Self Introduction: Andrew Boyce-Lewis
by Andrew Boyce-Lewis
Name: Andrew Boyce-Lewis
Location: State College, Pennsylvania
Profession: Student... for now.
System and Network Admin
Companies: Penn State University Physics Department
Conduit-it(.com)
Goals: To help out, promote and improve Fedora obviously :-).
Specifically, I am interested in the amd_64 port of fedora as well as HA
packages such as LVS. Other interests include spamassassin, bind and
php.
Qualifications: Linux user and fanatic since 1997, Admin since 1999. I
got my start in linux with slackware but switched to redhat when I
actually had to support linux. I am responsible for a number of redhat
installations (server and workstation) and have experience with linux on
a number of architectures. Experience with design construction of linux
based beowulf clusters (well, only one really, but it was pretty big).
Currently working with HA technology as it applies to web and database
service. I suppose that you have no real reason to trust me, other than
the fact that I am willing to start from the bottom and work hard.
GPG fingerprint:
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-Andrew
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Andrew E. Boyce-Lewis, SCSA 8
Systems and Network Operations
Department of Physics
7A Osmond Lab
University Park, Pa 16802
Office: (814) 865-3024
Cell: (814) 360-6868
http://root.phys.psu.edu
20 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists
by Nils O. Selåsdal
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:57, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:41, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote:
> > I think Postfix is pretty much the best alternative since it even has a
> > sendmail command (called the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility
> > interface) so programs that sends mail using sendmail will still work.
> > I'm not aware of any other MTA that can replace sendmail in this way,
> > though I could be wrong...
>
> Most MTAs have some degree of sendmail command line compatibility simply
> because its the historic unix way of mail injection - however since its
> also evolved and never been documented its also interesting to implement
> :-(
>
> Exim can be used as a drop in replacement for sendmail (including
> handling aliases & .forwards, but the config is significantly
> different).
>
> I'd look favourably on the idea of having the default default (as in
> absolutely no questions asked on install) MTA be something that does no
> local delivery at all, but is intended to punt everything to your
> company or ISP smarthost
"Exim is not designed for storing mail for dial-in hosts. When the
volumes of such mail are large, it is better to get the messages
Ždelivered¡ into files (that is, off Exim's queue) and subsequently
passed on to the dial-in hosts by other means."
This makes exim a rather poor choice for a default MTA for me ;)
imho sendmail is nice as the default MTA, making it forward to your
ISP is rather easy..
--
Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s
w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
20 years, 4 months
MySQL client relicense (was RE: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)
by Murray.Cumming＠Comneon.com
Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > MySQL 4.x instead of MySQL 3.x
> > >
> > > Then you can't use MySQL with PHP
> >
> > Is there an instructive URL regarding this issue?
>
> The license document. MySQL4 changed the client libraries
> from LGPL to GPL which makes using mysql with a lot of stuff
> like PHP infeasible
I am looking in the MySQL 4 tarball. Exactly what license document do you
mean? COPYING.LIB is still the LGPL.
Has anyone actually asked MySQL to clarify this, or did they make any
announcement of it?
Their web site says that their (awful) C++ wrapper of the client library is
still LGPL:
http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql++/index.html
Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc(a)usa.net
20 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20031210 changes
by Build System
New package system-config-httpd
Apache configuration tool
Updated Packages:
Canna-3.6-25
------------
* Wed Dec 10 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 3.6-25
- updated to cannadic-0.95a
anaconda-9.3-0.20031209094232
-----------------------------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Anaconda team <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>
- built new version from CVS
* Thu Nov 06 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- require booty (#109272)
* Tue Oct 08 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- back to mainstream rpm instead of rpm404
* Mon Sep 09 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- can't buildrequire dietlibc and kernel-pcmcia-cs since they don't always
exist
* Wed Aug 21 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- added URL
* Thu May 23 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- add require and buildrequire on rhpl
* Tue Apr 02 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf(a)redhat.com>
- added some more docs
* Fri Feb 22 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- buildrequire kernel-pcmcia-cs as we've sucked the libs the loader needs
to there now
* Thu Feb 07 2002 Michael Fulbright <msf(a)redhat.com>
- goodbye reconfig
* Thu Jan 31 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- update the BuildRequires a bit
* Fri Jan 04 2002 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- ddcprobe is now done from kudzu
* Wed Jul 18 2001 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- own /usr/lib/anaconda and /usr/share/anaconda
* Fri Jan 12 2001 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- sync text with specspo
* Thu Aug 10 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- build on alpha again now that I've fixed the stubs
* Wed Aug 09 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- new build
* Fri Aug 04 2000 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.com>
- allow also subvendorid and subdeviceid in trimpcitable
* Fri Jul 14 2000 Matt Wilson <msw(a)redhat.com>
- moved init script for reconfig mode to /etc/init.d/reconfig
- move the initscript back to /etc/rc.d/init.d
- Prereq: /etc/init.d
* Thu Feb 03 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- strip files
- add lang-table to file list
* Wed Jan 05 2000 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- added requirement for rpm-python
* Mon Dec 06 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- rename to 'anaconda' instead of 'anaconda-reconfig'
* Fri Dec 03 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- remove ddcprobe since we don't do X configuration in reconfig now
* Tue Nov 30 1999 Michael Fulbright <drmike(a)redhat.com>
- first try at packaging reconfiguration tool
at-3.1.8-49
-----------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 3.1.8-49
- replace at-3.1.8-SHELL-91233.patch by at-3.1.8-SHELL-111386.patch which
now executes $SHELL directly in the at shell script after all the variables
have been setup with /bin/sh (#91233) [suggested by Göran Uddeborg]
- this changelog is now in utf-8
coreutils-5.0-35
----------------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 5.0-35
- Fix copying to non xattr files
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.41
--------------------------
kernel-2.6.0-0.test11.1.12
--------------------------
kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.107.fedora
-------------------------------
* Wed Dec 10 2003 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- make irqbalance a PIE executable
* Sun Nov 09 2003 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com>
- add cpuspeed
lam-7.0.3-5
-----------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 7.0.3-5
- Rebuild
* Fri Dec 05 2003 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 7.0.3-4
- Enable Trillium support.
mtools-3.9.9-6
--------------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.9.9-6
- Remove last (incorrect) change.
