USB ADSL Modem support, status of development?
by Srikanth Nori
Hi,
I was looking through Bugzilla, and saw that USB ADSL support has been
"Assigned" (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109671)
. I continued to search for more data, but couldn't find anything. The
fedora-devel archives didn't help much either. Most posts were about
the Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem, but my interest lies elsewhere
(Aztech 500U)
Anyway, I was wondering what is the status of development? Is still it being
actively pursued?
19 years, 6 months
RPM specfiles for commercial packages?
by Jason L Tibbitts III
Commercial software is an evil some of us have to live with and as
long as I have no choice I figured I'd try and make it as painless as
possible. So I've been packaging the various commercial software
around into Fedora-friendly RPMs so that I can move away from an NFS
or rsync-ed /usr/local. So far I've done Matlab R14sp1, Mathematica
5, the PGI compiler suite and RealPlayer. (OK, RealPlayer was already
an RPM but doing everything in a postinstall script is pretty nasty.)
I doubt there up to proper Fedora standards but at least they work.
Is anyone else doing this? Is there a place where we can exchange
specfiles?
- J<
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041003 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
rpmdb-fedora-2.92-0.20041003
----------------------------
sed-4.1.2-3
-----------
* Sat Oct 02 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.1.2-3
- add sedfaq.txt to /usr/share/doc (#16202)
19 years, 6 months
kudzu bug?
by dragoran
I installed a pinnacle tv card on my fc2 box and kudzu hasn't found it.
I works fine by loading the saa7134 module manulaly.
I am not sure if this is a bug or not. Does kudzu probe for tv cards?
19 years, 6 months
Re: xorg crashes
by Carlos Rodrigues
Denis Leroy wrote:
>I've seen this happen when the screensaver is in random mode and
>occasionally launches a screensaver plugin that uses xorg hardware
>acceleration. If you have a poorly supported or misconfigured card, it
>might crash the kernel. Check your screensaver, try all available
>plugins...
>
>-d
>
>
It is the sceensaver, however everything is ok when it comes to
configuration, nothing changed except the updates and I never seen this
happen before. Also, the kernel doesn't crash, only X does.
Carlos Rodrigues
--
url: http://crodrigues.webhop.net
19 years, 6 months
Re: "Stateless Linux" project
by Bryan K. Wright
hp(a)redhat.com said:
> Dan Reed has some code written that's a bit simpler approach - it just
> rsyncs the homedir periodically.
This would work fine, at least for people with small /home directories,
and it has the distinct advantage that it can be done right now, without
a lot of development. It might be a problem for folks with larger /home
directories, though. On my laptop, I have about 20GB of user files
(images, maps, data, documents) and it takes a few minutes of disk
grinding for rsync just to walk the tree and decide what's changed.
This might be prohibitive (or at least prohibitively annoying) for the
user. It also cuts into the battery life.
Another possible user-space option would be something based on SGI::FAM.
Around here, I use a fam-based intrusion-detection system to monitor
a few system files that are commonly modified by root kits, and send
me a notice when one changes. A similar system could monitor the
directories in /home and, whenever a file changes, queue it up
for synchronization with a remote mirror. This has the advantage of
not needing to walk the whole file tree repeatedly, as you'd need
to do with rsync. I suspect that you might run into problems with
the number of file descriptors or memory use for large /home
directories, though. When I get a chance, I'll whip up a script
and try it out on my laptop.
Moving out of user space, and requiring some of development, you
could have the kernel's VFS layer generate a notice, maybe via DBUS,
whenever a file changes. It'd be nice to be able to turn this on only
for selected filesystems: monitor /home, but don't bother with
/var, for example. A client would watch for changes and queue up
files for synchronization.
Back to my original suggestion of a "RAID 1" mirror composed of
a local disk and a network block device: It seems like you'd need
to make the RAID system smart enough to realize that one device
has much bigger latencies than the other, otherwise you'd get
performance problems. You'd want to preferentially read from
the local disk, for example, and you'd want to queue up writes
to the remote disk instead of waiting for them to complete
synchronously. I don't know if the current software RAID
implementation supports this sort of thing.
Ideas are easy. Coding's hard. Thanks again for pulling together
a lot of disconnected useful ideas into "stateless linux" and
starting to instantiate them in code.
Bryan
--
===============================================================================
Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like
Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes
University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho
Charlottesville, VA 22901 |
(434) 924-7218 | bryan(a)virginia.edu
===============================================================================
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041002 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
anaconda-10.0.3.10-1
--------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.0.3.10-1
- add kickstart zfcp configuration (#133288, #130070)
- Use NFSv3 for NFS installs. Fixes NFSISO installs from DVD (#122032)
- Fix megaraid_mbox module name (#134369)
- Another uninitialized fix (#133996)
- Add the zh_CN font (#133330)
anaconda-help-10.0.4-1
----------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.0.4-1
- newer translations
busybox-1.00.rc1-5
------------------
* Sat Oct 02 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.00.rc1-5
- fix segfault in SELinux patch (#134404, #134406)
cdparanoia-alpha9.8-23
----------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> alpha9.8-23
- "This time, with a meaningful changelog" release. Just like -22.
