Short RPM question
by Aurelien Bompard
Hi all
When I saw that an update for slang was available, I issued an apt-get
install slang, and thought that it would pull slang-devel too. It didnt:
# rpm -qR slang-devel
slang = 1.4.9
Shouldn't a -devel rpm require the main rpm with %{version}-%{release}, not
only %{version} ? In the fedora.us bug 2225
(https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2225), Michael Schwendt
explains that the full Requires it almost always needed. Could slang be one
of those corner cases, or is it just a bug ?
Thanks
Aurélien
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be
enthusiastic about." -- Albert Einstein
19 years, 5 months
MySQL 4.x status
by Joe Orton
As some noticed, MySQL 4.1.7 is now in Raw Hide. The FLOSS exception is
as yet not acceptable to our legal folks (that work is ongoing) so the
LGPL-licensed 3.x client libraries and headers are still being included
and any applications under GPL-incompatible licenses are being adjusted
to use them.
There is a known issue where 3.x clients can't connect to the 4.1.7
server unless --old-passwords is specified in my.cnf which I don't think
is resolved in the 4.1.7 packages yet.
Regards,
joe
19 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20041124 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
Canna-3.7p3-9
-------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 3.7p3-9
- Convert man pages to UTF-8
- Don't use Yen symbol instead of backspace in RkGetDicList man page
- Fix build failure when redeclaring glibc functions
Xaw3d-1.5-25
------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.5-25
- rebuilt
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1.5-24
- add patch to fix build problem with xorg-x11, #140475
anaconda-10.2.0.4-1
-------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 10.2.0.4-1
- Update python version in urllib hack
- /init in initramfs instead of /linuxrc
- Improved ppc console detection (nasrat, #134397)
- Better handling of going back when out of space (#133773)
- Better handling of LVM failures (#134263)
- Set a default when boot loader to upgrade is indeterminate (#139603)
- No more diet on i386
bogl-0:0.1.18-5
---------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 0:0.1.18-5
- don't build against dietlibc anymore on x86
desktop-printing-0.17-5
-----------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.17-5
- Actually apply eggcups-use-printer-uri.patch
foomatic-3.0.2-7
----------------
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.0.2-7
- Applied some foomatic-rip fixes from CVS.
* Thu Nov 18 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Add autodetect information for HP Color LaserJet 4550 (bug #139799).
gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.57
-------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.57
- Backport i386 prolog parser - better backtraces out of semop().
- Add option --readnever to suppress the reading of symbolic debug
information.
- Add script gstack.sh, installed as gstack.
Bugzilla 136584, 137121
- Add missing files gdb.pie/attach2.c, gdb.pie/break1.c and
gdb.pie/Makefile.in along with testsuite/configure stuff for pie.
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.57
- Backport i386 prolog parser - better backtraces out of semop().
- Add option --readnever to suppress the reading of symbolic debug
information.
- Add script gstack.sh, installed as gstack.
Bugzilla 136584, 137121
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.56
- Bump up release number.
hpijs-1.7.1-1
-------------
* Wed Nov 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.7.1-1
- 1.7.1
initscripts-7.98-1
------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 7.98-1
- various kmodule speedups
- rc.d/init.d/netfs: don't mount GFS (#140281)
- fix various minilogd bogosities (#106338)
* Mon Nov 15 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 7.97-1
- configure CTC protocol if CTCPROT is set (#133088)
* Mon Nov 15 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- fix check_link_down to still check negotiation if link is
listed as "up" on entering (#110164, <dbaron(a)dbaron.org>)
kdebase-6:3.3.1-10
------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 6:3.3.1-10
- add patch to fix kfind hang on search #137582
kudzu-1.1.99-1
--------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.99-1
- speed up pci probing
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.98-1
- fix my undiet-ifying
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.97-1
- don't use dietlibc on x86 anymore
lvm2-2.00.26-1
--------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.26-1
- Several installation-related fixes & man page updates.
m2crypto-0.13-1
---------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 0.13-1
- update, remove now obsolete patches
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 0.09-7
- changed pythonver from 2.3 to 2.4
man-pages-ko-1:1.48-15
----------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.48-15
- Recode also man.1x to UTF-8
mrtg-2.10.15-3
--------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 2.10.15-3
- Convert man pages to UTF-8
mysql-4.1.7-4
-------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-4
- Turn off old_passwords in default /etc/my.cnf file, for better compatibility
with mysql 3.x clients (per suggestion from Joe Orton).
* Fri Oct 29 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-3
- Handle ldconfig more cleanly (put a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/).
* Thu Oct 28 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-2
- rebuild in devel branch
openoffice.org-1.1.2-12.7
-------------------------
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.2-12
- #rh129719# (partial) Incorporate updated Gujarati translation,
Add ta_IN translation
- Rebuild to pick up new db4 in FC4
- Link to our .desktop files rather than copying them, so that
we can immediately pick up changes rather than having to rebuild
pam-0.78-1
----------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> 0.78-1
- update to Linux-PAM-0.78
- #140451 parse passwd entries correctly and test for failure
- #137802 allow using pam_console for authentication
pciutils-2.1.99.test8-4
-----------------------
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.99.test8-4
- don't use dietlibc on x86 anymore
postfix-2:2.1.5-4.1
-------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 2:2.1.5-4.1
- removed double quotes from postalias call, second fix for #138354
prelink-0.3.3-1
---------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 0.3.3-1
- if layout code needs to re-prelink some library, make sure
all libraries that depend on it are re-prelinked too (#140081)
- add several more checks before deciding it is ok to prelink a binary
(even if another bug like #140081 was in, these checks should hopefully
catch it and refuse to (re-)prelink the binary)
- added new PRELINK_NONRPM_CHECK_INTERVAL variable to /etc/prelink,
defaulting to 7 days. Prelink nightly job will not do anything
if that interval has not elapsed since last prelinking and
and the rpm database has not been modified since that prelinking.
