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
jack2
by Andy Shevchenko
Hello.
Nowadays the jack project has two branches - old jack (1) branch with
version 0.116.2 and new one called jack2 version 1.9.3.
I'd like to gather opinions and suggestions about applying new version for F13.
Please, share your thoughts!
Thank you.
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
13 years, 4 months
intent to retire: kudzu
by Bill Nottingham
I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13.
Why?
- There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current kernels
- It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been
frozen and deprecated
- Given that, its upstream is very dead
However, it is still being required by two programs:
- hwbrowser
- fwfstab
If someone wants to keep it limping along for thsese two programs I can
orphan it. But I'd really rather just retire it.
Bill
13 years, 7 months
thunderbird is removing spaces
by Stefan Assmann
Hi,
thunderbird seem to remove spaces from lines that only consist of one or
more spaces. Any way of preventing thunderbird from doing so? I already
have "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed false" and turned of line wrapping.
With these option sending patches works pretty well, only recently I
had a patch that got corrupted because of spaces being removed.
Any ideas?
Stefan
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13 years, 8 months
Cannot rely on /dev being present in %post scripts?
by David Woodhouse
According to bug #517013, %post scripts should not assume that /dev is
available -- so we can't do anything that requires the existence of
/dev/null, /dev/urandom, etc.
Is this a known and expected packaging rule, or is it a bug in the way
that the user is attempting to install the packages?
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13 years, 9 months
Fedora Linux Format software review: January 2010
by Christopher Brown
Hi folks,
Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over
the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I
thought:
a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is
included in Fedora
b) It would be a good idea to get that which is not in and/or up to date
c) If there is enough interest I would like to form a SIG to do the
monthly reviews - a kind of packaging wishlist on steroids perhaps :)
I blogged about this recently and you can read the basic idea there:
http://chruz.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/ive-got-the-music-on-my-radio/
The editor has expressed his willingness to send details of software
which they will review to us so we have a head start. I have conducted
the first review of the January 2010 issue which you can read here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFormatPackaging
There are some interesting omissions, for example Recoll, the desktop
search tool which came out ahead of Beagle and Google Desktop and
which doesn't even have a review request opened for it yet.
A few points that need mentioning:
1) I do not and have never worked for Linux Format nor has anyone I know :)
2) There may be some glaring errors - this is why this is on the wiki
so please feel free to update/change etc. For example I have not
undertaken rigorous reviews for the software's suitability.
3) This is not intended as anything other than a distillation of what
would be good to have in the repositories.
I welcome your comments as ever.
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13 years, 9 months
Pulseaudio in F12
by Paulo Cavalcanti
Hi,
I made a clean install of Fedora 12, and pulseaudio seems to be behaving
completely different. Any mixer control I have (master, pcm, front ,,,)
affects
the pulse volume slider (looking at pavucontrol). In the past, pulse only
controlled PCM, I guess.
But the worst point is that there is no more application volume memory.
All applications when launched are at full volume, and this is really
annoying ...
Is this a kind of new feature? Is it configurable?
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LCG - UFRJ
13 years, 10 months
Anyone else want to maintain alltray?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
It is a application that lets you minimize any app to the system tray
and is compatible with GNOME, Xfce, KDE etc. It has a dormant upstream
and I haven't had time to look into all the crash reports from Abrt. If
noone picks it up, I will orphan it in a week.
$ yum info alltray
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name : alltray
Arch : i686
Version : 0.70
Release : 4.fc12
Size : 62 k
Repo : fedora
Summary : Dock any application in the tray
URL : http://alltray.sourceforge.net/
License : GPLv2+
Rahul
13 years, 10 months
Can some provenpackager bump openvpn in EL-5
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
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Hi,
I have this bz open for some time now, with no response.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544944
Can some one with proven packager access bump the EL-5 version to the
latest one in devel.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas)
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13 years, 11 months
