libdvdread slight API breakage
by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Since libdvdnav (and libdvdread) have been forked by one of MPlayer's
developers, there's been a significant bugfixing effort going on.
Unfortunately, the new upstream broke the API a bit. While before
you'd use
#include <dvdread/dvd_reader.h>
now you have to use
#include <libdvdread/dvd_reader.h>.
A libdvdread build that requires the above change has already landed
in rawhide. The ABI hasn't changed, so there's no immediate need to rebuild.
Affected packages:
dvdauthor
k3b
lsdvd
python-kaa-metadata
Regards,
R.
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15 years, 3 months
RFC: FEver and RPath checks in Koji
by Debarshi Ray
I have a couple of proposals which I wanted to sound out.
+ Would it be possible to run FEver
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/FEver) on a regular
basis? Currently I get the feeling that it is run manually at
irregular intervals, and since I depend heavily on it for tracking
upstream releases this often means that a release is missed
occasionally.
+ Would it be a good idea to have rpath related checks in Koji? Although I use
"%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths
/usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot"
in my ~/.rpmmacros, some rpath issues are only detected on x86_64
systems? Although I have a x86_64 desktop, it can be a bit problematic
when a x86_64 system is not available. Such issues do not get detected
during the Koji build resulting in violation of the packaging
guidelines.
Comments?
Cheers,
Debarshi
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15 years, 3 months
ext4dev oddity
by Trever L. Adams
I am having some pretty good success on some different machines with
ext4.
However, I am getting this message:
EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 717:
23410 blocks in bitmap, 23411 in gd
EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 721:
19309 blocks in bitmap, 19333 in gd
What do I need to do to help debug this, if anything, and how do I find
out which files or directories are affected?
Thank you,
Trever Adams
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and what I fight for." -- Unknown
15 years, 3 months
Fedora 9 on ASUS EeePC 900
by Jos Vos
Hi,
I'm investigating the issues that I can expect when I want to install
Fedora 9 on an ASUS EeePC 900.
I found some references, mainly referring to Fedora 8 and the EeePC 701,
and I found the Fedora Wiki page <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc>,
that lists various issues.
Will the wired Ethernet still not work for installing F9, for example?
Any references to more detailed information are welcome.
Thanks,
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15 years, 3 months
Move libgnome[ui] Python bindings to gnome-python2-gnome?
by Matthew Barnes
The OLPC guys are asking me to split the Python bindings for libgnome
and libgnomeui into a new subpackage of gnome-python2 called
gnome-python2-gnome (see [1]). The rationale being that libgnome drags
in extra dependencies that some of the other gnome-python2 subpackages
don't need. For example, gnome-python2-gnomevfs doesn't need libgnome
but still requires its parent package, gnome-python2.
This sounds like a reasonable idea to me but it will break other
packages that require gnome-python2 expecting to get the libgnome[ui]
bindings. Those packages would have to require gnome-python2-gnome
instead.
Possibly affected packages include:
audit-viewer
autobuild-applet
awn-extras-applets
blogtk
decibel-audio-player
deskbar-applet
fwbackups
gjots2
gnome-password-generator
gnome-python2-desktop
gnome-python2-extras
gourmet
gramps
hamster-applet
hwbrowser
listen
meld
policycoreutils-gui
qa-assistant
rhythmbox
setroubleshoot
system-config-bind
system-config-cluster
system-config-httpd
system-config-lvm
system-config-netboot
system-config-network
system-config-printer
wallpapoz
Any objections or alternate suggestions?
Thank,
Matthew Barnes
[1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456122
15 years, 3 months
XULRunner and you
by Will Woods
In last week's QA meeting, Chris Aillon (aka caillon, our fearless
firefox/xulrunner maintainer) stopped by to tell us what happened with
xulrunner dep breakage, and how package maintainers can help reduce /
prevent it in the future. Here's a quick summary:
There are two APIs provided by xulrunner - the stable API (gecko-devel),
and the unstable one (gecko-devel-unstable).
