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[Bug 514046] New: Oracle-xe page for Spacewalk doesn't work
by Red Hat Bugzilla 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Oracle-xe page for Spacewalk doesn't work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514046 Summary: Oracle-xe page for Spacewalk doesn't work Product: Fedora Hosted Projects Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: Deployment_Guide AssignedTo: mhideo(a)redhat.com ReportedBy: mschwage(a)gmail.com QAContact: rlerch(a)redhat.com CC: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com Classification: Fedora Description of problem: Sorry about the classification of this. I didn't see Spacewalk anywhere in Bugzilla! Anyway, on the webpage https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup#Install, the install instructions don't work as advertised. There, it says "Configure the Oracle XE database by running # /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure" This did not set the system/sys name correctly. Yes, I know, the oracle-xe command comes from Oracle themselves, but on my RHEL53 machine it just refused to set the password correctly. Did I try to do it 10 times or more? Yes I did, and it did not work at all. Did I fat finger my password every single lousy time I tried it? No I did not, for I was able to create my password as easy as you please using my workaround below. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0 oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1 oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.4-1 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do this on RHEL53 x86_64. Install the Oracle-XE software as listed. 2. Follow the instructions on https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup#Install, up to and including the "Test Your Connection with SQLPlus" part. 3. You fail to login. Actual results: Fail to login. Expected results: Successful login. Additional info: The workaround is to perform the following after running /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure : su - oracle . /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64/bin/sqlplus /NOLOG CONNECT / AS SYSDBA alter user sys identified by password; alter user system identified by password; sqlplus64 'sys@xe as sysdba' -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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[Bug 533737] New: Recommend changing the Feedback statement to include the component name.
by Red Hat Bugzilla 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Recommend changing the Feedback statement to include the component name. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533737 Summary: Recommend changing the Feedback statement to include the component name. Product: Fedora Version: 12 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: low Component: publican-fedora AssignedTo: jfearn(a)redhat.com ReportedBy: eric(a)christensenplace.us QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org CC: jfearn(a)redhat.com, fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com, nb(a)fedoraproject.org, mmcallis(a)redhat.com, r.landmann(a)redhat.com Classification: Fedora Eric Christensen <eric(a)christensenplace.us> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag| |review? Created an attachment (id=368073) --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=368073) Proposed patch for Feedback.xml Description of problem: Instead of telling people "When submitting a bug report, be sure to mention the manual's identifier: &BOOKID". It might be better to point them toward the specific component in BZ which just happens to be the same as the &BOOKID (or it should). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0-0.fc12 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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RPM Guide and RPM Max
by John J. McDonough 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

At FUDcon, Florian Festi approached me about Docs updating the RPM Guide and the book, Maximum RPM, both of which have gotten a little stale. The RPM Guide was already on our radar, and Ben Cotton has taken point on getting that ready to be worked on. Maximum RPM is currently hosted at rpm.org, and does not appear to have been built with the old doc tools. There seem to be some specific dependencies on Fedora 8, so there will be a little work converting it to something more up to date. The other issue, though, is licensing. This probably won't be difficult to deal with but it is something that needs to be addressed. The current copyright holder is Red Hat. We will probably discuss this at an upcoming Docs Team meeting, but I did want to give everyone a heads-up that this is going on. We may also want to carry on some discussion on an rpm.org mailing list so that community is also aware of the effort. At this point not much has actually happened. Ben has moved the RPM Guide to git, but I don't think anything else has happened there, I have looked at the Maximum RPM sources and verified Florian's assessment that this isn't a straightforward build, and quaid is aware of the licensing issues. The RPM Guide is at: git.fedoraproject.org/rpmguide.git Maximum RPM is at rpm.org/git/max-rpm.git --McD

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[Bug 505938] New: Need to package MediaAttach.
by Red Hat Bugzilla 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Need to package MediaAttach. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505938 Summary: Need to package MediaAttach. Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: docs-requests AssignedTo: eric(a)christensenplace.us ReportedBy: eric(a)christensenplace.us QAContact: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com CC: stickster(a)gmail.com Blocks: 504066 Classification: Fedora Description of problem: Need to package MediaAttach. SVN Head: http://code.zikula.org/mediaattach/browser/trunk/MediaAttach -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.

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[Bug 503780] New: Fedora 12 Release BLOCKER
by Red Hat Bugzilla 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Fedora 12 Release BLOCKER https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503780 Summary: Fedora 12 Release BLOCKER Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: low Component: project-tracking AssignedTo: eric(a)christensenplace.us ReportedBy: eric(a)christensenplace.us QAContact: kwade(a)redhat.com CC: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com Classification: Fedora Use this bug to show that a particular bug is blocking your guide/document from being released in time for Fedora 12. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ needs minor css fix.
by susmit shannigrahi 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, I was having a look at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ after Rahul's mail this morning. I found that the blue box in the content is overlapping the right side black border of the page. I tested both in Firefox and google chrome. Screeshot here: http://susmit.fedorapeople.org/Screenshot1.png Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Publican SRPMs in Fedora
by Eric Christensen 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Just wanted to point out that the current Publican build, 1.x, is creating SRPMs and spec files that are inline with the Fedora's packaging policy (using the --short_sighted mode). I submitted[1] a package for the Fedora Accessibility Guide for review and it passed without batting an eye. This should be helpful for other guides as well. I'm still pondering the best way to handle the different languages, though. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533765 --Eric

