devel September 2014

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pdftk retired?
by Michael J Gruber 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

I just git a "broken dependencies" notice for a package that I maintain. The reason is that "pdftk" got retired just the other day. I may have missed a corresponding post on fedora-devel, but I think a heads up notice to maintainers of depending packages may be in order before you retire a package, as a general idea. You see, unretiring a package is so much more work than changing maintainership. As for pdftk: I see 2 failed builds for version 1.45 and none for the current version 2.02 (which probably breaks the api anyways). What are the plans? Retire pdftk completely? Start fresh with pdftk2? pdflabs, the maker of pdftk, provide binary as well as source rpms for pdftk 2.02, by the way. I might even look into packaging it but don't want to duplicate any existing efforts. Michael

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upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

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. --- PhD student Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\ didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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Outage Notification - 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

There will be an outage starting at 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-07-01 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1496 Reason for Outage: Final migration step for new cvs server. It will hopefully be offline for only 30-45 minutes. The additional time is for some further tuning if needed and some verification steps. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce

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git push permission denied
by Neal Becker 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

I just had to setup a new machine, and new ssh keys. I visited https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/edit/xxxx I chose my new id_rsa.pub to upload. But I get: git push --verbose Pushing to ssh://nbecker@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/mercurial Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Hints?

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apitrace, bundled libbacktrace
by Sandro Mani 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

Hi, apitrace 5.0 bundles libbacktrace, which looks like is living within the gcc sources. libbacktrace is not build as a shared library from the gcc sources, and not packaged. Is it feasible to build libbacktrace as a shared library and ship it in a corresponding package? Or should I rather go for a bundling exception request? Thanks, Sandro

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DNF 0.6.0 Released
by Ales Kozumplik 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hello, New minor version was released yesterday. All summed up on our blog: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/08/12/dnf-0-6-0-released/ Cheers, Ales

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F21 Self Contained Change: Replace Bacula with Bareos
by Jaroslav Reznik 09 Apr '15

09 Apr '15

= Proposed Self Contained Change: Replace Bacula with Bareos = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Bareos Change Owner(s): Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> The powerful Bacula network backup solution has switched from being Open Source friendly to being almost closed source. Originally the project was conceived totally as Open Source, but since the creation of Bacula Systems and its proprietary Bacula Enterprise Edition product, the Open Source (now called "Community Edition") has received less and less updates and is mostly abandoned. == Detailed description == The most important points that are left "abandoned" are the following: * Installation scripts and updates to makefiles are not updated anymore. * New plugins and functionalities are not added anymore, except those in the "core" daemons. * Gaphical (and buggy) console has not received any update in almost two years. * Patches and bugs opened in the bug tracker are mostly left abandoned. Even trivial fixes are not imported in the source. * Windows binaries are no longer provided, nor the source for the clients has been updated. Even if compiled with difficulties, there is no support for recent Windows versions. A former Bacula developer, frustrated by the situation created the fork Bareos a long time ago from Bacula 5.2.x (the current Fedora and RHEL 7 version). This version has now received '''a lot of bugfixes''' compared to the original Bacula source. This makes compilation and installation a lot easier than it was with Bacula. On top of this, a '''lot of new features''' have been added; some unique to Bareos but many available only in the closed source Bacula Enterprise. Here is the list of new features compared to the current Bacula 5.2.13: * http://www.bareos.org/en/whats_new.html Some highlights include NDMP support for enterprise class storage (NetApp, etc.), support for enterprise class tape libraries and Windows support (including Windows Server 2012) with Bareos generated binaries. For further details on why a Bacula fork was created please look at the following links: * http://www.bareos.org/en/faq/items/why_fork.html Bareos can also be '''fully compatible with Bacula''' by setting a specific configuration directive in the Daemon configuration files; thus providing the option for RHEL 6/7 users to interoperate with Fedora systems. * http://www.bareos.org/en/faq/items/bareos_bacula_compatibility.html == Scope == To accomplish the goal, the following Bacula packages need to be replaced with Bareos equivalents: bacula bacula-docs Currently, the same Fedora packages can be rebuilt as they are, to work also on CentOS/RHEL 5 and 6, upgrading the EPEL or official Bacula packages in the distributions. This is to have a consistent backup infrastructure across all the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL ecosystem. To ease installation, a repository for installing those packages on a CentOS/RHEL system do exist: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/README.txt The idea is the same for Bareos: import into Fedora 21 packages that can be rebuilt for all supported Fedora/RHEL/CentOS releases and provide a repository that can upgrade any Bacula release currently installed in the system with the new one. In detail; the upgrade scenarios supported when going from Bacula to Bareos would be: From Bacula 2.4: * RHEL/CentOS 5 with EPEL repository From Bacula 5.0: * RHEL/CentOS 6 From Bacula 5.2.13: * Fedora 18+ * RHEL/CentOS 5 * RHEL/CentOS 6 As written before, the change is impacting only Fedora 21, the list of upgrades supported are only for users who want a consistent backup solution across the enterprise. === External activities === Proposal owners: I'm the current Bacula mantainer in Fedora and will complete the transition in time for the release. Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) Release engineering: the release engineering team should make sure the new Bareos packages are in place instead of the current Bacula packages for the new release. Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce

