RPM Idea...
by Nathanael D. Noblet
Hello,
With absolutely no knowledge of how complex an idea/request this is.
But I was about to try to file a bug against a fedora package, and
wondered, is this even *from* fedora.. where's the upstream
bugzilla/tracker.. etc. So I wondered, how it sounds to have a field in
the spec file with urls of bugzilla locations (in my mind even better if
possible would be to the direct url to post a bug)
So for example in my case I'm posting a bug against mkinitrd. It would
be great if I could do rpm -qi mkinitrd and find
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&component=mkinitrd
The bug I'm filing wouldn't trigger or be able to use bug-buddy. You
could also perhaps have more than one location for upstream projects
which have their own bug tracker...
Anyway, just a thought... I realize it isn't perhaps perfect, but would
help... Heck from there it would be simpler to tie into something like
bug-buddy or some other method to post bugs through a 'local' gui which
knows how to get the right info from the rpm as to where to post bugs,
and what type of bug posting system it is...
--
Nathanael d. Noblet
T: 403.875.4613
15 years, 1 month
rawhide report: 20090405 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Sun Apr 5 06:15:05 UTC 2009
New package eclipse-dltk
Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) Eclipse plugin
New package perl-Log-Trace
A unified approach to tracing
New package perl-PlRPC
Interface for building pServer Clients
New package qt-creator
Lightweight and cross-platform IDE for Qt
Updated Packages:
awn-extras-applets-0.3.2.1-7.fc11
---------------------------------
* Thu Apr 02 2009 Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <sindrepb(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.2.1-4
- New upstream release
- Add devel package
- Update schemas scriplets
- Fix rpmlint warnings about non-executable scripts
- Add gnome-icon-cache scriplet
- Add shared library scriplet
- clean up files list
- Use python_sitearch, not sitelib as package is arch.
* Thu Apr 02 2009 Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <sindrepb(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.3.2.1-7
- Add patch to fix build on x86_64
- Enable webkit-gtk powered applets
bug-buddy-2.26.0-2.fc11
-----------------------
* Sun Apr 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.26.0-2
- Support build-id (#490778)
clive-2.1.10-1.fc11
-------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Nicoleau Fabien <nicoleau.fabien(a)gmail.com> 2.1.10-1
- Rebuild for 2.1.10
deco-archive-1.4-3.fc11
-----------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Orcan Ogetbil <oget [DOT] fedora [AT] gmail [DOT] com> 1.4-3
- Handle .zoo format with unzoo (if installed)
edb-0.9.8-1.fc11
----------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Nicoleau Fabien <nicoleau.fabien(a)gmail.com> 0.9.8-1
- Rebuild for 0.9.8
fotowall-0.4-1.fc11
-------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Nicoleau Fabien <nicoleau.fabien(a)gmail.com> - 1:0.4-1
- Rebuild for 0.4
gigolo-0.3.1-1.fc11
-------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)tummy.com> - 0.3.1-1
- Update to 0.3.1
git-1.6.2.2-1.fc11
------------------
* Fri Apr 03 2009 Todd Zullinger <tmz(a)pobox.com> - 1.6.2.2-1
- git-1.6.2.2
- Include contrib/ dir in %doc (bug 492490)
- Don't set DOCBOOK_XSL_172, fix the '\&.ft' with sed (bug 485161)
- Ignore Branches output from cvsps-2.2b1 (bug 490602)
- Remove shebang from bash-completion script
- Include README in gitweb subpackage
gnome-sharp-2.24.0-3.fc11
-------------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.24.0-3
- Make tomboy work before gconfd is started (#494065)
grib_api-1.7.0-3.fc11
---------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Jeroen van Meeuwen <j.van.meeuwen(a)ogd.nl> - 1.7.0-3
- Fix file conflict (#492936)
jd-2.4.0-0.1.svn2765_trunk.fc11
-------------------------------
* Sun Apr 05 2009 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Update to latest trunk
kde-i18n-3.5.10-4.fc11
----------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> 1:3.5.10-4
- remove kdesvn-build documentation, conflicts with kde-l10n 4.2.2
kdegames-4.2.2-4.fc11
---------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 4.2.2-4
- fix KsirK crash when starting a local game with Qt 4.5 (#486380, kde#187235)
merkaartor-0.13.1-1.fc11
------------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Sven Lankes <sven(a)lank.es> - 0.13.1-1
- new upstream release
perl-Class-MOP-0.80-1.fc11
--------------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Chris Weyl <cweyl(a)alumni.drew.edu> 0.80-1
- update to 0.80
perl-Data-Dump-Streamer-2.09-1.fc11
-----------------------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Iain Arnell <iarnell(a)gmail.com> 2.09-1
- update to latest upstream
pyroom-0.4.1-1.fc11
-------------------
* Wed Mar 25 2009 Sven Lankes <sven(a)lank.es> - 0.4.1-1
- new upstream release
- remove desktop-file-patch
- add patch to fix mo-file install (patch received from upstream)
python-Coherence-0.6.2-2.fc11
-----------------------------
* Sun Apr 05 2009 Matthias Saou <http://freshrpms.net/> 0.6.2-2
- Re-add re-needed re-python-twisted re-quirements (#485093).
