Trimming the distribution
by Steve G
Hi,
I guess there has been some discussion about getting rid of packages to trim the
distribution size somewhat. I wanted to point out a few candidates that might
help.
*Byacc - bison covers this
*autocon213 - expect & pkgconfig should be modernized.
*automake14 - pkgconfig is the only thing needing this that I see
*automake16 - gmp should be updated
*automake17 - this is so close to 1.8.4 that anything needing it just needs:
aclocal, automake, autoconf added to the spec file. They've all converted fine on
my system.
*passwd - shadow-utils has much if not all of the same functionality as this
package. Why not try to consolidate to one package? Some of the utilities in
shadow-utils are not packaged and therefore easily overlooked.
Then the other area that swings in the most packages is simply building the
documentation during a compile. Some packages use doxygen, docbooks, linuxdoc,
perl-SGMLSpm, etc. After the build, these packages probably get very little use
on an average user's machine. This is an area that needs attention/consolidation.
You would be surprised how many packages get swung in simply to make the
documentation. I think I was able to jettison 20-30 packages by removing the
above mentioned documentation packages and their dependencies.
I just wanted to thow those out in case it helps.
-Steve Grubb
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FHS-2.3 -- /usr/share/xml
by Toshio Kuratomi
What is the future of FHS2.3 and fedora?
I was just looking for guidance on where to install some DTDs for a
package and found FHS-2.3 specifies a /usr/share/xml directory:
/usr/share/xml contains architecture-independent files used by XML
applications, such as ordinary catalogs (not the centralized ones, see
/etc/sgml), DTDs, entities, or style sheets.
FC2 uses /usr/share/sgml for some of this and other pieces are strewn in
individual program directories under /usr/share. Even under FHS-2.2,
these things are specified to live under the /usr/share/sgml
hierarchy....
If this is going to be our convention, I'll build to accomodate it,
otherwise I'll do what most packages seem to do right now: install in
their own directory under /usr/share/<PROGNAME>
-Toshio
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rawhide report: 20040801 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
checkpolicy-1.15.1-1
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* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.1-1
- Latest from NSA
desktop-file-utils-0.7-1
------------------------
* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 0.7-1
- Update to 0.7
gamin-0.0.3-1
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* Fri Jul 30 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 0.0.3
ggv-2.7.0-1
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* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 2.7.0-1
- update to 2.7.0
gpdf-2.7.2-1
------------
* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 2.7.2-1
- Update to 2.7.2
openoffice.org-1.1.2-2
----------------------
* Fri Jul 30 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> 1.1.2-2
- Finer grained split of additional language files
- Break KDE widget library out into new openoffice.org-kde package
- Fix setup script launch errors (RH #128709)
- Make PPC use -Os now too
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20040801
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selinux-policy-strict-1.15.11-1
-------------------------------
* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.11-1
- Update to latest from NSA
- Rename tunables to .tun
selinux-policy-targeted-1.15.11-1
---------------------------------
* Sat Jul 31 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.11-1
- Update to latest from NSA
- Rename tunables to .tun
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rawhide report: 20040715 changes
by Build System
New package crash
crash utility for live systems; netdump, diskdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles
Updated Packages:
authd-1.3.4-1.fc3
-----------------
* Tue Jul 13 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> - 1.3.4-1
- retry reading proc with pauses to reduce false negatives
- match IPv4 addresses against IPv6 compatibility addresses
balsa-2.2.0-1,FC3,2
-------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-1,FC3,2
- add a 64 bit patch
* Wed Jul 14 2004 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-1,FC3,1
- bring up to latest upstream
had to change the following from the upstream src rpm:
dependency on pspell to aspell
build dependency on libesmtp to libesmtp-devel
comment out packager rpm tag, RH build system won't accept it
* Sat Jul 26 2003 Misu Moldovan <dumol(a)go.ro>
- further split the Red Hat and Mandrake sections
- fix Mandrake 9.x dependencies
ethereal-0.10.5-2
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* Wed Jul 14 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 0.10.5-2
- Applied missing patches from previous version (#120662)
- Fixed python module installation (#127614)
gnome-session-2.6.0-7
---------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 root <markmc(a)localhost.localdomain> - 2.6.0-7
- Add patch to activate vino based on the "remote_access/enabled"
preference
kernel-2.6.7-1.488
------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.8-rc1-bk3
koffice-1.3.2-2
---------------
* Tue Jul 13 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4:1.3.2-2
- rebuild
kudzu-1.1.73-1
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* Wed Jul 14 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.73-1
- fix ddc probe on ppc (#127827)
- make USB probe ignore auxillary interfaces (#79278, <bnocera(a)redhat.com>)
netdump-0.6.13-1
----------------
* Fri Jul 09 2004 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer(a)redhat.com> - 0.6.13-1
- More init script fixes. Namely, don't load netdump module if netdumpaddr
isn't filled in.
* Thu Jul 08 2004 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer(a)redhat.com> - 0.6.12-1
- Add support for 2.6 netdump.
- Allow netlog to be configured indepndently from netdump.
- Change the server to create only one directory in /var/crash per boot
of a system.
* Sun Nov 02 2003 Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> 0.6.11-3
- rebuild
php-4.3.8-3
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* Wed Jul 14 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 4.3.8-3
- update to 4.3.8
- catch some fd > FD_SETSIZE vs select() issues (#125258)
rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040715
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selinux-policy-strict-1.15.5-2
------------------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.5-2
- Add device_type create_file_perms to unconfined_t
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.5-1
- add rpm_t for unconfined_t
selinux-policy-targeted-1.15.5-2
--------------------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.5-2
- Add device_type create_file_perms to unconfined_t
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.5-1
- add rpm_t for unconfined_t
* Mon Jul 12 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.15.4-1
- Break out unlimitedServices in to multiple tunables
system-config-printer-0.6.104-1
-------------------------------
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.6.104-1
- 0.6.104:
- Fixed chkconfig invocation.
- New po files.
- Use GTK methods that are not deprecated.
- Print a message about unmatched USB model/mfr strings.
udev-029-4
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* Wed Jul 14 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 029-4
- added udevstart.static
* Wed Jul 14 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 029-3
- put /etc/sysconfig/udev in /etc/udev/udev.conf and removed it
- made only udev.static static
- make our defaults the default values
- removed /udev
w3m-el-1.4.2-1
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* Thu Jul 15 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.4.2-1
- New upstream release.
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