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libarrow (Apache Arrow) soname bump in Rawhide
by Kaleb Keithley 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hi, Apache Arrow 10.0.0 has been released. At present nobody is using libarrow except Ceph. (Which I am the maintainer of.) I will be rebasing libarrow to 10.0.0 within the next couple of days. -- Kaleb

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F36 Change: Default To Noto Fonts (System-Wide Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultToNotoFonts == Summary == Changing the default fonts for various languages to Noto Fonts as much as possible, to make consistency on the text rendering. == Owner == * Name: [[User:Tagoh|Akira TAGOH]] * Email: <tagoh(a)redhat.com> == Detailed Description == For a long time we have used DejaVu fonts as the default font for European and other language scripts. On the other hand some language scripts are not covered by DejaVu and hence have other default fonts. (A few languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as well as Gurmukhi, Sinhala, and emoji are already using Noto fonts by default for some time.) This situation leads to inconsistencies in text rendering on applications and desktops, particularly when mixing different character sets. Further Noto fonts bring some further advantages: the fonts are generally higher quality and support variable fonts for most scripts, making them more compact. This change aims to provide better experience and consistent text rendering across more languages by replacing DejaVu with Noto as the general system default set of fonts. The following packages will be installed by default to replace DejaVu's coverage: * google-noto-sans-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-mono-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-arabic-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-cherokee-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-thaana-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-hebrew-vf-fonts * google-noto-rashi-hebrew-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-math-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-armenian-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-armenian-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-canadian-aboriginal-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-georgian-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-georgian-vf-fonts * google-noto-sans-lao-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-lao-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-gurmukhi-vf-fonts * google-noto-serif-sinhala-vf-fonts And you can check [https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/noto/f36-noto.html the table] to see what languages will be affected by this change. == Benefit to Fedora == We would get better text rendering on applications and desktops. Also this change should save about 6MB on the fresh install. <pre> $ rpm -qlv dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 10789272</pre> <pre> $ rpm -qlv google-noto-sans-vf-fonts google-noto-serif-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-mono-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-arabic-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-cherokee-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-thaana-vf-fonts google-noto -sans-hebrew-vf-fonts google-noto-rashi-hebrew-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-math-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-armenian-vf-f onts google-noto-serif-armenian-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-canadian-aboriginal-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-georgian-vf-f onts google-noto-serif-georgian-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-lao-vf-fonts google-noto-serif-lao-vf-fonts google-noto-serif-gurmukhi-vf-fonts google-noto-serif-sinhala-vf-fonts | awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a+=$5}END{print a}' 4753340 </pre> == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** Update google-noto-fonts and dejavu-fonts to change the priority for fontconfig config. ** Update langpacks to update the dependency. ** Update comps to make Noto fonts default. ** Update lorax templates related to DejaVu. ** Update fontconfig to change the order of fonts in the builtin config. * Other developers: ** Packagers who owns packages implicitly expects DejaVu is installed by default will needs to update the dependency for them. * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10492 #10492] * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change) * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) * Alignment with Objectives: == Upgrade/compatibility impact == The migration will be done by updating langpacks. after upgrading and rebooting, the default font will be Noto instead of DejaVu. Since this change aims to switch non-variable fonts to variable fonts, it may not works with legacy applications as expected such as missing some variants. in that case, you can install non-variable fonts packages. the package name will be similar and simply drop `-vf` from the variable fonts packages. == How To Test == * This change can be simply tested by `fc-match` command like `fc-match sans:lang=<your langauge>`, `fc-match serif:lang=<your language>` and `fc-match monospace:lang=<your language>`. You can check the expected result from [https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/noto/f36-noto.html the table]. * Test the text rendering in your favorite application, which use the system default font. == User Experience == Users will see the default font is changed to Noto by this change except for some languages which has much better quality of fonts. == Dependencies == Only dejavu-fonts, langpacks, and fontconfig are required to update. Other packages which explicitly has a dependency to dejavu-fonts are basicaly optional to update. == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: Revert the relevant packages updated. * Contingency deadline: Beta freeze * Blocks release? No == Documentation == None. == Release Notes == The default fonts for most languages will be Google Noto fonts instead of DejaVu, to keep consistency on the text rendering and to provide better quality among languages. -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

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Plan / proposal: enable openQA update testing and potentially gating on Rawhide updates
by Adam Williamson 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

