Re: Fedora LiveCD / Emergency Boot CD
by Jef Spaleta
Dirk Westfal wrote:
> Question: would it be possible and usefull to add something like
> an 'createlivecd' install option to the installer ?
Now thats a very good question that has NOTHING to do with
trademarks....and everything to do with development.
i personally LOVE the idea of a livecd building toolbox as something
that can be added to the Fedora distro. But I don't think it makes sense
as an installer option....but maybe this is a direction to extend
kickstart?
I think a stand-alone post install tool sitting on a 'mastering' Fedora
Core install that knew how to access multiple rpm souces like yum repos
to grab packages needed for the livecd would be more useful than
something the installer would have to manage from a ramdisk image. I
don't a lot about kickstart, but how kickstart creates kickstart files
via redhat-config-kickstart seems an obvious starting point example of
a tool that can look at setup of a 'mastering' host.
-jef
-jef
20 years, 4 months
Failsafe XFree config
by Peter Backlund
Hi.
Would it be possible to keep a failsafe X config for using when X won't
start under normal cirumstances? Say, 16 bit color, 60 Hz, 640x480, vesa
driver and AllowMouseOpenFail?
One quite common scenario is when you're using ati or nvidia drivers,
and you update the kernel without installing the new ati/nvidia kernel
modules. As it works now, you're dropped to a console after being
prompted with the possibility to read the X logs. I believe the
XKeepsCrashing script is invoked here...it would be a lot easier to fix
these problems if you at least get a basic X environment to work with.
One would pass this alternative config to xinit, with a window prompt
telling you that a problem occured yada yada and you're running a
failsafe X mode.
What do you think?
/Peter
20 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20031203 changes
by Build System
New package device-mapper
device mapper library
New package lvm2
Userland logical volume management tools
Updated Packages:
SysVinit-2.85-11.sel
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* Mon Dec 01 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2.85-11.sel
- Don't umount /selinux, this is required for selinux to work correctly.
coreutils-5.0-33.sel
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 5.0-33.sel
- Speed up md5sum by disabling speed-up asm.
cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-3
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* Mon Dec 01 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 2.1.15-3
- fix RPATH the hard way
dhcp-3.0pl2-6.17
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* Sun Nov 30 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1:3.0pl2-6.17
- Add obsoletes dhcpcd
freeciv-1.14.1-1
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* Wed Dec 03 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.14.1-1
- update to bugfix release 1.14.1
gnome-pilot-2.0.10-5
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 2.0.10-5
- removed rpath (patched libtool, removed LIBTOOL=%{_bindir}/libtool from
make call in %build)
* Fri Nov 28 2003 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
- call scrollkeeper update in %post (#111159)
- prereq scrollkeeper and GConf2
- -devel should require libgnomeui-devel (#111160)
librep-0.16.1-4
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1:0.16.1-4
- removed rpath from rep-config
make-3.80-2
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Florian La Roche <Florian.LaRoche(a)redhat.de>
- add important bug-fixes from make home-page
mozilla-1.4.1-18
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* Thu Nov 13 2003 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard(a)redhat.com> 37:1.4.1-18
- Include patch that fixes crashing problems with fonts that can't
be read
nss_db-2.2-23
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.2-23
- find bundled libdb again (#111004)
* Tue Aug 12 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 2.2-21.1
- rebuild
pmake-1.45-13
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com>
- fix #111033
policy-1.3.2-1
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.3.2-1
- Latest policy from Russell
* Tue Nov 04 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-3
- Patch to make minimal policy work
* Fri Oct 24 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.3-1
- Russel's policy file
* Thu Oct 02 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.0-3
- Latest from NSA
* Mon Aug 18 2003 Paul Nasrat <pauln(a)truemesh.com> 1.2-1
- Enable non-root build
* Mon Jun 02 2003 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.0-1
- Initial version
rpmdb-fedora-1.90-0.20031203
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texinfo-4.6-1
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.6-1
- Fixed compiler warning (bug #111279).
- 4.6.
* Tue Jun 17 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 4.5-3
- Rebuilt.
vim-6.2.154-3
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* Tue Dec 02 2003 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1:6.2.154-3
- perl interface was disabled when perl had thread support.
