but the future extras should include any
packages that might be of interest. This does not mean, however, that
any shell script, that someone has written, should be packaged.
Yes, most packages WILL have a special target group, but programming
languages like Haskell and SML are not special purpose. I wish for
Fedora to become a dominant distribution in the educational and research
area.
>From the original Fedora FAQ:
"Fedora will forever put an end to incompatibilities due to repository
mixing by eventually including all possible software."
While this is an ideal probably impossible to achieve, I think it is a
worthwhile goal, and the merger with the Redhat project, raised my hope
that it could be actually achieved.
Anyway, I will from time to time submit packages to Fedora, and look
forward to the moment, where I install a fresh copy of Fedora and simply
use up2date to install one of the packages, I myself contributed.
(I hope the extras repository is included by default on a fresh install,
not as something that users may find out to use from hearsay, otherwise
it would not be much different from freshrpms and others)
A further point: with a large repository, I think becomes necessary to
extend the official application groups for rpm. Where should I but a
computer algebra package, when there is not group called
Application/Mathematics, for example. Maybe a naming convention more
than 2 deep would also help.
I look forward to a bright future :-)
Regards
--
Gérard Milmeister
Tannenrauchstrasse 35
8038 Zürich
gemi(a)bluewin.ch
20 years, 6 months
up2date and yum: failover mode?
by Axel Thimm
Something invaluable in yum is its failover system, e.g. pointing N
mirrors of the same repo in the config giving yum a chance to pick
another one, when a failure is detected.
Is that feature already in up2date, or will it be brought to it?
--
Axel.Thimm(a)physik.fu-berlin.de
20 years, 6 months
Time plan for merger
by Roozbeh Pournader
Is there (even a general idea of) a time plan for the merger with
"fedora.us"? Specifically, will it happen before Cambridge++ or after?
roozbeh
20 years, 6 months
Fedora Core 1 freeze warning
by Elliot Lee
In preparation for the release of Fedora Core 1, we will be freezing the
tree on this schedule:
October 24 anaconda (installer)
October 27 kernel
October 28 everything
Make sure your bug reports & changes are in BEFORE those dates. The things
to focus on are bugs that _must_ be fixed for this release - reports of
'should fix' bugs are welcome but definitely won't get fixed.
After the freeze, only stop-ship bugs will get attention/fixes.
Like all software, this release will not be perfect, but it will be
better. Thanks for your help in making it that way!
-- Elliot
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
20 years, 6 months
Re: PowerPC support
by W. Michael Petullo
>> I finally found some time to build some of severn's SRPMs on my YellowDog
>> iBook. I now have many PPC RPMs built and more on the way. I have no
>> place to put them to share: if anyone wishes to host them, please let
>> me know.
> The effort is cool, but unnecessary -
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ppc/
Great! Where did these PPC RPMs come from and how long have they been
around? I've been following this PowerPC support thread; did I miss
something?
--
Mike
20 years, 6 months
Re: PowerPC support
by Nicholas Wourms
Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:20:43AM -0400, mike(a)flyn.org wrote:
>
>>Is there any plans to add a PowerPC build of Fedora?
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>>Are there any like-minded folks out there?
>
>
> Yes. Me. ;-)
>
> Well, not just PowerPC, but also some other non-x86 platforms in general.
> One request I'd like to make to Red Hat (and any other package maintainers)
> is to please, please, please, don't make rpms ExclusiveArch unless absolutely
> necessary. I realize that may already be the case, but I'm just putting my
[SNIP]
> Also, will patches for non-x86 (even not [yet] supported) platforms be
> accepted? I'm guessing that the answer is 'as time permits' which is fine,
> I would just like to know if it's worth submitting patches at all for Alpha,
> Arm, (as well as Sparc and PowerPC). Given that Fedora is intended for
> the hobbyist, developer, enthusiast, I'm hoping that the answer is yes.
[SNIP]
Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(.
Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold? It seems
that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...
Cheers,
Nicholas
20 years, 6 months
yum/apt/up2date + distributed dependencies
by Dan Morrill
Since up2date now supports multiple repositories, this opens a question
in my mind: what happens when you have distributed dependencies?
Here's a specific (though partially contrived) example:
- Install xmms-42.0 from Fedora Core
- Install xmms-mp3-42.0 from freshrpms because you live in a jurisdiction
where you are legally able to do so
What happens when Fedora Core releases xmms-42.1?
FC doesn't include xmms-mp3, but xmms-mp3 depends on xmms. Hence, the
upgrade of xmms will fail so as not to break xmms-mp3.
Beyond that, suppose that freshrpms does release xmms-mp3-42.1. In this
case, up2date COULD resolve the dependency and complete the upgrade -- but
to do so it would have to resolve dependencies across two different
repositories. Is it able to do so? (This XMMS example is the first one that
came to my mind, but it is easy to imagine more sinister dependency trees.)
Before I go exploring this in depth, I figured I'd ask the list. This
issue seems like it could become more relevant later, as Fedora Extras
repositories begin to proliferate.
Any comments appreciated; apologies if this has been covered before.
- Dan Morrill
20 years, 6 months
Window resize synchronization
by gtg990h＠mail.gatech.edu
I recently tried Fedora Test 3 with the GNOME 2.4 desktop, and I was very
surprised to find out how smoothly GNOME and GTK apps resized. In every other
distribution I have used, even the simplest GTK app would very visibly lag
behind its window frame. In Fedora, even complex apps like Gnumeric and Nautilus
resize without any lag at all.
My question is: Does Fedora include any special patches to accomplish this? I
know that some experimental code was written for metacity and GTK+ that used the
X11 SYNC extension to synchronize frame and window repaints. However, I don't
know if this patch was ever integrated into GTK+ because it doesn't appear to be
in the CVS logs.
My main reason for asking this is because the effect only seems to work with the
XFree86 'nv' driver, and dissapears when using the 'nvidia' binary driver.
According to all my benchmarks, the 'nvidia' driver is much faster in 2D, and
also provides every extension the 'nv' driver does. The 'nvidia' driver also
performs very well in KDE and GTK 1.x apps. I was just wondering if your version
of GTK+ did anything special to hit some sort of bad behavior in those drivers.
Thanks for your time,
Rayiner H.
20 years, 6 months