- Require dbus for proper parent directory ownership.
rpmdevtools-7.1-1.fc11
----------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 7.1-1
- 7.1.
- Make rpmdev-md5 and friends work on non-srpm package files too.
* Sun Mar 15 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
- Add bash completion.
* Mon Mar 09 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi>
- Add query format option to rmdevelrpms, sort output by NEVRA.
scite-1.77-1.fc11
-----------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Jorge Torres <jtorresh(a)gmail.com> 1.77-1
- Upgrade to 1.77
spring-installer-20090316-6.fc11
--------------------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Aurelien Bompard <abompard(a)fedoraproject.org> 20090316-5
- fix versioned dependency
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Aurelien Bompard <abompard(a)fedoraproject.org> 20090316-6
- fix patch and buildreq
tuxguitar-1.1-1.fc11
--------------------
* Sat Apr 04 2009 Orcan Ogetbil <oget[DOT]fedora[AT]gmail[DOT]com>> - 1.1-1
- New upstream version
- Clean-up the SPEC file
- Include GCJ-AOT-bits
Summary:
Added Packages: 4
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 22
Broken deps for i386
----------------------------------------------------------
libopensync-plugin-vformat-0.36-2.fc11.i586 requires libopensync.so.1
m17n-contrib-maithili-1.1.9-2.fc11.noarch requires m17n-db-maithili >= 0:1.4.0
perl-Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001-1.fc11.noarch requires perl(Term::Size::Any)
Broken deps for x86_64
----------------------------------------------------------
libopensync-plugin-vformat-0.36-2.fc11.x86_64 requires libopensync.so.1()(64bit)
m17n-contrib-maithili-1.1.9-2.fc11.noarch requires m17n-db-maithili >= 0:1.4.0
perl-Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001-1.fc11.noarch requires perl(Term::Size::Any)
Broken deps for ppc
----------------------------------------------------------
asterisk-ldap-fds-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.ppc requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-1.1.3-1.fc11.noarch requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(DialogManager)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(Resource)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires /usr/bin/repl-monitor.pl
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(SetupLog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(Dialog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(DSCreate)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(Migration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(DSMigration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(Setup)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc requires perl(Inf)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DialogManager)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires /usr/bin/repl-monitor.pl
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(SetupLog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Dialog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DSCreate)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Migration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DSMigration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Resource)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Setup)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Inf)
fedora-ksplice-0.5-3.fc11.noarch requires ksplice
ipa-server-1.2.1-4.fc11.ppc requires fedora-ds-base >= 0:1.1.3
libopensync-plugin-vformat-0.36-2.fc11.ppc requires libopensync.so.1
m17n-contrib-maithili-1.1.9-2.fc11.noarch requires m17n-db-maithili >= 0:1.4.0
perl-Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001-1.fc11.noarch requires perl(Term::Size::Any)
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
asterisk-ldap-fds-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.ppc64 requires fedora-ds-base
cabal2spec-0.12-1.fc11.noarch requires ghc > 0:6.10.1-7
fedora-ds-1.1.3-1.fc11.noarch requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DialogManager)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires /usr/bin/repl-monitor.pl
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(SetupLog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires fedora-ds-base
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Dialog)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DSCreate)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Migration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(DSMigration)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Resource)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Setup)
fedora-ds-admin-1.1.7-2.fc11.ppc64 requires perl(Inf)
fedora-ksplice-0.5-3.fc11.noarch requires ksplice
ipa-server-1.2.1-4.fc11.ppc64 requires fedora-ds-base >= 0:1.1.3
libopensync-plugin-vformat-0.36-2.fc11.ppc64 requires libopensync.so.1()(64bit)
m17n-contrib-maithili-1.1.9-2.fc11.noarch requires m17n-db-maithili >= 0:1.4.0
perl-Catalyst-Runtime-5.71001-1.fc11.noarch requires perl(Term::Size::Any)
15 years, 1 month
Monodevelop 2.0 & Mono 2.4 for F10?
