http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week42
---- = Weekly EPEL Summary =
Week 42/2007
== Most important happenings ==
* regarding the yum-cron issue: CentOS yum-cron maintainer answered EPELs yum-cron maintainer -- iow: there is progress (but still slow)
== Meeting ==
Next meeting: 20071024
No meeting in the past week.
== Stats ==
=== General ===
Number of EPEL Contributors: 137
=== EPEL 5 ===
Number of source packages: 699
Number of binary packages: 1345
There are 8 new Packages:
* bzrtools | A collection of utilities and plugins for Bazaar-NG * icewm | Light and configurable window manager * kcbench-data | Kernel sources to be used by kcbench * kcbench | Kernel compile benchmark * python-meld3 | An HTML/XML templating system for Python * spamass-milter | Sendmail milter for spamassassin * supervisor | A System for Allowing the Control of Process State on UNIX * wxMaxima | Graphical user interface for Maxima
=== EPEL 4 ===
Number of source packages: 435
Number of binary packages: 884
There are 4 new Packages:
* fuse | File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities * mod_extract_forwarded | Extract real source IP for forwarded HTTP requests * ntfs-3g | Linux NTFS userspace driver * spamass-milter | Sendmail milter for spamassassin
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On 21.10.2007 19:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week42 === EPEL 4 ===
There are 4 new Packages:
- fuse | File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities
- ntfs-3g | Linux NTFS userspace driver
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
CU knurd
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 21.10.2007 19:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week42 === EPEL 4 ===
There are 4 new Packages:
- fuse | File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities
- ntfs-3g | Linux NTFS userspace driver
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
Correct, no fuse kernel modules in either RHEL4 or 5. Its possible to build fuse out-of-tree for RHEL5, dunno about RHEL4...
2007/10/21, Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com:
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
Correct, no fuse kernel modules in either RHEL4 or 5. Its possible to build fuse out-of-tree for RHEL5, dunno about RHEL4...
Anyone, please don't forget that EPEL is not only for RHEL but for CentOS also and CentOS kernels are built with fuse enabled.
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2007/10/21, Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com:
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
Correct, no fuse kernel modules in either RHEL4 or 5. Its possible to build fuse out-of-tree for RHEL5, dunno about RHEL4...
Anyone, please don't forget that EPEL is not only for RHEL but for CentOS also and CentOS kernels are built with fuse enabled.
Rebuilds are supported only to the extend that they remain compatible is that way I understand it. It seems unlikely that CentOS kernel would enable FUSE since it would break ABI compatibility. Maybe they are offering a alternative version in another repository. Can someone from CentOS confirm either way?
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2007/10/21, Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com:
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
Correct, no fuse kernel modules in either RHEL4 or 5. Its possible to build fuse out-of-tree for RHEL5, dunno about RHEL4...
Anyone, please don't forget that EPEL is not only for RHEL but for CentOS also and CentOS kernels are built with fuse enabled.
Rebuilds are supported only to the extend that they remain compatible is that way I understand it. It seems unlikely that CentOS kernel would enable FUSE since it would break ABI compatibility. Maybe they are offering a alternative version in another repository. Can someone from CentOS confirm either way?
I just checked my CentOS-5 config file ... the standard CentOS-5 kernel has:
# CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
The CentOSPlus kernel does have fuse turned on:
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=m
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
2007/10/21, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org:
It seems unlikely that CentOS kernel would enable FUSE since it would break ABI compatibility.
Enabling fuse module doesn't breaks anything of course and guys from CentOS does enable it on CentOSplus kernels.
BTW I don't understand why fuse disabled in stock RHEL-kernels.
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2007/10/21, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org:
It seems unlikely that CentOS kernel would enable FUSE since it would break ABI compatibility.
Enabling fuse module doesn't breaks anything of course and guys from CentOS does enable it on CentOSplus kernels.
That isn't really supported now by EPEL afaik.
BTW I don't understand why fuse disabled in stock RHEL-kernels.
Supportability.
Rahul
On 10/21/07, Peter Lemenkov lemenkov@gmail.com wrote:
BTW I don't understand why fuse disabled in stock RHEL-kernels.
Red Hat's line is that they can't support the file systems that would be mounted as fuse mounts. Isn't that plainly obvious if they aren't packaging the fuse modules for those packages? This thread reminds me I need to open another case on this so they can tell me no again. :-(
On 21.10.2007 21:54, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
2007/10/21, Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com:
Hmmm -- I don't have a RHEL4 at hand, but I have serious doubts it contains a fuse support in its kernel (iirc not even RHEL5 contains fuse). Please correct me if I'm wrong. If not I'd say we remove those packages from EPEL4.
Correct, no fuse kernel modules in either RHEL4 or 5. Its possible to build fuse out-of-tree for RHEL5, dunno about RHEL4...
Anyone, please don't forget that EPEL is not only for RHEL but for CentOS also and CentOS kernels are built with fuse enabled.
Sure, but having stuff in the repo that is know to not work doesn't make sense. That's like putting something in Fedora that depends on a package from Livna.
CU knurd
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