Hi folks! We've had openQA testing of updates for stable and branched releases, and gating based on those tests, enabled for a while now. I believe this is going quite well, and I think we addressed the issues reported when we first enabled gating - Bodhi's gating status updates work more smoothly now, and openQA respects Bodhi's "re-run tests" button so failed tests can be re-triggered. A few weeks ago, I enabled testing of Rawhide updates in the openQA lab/stg instance. This was to see how smoothly the tests run, how often we run into unexpected failures or problems, and whether the hardware resources we have are sufficient for the extra load. So far this has been going more smoothly than I anticipated, if anything. The workers seem to keep up with the test load, even though one out of three worker systems for the stg instance is currently out of commission (we're using it to investigate a bug). We do get occasional failures which seem to be related to Rawhide kernel slowness (e.g. operations timing out that usually don't otherwise time out), but on the whole, the level of false failures is (I would say) acceptably low, enough that my current regime of checking the test results daily and restarting failed ones that don't seem to indicate a real bug should be sufficient. So, I'd like to propose that we enable Rawhide update testing on the production openQA instance also. This would cause results to appear on the Automated Tests tab in Bodhi, but they would be only informational (and unless the update was gated by a CI test, or somehow otherwise configured not to be pushed automatically, updates would continue to be pushed 'stable' almost immediately on creation, regardless of the openQA results). More significantly, I'd also propose that we turn on gating on openQA results for Rawhide updates. This would mean Rawhide updates would be held from going 'stable' (and included in the next compose) until the gating openQA tests had run and passed. We may want to do this a bit after turning on the tests; perhaps Fedora 37 branch point would be a natural time to do it. Currently this would usually mean a wait from update submission to 'stable push' (which really means that the build goes into the buildroot, and will go into the next Rawhide compose when it happens) of somewhere between 45 minutes and a couple of hours. It would also mean that if Rawhide updates for inter-dependent packages are not correctly grouped, the dependent update(s) will fail testing and be gated until the update they depend on has passed testing and been pushed. The tests for the dependent update(s) would then need to be re- run, either by someone hitting the button in Bodhi or an openQA admin noticing and restarting them, before the dependent update(s) could be pushed. In the worst case, if updated packages A and B both need the other to work correctly but the updates are submitted separately, both updates may fail tests and be blocked. This could only be resolved by waiving the failures, or replacing the separate updates with an update containing both packages. All of those considerations are already true for stable and branched releases, but people are probably more used to grouping updates for stable and branched than doing it for Rawhide, and the typical flow of going from a build to an update provides more opportunity to create grouped updates for branched/stable. For Rawhide the easiest way to do it if you need to do it is to do the builds in a side tag and use Bodhi's ability to create updates from a side tag. As with branched/stable, only critical path updates would have the tests run and be gated on the results. Non-critpath updates would be unaffected. (There's a small allowlist of non-critpath packages for which the tests are also run, but they are not currently gated on the results). I think doing this could really help us keep Rawhide solid and avoid introducing major compose-breaking bugs, at minimal cost. But it's a significant change and I wanted to see what folks think. In particular, if you find the existing gating of updates for stable/branched releases to cause problems in any way, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks folks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net

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Future of BIOS RAID support in the installer
by Vojtech Trefny 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '23

Hi, I am planning to change how we support BIOS RAID (sometimes also called Firmware or Fake RAID) in the installer in the future. I plan to go through the official Fedora change process for Fedora 38, but I'd like to get some feedback first. We are currently using dmraid to support these types of RAIDs in blivet[1] (storage library the Anaconda installer uses) and we would like to replace it with mdadm. The main reason is that dmraid is no longer actively maintained, but it will also mean one less dependency for the installer (we use mdadm for the software RAID support) and one less service running during boot (dmraid-activation.service). The potential issue here is that mdadm doesn't support all BIOS RAID types. mdadm supports only Common RAID Disk Data Format standard[2] (DDF) and Intel Matrix Storage Technology (IMSM) so by switching to mdadm we would remove support for some of the older formats that existed before DDF was standardized. I am not sure how many people are still using these older RAIDs and the main reason for sending this email is to find out. So if you are using a BIOS RAID on your system, can you check what kind? You can find out simply by checking the filesystem type on the underlying disk(s) reported by for example `lsblk -f`. Types supported by mdadm are "ddf_raid_member" and "isw_raid_member". Types supported only by dmraid are "adaptec_raid_member", "hpt***_raid_member", "jmicron_raid_member", "lsi_mega_raid_member", "nvidia_raid_member", "silicon_medley_raid_member" and "via_raid_member". So if you have one of the latter ones and you'd be impacted by this change, please let me know so we can reconsider this change. Note that this would affect only the installation process, I know some external and NAS drives use BIOS RAID and these won't be affected, dmraid is not being removed from the repositories (at least I am not aware of this right now, some distributions are already planning to remove dmraid completely). [1] https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet [2] https://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/ddf Regards Vojtech Trefny vtrefny(a)redhat.com