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Re: why make it so hard to download Fedora documentation?
by Eric Christensen 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:42, Brian R. Murphy <brianrmurphy(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Eric Christensen < > eric(a)christensenplace.us> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 00:54, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org >> > wrote: >> >>> On 11/29/2009 07:55 PM, Brian R. Murphy wrote: >>> > Sorry to bother you personally, but you seem to be responsible for the >>> > FAQ, and there is no "feedback" link for the Fedora documentation page. >>> > I don't really think this question should be in the FAQ; I think it >>> > should just be fixed. But if not, perhaps you can add this question >>> > (along with some answer) to the FAQ: >>> > >>> > * Why do you make it so hard to download Fedora documentation? >>> > >>> > I would like to download the Fedora 12 documentation for off-line >>> > reference while I'm upgrading. >>> > >>> > Unfortunately, the documentation page >>> > at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ has a "clever" UI with select menus >>> > that trigger navigations themselves (rather than a separate go/download >>> > button), making it very arduous to "save as" the result. There also >>> > doesn't seem to be any way to just grab the latest bunch (or even a >>> > single one). There's not even a way to "save as" the PDF links, and >>> > some quirky browsers (like the one I have at work) don't handle PDF >>> > files too well directly. While it wouldn't be as pretty, a simple file >>> > listing would be far more useful. If you're going to pretty it up, >>> > please don't screw up basic usability. >>> >>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ - Select PDF which is the third option >>> and Language. >>> >>> Rahul >>> >>> >> What format are you looking at saving the files? We provide html, >> html-single, and PDF. If you want to save the html-single it's simple >> enough to select the appropriate file and language and then save-as once the >> page loads. PDFs generally download on demand. >> >> --Eric >> >> > I just want to quickly get something I can read off-line. If you had a > simple index page, I could just right click on each link I want (PDF or > one-page HTML), "save link as", and have them load in the background. If we > were lucky there might be a tar/tgz/zip or something similar and I can just > download one file and unpackage it myself at my leisure on the train. (See > http://tldp.org/docs.html for some ideas.) > > With your page design, with my high latency connection, I have to select > the appropriate file, busy wait for it to load, save-as, then go back and do > it again. I can't even choose to open each "in new tab" since your page > design precludes that. > > -Brian > > Our future rollout of Zikula should remedy this, I hope. There were more problems with the previous version of docs.fp.o, though, that had to be fixed. With so many languages available for some guides it was almost impossible to list everything appropriately. The link you provided doesn't take into consideration what language the person would like to read the guide in. We have eighty-nine possible language translations which would quickly make a page very crazy to load on a high-latency network connection. What would you expect to find in a tar file? A PDF? HTML? Raw XML? Everything? If you are after the html-single, yes you have to wait for it to load before saving but it doesn't take any more time than just downloading it in the first place. PDFs should download when you click them. --Eric

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Re: why make it so hard to download Fedora documentation?
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

On 11/29/2009 07:55 PM, Brian R. Murphy wrote: > Sorry to bother you personally, but you seem to be responsible for the > FAQ, and there is no "feedback" link for the Fedora documentation page. > I don't really think this question should be in the FAQ; I think it > should just be fixed. But if not, perhaps you can add this question > (along with some answer) to the FAQ: > > * Why do you make it so hard to download Fedora documentation? > > I would like to download the Fedora 12 documentation for off-line > reference while I'm upgrading. > > Unfortunately, the documentation page > at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ has a "clever" UI with select menus > that trigger navigations themselves (rather than a separate go/download > button), making it very arduous to "save as" the result. There also > doesn't seem to be any way to just grab the latest bunch (or even a > single one). There's not even a way to "save as" the PDF links, and > some quirky browsers (like the one I have at work) don't handle PDF > files too well directly. While it wouldn't be as pretty, a simple file > listing would be far more useful. If you're going to pretty it up, > please don't screw up basic usability. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ - Select PDF which is the third option and Language. Rahul

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Re: why make it so hard to download Fedora documentation?
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

----- "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 11/29/2009 07:55 PM, Brian R. Murphy wrote: > > Sorry to bother you personally, but you seem to be responsible for > the > > FAQ, and there is no "feedback" link for the Fedora documentation > page. > > I don't really think this question should be in the FAQ; I think > it > > should just be fixed. But if not, perhaps you can add this > question > > (along with some answer) to the FAQ: > > > > * Why do you make it so hard to download Fedora documentation? > > > > I would like to download the Fedora 12 documentation for off-line > > reference while I'm upgrading. > > > > Unfortunately, the documentation page > > at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ has a "clever" UI with select > menus > > that trigger navigations themselves (rather than a separate > go/download > > button), making it very arduous to "save as" the result. There > also > > doesn't seem to be any way to just grab the latest bunch (or even a > > single one). There's not even a way to "save as" the PDF links, > and > > some quirky browsers (like the one I have at work) don't handle PDF > > files too well directly. While it wouldn't be as pretty, a simple > file > > listing would be far more useful. If you're going to pretty it up, > > please don't screw up basic usability. > I agree with Brian, a simple list like what was available in the past as an option would be helpful. It seems that some older lesser maintained docs that were useful are now missing from the listings also. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/en/ is an example. -- Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Robert 'Bob' Jensen || Fedora Unity Founder | | bob(a)fedoraunity.org || http://fedoraunity.org/ | | http://bjensen.fedorapeople.org/ | | http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/bobjensen | | http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Bob-Jensen/1332998420 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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