Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
Dax Kelson wrote:
>The FC3 Release Notes say:
>
>=============
> RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has
> changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one
> already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be
> installed) caused the installation of the package containing the
> conflicting file to abort.
>
> In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> previously-installed packages.
>============
>
>What's the rationale for this?
>
>Dax
>
>
>
Then my hunch about this were right. I was yelling a bit about that on
IRC, but most people claimed
RPM does NOT work like that. Apparantly it does on my system. Rather bad
imho, it allows for easily
screw up.
19 years, 5 months
lslR in the download tree
by Leonard den Ottolander
Hi,
Would it be a big trouble to put lslR files in the download tree at
download.fedora.us? This might help in locating packages if one isn't
sure whether they are stable or in testing.
Leonard.
--
mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
19 years, 5 months
Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:06:43 -0600, Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> wrote:
> > > > In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package
> > > > installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from
> > > > previously-installed packages.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ?
> >
> > rpm --fileconflicts
>
> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the
> behavior. But we haven't heard what the reason for the change was.
There's nothing magic about "a reply from an @redhat.com". I've got such
an address, too, but so what. Wait until you see a mail from Jeff Johnson
or Christian Gafton. It's a weekend.
-- Pete
19 years, 5 months
Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by "Nils O. Selåsdal"
Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>
>> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the
>> behavior.
>
>
> I have to agree with the consensus shown here that this change in
> default behavior is, to put in mildly, *just plain stupid*. Please,
> please revert to previous, proper behavior, and force folks who insist
> on this broken behavior to use
> rpm --replacefiles
>
> Has anyone bothered to submit anything to bugzilla yet? (If not, I'd be
> happy to).
Please do. It might just be that. A bug.
--
Nils O. Selåsdal
www.utelsystems.com
19 years, 5 months
Status of IT8212 RADI/IDE and pwc drivers (Alan!)
by Peter Backlund
Hello.
I'd like to know what the status of the IT8212 RAID/IDE Controller
driver is with regard to the FC3 kernel. Is it possible to pick the
driver from the -ac patchset and build against the FC3 kernel, or do the
API differ too much? If it's not possible to build, could the driver be
modified to use the old IDE API?
Also, could you bring back the pwc driver please? It's gone missing from
2.6.9-1.643 again. I suppose it's marked buggy, but it works fine (for
me at least). On the other hand, if it's easier to create an add-on
package containing both pwc and pwcx when the pwc module is _not_
distributed with the main kernel, it's better to leave it this way.
/Peter Backlund
19 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20041030 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
FreeWnn-1.10pl020-5
-------------------
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.10pl020-5
- before upgrading modify the wnn user and group (in the same way mailman does)
rather than deleting and recreating them to really fix the upgrade failure
with nis (136551)
- simplify this by introducing %wnnuser, %wnnuid, %wnngrp, %wnngid and
%wnndir and use them
aspell-bg-0.50-5
----------------
* Tue Oct 26 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 50:0.50-5
- aspell already owns cp1251.dat (#137022)
authconfig-4.6.5-3.1
--------------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com>
- force broken_shadow option on network auth (#136760)
gthumb-2.4.2-4
--------------
* Fri Oct 29 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.2-4
- added patch to fix crash on startup on 64-bit architectures (#137594)
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 2.4.2-3
- PreReq desktop-file-utils >= 0.9
gtk2-2.4.13-5
-------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.13-5
- Include an upstream bugfix in the
gtk+-2.4.9-treeview-activate.patch. This fixes
a crasher bug (#137461)
hal-0.4.0-10
------------
* Thu Oct 28 2004 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat,com> 0.4.0-10
- Allow adding SCSI optical drives to the /etc/fstab file (#137364)
- Fix typo where 'async' was used instead of 'sync' (#137456)
im-sdk-12.1-4
-------------
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1:12.1-4
- leif-unit-revert-1961~1971.patch: reverted the changes for the per-user
config stuff to avoid crashing when UNIT LE is loading. (#137007)
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:12.1-3
- iiimf-gtk requires iiimf-libs to upgrade from FC2 without error and to run
(137018) and iiimf-x requires iiimf-libs to run
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com>
- fix the ownership of /usr/lib64/im/share (136306)
kernel-2.6.9-1.649
------------------
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix raid5 oops (#127862)
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Remove the possibility of some false OOM kills. (#131251)
- Add more USB card readers to SCSI whitelist (#131546)
- Disable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT for iseries.
* Wed Oct 27 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reenable ISA NIC support (#136569)
rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20041030
-------------------------
yum-2.1.11-2
------------
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-2
- add patch to fix multilib updates on ia32e (#135396)
19 years, 5 months
Re: fedora.linux.duke.edu downtime
by seth vidal
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 17:10, seth vidal wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> > The physics department at duke university is victim of another
> > power outage. We will be shutting down fedora.linux.duke.edu (also
> > fedoraproject.org) for about 3 hours today starting at 6pm EDT
> > -4UTC
> >
> >Thanks
> >-sv
>
> Gee, and just as I was about to fire off another wget session. I take
> it you've been having too much fun there Seth? They must have
> started 20 minutes early with the shutdown. :)
Yah the power went out promptly at 6:00 so we shut down about 20 minutes
early.
We're back now. Feel free to download.
-sv
19 years, 5 months
Question regarding choice of python
by Amitabha Roy
I am curious as to why redhat chose python as the language to code
the user interfaces to many of the system tools. I am assuming
that system-config-network etc, all were written by redhat people
and most of them were written in python (with gtk).
Was there any discussion as to the benefits of python over other alternatives
(tcl-tk, perl etc) ?
Amitabha
19 years, 5 months
