CD burning in FC2 - is it easier?
by Marius Andreiana
Hi
What's the state of CD burning in FC2? Do the burners still require root
password?
I've just had an ugly experience in FC1.
I use gtoaster, which usually works (from time to time it forgets the
devices). Now it showed the CD-RW with an X icon, meaning it can't write
on it (?). I've removed ide-cd and ide-scsi modules, modprobe'd ide-scsi
again and still won't work.
Tried xcdroast, I got lost in the plethora of options. I also had to
specify a directory for images, wouldn't let me go on with some default
(/tmp??)
With Nautilus I couldn't tell how to burn a CD image (not files).
I've also tried KRec (in the same menu with CD-Writer, System Tools ->
More System Tools), but saw it's recording audio, not CDs. Should have
been in Sound & Video.
Finally I went to the terminal and used cdrecord command line.
Nice.
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Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro
20 years, 1 month
GStreamer packaging
by Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi,
Warren asked me to send a mail to the list for comments from people who
are interested.
I work on and package GStreamer. I released 0.8.0 this week, and
rebuilt the suite of our modules, as well as rebuilt compatibility
packages for 0.6
As you might know, GStreamer is parallel-installable between different
major/minor versions.
Anyways, because GStreamer is quite complex for packaging (for example,
it can use, but is not forced to use, over 40 libraries), I wrote up
some packaging guidelines which I sent to some of our packagers, and
which Warren asked me to send here too. They are attached. If someone
who is interested would like to read through it and comment on it,
that'd be nice.
The repository of these packages, made to work with www.fedora.us and
rpm.livna.org, is documented at
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora.html
If anyone wants to give it a try and report experiences to me, that'd be
nice too. Make sure you remove dependencies and packages from other
repositories, as well as gstreamer-plugin-mp3 if you have it (it is
provided by another package).
I have also submitted the fedora.us packages of GStreamer. They could
use some help in going through Q&A due to the interlinked nature of
these packages. I'd like them to get through as quickly as possible, so
I can then provide the other packages to rpm.livna.org.
Relevant bugzilla links are
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1389
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1390
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1391
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1392
I might not immediately reply as I'm on holiday next week, but will get
in touch.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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20 years, 1 month
RPM hacking.
by Sam Varshavchik
I have a dim recollection of an undocumented option to rpm (now rpmbuild)
that's essentially equivalent to "-bb --short-circuit". That is, it jumps
directly to binary RPM files creation; the installation buildroot is already
assumed to exist and populated according to whatever's in %files.
Anyone remember what it is?
20 years, 1 month
Re: Re: Contributing a new project
by hutuworm
David Allison,
Apply for a new project on sourceforge.net, and put your code pack
into the CVS, then call other people who interested in to work with you.
Wish you'll succeed as Larry Wall / Guido van Rossum / Yukihiro Matsumoto.
======= 2004-03-18 09:48:58 Quote from your mail =======
>Thanks but that page specifies how you go about using CVS etc, but
>what I really wanted to know was how I go about getting it approved.
>
>Am I right in thinking that I can just upload my project into the CVS
>repository?
>
>Surely there has to be somebody who determines what goes in there?
>
>Dave
>
>On 17 Mar 2004, at 17:37, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:23:09 -0800, David Allison wrote:
>>
>>> I have developed a new prototyping/scripting language that is
>>> available
>>> as open source under
>>> the Sun Public License. I was wondering how I would go about getting
>>> it
>>> accepted for incorporation into the Fedora project.
>>>
>>> In particular, is there an approval process to go through? And if so,
>>> how do I
>>> get involved with it.
>>>
>>> Any information/advice appreciated.
>>
>> http://fedora.redhat.com -> Participate
>>
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20 years, 1 month
Re: k3b maintainer
by Rex Dieter
Michael,
I volunteer to maintain the k3b package. I'm already maintaining the
package for the kde-redhat project. Throwing it at the fedora.us queue
won't be too much more work.
-- Rex
20 years, 1 month
Re: /etc/ld.so.conf.d
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:00, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Earlier in the day I was moved by the plight of a developer trying to
> figure out exactly how his rpm postinstall/postuninstall scripts should
> edit /etc/ld.so.conf for the directories they install libraries in.
> I think a good answer is that they shouldn't have to do that.
