F35 Change: Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0
(Self-Contained Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SDL12onSDL2
== Summary ==
This Change proposes to replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Ngompa| Neal Gompa]]
* Email: ngompa13(a)gmail.com
== Detailed Description ==
SDL 1.2 development ended long ago, with SDL 2.0 replacing it.
However, many older games still use SDL 1.2 and cannot change to SDL
2.0. In order to help move SDL 1.2 games into the modern world, let's
replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0.
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Switching SDL 1.2 powered games to use <code>sdl12-compat</code>
offers significant advantages:
* Automatic support for Wayland with SDL 2.0.16+
* Native support for PipeWire for audio
* Massively improved support for inputs (including gamepads)
Ultimately, SDL 2.0 is actively maintained and developed. We want
applications that use SDL to use an actively maintained codebase.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Package [https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat
libsdl12-compat] ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960960
RH#1960960])
** Adjust {{package|SDL}} to not ship the main library package and use
the one from <code>libsdl12-compat</code>
** Once [https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl12-compat/issues/34
replacement development headers are available], retire {{package|SDL}}
completely.
* Other developers: N/A
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10118 #10118]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with Objectives: N/A
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
The <code>SDL</code> package would be transparently upgraded to
<code>libsdl12-compat</code> package and games using it should just
transparently start using SDL 2.0.
== How To Test ==
1. Swap <code>SDL</code> for <code>sdl12-compat</code>: <code>dnf swap
SDL sdl12-compat</code>
2. Run something that uses SDL 1.2 like {{package|quake3}} and see
that it works.
== User Experience ==
There shouldn't be a noticeable user impact, other than possibly a
smoother experience because applications are using SDL 2.0.
== Dependencies ==
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Restore the <code>SDL</code> package in
{{package|SDL}}. If {{package|SDL}} has been fully retired, then
unretire it.
* Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
* Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Release Notes ==
Games that use SDL 1.2 will now transparently use SDL 2.0 through the
<code>sdl12-compat</code> package. This makes it so applications that
historically used SDL 1.2 now use SDL 2.0.
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
3 years
IRC Announcement
by Nick Bebout
Since its beginnings, the Fedora Project has used the freenode IRC network
for our project communications. Due to a variety of recent changes to that
network, the Fedora Project is moving our IRC communications to Libera.Chat.
If you are a current IRC user, please go and register your nick(s) on
Libera.Chat ( https://libera.chat/guides/registration#registering ) and
rejoin the #fedora related channels you wish to. You can take this
opportunity to choose a new secure password and make sure you are
connecting via SSL. There is good documentation about choosing an IRC
client at https://libera.chat/guides/clients
If you are a Matrix user, we ask for your patience as we get bridges setup
on the new network. If you were joined to rooms via the generic freenode
bridge, you will need to leave them and rejoin the fedora rooms in matrix
(which will be plumbed with the Libera channels)
As of 2021-05-28 our official IRC presence is on irc.libera.chat.
Many Fedora channels have moved over and are ready on Libera.Chat. However,
less-used channels have not be automatically setup. If you need a specific
#fedora-* IRC channel setup, please file a ticket at http://pagure.io/irc
requesting the channel.
New channels should have the same name as they did on freenode. For
example: #fedora, #fedora-admin, #fedora-devel, and #fedora-join.
If you would like a fedora IRC ‘cloak’ you can request it at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiberaCloaks
(an IRC cloak obfuscates your client host address and shows ‘fedora’
instead). Please note that cloaks are not foolproof, there are ways for
people to still get your IP, but they do make it more difficult for people
to obtain your IP.
Also, look for upcoming exciting announcements around Fedora’s Matrix
presence.
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3 years
Building for EPEL-8 and CMake (again)
by Ron Olson
Hey all-
Awhile back I asked about the status of CMake in CentOS so I could build my packages for EPEL-8; they require a version of CMake that is greater than 3.11.4 which is currently available. CentOS Stream has a later version, as does RHEL 8.4. I get that CentOS Stream is the future of CentOS, but when I run a koji build for EPEL 8 it uses CentOS 8, not CentOS Stream and thus all my builds fail.
TL;DR: How can I build anything for EPEL 8 with CMake if the package is too old?
Thanks!
Ron
3 years
F35 Change: Support using a GPT partition table in Kickstart
(System-Wide Change proposal)
by Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InstallGPTwithKickstart
== Summary ==
Add support for configuring GPT partition table in kickstart without
requiring a custom pre-installation script or a custom boot script.
[[Category:SystemWideChange]]
== Owners ==
* Name: [[User:Davdunc|David Duncan]], [[User:Chrismurphy|Chris
Murphy]], [[User:Salimma|Michel Alexandre Salim]],
[[User:Dcavalca|Davide Cavalca]], [[User:Ngompa|Neal Gompa]],
[[User:Dustymabe|Dusty Mabe]]
* Email: davdunc(a)amazon.com, chrismurphy(a)fedoraproject.org,
michel(a)michel-slm.name, dcavalca(a)fb.com, ngompa13(a)gmail.com,
dusty(a)dustymabe.com
* Products: Fedora Cloud Edition
* Responsible WGs: Fedora Cloud WG
== Detailed Description ==
Fedora Cloud Edition wants to use a GPT partition table; however, it
is not possible
to force the creation of an image with the GPT partition table with
our current tooling
because Anaconda requires setting <code>inst.gpt</code> as a kernel
boot parameter
to do it. This Change proposes to add a way to declare this via kickstart so
that the Cloud Edition image builds can create images using the GPT
partition table
using the current tooling (which is built on Anaconda).
