[rawhide] ideas to improve rawhide

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at verizon.net
Wed Jan 23 17:08:21 UTC 2013


On 01/23/2013 11:55 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> As some of you may know, I switched my laptop over to rawhide and have
> been posting a series of blogs about the various issues I have run into
> in the last month.
>
> To recap from those:
>
> - xfce4-session crash:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891113
>    (work around clearing session cache, it's not shown up again)
>
> - libselinux blow up. This could have caused folks to not be able to
>    boot until upgraded/downgraded. Broken package only in for one day.
>
> - libcdio abi bump with a few broken packages. Fixed in one day.
>
> - xulrunner/firefox broken dep for a day.
>
> - colord multilib issue. Fixed in one day.
>
> - iwlwifi slow. Not a stopper, just anoying. (bug 863424)
>
> - gtk3 update makes nm-applet unhappy (bug
>    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691911 )
>
> - libnl3 abi break. fixed in 2 days.
>
> - mdadm needs newer dracut. Just needs a rawhide build, should be fixed
>    tomorrow.
>
> So, I've been collecting ideas on how to improve things in rawhide and
> have made a wiki page for these ideas.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rawhide_improvement_project_2013
>
> I know some folks at fudcon were talking about rawhide improvements too,
> so hopefully we will see those proposed before too long as well.
>
> I've tried to suggest things that won't disrupt maintainers much while
> making things nicer for consumers. Some of these things I have already
> discussed with folks involved and we are going to try and do them,
> others are needing more fleshing out/discussion.
>
> I'm very open to more ideas or thoughts, or comments/people willing to
> work on items from the above wiki page.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> kevin
>
>
>

Would issues with specific 3.8 kernel drivers affecting rawhide be a 
candidate?

TIA

-- 
Regards,
OldFart


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