>
> I just implemented an `include' feature with globbing in ldconfig's
> configuration file parsing. (This will be in an unspecified future glibc
> rpm coming to you in rawhide in the fullness of time.) I propose that in
> future the canonical /etc/ld.so.conf contain just:
>
> include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
imho people should use rpath if they need to install libraries in non
standard locations..
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System Engineer
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20 years, 1 month
[patch] for the NEWS file: Larissa Garcia Oliva
by Alexandre Oliva
This new project has been under development for quite some time, and
the release date has finally arrived. It's not exactly related with
previous projects I've been involved with, but I thought you might be
interested. I've enclosed some snippets of the following patch; more
details in the URL in the signature.
Index: ChangeLog
2004-03-13 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com>, Islene C. Garcia
* Larissa Garcia Oliva: New.
* NEWS: Adjust.
Index: NEWS
--- /dev/null 2004-02-23 18:02:56.000000000 -0300
+++ NEWS 2004-03-16 17:42:49.870247754 -0300
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Final Release - March 13, 2004
+
+* combined features from Islene Calciolari Garcia and Alexandre Oliva
+
+* completed fork(), optimized sleep() and implemented several new I/O
+ interfaces
+
+Download size: 3.895Kg, 49.5cm
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Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva(a){redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva(a){lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
20 years, 1 month
Contributing a new project
by David Allison
Hi all,
I have developed a new prototyping/scripting language that is available
as open source under
the Sun Public License. I was wondering how I would go about getting it
accepted for incorporation into the Fedora project.
In particular, is there an approval process to go through? And if so,
how do I
get involved with it.
Any information/advice appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
20 years, 1 month
Kernel build parameter CONFIG_REGPARAM breaks binary modules
by Earle Nietzel
I've noticed since moving to 2.6.x that none of my binary modules would
load correctly.
After reading that CONFIG_REGPARAM was the culprit I disabled it but to
my surprise nothing changed.
Come to find out that in "arch/i386/Makefile":
CFLAGS += -pipe -mregparm=3 -msoft-float -fno-builtin-sprintf -fno-
builtin-log2 -fno-builtin-puts
You'll notice "-mregparm=3"?
After removing this compiler flag my binary modules began to load
correctly.
Anyone care to comment on this?
Earle Nietzel
Here is what the kernel oops looks like with with "-mregparm=3":
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0a18ab4
printing eip:
e0a64a58
*pde = 170fc2a5
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<e0a64a58>] Tainted: PF
EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at firegl_init+0x40/0xf6 [fglrx]
eax: e0a891e0 ebx: e0a18ab4 ecx: 00000002 edx: dead4ead
esi: e0a893a0 edi: e0a89210 ebp: c033ebb8 esp: def79f58
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 761, threadinfo=def78000 task=df166000)
Stack: 00000012 00000000 00000000 e0a891e0 e0a88980 e0a891e0 e0a88980
e0807280
e0a18ab4 00000246 09289088 00000000 c032e618 b7e77008 c033ebd8
c033ebd8
c033ebb8 c01450a6 c016bc7c df505578 df5055a0 00000000 b7e77008
bff73658
Call Trace:
[<e0807280>] firegl_init_module+0x110/0x1b0 [fglrx]
[<c01450a6>] sys_init_module+0x136/0x290
[<c016bc7c>] sys_close+0x7c/0xf0
[<c010bc3f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 81 3b 00 00 02 10 74 11 c7 44 24 04 03 7b a7 e0 c7 04 24 40
20 years, 1 month
Up2date and yum configuration
by Keith Lofstrom
The /etc/yum.conf that comes with Fedora Core 2 Test 1 contains the line:
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/[...]
And the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources contains the line:
yum fedora-core-rawhide http://download.fedora.redhat.com/[...]
Meanwhile, the article:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
... suggests changing the yum.conf and the source file to point at one of
the mirror sites.
So, why not change the default configuration for the distro, so it points
elsewhere? If there is no single site that can handle the load, it would
seem possible to create a target URL that can do some kind of automatic
redirect to multiple different mirrors. Later, with some coding effort,
improve the up2date button so it brings up a menu of plausible sites,
perhaps based on the time zone and other location information.
It seems odd to ship something in a test distro that should always be
changed to something else. Or do I need a visit from the clue stick?
Keith
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20 years, 1 month