- new SG_IO code in rawhide. This means ripping will no longer use the
"cooked ioctl" mode that it has since we moved to 2.6, instead utilizing
the real scsi-based command set to talk to most drives. This should
result in better error correction handling, and usage of much more
commonly used kernel features.
- environment variable "CDDA_TRANSPORT" added. If you set this to "cooked",
cdparanoia will try to use the "cooked ioctl" mode instead of SCSI/SG_IO
based modes first, and then fall back to SG_IO.
- It'd be good if this got some testing. A prior version of the SG_IO code
was known to fail on some USB drives. This version should mitigate that
quite a bit, but I lack the hardware to test it for sure.
chkconfig-1.3.11.1-1
--------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.3.11.1-1
- rebuild with updated translations
* Fri Jun 04 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.3.11-1
- fix LSB comment parsing (#85678)
* Sat May 29 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 1.3.10-1
- mark alternatives help output for translation (#110526)
desktop-printing-0.15.2-1
-------------------------
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.15.2-1
- Update to new upstream 0.15.2:
- Does not crash when run as root
- Does not crash if you have no printers (workaround HAL bug)
evolution-connector-2.0.1-5
---------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-5
- added explicit gnutls requirement
* Fri Oct 01 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-4
- set libsoup requirement to be 2.2.0-2, to ensure gnutls support has been added
* Fri Oct 01 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.1-3
- added requirement on libsoup
firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.8
-----------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0:0.10.1-1.0PR1.8
- Update to 0.10.1
- Fix tab switching keybindings (#133504)
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0:0.10.0-1.0PR1.7
- filter out library Provides: and internal Requires:
gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.35
-------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.35
- Fix S/390 watchpoint support to work better under threading.
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.34
- Fix thread_db_get_lwp to handle 2nd format ptids.
gettext-0.14.1-10
-----------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Leon Ho <llch(a)redhat.com>
- fix install_info
- add gcc-java build requirement
glibc-2.3.3-63
--------------
gnome-vfs2-2.8.1-5
------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> 2.8.1-5
- Build with hal patch
hal-0.2.98.cvs20040929-3
------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> 0.2.98.cvs20040929-3
- Fix a bug so libhal actually invoke callback functions when needed
hotplug-2004_04_01-6
--------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 3:2004_04_01-6
- move /etc/hotplug/blacklist to hwdata
hwbrowser-0.18-2
----------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 0.18-1
- pick up updated translations
- byte-compile python files
- Change files list to avoid wildcard
hwdata-0.140-1
--------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 0.140-1
- include /etc/hotplug/blacklist here
initscripts-7.86-1
------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 7.86-1
- use /etc/hotplug/blacklist to blacklist modules in hardware init (#132719)
- filter indic locales on the console (#134198)
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-9jpp
----------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> 0:1.4.2.0-9jpp
- Change /usr/lib/jvm directory to java-1.4.2-gcj from
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> 0:1.4.2.0-8jpp
- Bump release number.
joe-3.1-5
---------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Lon Hohberger <lhh(a)redhat.com> 3.1-5
- Fix UTF-8 decoding in help display (#134197)
kudzu-1.1.92-1
--------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.92-1
- add mapping for wacom (#132738)
libselinux-1.17.13-3
--------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.13-3
- Change setenforce to accept Enforcing and Permissive
mdadm-1.6.0-1
-------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Doug Ledford <dledford(a)redhat.com> 1.6.0-1
- Update to newer upstream version
- Make mdmpd work on kernels that don't have the event interface patch
openoffice.org-1.1.2-7
----------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.2-7
- Get BuildRequires right
Should fix:
133741 (openoffice.org does not render chars properly in KDE)
133793 (Bad view of iso-8859-2 fonts in menu & dialogs)
perl-5.8.5-6
------------
* Mon Aug 23 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.5-2
- fix conflicting file when building on x86_64 and i386
* Sat Jul 24 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.5-1
- add Provides: Carp::Heavy to fix new dep error (bz 128507)
* Thu Jul 22 2004 Chip Turner <cturner(a)redhat.com> 3:5.8.5-1
- update to 5.8.5
policycoreutils-1.17.5-6
------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.5-6
- Add -e (exclude directory) switch to setfiles
- Add syslog to setfiles
prelink-0.3.2-10
----------------
* Sat Oct 02 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 0.3.2-10
- support for non-absolute blacklist glob patterns (e.g. -b *.la)
- cache information about non-prelinkable files (non-ELF, statically linked,
too small .dynamic, DT_TEXTREL with conflicts against it; #132056)
- other speedups for prelink -aq
- for --verify, make sure only read-only fd's are opened for the
unprelinked temporary file, otherwise a kernel might ETXTBUSY on it
(#133317)
- change warning message if some object's dependencies can't be found
- add buildrequires libselinux-devel and use %{_tmppath} instead
of /var/tmp in Buildroot (#132879)
redhat-artwork-0.109-1
----------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0.109-1
- Fix icon theme name
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.108-1.1E
- RHEL rebuild
