devel April 2006

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[BUG] yelp depends on mozilla?
by Leo 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi all, I hope this is the right mail list to raise this question. I'm running FC5 and both mozilla and firefox are installed. But when I removed mozilla, yelp is also removed. I think there is a bug here. Any comments? -- Leon

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Confused about /usr/bin/nm, linker, and stripped libs
by John Ellson 01 May '06

01 May '06

These days rpm installs most libs stripped of their symbols, which is fine as it makes them smaller and presumably load faster. But how does the linker resolve symbols against stripped libs? And if the linker can do it, why can't /usr/bin/nm ? John

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Mozilla 1.7.13 for FC5 updates
by Bojan Smojver 01 May '06

01 May '06

Is this in the works? -- Bojan

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Grub Booting-fallback-systems
by itamar 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Anyone have tested this ? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Booting-fallback-systems why fc5 doesnŽt have grub-set-default ?

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Best practices wrt. Changelog entries in spec file (upstream vs. specfile)
by Joost Soeterbroek 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Hi, I have a question regarding Changelog entries in spec files. When packaging for a new upstream version of a given package you have to deal with 2 different changelog informations: 1) upstream/source specific changelog information 2) spec file/packager specific changelog information I am unsure how best to deal with both of these. The FE guidelines regarding Changelogs in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines only mentions spec file specific changelog info, but says nothing about upstream. I do think it is relevant to include upstream changelog also. As an example, I have just bumped the heartbeat package in Fedora Extras from 2.0.4-2 to 2.0.5-1. I ended up using a combination of minuses for the package specific changelog entries and indented plusses for the upstream changelog which seemed acceptable to rpmlint, as in: %changelog * Date Name Packager - package changelog + upstream changelog Example for heartbeat package: %changelog * Thu Apr 27 2006 Joost Soeterbroek <fedora(a)soeterbroek.com> - 2.0.5-1 - upstream version 2.0.5 - removed patch2 - ownership of /heartbeat/crm/cib.xml is no longer set in cts/CM_LinuxHAv2.py.in + Version 2.0.5 - significant bug fixes and a few feature deficits fixed + various portability fixes + enable GUI to run with pygtk 2.4 + significant GUI improvements and speedups Comments,ideas? Joost <fedora(a)soeterbroek.com>

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[NEW IDEA] Automatic removal of dependencies
by Leo 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Dear all, This is something new and missing for linux. I think it's a great idea. The following wiki page explains clearly. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageDependencyManagement -- Leon

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Something screwy with new glibc-kernheaders
by sean darcy 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

With glibc-kernheaders-3.0-18.x86_64.rpm I get thiss error trying to build kino: if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -Wall -I/usr/include/alsa -I/usr/include/libxml2 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DKINO_PLUGINDIR=\""/usr/lib64/kino-gtk2"\" -DDATADIR=\""/usr/share"\" -D_REENTRANT -O2 -fPIC -funswitch-loops -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -ftree-vectorize -march=k8 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -frename-registers -MT jogshuttle.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/jogshuttle.Tpo" -c -o jogshuttle.o jogshuttle.cc; \ then mv -f ".deps/jogshuttle.Tpo" ".deps/jogshuttle.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/jogshuttle.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /usr/include/linux/input.h:803: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:807: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:808: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:809: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:810: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:811: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:812: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:813: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:814: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:815: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type /usr/include/linux/input.h:817: error: 'kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type make[3]: *** [jogshuttle.o] Error 1 Going back to glibc-kernheaders-3.0-6.x86_64.rpm fixes it. sean

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Beware of bash 3.1
by Callum Lerwick 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Okay, I originally posted about this a few months ago: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-January/msg00491.html A seemingly harmless corner case. Here's another one: <BobJensen> one of my guys ran a java install script as sudo and fubar'd the box <BobJensen> he was following these instructions http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/java-i386/ Step 9, which looks like this: cat <<EOF > /etc/profile.d/java.sh export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.5.0_06 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH EOF Results in this: # cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.5.0_06 export PATH=/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin Which is wrong. The fix is of course: # cat <<EOF > ~/java.sh > export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.5.0_06 > export PATH=\$JAVA_HOME/bin:\$PATH > EOF # cat ~/java.sh export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.5.0_06 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH So... bash 3.1 has definitely changed the way variable expansion is done, namely it expands things it didn't used to expand. Bug or feature? Either way, beware. (And there's the larger issue, being that those instructions suck, instead you should be using http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava which is linked from http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ and thus appears to be officially blessed. But that's not really an issue for -devel...)

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kernel-2.6.16-1.2171_FC6 : "Cannot allocate memory"
by sean darcy 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Using kernel-2.6.16-1.2171_FC6 on amd64. On boot, both ntpd and nfsd fail: Apr 29 14:14:13 localhost ntpdate[1877]: sendto(127.127.1.0): Cannot allocate memory Apr 29 14:15:30 localhost nfsd[1914]: nfssvc: Cannot allocate memory 2.6.16-1.2153_FC6 works fine. There some trick with the new kernel?? sean

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Q. about debugging/troubleshooting Thunderbird
by Philip Prindeville 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

I was trying to build an image of Thunderbird from the FC3 SRPM's, and tweaked the .spec and sources to include a patch someone sent me and to replace the --disable-debug in the config file with --enable-debug instead. Unfortunately, when I run the build image, there's no sign at all of where the output is going. What am I missing? If I kick off the process from the command line, and then do a "ps", I see a couple of wrapper processes hanging around, and then the binary itself as the youngest child process... Doing an "lsof" on that process shows various .so's open, .jars, .msf's... sockets, etc... And yes, even the controlling terminal. But the printf's don't seem to be going anywhere. Any ideas? Thanks, -Philip

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