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Configurable version of suexec in Debian but not Fedora?!
by Neal Gompa 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

So a friend of mine has been wrangling with suexec trying to configure it for his needs, and he has become quite furious over the fact that suexec isn't configurable. Then he finds out that Debian actually has a version of suexec[1] that lets you use a conf file to configure suexec. My question is, why the heck isn't this in Fedora? How is it that Debian can offer both versions[1][2], but Fedora cannot? I'm honestly surprised that Fedora doesn't offer this little piece of flexibility. I would think that this would be in Fedora and RHEL, because of how useful this would be. So what's going on here? [1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/apache2-suexec-custom [2]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/apache2-suexec-pristine -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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Action Required: Shipping larger application icons in Fedora 22
by Richard Hughes 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

In Fedora 21 we show any valid application in the software center with an application icon of 32x32 or larger. Currently a 32x32 icon has to be padded with 16 pixels of whitespace on all 4 edges, and *also* has to be scaled x2 to match other UI elements on HiDPI screens. This looks fuzzy, out of alignment and lowers the quality of an otherwise beautiful installing experience. For Fedora 22 we are planning to increase the minimum icon size to 48x48, with recommended installed sizes of 24x24, 48x48, 64x64, 256x256 (or SVG). Modern desktop applications typically ship multiple sizes of icons in known locations, and it's very much the minority of packages in Fedora that only ship such small icons. I'm asking package maintainers linked below to install a larger icon than 32x32 in the package. Most of the time this will involve just installing a different icon from the tarball, but could also mean contacting upstream and asking them for larger icons and a new tarball release. If you're asking upstream, please ask for a 256x256 or 64x64 icon, as the latter will probably be the minimum size for F23 and beyond. Updated packages should be built for F22 (rawhide) before the end of October; after that I'll start mass-filing bugs for the remainder of the packages. If you want to fix up F20 and F21 too that would be great, but not expected. At the end of November I'll change the minimum icon size in the AppStream generator so that applications not fixed will be dropped from the metadata. You can of course install the applications in F22 with dnf on the command line, but they won't be visible in the software center until they are installed. If you're unclear on what needs to be done in order to be listed in the AppStream metadata, refer to this https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application or send me email. I've included a list of packages and the maintainers below. You can either reply to this email when you've fixed a package, or not; I'll regenerate the list of affected packages again in a month, and then again before I mass file bugs. Thanks. Richard. awjb dosbox (dosbox.desktop) beuc freedink-engine (freedink.desktop) bsjones guitarix (guitarix.desktop) bsjones jkmeter (jkmeter.desktop) bsjones whysynth-dssi (whysynth.desktop) chitlesh covered (covered.desktop) cicku wxGlade (wxglade.desktop) dbrasher dsi (dsi.desktop) dtimms qjackctl (qjackctl.desktop) dwrobel crrcsim (CRRCsim.desktop) eponyme monkeystudio (monkeystudio.desktop) fcomida luminance-hdr (luminance-hdr.desktop) gbailey keepassx (keepassx.desktop) goeran mj (mj.desktop) ??? haxima (haxima.desktop) hman-it themonospot-gui-gtk (themonospot-gtk.desktop) hpejakle kflickr (kflickr.desktop) hubbitus escape (escape.desktop) jcapik sudoku-savant (sudoku-savant.desktop) jcapik tong (tong.desktop) jreznik kmousetool (kmousetool.desktop) jskarvad linpsk (linpsk.desktop) jskarvad putty (putty.desktop) jskarvad pyobd (pyobd.desktop) jwrdegoede asc (asc.desktop) jwrdegoede BlockOutII (BlockOutII.desktop) krege kaudiocreator (kaudiocreator.desktop) kumarpraveen qroneko (qroneko.desktop) limb asylum (asylum.desktop) limb bastet (bastet.desktop) limb curblaster (curblaster.desktop) limb neverball-neverball (neverball.desktop) limb neverball-neverputt (neverputt.desktop) limb pingus (pingus.desktop) limb vdrift (vdrift.desktop) lkundrak insight (insight.desktop) lkundrak opticalraytracer (opticalraytracer.desktop) lucilanga tucnak2 (tucnak2.desktop) marcindulak python-ase (ase-gui.desktop) mariobl hex-a-hop (hex-a-hop.desktop) mathstuf uzbl-defaults (uzbl.desktop) mhlavink apcupsd-gui (gapcmon.desktop) mjakubicek weka (weka.desktop) musuruan hatari-ui (hatariui.desktop) nando qsynth (qsynth.desktop) nbecker kdiff3 (kdiff3.desktop) nonamedotc fityk (fityk.desktop) nphilipp gpsdrive (gpsdrive.desktop) nphilipp gtick (gtick.desktop) orion cmake-gui (CMake.desktop) pcpa sagemath (sagemath.desktop) ??? qjackmmc (qjackmmc.desktop) rdieter maxima-gui (xmaxima.desktop) remi gmusicbrowser (gmusicbrowser.desktop) scop portecle (portecle.desktop) sparks cqrlog (cqrlog.desktop) spot fbg2 (fbg2.desktop) stransky berusky2 (berusky2.desktop) terjeros mathomatic (mathomatic.desktop) terjeros sqliteman (sqliteman.desktop) terjeros teamgit (teamgit.desktop) thias fillets-ng (fillets.desktop) tieugene qxkb (qxkb.desktop) tieugene screengrab (screengrab.desktop) topdog ike (ike.desktop) vascom kbackup (kbackup.desktop) verdurin arpage (arpage.desktop) verdurin yoshimi (yoshimi.desktop)