redhat-rpm-config-8.0.32-1
--------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.0.32-1
- allow all symbol versioning in find_requires - matches RPM internal
behavior
rhgb-0.13.5-1
-------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 0.13.5
- updated the localization strings
rpmdb-fedora-2.92-0.20041002
----------------------------
selinux-policy-strict-1.17.26-1
-------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.26-1
- Update with NSA
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.26-1
---------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.26-1
- Update with NSA
setools-1.4.1-3
---------------
* Thu Jul 08 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4.1-3
- Fix directory ownership
setuptool-1.17-2
----------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.17-2
- specify %{_bindir}/setup by name now instead of with a pattern
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.17-1
- refresh translations
shadow-utils-4.0.3-30
---------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 2:4.0.3-30
- Add checkPasswdAccess for chage in SELinux
switchdesk-4.0.6-3
------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.6-3
- update translations
system-config-display-1.0.21-1
------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.0.21-1
- fix mouse traceback
system-config-keyboard-1.2.4-1
------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.4-1
- Translations
system-config-kickstart-2.5.15-1
--------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 2.5.15-1
- Translations
system-config-language-1.1.8-1
------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.1.8-1
- Indic UTF-8 locales
- Translations
system-config-mouse-1.2.9-1
---------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.9-1
- Translations
system-config-netboot-0.1.7-1
-----------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.7-1
- Update languages
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.6-1
- Fix location of mkinstalldirs
* Tue Sep 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.1.5-1
- Cleanup rsync messages and replace RHEL3 with RHEL
system-config-rootpassword-1.1.6-1
----------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.1.6-1
- Pull in translations
system-config-securitylevel-1.4.7-1
-----------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.4.7-1
- mDNS
- Translations
* Wed Sep 29 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.4.6-1
- Fix handling of booleans
system-config-services-0.8.10-1
-------------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 0.8.10-1
- Update translations
system-logviewer-0.9.11-1
-------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 0.9.11-1
- Latest Translations
system-switch-mail-0.5.25-3
---------------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 0.5.25-3
- update translation
thunderbird-0.8.0-3
-------------------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 0.8.0-3
- filter out library Provides: and internal Requires:
udev-032-7
----------
* Fri Oct 01 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 032-7
- more device nodes for those without initrd
19 years, 6 months
What to do about libc-client (imap)?
by Warren Togami
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=imap&component...
imap has been a total disaster in the past, and now we provide both
dovecot and cyrus-imapd as robust alternatives. Since FC2, imap was
stripped down to the "c-client" library with no server functionality.
The only reason we keep libc-client, the library portion of imap, is so
php-imap can build.
But why do we keep php-imap? NOTHING we ship uses it. squirrelmail
long ago decided php-imap was unreliable and made their own implementation.
Our forced attempts to get rid of imap in FC2 were done in a confusing
manner which remains both a support burden for us, and a huge point of
frustration to users. [1] To make matters worse, 'libc-client' is a
confusing name which is too similar to 'glibc', and meaningless to all
developers.
Is this really worth more years of headache? Here are two proposals to
deal with this.
Proposed Option #1: Rename libc-client to imap-libs
===================================================
Bug #120873 outlines a workable alternative where
* Package name is no longer misleading.
* Installed in such a way to not conflict in files or deps with imap.
* imap in Extras, completely unsupported by Red Hat.
Pros: Reduced support burden on us as we wont have many more stupid
reports [1] from foolish users complaining that we've taken away their
ability to use an insecure, buggy and slow mail server.
Cons: We still would have responsibility of php-imap, which very few
people use.
Proposed Option #2: Get rid of imap/libc-client completely
==========================================================
* Remove imap and libc-client from all future distributions.
* imap in Extras, completely unsupported by Red Hat.
Pros: No support burden for us.
Foolish users can use it if they really wish.
Cons: Difficult (but not impossible) to build php-imap
Not our problem. Extras can provide this.
I personally would much prefer Option #2 because it reduces the support
burden on Red Hat, for software that NONE of us care about. Any other
opinions?
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132928
Some guy complains about imap conflicting with libc-client "for no reason".
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132933
The same guy realizes imap sucks, and says dovecot should Obsolete imap.
I point at Bug #120678 below as an example of why this is a bad idea.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120678
libc-client conflicts with cyrus-imapd (Earlier failed attempt to
forcefully remove imap)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123580
Confusion due to php-imap...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120873
Rename libc-client to imap-libs. This or removal of libc-client are our
best options.
19 years, 6 months