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RISC-V -- are we ready for more, and what do we need to do it?
by Matthew Miller 11 Jun '23

11 Jun '23

Hi all! I just got back from Open Source Summit, several of the talks I found interesting were on RISC-V -- a high-level one about the organizational structure, and Drew Fustini's more technical talk. In that, he noted that there's a Fedora build *, but it isn't an official Fedora arch. As I understand it, the major infrastructure blocker is simply that there isn't server-class hardware (let alone hardware that will build fast enough that it isn't a frustrating bottleneck). So, one question is: if we used, say, ARM or x86_64 Amazon cloud instances as builders, could we build fast enough under QEMU emulation to work? We have a nice early advantage, but if we don't keep moving, we'll lose that. But beyond that: What other things might be limits? Are there key bits of the distro which don't build yet? Is there a big enough risc-v team to respond to arch-specific build failures? And, do we have enough people to do QA around release time? * see http://fedora.riscv.rocks/koji/ -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Self Introduction: Andreas Vögele
by Andreas Vögele 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hello Fedora developers, I'm Andreas from Stuttgart in Germany. I'm a system administrator and software developer, who moved his computers to Fedora about a year ago. I've written a handful of Perl modules that I package at the Open Build Service and Copr. I'd like to maintain some of these modules directly in Fedora. In the past, I maintained ports of other software at SlackBuilds.org and OpenBSD. Occasionally, I contribute patches to free software projects. I enjoy programming in C, Perl and recently Kotlin. Kind regards, Andreas

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Review request for oclock package (orphaned since F35)
by Globe Trotter 14 May '23

14 May '23

Hello, Anyone willing to review this request for a recently (>8 weeks) orphaned package? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025138 Happy to review in return.

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memtest86plus v6.00
by Richard W.M. Jones 10 May '23

10 May '23

Earlier discussion: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/msg169800.html Current memtest86+ 5.x requires non-UEFI, which makes it increasingly irrelevant to modern hardware. memtest86 forked into a proprietary product some time ago. However there is hope because upstream memtest86+ 6.00 is (a) open source and (b) seems to work despite the large warnings on the website: https://memtest.org/ Note this new version is derived from pcmemtest mentioned in the thread above which is only indirectly derived from memtest86+ 5.x and removes some features. So my question is are we planning to move to v6.00 in future? I did attempt to build a Fedora RPM, but it basically involves removing large sections of the existing RPM (eg. the downstream script we add seems unnecessary now and the downstream README would need to be completely rewritten). It's probably only necessary to have memtest.efi be installed as /boot/memtest.efi and although it won't appear automatically in the grub menu, it can be accessed by a trivial two line command. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

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Conflicting build-ids in nekovm and haxe
by Andy Li 07 May '23

07 May '23

Hi list, Re. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896901 Since haxe-4.1.3-4 and nekovm-2.3.0-4, both nekovm and haxe packages contains "/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/aed4ddf2d45372bcc79d5e95d2834f5045c09c". The nekovm one is a symlink to "/usr/bin/neko". The haxe one to "/usr/bin/haxelib". Both the neko and haxelib binaries are built with libneko, with a nearly identical main.c with the only difference of the present of neko bytecode embedded as a byte array (neko: the byte array is null; haxelib: the byte array is the haxelib neko bytecode). I'm not sure how to resolve it. Please advice. Best regards, Andy

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HEADS UP: tesseract-5.3.0 landing in rawhide with soname bump
by Sandro Mani 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Hi I'll be landing tesseract 5.3.0 in rawhide, building it in the f38-build-side-61405 side tag, along with the following dependent packages: ffmpeg gimagereader mupdf opencv python-PyMuPDF qpdfview R-tesseract zathura-pdf-mupdf Thanks Sandro

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