by Neal Gompa
I saw on Mono's website that Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0 were released. I
checked koji and saw it was only being built for Fedora 11, and it failed at
that. Can it be pushed back into Fedora 10 as well?
15 years, 1 month
Re: Broken dependencies in Fedora 10 - 2009-04-02 (cabal2spec)
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
----- "Michael Schwendt" <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Your following packages in the repository suffer from broken
> dependencies:
>
> ======================================================================
> The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
> ======================================================================
>
> package: cabal2spec-0.12-1.fc10.noarch from fedora-updates-10-ppc64
> unresolved deps:
> ghc > 0:6.10.1-7
This should get fixed when we finish porting cabal2spec from shell script to Haskell hopefully during the f12 cycle.
Jens
15 years, 1 month
Summary from 2009-04-03 FESCo meeeting
by Jon Stanley
FESCo meeting summary for 2008/04/03
== Members Present ==
* Jon Stanley (jds2001)
* Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
* David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
* Dan Horak (sharkcz)
* Josh Boyer (jwb)
* Brian Pepple (bpepple)
* Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
* Bill Nottingham (notting)
* Jarod Wilson (j-rod)
== Members Absent ==
* None
== Sponsorship and provenpackager request - mmaslano ==
Provenpackager approved, sponsorship declined based on feedback from
the existing sponsors. There was some concern about being able to
guide the sponsoree in the best choices in packaging and reviewing.
However, we would be willing to entertain another request in a period
of a month or two.
== Sponsor request - kasal ==
This request was declined on the basis that the reasons presented for
becoming a sponsor was to avoid work in the event of some future
reseed of provenpackager, not the desire to assist and teach anybody
in becoming a Fedora packager. As there is no such reseed now planned
or even likely, this request made very little sense.
== provenpackager request - caolanm ==
This request was approved.
== provenpackager request - stahnma ==
This request was approved.
== FPC report - 2009-03-31 ==
Two drafts were approved:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DocumentationNaming
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/EmbeddedDesktopFiles
== Non-provenpackager committable packages ==
NB: The decisions made by FESCo in this matter do not imply a
"free-for-all" on packages. If substantive changes to a package are
made without consulting with the maintainer and/or group, Bad
Things(TM) will occur.
Each request that was presented to FESCo was considered, with the
following resutls:
=== initscripts ===
Declined. notting recused himself from this vote. being maintainer of
initscripts.
=== popt ===
Declined
=== ethtool ===
Declined.
=== lvm-team packages ===
Declined.
=== Firefox/Thunderbird/XULRunner ===
Approved.
=== hwdata ===
Declined.
15 years, 1 month
[fwd] Fedora 11 mirror layout
by Todd Zullinger
----- Forwarded message from Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola(a)iki.fi> -----
Hi,
this might be a stupid question, but why is the x86 arch in rawhide and
Fedora 11 install trees still i386, even though the RPM's are all
compiled --march=i586? Is it some kind of a problem related with
mirrors..?
--
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org
----- End forwarded message -----
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-- Voltaire, on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that
he renounce Satan.