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ca-certificates 2014.2.1 will remove several still valid CA certificates with weak keys
by Kai Engert 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hello, this is a heads-up for an update to the ca-certificates package that I've just submitted for updates-testing for Fedora 19 and 20. The upstream Mozilla CA list maintainers have decided to start removing CA certificates that use a weak 1024-bit key. Although those certificates are still valid, Mozilla has worked with the CAs, and they did agree that it's OK to remove them. However, there are end-entity and intermediate-CA certificates which have been issued by the removed CAs, which are still valid, and they might still be used by some - despite the CAs having attempted to reach out to all their customers and getting them to reconfigure their systems. This means, when installing the updated ca-certificates package version 2014.2.1, some SSL/TLS connections might suddenly fail, because the related CA certificate is no longer trusted. If you experience such situations, the right approach is to contact the owner of the certificate (or the server), and ask them to get a replacement certificate, or to install a replacement certificate on their SSL/TLS server. Additional details can be found in the update description, which I'll paste at the end of this message. (I have disabled karma-automation for this update, in case there's a need for a longer testing period. Note that this updated set of CA certificates is currently planned to be part of Firefox 32, which will get released around SEP 02.) Regards Kai Update description: =================== This is an update to the latest released set of CA certificates according to the Mozilla CA Policy. It's the same set that has been released in NSS versions 3.16.4 and 3.17. It's noteworthy that several CA certificates with a weak key size of 1024-bits have been removed, prior to their expiration. (It is expected that additional CA certificates with weak 1024-bit keys will be removed in future releases.) The removed CA certificates have been used to issue end-entity and intermediate-CA certificates which are still valid. Those certificates are likely to be rejected when using this upated ca-certificates package. The owners of affected certificates should contact their CA and ask for replacement certificates. In some scenarios it might be sufficient to install an alternative intermediate CA certificate (e.g. on a TLS server), allowing an alternative trust chain to another root CA certificate to be found. More information about the affected CA certificates and other recent modifications can be found in the NSS release notes for version 3.16.3 at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.3_re… with amendments to the changes as explained in the NSS release notes for version 3.16.4 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/NSS_3.16.4_re…

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