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.9.9-5
- Fix mistaken variable assignment in comparison (bug #110823).
* Thu Nov 27 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Build requires texinfo (bug #111000).
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031210
----------------------------
spamassassin-2.61-1
-------------------
* Tue Dec 09 2003 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 2.61-1
- upgrade to 2.61
ttfonts-ja-1.2-31
-----------------
* Wed Dec 10 2003 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> 1.2-31
- fixed %post and %postun to check real writable for nfs mount.
ttfonts-zh_CN-2.14-0
--------------------
* Wed Dec 10 2003 Yu Shao <yshao(a)redhat.com> 2.14
- scriptlet update to ignore read-only directories silently
20 years, 4 months
Why is the fedora.us (Fedora Extras) repository growing so slowly??
by Jaap A. Haitsma
Hi,
First of all I want to mention that I'm very grateful for what the
people in Fedora Extras are doing.
I noticed that the number of packages in Fedora Extras (I'll use this
name to refer to the repository at fedora.us for the rest of this mail)
is growing rather slowly on average 2 package announcements a day for
november (which are both updates and new packages).
Also I noticed that the QA queue is really full. 295 packages are
waiting for QA. And Warren Togami seems to be the owner of about 80
percent of these. This guy must be making 40 hour days.
So I think he needs some help if we want to make fedora extras live up
to what's in the FAQ (Second bullet)
[Quote]
How does Fedora differ from FreshRPMS or other repositories?
* Fedora apt/yum enforces GPG signature checking for your protection.
* All other repositories are made by a single person. Fedora can
have a lot more packages, and of higher quality, because we have have
many package developers working together on a common goal.
[/Quote]
What I understand is that QA has to be approved by two developers and
one of a trusted fedora.us developer which check the spec files and stuff.
If there aren't too many developers this can take quite a while I guess.
I for one (as a non packager) wouldn't mind testing binary packages
which are in the testing or unstable queues and I'm interested in.
My proposal would be, to have packagers post a message that a RPM is in
the testing or unstable queue and needs testing. Normal users can then
just test if they work well and send a message back on the fedora-test
list if it works or doesn't. I saw that in Bugzilla that QA/packager
people are doing all this.
In my opinion this would save a lot of time for the real QA people,
because most of the bugs will be gone.
I think this is more or less how the testing of Fedora Core worked.
Any thoughts??
Jaap
20 years, 4 months
Exim packages
by Nigel Metheringham
Hi,
I have for some time maintained a set of rpms for the exim MTA package
(see http://www.exim.org/ ). The rpms are stashed on
ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/ and have been relatively widely
used or forked. A variant of those rpms were used for the exim package
on the old Red Hat powerpack (is that the right name) CDs.
I'd like to move these rpms to a distribution set that allows them to
easily maintained (from the point of view of the end user), hence
looking at pushing these into the fedora project.
Currently the release part of the rpm tags would not fit the fedora
naming conventions. At present I intend to keep the current set until
the package version number changes and then shift the release tag so as
not to get version confusion between existing packages and fedora
repository ones.
The exim rpm spec file builds on everything from RH6 through FC1
including the RHEL 2.1 & 3 versions - these are autodetected at build
time. A tag is added to the release part to specify what OS base we are
building to. Since exim has a number of build option - choice of
database interfaces, perl integration etc - a good number of sub
packages are built, the intention being you install exim, exim-mon
(optional), exim-doc (optional) and one of the exim-* packages with the
particular functionality you require (exim-base for most people).
Comments, flames, recommendations on integration would be welcome - well
not so much the flames unless they are constructive ones :-)
Nigel.
--
[ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ]
[ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
20 years, 4 months
Re: Exim packages
by Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:33, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Thanks Nigel! Just one question: did you incorporate alternatives? If not, I
> can send you a patch. I think it is necessary for an MTA to use alternatives
> in order to be accepted in Fedora.
Yes alternatives is supported in everything from RH6 onwards. Just
taken some patches (not in the packages on exim.org yet) to fix a couple
of buglets in alternatives.
Nigel.
--
[ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ]
[ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
20 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists
by Nils O. Selåsdal
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:23, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:57, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop(a)alert.infoplease.com) said:
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:43, Robert Marcano wrote:
> > >
> > > > > However, that won't be the ONLY feature of Fedora Core 2. I'd like to
> > > > > hear people's wishlists...
> > > >
> > > > Make default applications configurable, for example instead of Mozilla
> > > > Web Browser, call it Web Browser and allows the user to change it
> > > > without messing around with the .desktop files
> > >
> > > We have a system mechanism for this in the alternatives system. Any
> > > chance of extending that to provide a uniform user-level way of
> > > specifying alternatives?
> >
> > I'd prefer not; the alternatives hack is something that should be
> > severely limited in where it's used.
>
> Are there alternatives to alternatives?
Could be done on the package(rpm) level.
Making some packages contain the same file(s), and Conflicts: and a few
more tricks. That will only allow one of several alternatives to be
installed at the time though.
--
Vennlig hilsen/Best Regards
Nils Olav Selåsdal
System Engineer
UtelSystems a/s
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Mob: 943 01 380
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20 years, 4 months