15 years, 1 month
F11 beta install Fail, Fedora cannot stand opensolaris
by Ahmed Kamal
Trying to install F11 beta on my laptop fails with "File System error
detected, cannot continue"
It seems to barf on /dev/sda2 which is an opensolaris ZFS partition
/dev/sda2 * 7753 10302 20482875 bf Solaris
It might be related that I have opensolaris' grub installed (as it's the
only one that can read/boot zfs). Anyway, relevant logs below
=========== Anaconda.log =======
01:44:51 DEBUG : DiskDevice.addChild: kids: 1 ; name: sda ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice._setFormat: sda2 ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice._setFormat: sda2 ; current: None ; type:
None ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice.probe: sda2 ; exists: True ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice.getFlag: path: /dev/sda2 ; flag: 1 ;
part: parted.Partition instance --
disk: <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0> fileSystem:
<parted.filesystem.FileSystem object at 0x7fc52bcb0b50>
number: 2 path: /dev/sda2 type: 0
name: None active: True busy: False
geometry: <parted.geometry.Geometry object at 0x7fc52bcb0ad0>
PedPartition: <_ped.Partition object at 0x7fc52bcb1290> ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice.flagAvailable: path: /dev/sda2 ; flag: 1
; part: parted.Partition instance --
disk: <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0> fileSystem:
<parted.filesystem.FileSystem object at 0x7fc52bcb0b50>
number: 2 path: /dev/sda2 type: 0
name: None active: True busy: False
geometry: <parted.geometry.Geometry object at 0x7fc52bcb0ad0>
PedPartition: <_ped.Partition object at 0x7fc52bcb1290> ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice.getFlag: path: /dev/sda2 ; flag: 10 ;
part: parted.Partition instance --
disk: <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0> fileSystem:
<parted.filesystem.FileSystem object at 0x7fc52bcb0b50>
number: 2 path: /dev/sda2 type: 0
name: None active: True busy: False
geometry: <parted.geometry.Geometry object at 0x7fc52bcb0ad0>
PedPartition: <_ped.Partition object at 0x7fc52bcb1290> ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : PartitionDevice.flagAvailable: path: /dev/sda2 ; flag: 10
; part: parted.Partition instance --
disk: <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0> fileSystem:
<parted.filesystem.FileSystem object at 0x7fc52bcb0b50>
number: 2 path: /dev/sda2 type: 0
name: None active: True busy: False
geometry: <parted.geometry.Geometry object at 0x7fc52bcb0ad0>
PedPartition: <_ped.Partition object at 0x7fc52bcb1290> ;
01:44:51 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /dev/sda2 on
/tmp/getsize-_VLEuS with options ro
========== Storage.log =============
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,259] INFO: devices to scan: ['sda', 'sda1', 'sda2',
'sda3', 'sda4', 'sda5', 'sda6', 'sda7', 'sda8', 'sda9', 'sda10', 'sda11',
'sr0']
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,260] DEBUG: scanning sda
(/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda)...
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,260] DEBUG: sda is a disk
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,260] DEBUG: looking for device 'sda'...
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,261] DEBUG: found None
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,261] DEBUG: getFormat('None') returning DeviceFormat
instance
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,425] DEBUG: looking up parted Device: /dev/sda
[2009-04-04 01:44:49,437] DEBUG: creating parted Disk: /dev/sda
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,094] DEBUG: setting sda diskLabel to msdos
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,094] DEBUG: added sda (disk) to device tree
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,094] DEBUG: scanning sda1
(/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1)...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,095] DEBUG: sda1 is a partition
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,095] DEBUG: looking for device 'sda1'...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,095] DEBUG: found None
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,095] DEBUG: looking for device 'sda'...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,096] DEBUG: found DiskDevice instance
(0x7fc52bd15d50) --
description = name = sda status = True parents = []
kids = 0
uuid = None format = <storage.formats.DeviceFormat object at
0x7fc52bd15ed0> size = 305242.844238
major = 8 minor = 0 exists = True
sysfs path =
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda label
= msdos
target size = 0 path = /dev/sda
format args = [] removable = False partedDevice = <parted.device.Device
object at 0x7fc52bcb0310>
partedDisk = <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0>
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,101] DEBUG: getFormat('None') returning DeviceFormat
instance
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,103] DEBUG: looking up parted Partition: /dev/sda1
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,116] DEBUG: added sda1 (partition) to device tree
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,181] INFO: set SELinux context for mountpoint
/tmp/getsize-EPwaKl to False
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,568] INFO: set SELinux context for newly mounted
filesystem root at /tmp/getsize-EPwaKl to False
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,589] DEBUG: getFormat('ntfs') returning NTFS
instance
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,594] DEBUG: scanning sda2
(/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2)...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,594] DEBUG: sda2 is a partition
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,595] DEBUG: looking for device 'sda2'...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,595] DEBUG: found None
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,595] DEBUG: looking for device 'sda'...