== Benefit to Fedora ==
Users will be able to install systems with a GPT partition table via
kickstart without
requiring an extensive custom pre-installation script or a custom boot
script. Disk images
produced using the Anaconda tooling (Oz/ImageFactory, Lorax) can also
trivially make
images with GPT partition tables. This makes it possible to create
hybrid BIOS+UEFI boot
images, given [[Changes/UnifyGrubConfig|the changes to GRUB
configuration from Fedora Linux 34]].
== Scope ==
* Proposal Owners
** Review and discuss with the Anaconda maintainers and determine the
next steps for support of the inst.gpt in pykickstart
** Work with Anaconda maintainers to implement in Anaconda
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10137 #10137]
* Policies and guidelines: N/A
* Trademark approval: N/A
== How to test ==
Build images using virt-install with kickstarts that have the option
set. Verify that the disk partition table is properly configured as
GPT. Verify that without the option set, it uses legacy MBR.
== User Experience ==
* Allows for the use of the standard pykickstart directive for
specifying the preference for GPT partition.
== Dependencies ==
* Anaconda [https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot-options.html#ins...
inst.gpt]
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
3 years
texlive 2021 landing in Rawhide
by Tom Callaway
Hi Fedorans,
Just a heads-up, texlive-base (where the compiled code and immediate
dependencies lives) and texlive (where the thousands of other noarch
components live) have been updated to TeXLive 2021 in Rawhide (and the
latest available components from CTAN at the time I did the work).
I've done local testing and everything seems to still work, but inevitably,
the act of updating TeXLive breaks things, so if your packages have TeX
dependencies and stop building in rawhide, let me know.
Also, FWIW, I have no plans to bring this back to any stable branches.
TL2020 is doing well enough there for now.
Thanks in advance for your patience,
~spot
P.S. Please don't start the "WHY THE #$%& does texlive make so many
subpackages" thread unless you're sending me money, fine alcohol, or
patches.
3 years
Intent to retire - findbugs / findbugs-bcel / findbugs-contrib / eclipse-findbugs
by Richard Fearn
Hi everyone,
I'm writing to say that I intend to retire the following packages:
* findbugs
* findbugs-bcel
* findbugs-contrib
* eclipse-findbugs
The rationale behind this is:
* The last FindBugs release was in March 2015 [1].
* Upstream has been dead since 2016 [2].
* The project was forked in 2017 [3] as SpotBugs [4].
* FindBugs depends on an old snapshot of Apache Commons BCEL (packaged as
findbugs-bcel). I don't think it's possible (or worthwhile) to get FindBugs
to build against upstream BCEL.
* It no longer builds against the latest rawhide versions of ASM and
Hamcrest.
* Trying to maintain FindBugs and keep it building/working against the
latest versions of Java libraries isn't really a good use of anyone's time
(and there is no upstream to contribute patches back to).
* findbugs-contrib (known upstream as fb-contrib [5]) is a FindBugs plugin
that provides additional detectors, and is of no use without FindBugs
itself.
* Likewise, eclipse-findbugs makes FindBugs available in the Eclipse IDE,
and is of no use without FindBugs being available.
As far as I can tell, nothing else depends on this set of packages:
$ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs
Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:19 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST.
ant-findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch
eclipse-findbugs-0:3.0.1-23.fc34.noarch
eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-tools-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch
$ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs-bcel
Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:24 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST.
ant-findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch
eclipse-findbugs-0:3.0.1-23.fc34.noarch
eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch
findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-tools-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch
$ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs-contrib
Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:31 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST.
eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
$ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires eclipse-findbugs
Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:39 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST.
eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch
It's been interesting keeping FindBugs alive since I picked it up in 2010
(11 years ago... where has the time gone?!), but the world has moved on (to
SpotBugs), and I think it's time to let it go.
Regards,
Rich
[1] http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
[2]
https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/00432...
[3]
https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2017-September/0043...
[4] https://spotbugs.github.io/
[5] https://github.com/mebigfatguy/fb-contrib
--
Richard Fearn
richardfearn(a)gmail.com
3 years
Friday , May 28 unattended update broke amdgpu DKMS building
by eedio
I was on unattended updates and Friday afternoon the Radeon RS780 machine rebooted into minimal resolution mode and can no longer go to full HD resolution.
I put the disk into an old laptop with intel GPU where the DKMS modules amdgpu cannot build properly, thus Radeon machines are screwed.
"/etc/udev/rules.d/70-amdgpu.rules:1 Invalid operator for GROUP."
was what the protocoll had to say.
3 years
New Fedora Packages Ready For Testing
by Brendan Early
Hi all,
Fedora Packages Static is intended to replace the old Fedora Packages
app and is now available for testing at
https://packages.stg.fedoraproject.org. Any feedback would be
appreciated here or on Pagure at https://pagure.io/fedora-packages-static.
The app is designed to function with the minimum amount of dynamic
server components needed. Pages are statically generated using a Python
script; the only dynamically generated page is the search result page.
Data is updated hourly. Search is handled externally by an instance of
Apache Solr. Clients do not need JS to use the app.
Thanks to Timothée Floure for the original version of Fedora Packages
Static and Kevin Fenzi for helping deploy the app on OpenShift.
Brendan Early
3 years
Where is system-config-users?
by Robert-André Mauchin
Hello,
System-config-users
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/system-config-users has been retired
due to FTBFS and lack of mainteance. I would like to revive it but I
can't find the source code anywhere. It was previously hosted on
fedorahosted but has not been moved to Pagure.
Anyone knows if there is still an official repo for it?
Best regards,
Robert-André
3 years