The stable API, as you might guess, is not expected to change. So if a
package uses the stable API, it won't have any problems when the
xulrunner package is updated. The unstable API could change at any time,
so if your app is using the unstable API it must be rebuilt *every time*
xulrunner is updated.
Packages using the stable API should have:
Requires: gecko-libs >= 1.9
BuildRequires: gecko-devel >= 1.9
Packages using the unstable API should have:
%define gecko_ver 1.9.0.1
Requires: gecko-libs = %{gecko_ver}
BuildRequires: gecko-devel-unstable = %{gecko_ver}
Anything with BuildRequire: xulrunner-devel or xulrunner-devel-unstable
should be changed to gecko-devel or gecko-devel-unstable. (The
xulrunner-devel packages provide those things).
Also: if your package uses the -unstable API, please send
caillon(a)redhat.com a note, and *please* consider adding him to the ACL
(or opening it entirely). He keeps tabs on all packages requiring the
unstable API so they can all be rebuilt for each security update.
caillon is out 'til next week, so it would be really good if you can
help clean this stuff up in his absence.
Thanks!
-w
15 years, 4 months
%configure assuming in-source-tree builds
by Michel Salim
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Hi all,
Some upstream developers recommend that their software (thinking of LLVM
and PLT Scheme, but there must be others) *not* be configured and built
at the top-level source directory (typically recommending using build/,
object/ or some such).
When this is needed, currently the Fedora packager has to revert to
calling the configure script directly, foregoing the %configure macro,
and copying as much of the configure settings by hand. Would it be a
desirable feature to, say, be able to declare
%define configure_relative_path ..
and then have %configure use the value of that instead of './' when
calling the actual configure script?
Thanks,
- --
Michel
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15 years, 4 months
Features that would be great for Fedora 10
by Valent Turkovic
Here are just few features that I believe would be great for Fedora 10 to have:
1. RFE: Add desktop folder with examples of what "fedora thing" can do :)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315171
Lisa gets Fedora 10 Live CD from her Joe (her geeky boyfriend) and
puts it in her laptop. After she gets presented with a different
looking desktop that
she is usually presented she doesn't know what this "fedora thing"
actually does and can do. Joe gives her a CD version of Ubuntu, after
loosing temper with trying to explain what fedora can actually do.
Lisa puts Ubuntu CD in and after few minutes she clicks through a few
examples on her new desktop and sees that this "Ubuntu thing" does
more that that "Fedora thing" like plays music & videos, shows nice
spreadsheets and other documents.
It would be great for Fedora to add directory on desktop with some
nice examples what Fedora and OSS can do. There are great videos on
redhat magazine page and I'm sure there are other great resources -
new users need to be exposed to them in this way. Also there is a
initiative for contriburots to make screencasts and this feature would
be a great match with it if they merged together.
2. RFE: Desktop shortcut for joining Fedora IRC (aka "Get Live Help"):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430217 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179703
Fedora is about freedom+communication, right? Why not make this
statement more that just a nice slogan. If you installed sabayon linux
you could experienced for yourself what this really means. I as a new
user to gentoo (sabayon is based on gentoo) was really blown away with
this feature. It is really, really simple to implement and gives a
real meaning to a communication friendly linux distro.
In sabayon link to their IRC chat has a simple name "Get Live Help"
and it work fabulous! I didn't have any Portage experience so I poped
in IRC chat room and was on my way after I got quick help. Whis kind
of help was precious to me and would love to see it in fedora as one
of it's main features and not just as a slogan.
screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382063978&size=l
3. Add abillity to define ntfs mount points in anaconda
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430084
We can define ext3, reiserfs, xfs and vfat partition mount points in
anaconda during the install but just ntfs.
Cheers,
Valent.
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15 years, 4 months
Does your app use LIRC?
by Bastien Nocera
If your app uses liblirc_client, it would be nice if you could follow
the instructions, and the two examples at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport#User_Experience
to make your application work out-of-the-box in Fedora 10.
Elisa, Totem and Rhythmbox are already fixed.
I'd have had a nice list using repoquery, but it just seems to hang
there doing nothing (and then gives me useless answers, might just be
me...).
Let me know if you have any questions about the setup.
Cheers
15 years, 4 months
