New VCS Choice; SCM SIG
by Toshio Kuratomi
Hey all,
Infrastructure, Extras, and the Board have had sporadic talks about
changing over from cvs to another version control system and what that
entails. Part of the discussions during the fedora-summit showed that
we can reimplement dist-cvs in another VCS (for instance, dist-hg) with
minimal change in workflow but there are some higher level questions
about what things we want to make easy that we should answer first. The
SCM SIG [1]_ is responsible for driving this discussion and as part of
that, we're soliciting input on what our high level goals are.
Here's an initial list of questions that need to be answered. We will
be discussing this and likely making some decisions at FudCon so we're
hoping we can get some good input of these goals now to make sure we
take into account all the goals that people want the new system to
address.
VCS Redesign Plan[2]_
We need to answer these overarching goals before we can decide how to
redesign the VCS.
== Goals that the VCS can Help Achieve ==
Decide on goals and prioritize them so we can evaluate what
architectures implement these features the best.
* Work closer with upstream
* Work closer with downstream
* Make it easy to manage large numbers of patches
* Keep the barrier of entry for new contributors low
== High Level Architecture ==
There are some highlevel design decisions that will have an effect on
whichever underlying VCS we use. The architecture will enable us to
more effectively achieve our goals.
* Exploded trees
* Patches & spec plus lookaside cache
== Workflow for the VCS ==
* jcollie has started a page that abstracts our current workflow with
cvs-dist:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/Operations
== What VCS Makes it Easiest to Implement our Goals ==
After we answer the above questions we can answer this.
[1]_: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/SCMSig
[2]_ : This information is recorded on the wiki at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/HighLevelRede...
-Toshio
17 years, 2 months
Install about 12 min quicker today
by Jerry Williams
The install is about 12 min. quicker today for the default install.
Using pxe boot and NFS.
And I can now ssh into the box from a remote machine. :) Thanks!
Other things like Take Screenshot are still broken.
What is that chance to swap a couple of screens?
So when you are at the screen that lets you select the packages and you
click next that it just takes you to the next screen that tells you about
the log in /root. Then when you click next it would do the dependency check
and if no errors just continue the install.
Also is there a reason that all the keys just don't get imported?
I keep getting the guetenprint update and it asks for the
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras key to be imported.
Then again maybe this key should go away, since extras is.
Jerry
17 years, 2 months
State of diskless tools
by Bernardo Innocenti
Hello Jason,
I've just posted a patch to update system-config-netboot to
generate initramfs images to bootstrap diskless clients:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204877
I noticed that for the system-config-netboot component
there were several trivial bugs that have been open for several
momths without any activity going on.
The latest update of system-config-netboot has been on
Jun 2006. Is this package still being actively maintained?
And, more importantly, is RedHat still interested in pushing
and supporting diskless clients in the next versions of RHEL?
I'm asking because, depending on the level of support we can
expect, I may have to recommend different solutions for the
IT department.
--
// Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
\X/ http://www.develer.com/
17 years, 2 months
KDE4 being packaged
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hai you all :)
Well, I just started packaging kde4 based on kevinkoefler's work. Some
friends are porting kde3 apps to kde4, so why not give them the
minimum tools needed ?
kevinkoefler SRPMS are
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kde-redhat/kdelibs4-3.80.2-0.1...
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kde-redhat/kdepimlibs4-3.80.2-...
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kde-redhat/kdebase4-3.80.2-0.1...
My modifications : http://chitlesh.funpic.de/fedora/kde4_11_27.tar.bz2
(I don't have a place to upload the SRPMS :( )
1. the svn snapshot are from 20061003, neither kevin nor I got the
time to update the snapshots. However my priority is just first get a
working set of kde4 packages.
2. the specs don't have the patches inorder to integrate these
packages to the fedora desktop. ThanNgo accepted to offer his help to.
3. SRPMs from my specs haven't undergo mock till now.
4. kde4 is installed on /opt/kde4 and kevin made so to co-existe kde3
and kde4 at the same time
5. the kde4.desktop doesn't load kde4 desktop upon login because it
seeks its libkde*.so.5 at /usr/lib instead of /opt/kde4/lib
I would like to have more light on this #5 in order to make it just
work for once :)
here is my /usr/share/xsessions/kde4.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
export PATH=/opt/kde4/bin/:$PATH
export KDEHOME=~/.kde4
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$/opt/kde4/lib/:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/kde4/lib
Exec=/opt/kde4/bin/startkde
TryExec=/opt/kde4/bin/startkde
Name=KDE4
Comment=The K Desktop Environment. A powerful Open Source graphical
desktop environment
Any help will be welcome :)
chitlesh
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
17 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20070128 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
(none)
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 2 months
Inclusion of Grub 2 in FC7 ?
by Jerone Young
I was wondering how everyone felt about the possibility of including
Grub 2 in FC7. While it still is in development, it is very much
functional and does currently work. This would have the potential to
allow unification of boot loaders across all architecture (PPC & EFI
Intel boxes come to mind). This may also kick start development on
Grub 2, so it's not under development forever. The downfall though is
that it does use a new file format & tools would need to be modified
to support it. What does everyone else think?
For info on grub 2:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-faq.en.html
17 years, 2 months
Any plans to add support for new features of laptops targeting Vista?
by Miles Lane
Hello,
This article introduces a bunch of new laptop technologies that
Microsoft is supporting in Vista. According to the article,
these technologies will result in shortened boot times, less
power consumption in hard drives, the ability to have commonly
used files stay resident in non-volatile memory for rapid program
launches, etc. These technologies all have a hardware component
in addition to the software side. My hope is that we can figure
out how to have Linux benefit from these hardware changes.
Power management on laptops remains an area where Linux
is challenged, though it is improving.
Is there any hardware specs are out there for these
new chunks of hardware?
Here's an article discussing the new gizmos:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/23/windows_vista_laptops/page3.html
Miles
17 years, 2 months
Please put pxelinux.0 in /images/pxeboot/
by Jerry Williams
Could someone please add pxelinux.0 to /images/pxeboot/?
I am not sure how often it changes, but it is kind of a pain to get it out
of syslinux.
Is pxelinux.0 a generic thing or does it have to match everything else?
Also is there a reason that stage2.img couldn't just be loaded from the tftp
server in the first place instead of having to use NFS, ftp, or http?
Especially if you are just doing a rescue?
17 years, 2 months
nscd missing from bugzilla
by Neal Becker
There is no entry for nscd in bugzilla.
Here is the bug:
/sbin/service nscd status
nscd dead but subsys locked
sudo /sbin/service nscd status
nscd (pid 3523) is running...
17 years, 2 months
Want to help QA the Test1 release?
by Jesse Keating
We could really use it (: I need to have a tree handed off by tomorrow in
order to meet the Tuesday release deadline.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/7/Test1TreeTesting
Start there and let us know! We'll try to fill in the found bugs as we find
them, or the common known issues. Given that this is Test1, its going to be
a little rough.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
17 years, 2 months