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,596] DEBUG: found DiskDevice instance
(0x7fc52bd15d50) --
description = name = sda status = True parents = []
kids = 1
uuid = None format = <storage.formats.DeviceFormat object at
0x7fc52bd15ed0> size = 305242.844238
major = 8 minor = 0 exists = True
sysfs path =
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda label
= msdos
target size = 0 path = /dev/sda
format args = [] removable = False partedDevice = <parted.device.Device
object at 0x7fc52bcb0310>
partedDisk = <parted.disk.Disk object at 0x7fc52bcb03d0>
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,600] DEBUG: getFormat('None') returning DeviceFormat
instance
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,602] DEBUG: looking up parted Partition: /dev/sda2
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,615] DEBUG: added sda2 (partition) to device tree
[2009-04-04 01:44:51,616] INFO: set SELinux context for mountpoint
/tmp/getsize-_VLEuS to False
15 years, 1 month
noarch rpm feature query/issue
by Peter Robinson
Hi All,
I have a query about the new noarch feature for building rpms. I have
a package called gupnp-vala which the contents there of can be noarch.
It built fine in koji as noarch so I presume it passed the rpmdiff or
what ever is run against the rpms. But it contains a pkgconfig file
which is located in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 so pacakges built against
it (none actually in Fedora yet, but one awaiting review) fail to
build on either 32 or 64 bit platforms depending on which of the build
packages gets the lime light.
So my query is, I presume due to the pkgconfig this package shouldn't
be noarch, so there must be a bug there somewhere which caused it to
get past koji. But as its noarch AFAICT other than the location of the
pkgconfig file it seems somewhat of a waste to lose the advantage of
the noarch stuff for the sake of a pkgconfig file as I presume most
devel packages could be noarch.
Cheers,
Peter
BTW I see noarch packages are located in each of the separate arch
trees as opposed to being in a noarch dir which looks like the
advantage of the noarch in space saving isn't happening. What other
advantages does it offer?
15 years, 1 month
dmraid isw serial number issue avoids to install f10-f11 Beta
by Alberto Patino
Hi,
Install of Fedora 10 and fedora 11 Beta fails because a issue in dmraid for
isw.
dmraid extract raid metadata from well known disk address, extract disk
serial numbers from metadata and compare these against serials obtained from
ioctl().
In this particular case serial number from ioctl() returns 20 char width
serial number and serial numbers in metadata are 16 chars width and for this
reason the string matching test fails.
I have submitted detail in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490121
Anaconda depends on a successful result of dmraid set discovery, but this
particular issue doesn't allow to go further with the installation process.
The fix is very simple, but this fix is not included in fedora raid rpm. I'd
like to know who is the maintainer of this rpm package to add patch I
provided.
Thanks
Alberto Patino
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15 years, 1 month
python-2.6 and python-3.x
by Toshio Kuratomi
I had the fortune to attend pycon this past week and went to a talk
about python-2.6 compatibility with python-3.
http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/74/
The slides from that are available and largely self-explanatory. They
list tricks for getting python code that runs on both py2.6 and py3.x.
However, one of the things that isn't obvious is what's missing from the
equation to make the idea of porting one library at a time work. The
ideas in the slides hinge upon writing code that runs on python3.x and
then making that backwards compatible with python-2.6's py3
compatibility. In Fedora, we're going to have the problem of taking
code and trying to port it to python-2.6's py3 compatibility layer and
then fixing it to run on py3k if necessary. This is much harder as
python-2.6 will accept most python-2.5 and less code so we won't know
when we're using idioms that will not work in python-3.x.
Another thing that's missing is a 2to3 like tool that targets 2.6+compat
instead of python3. However, this one might be possible if we ask.
A side note is that the Core devs apparently talked about naming the
interpreter binary for python /usr/bin/python3 at the language summit.
If they do this, /usr/bin/python will always mean python2 and
/usr/bin/python3 will be for python-3.x. Not sure if that influences us
or not.
I don't have a solution for this yet. Just throwing this out there as
something we need to consider as we start to port code to python-2.6
+py3 compat.
-Toshio
15 years, 1 month
