upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse
I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want
to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my
iso-mounted files, how do I do it?
i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc..
Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to
upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct
resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks.
Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use
apt-cdrom. Thanks.
With kind regards,
Didier.
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1 year, 10 months
kernel/accounting question ...
by William W. Austin
(I know that this question might be more reasonable on a kernel list,
but a while back I posted the question twice and got no answers.)
The acct struct is defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h includes both
ac_io and ac_rw for bytes transferred and blocks read or written,
respectively. Fair and good - works (on paper) similarly to unix,
solaris, hp-ux, etc.
However, in the kernel code [kernel/acct.c], ac_io (char) and ac_rw
(blocks) are always set to 0 by these two lines:
ac.ac_io = encode_comp_t(0 /* current->io_usage */);
ac.ac_rw = encode_comp_t(ac.ac_io / 1024);
For most purposes, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but I also do
extensive performance analysis on several platforms and have written a
fairly compresive accounting package (as a wraparound for psacct or as
a standalone) including both an improved acctcom and a built-in
reporter for it.
Does anyone know wby the kernel zero's out the bytes transferred data?
(Overhead comes to mind.) Not that it makes a huge differnce for my
purposes (I had to write some wraparound code to make a
"best-guestimate" about the data I'm missing), but curiosity is bugging
me now. When I compile my program on other OS's I get useful data for
char and block i/o and I'd like to find out whether there is something
obvious that I'm just totally missing here...).
Thanks
--
william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
13 years, 12 months
acctcom for linux
by William W. Austin
I recently made several updates to a Linux version of of acctcom
(actually another accounting add-on package) which I've been using for
several years, and one of the people testing it asked a question which
I cannot answer. I'm hoping that someone on this list can give me some
info.
I have previously (over a year ago) asked on both this and a couple of
kernel lists (several times there) about this issue, but nobody has
ever answered. So if you have any info about this, I'd really
appreciate it.
As in many (all?) previous Linux kernels, the struct acct (defined in
/usr/include/sys/acct.h) has members ac_io and ac_rw which are
presumably counts of characters transferred and blocks read/written
respectively.
However, in the kernel code, the ac_io is set to 0 and the ac_rw gets
set to (ac_io/512) or some such - it is set to 0 as well (and thus
these are always reported as 0 in process accounting records. not good
if you're trying to measure them...).
Does anybody know why this is done that way? A long time ago (IIRC
late 2.2 and an early 2.4 kernel) I looked into "fixing" this in the
kernel code but was not successful (I finally produced a bootable
kernel, but it was unstable. Then I changed jobs, got swamped at work,
and eventually gave up).
As I said above, I have previously asked about this issue without
success, and I have essentially given up changing or "fixing" it.
But if anyone knows __WHY__ it is this way (I'm hypothesizing that it's
just too much work for too little added value), I'd really appreciate
knowing the reason. Curiosity and the cat and all that ...
Thanks
- Bill
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william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
13 years, 12 months
Zimbra packages in Fedora
by Neal Gompa
I had noticed how well that Zimbra has been doing, and I was wondering if it
would be possible for someone to make packages for Zimbra to be included in
Fedora?
15 years, 8 months
Any way to search all .spec files?
by Orion Poplawski
Is there any was to do a grep/search on all of the Fedora .spec files
for a specific release (or devel)? I'd be fine with checking them all
out if there was a way to just the the spec files for a specific release.
--
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Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222
NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com
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15 years, 8 months
Re: KDE logout options with F8
by Kevin Kofler
Christopher Aillon <caillon <at> redhat.com> writes:
> If your first reaction had been to ask for more information instead of
> add complaints, I might have mentioned that the plan is to have this for
> F9 (I think so at least, someone can correct me if I'm wrong?). Not
> sure if that counts as long term...
Even if somebody implements a KDE frontend for the GDM backend, that won't make
KDM go away. There's no way KDM is going away for KDE 4.0 which realistically
will be what F9 will be shipping. (And of course, it's even less likely that
said thing would happen in 3.5. Chances that KDE 4.1 will be anywhere near
ready at F9 release are essentially nil, 4.1 might quite possibly not even make
F10.)