20 years, 4 months
A beginners guide to bugtool
by Paul Nasrat
Bugtool can be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/jrb/files/
A sample .bugzrc with some custom queries can be found here:
http://pauln.truemesh.com/bugzrc
Drop the rc file into ~/.bugzrc, edit to change username and password.
Run bugtool
Your drop down menu now contains some of my custom queries.
Creating query support to be written, but should give you a flavour of the tool. Probably will only run on RH9/FC1 and above - if you are running rawhide be sure to have gnome-python-* updated.
I'd be intrested if people doing triaging today who want to play with bugtool let me know via #fedora-bugs on freenode. Unfortunately some queries don't return at the moment (essentially they timeout) but hopefully some more use will help the developers figure out what the priorites are in terms of features.
Paul
20 years, 4 months
Fedora LiveCD / Emergency Boot CD
by Keith Lofstrom
When designing the Fedora LiveCD - think about a future version that
works with the "create boot disk" function. Imagine creating a boot
CD that has everything necessary to rebuild the main hard drive,
including partition info, net configuration, etc, as well as Mozilla
and other tools, so one can look on the net for more clues, learn
about replacement hardware, etc.
Another generalization would be tools that help build custom versions
of LiveCD.
That is probably too large a task for the first version of LiveCD, but
having these future goals in mind probably influences design choices now.
And please forgive this suggestion from someone who probably doesn't
have the skills to contribute.
Keith
--
Keith Lofstrom keithl(a)ieee.org Voice (503)-520-1993
KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
20 years, 4 months
integrate cryptoloop patch into Fedora kernel?
by James Ralston
See my "Encrypted loopback devices in Fedora Core 1" section, here:
http://www.pobox.com/~ralston/dev/
Any chance of integrating at least the kernel patch into the FC
development kernel? Having to patch the kernel itself is a giant
PITA.
Honestly, I was expecting that updating to util-linux-2.12 would be a
nightmare, but it was a breeze. (Elliot, if you're reading this, Just
Do It; it'll take a lot less time than you probably think.)
The hashalot program needs some work; it's using the obsolete
getpass() function, and the memset call that is clearing the password
is almost certainly being optimized away by gcc. :( I'll fix the
latter for sure, and work on the former.
--
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
20 years, 4 months
Fedora minimal install option
by MG
Hi!
I'm Gabor from Hungary, new one in the mailing list! I'm RedHat/Fedora fan. :)
(I didn't speak English well. :))
I have a suggest for Fedora Linux. :)
There isn't Minimum Install option (only console with base rpm packages
~150MB?) and Mininum XWindow Install options in Fedora/RedHat Install.
(There are only Workstation, Dekstop, Server, Custom options.)
I like to use the minimal install options often.
Can you implement them into the install options?
Bye!
Gabor
20 years, 4 months
Unmaintained packages?
by Stan Bubrouski
Hey,
Can we get a list of unmaintained projects/packages on this list that it
is the communities to continue development on?
I haven't seen such a list and this is the right place to start one,
right?
-sb
20 years, 4 months
Updating to the development channel
by Steve Bergman
What is the best way to tell up2date to update my fedora-core 1 box to
the latest development version of fedora-core?
I tried:
yum updates-devel
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development
and get:
Fetching
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/heade....
########################################
####################
Fetching rpm headers...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1188, in ?
sys.exit(main() or 0)
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 766, in main
fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1051, in batchRun
batch.run()
File "up2dateBatch.py", line 58, in run
File "up2dateBatch.py", line 99, in __findPackagesToUpdate
File "packageList.py", line 520, in getPackagesToInstall
File "packageList.py", line 549, in __skipPackages
File "packageList.py", line 570, in __skipFiles
File "packageList.py", line 609, in buildHeaderList
File "headers.py", line 37, in __getitem__
File "headers.py", line 42, in __retrievePackage
File "rpcServer.py", line 110, in doCall
File "repoDirector.py", line 31, in getHeader
File "rpmSource.py", line 210, in getHeader
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 96,
in getHeader
hdrBuf = fh.read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 156, in read
self._read(readsize)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 210, in _read
self._read_eof()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 245, in _read_eof
raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
ValueError: CRC check failed
20 years, 4 months
