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
orphan most of my packages
by Andy Shevchenko
Hello,
I have no more time to support the following packages in the Fedora.
jack-audio-connection-kit -- The Jack Audio Connection Kit
klamav -- Clam Anti-Virus on the KDE Desktop
man-pages-uk -- Ukrainian man pages from the Linux Documentation Project
python-alsa -- Python binding for the ALSA library
qstat -- Real-time Game Server Status for FPS game servers
uniconvertor -- Universal vector graphics translator
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
11 years, 2 months
Improvements Eclipse Installation
by sami wagiaalla
Hi,
The way we currently install Eclipse plugins in Fedora is incorrect and
somewhat fragile.
RPM places all the plugin artifacts in the proper directories. However
that does not update the eclipse metadata. This means that until the
next time eclipse starts it is unaware of the newly installed plugins.
Because the user would normally run Eclipse not as root Eclipse does not
have permission to write to the meta data files located in the
installation directory. It therefore creates a parallel version in the
user's home directory ~/.eclipse. This creates a fragile installation
and leads to a whole host of problems.
To improve this I have written apatch which runs the Eclipse reconciler
during rpm installation. The Eclipse reconciler is an Eclipse
application which goes through and checks the installation directories
and updates the eclipse metadata with any newly installed plugins.
To add support for this in your eclipse package you have to add the
following line to your rpm spec file:
%_eclipse_pkg [package name]
Here is an example from the eclipse-rse spec file for the
eclipse-rse-sdk rpm:
%package sdk
[...]
%_eclipse_pkg sdk
The above macro expands to the following:
%post sdk
touch /var/run/eclipse/run-reconciler
%postun sdk
touch /var/run/eclipse/run-reconciler
if [ $1 == 0 ]; then
eclipse-reconciler.sh
fi
%posttrans sdk
eclipse-reconciler.sh
I apologize if you have experienced instability in Eclipse installations
on rawhide, it is probably due to these changes. Please let me know if
you have any comments questions or suggestions.
I will be filing a request to update the Eclipse packaging guidelines.
If you are interested in the details of the work, here is a summary in
the form of a patch: http://fpaste.org/pPEC/
Cheers,
Sami
11 years, 9 months
cisco vpn because of ipsec over tcp
by Lucas
Dear All
Have anyone here tried to compile cisco vpn for Fedora 16 - 32 or 64 bit?
I need it sometimes and it should support ipsec over tcp, unfortunately nothing in unix can provide it.
Thanks for suggestions.
11 years, 11 months