> It is a reasonable request. Can you accept reasonable answers? Notting
> and jkeating have already replied with technical analysis explaining why
> it is not possible.
I have suggested at least 2 technical solutions, none of which needs any
changes to Anaconda:
1. revert the default login manager in Base X to XDM. As much as you
(plural "you") hate that, it's the most logical solution and some other people
in this thread are defending it too.
2. change the fallback logic to pick KDM over GDM. As I said, I think we can
easily put KDM in a subpackage so it doesn't accidentally get installed by a
dependency on kdebase, kde-redhat used to do that in FC6 times.
There's another one, which is even less invasive (and doesn't change the
behavior for the neither-GNOME-nor-KDE case as 1. nor for the
both-GNOME-and-KDE case as 2., but really only affects KDE-but-not-GNOME which
is what needs fixing), but has to be implemented as a specialized Anaconda
hack. Pseudocode:
if (! upgrade && KDE selected && ! GNOME selected)
echo 'DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"' >/mnt/sysimage/etc/sysconfig/desktop
> Besides, we already know it's not going to happen for F8. And F9 we
> could in theory have a better all around solution....
"better" is subjective. If upstream KDE isn't going to drop KDM or recommend
against it, IMHO that fact shouldn't be ignored.
Kevin Kofler
15 years, 11 months
LTSP 5 on Fedora
by Alexandre Magaz Graça
Hi,
While searching for LTSP 5 for Fedora, I didn't find anything but this
bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234048. Also,
I've not found anything regarding LTSP in this list.
So, Is someone working on LTSP 5 support for Fedora? Is there some
repository were pick code from or anything?
Thanks,
Àlex
15 years, 11 months
openoffice-pyuno and external python programs
by Zoltan Kota
Hi,
I sent the email below to fedora-devel some time ago; there was no
response. Let's try again with some additional info. :-)
I'm the fedora maintainer of pybliographer. The development version of
pyblio (which I would like to push to the devel repo soon) has the
capability to interact with openoffice through the pyuno component.
(Bibus can do the same.) It can add citations and generate reference list
in the document for example.
The openoffice.org-pyuno package installs uno.py and other files
under /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/, so with the default installations
and settings importing uno.py from external python programs gives an
import error. Program specific patches could be used probably to add this
'strange' path to pythonpath, but wouldn't be better to make available
these moduls for python at the openoffice level? See below what debian
does.
Any thoughts, ideas?
Zoltan
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:18:19 +0200 (CEST)
From: Zoltan Kota <z.kota(a)gmx.net>
Reply-To: Development discussions related to Fedora
<fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>
To: Fedora devel <fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: openoffice-pyuno and external python programs
Hi,
Files from openoffice.org-pyuno are installed under
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0. So, 'import uno' from python gives an import
error. How should we support external programs to use this module? Should
we patch the program to import uno.py from this directory
somehow? Or would be better to change the installation path in the
openoffice.org-pyuno package?
Debian for instance installs
/usr/share/pycentral/python-uno/site-packages/uno.py
/usr/share/pycentral/python-uno/site-packages/unohelper.py
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyuno.so
Zoltan
15 years, 12 months
Killing maintainers
by Jonathan Underwood
Hi,
There's been a thread over on fedora-maintainers list for a few weeks
proposing that fedora-maintainers be shut down, as it simply serves
bifurcate discussion between here (devel) and there. All responses
were in favour. Many people didn't respond, probably because they
don't bother reading fedora-maintainers. As an aside, notice how
quickly the discussion about naming F8 moved to devel simply because
people weren't signed up to -maintainers. There has been a lot of
discussion about list reorganization - let's not rehash that. One
uncontentious point seems to be, -maintainers must die.
What is the quickest way of getting this done? Which of the myriad
committees does this need to go through?
Jonathan.
16 years