This is useful if you rely on rpm/up2date/yum/apt-rpm for library
and binary updates. If you combine it with other means (installs
from source, tarballs etc.), you probably want to
set PRELINK_NONRPM_CHECK_INTERVAL=0.
- update prelink man page (#126468)
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041124
---------------------------
sane-backends-1.0.15-5
----------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.0.15-5
- libusbscanner: Create /dev/usb if it doesn't exist after 30s.
selinux-policy-strict-1.19.4-4
------------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-4-4
- Add proc_net for unconfined_t
selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.4-4
--------------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-4-4
- Add proc_net for unconfined_t
setup-2.5.39-1
--------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 2.5.39-1
- ghost lastlog (#139539)
swig-1.3.23-1
-------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 1.3.23-1
- update
- new pylib patch
- remove destdir patch, swig.m4 is no longer included
- remove ldconfig patch, swig now uses *-config to find out linker options
system-config-boot-0.2.8-1
--------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 0.2.8-1
- s/gtk.mainquit/gtk.main_quit/g
system-config-display-1.0.24-1
------------------------------
* Mon Nov 15 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 1.0.24-1
- Dual Head patch for testing thanks to Marc Andre Morissette (#136916)
system-config-kickstart-2.5.16-1
--------------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com> - 2.5.16-1
- Fix display in indic locale (#138310) and (#138601)
- Monitor order (#127477)
- Translation of RAID message (#127687)
- Unencrypted root passwords (#134678)
- Broken nfs line parsing (#134681)
system-config-samba-1.2.22-1
----------------------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.22-1
- add missing options (#137756)
system-logviewer-0.9.12-0.1
---------------------------
* Mon Nov 08 2004 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> 0.9.12-0.1
- utf-8 everwhere fixes bug # 136874
xchat-1:2.4.1-1
---------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 1:2.4.1-1
- Update to 2.4.1
xmms-1:1.2.10-10
----------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1:1.2.10-10
- Add xmms-alsa-backport.patch (bug 140565, John Haxby)
xorg-x11-6.8.1-17
-----------------
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> - 6.8.1-17
- Add libI810XvMC back on PPC filelists.
- Move xorg-x11-6.8.1-battle-libc-wrapper.patch into fc4_build section.
* Tue Nov 23 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> - 6.8.1-16
- Add xorg-x11-6.8.1-battle-libc-wrapper.patch to work around build
error that pops up when system headers #define printf.
* Mon Nov 22 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> 6.8.1-15
- Added xorg-x11-6.8.1-ati-radeon-7000-smp-lockup.patch to fix the
hard lockup happening on SMP boxes with Radeon 7000 cards (#138108).
19 years, 5 months
suggestion: move krb5 daemons to krb5-daemons subpackage
by Matthew Miller
Someone's situation on the main fedora list (they were accidentally getting
kerberized ftp instead of vsftpd as they expected) reminded me of this:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=81836>
Currently, there are several daemon programs in the krb5-workstation
subpackage which one wouldn't necessarily expect or want on a workstation.
(Obviously, telnetd, ftpd, kshd, klogind, etc. And probably login.krb5 too,
since we've got PAM.). In this day and age, perhaps dropping them completely
(in favor of fully-encrypted protocols like ssh) is the way to go, but
failing that, my suggestion is to move them to a more clearly-named
subpackage. (And to one that doesn't contain important utilities like
kdestroy, etc.)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 5 months
[rant] Re: vmware and udev
by Denis Leroy
> Denis Leroy wrote:
> > On a more general note, is there any sort of communications between
Red
> > Hat people (who have phones on their desk) and the very few
companies
> > that do groundbreaking linux support (Nvidia, VMWare, ...) as far
as
> > release schedules and support for new kernel features ? Just
asking...
>
> To which Arjan van de Ven responded:
> what you call groundbreaking linux support... I personally consider a
> major problem... they are
> 1) Binary only, and not helping the open source goal at large forward
> 2) Borderline legal, if at all (my personal opinion is that they are
not
> legal, and abusing code I wrote)
> 3) Lagging behind and even keeping the kernel from going forward at
times.
> but.. if you buy a RHEL subscription the support guys you call will
be
> happy to work with such vendors on joint problems.
I know this is a touchy subject :-) and the binary drivers thread
almost turned into a flame war. Arjan, in your response below you seem
to be talking about the linux kernel while i was talking about the
Fedora Core distro, and those are two different things.
Seems to me, on one side we have the linux kernel developers whose
interests lie on improving the kernel and adding cool features to it,
and hereby rely on the strength of the open-source concept in which
API or ABI changes can be propagated very quickly. This allows the
kernel to move very fast (unlike other Unices that have been around
longer) and to maintain a very high level of quality in its
drivers. They see closed source drivers as an annoyance and hindrance,
and companies that support them as being capitalistic greedy evil
entities whose sole purpose is the demise of the Open-Source
movement. :-)
On the other hand, we have companies that try to get some leverage out
of the Linux movement, sometimes in a clumsy fashion, or try to
respond to their customers demands for Linux support. They are usually
afraid of the GPL since it's human nature to be afraid of things one
doesn't fully understand. They usually mean well, but are uneducated
and completely unprepared for a world in which code is free, having no
processes in place for it since it hasn't been done before. They see
kernel developers as pony-tailed hippies who hate their guts and are
hard to interact with, much less rely on. :-)
So my question was: shouldn't Fedora stand in the middle ? Shouldn't
it be the job of putting together a desktop-oriented distribution
precisely to coordinate the efforts of the various "forces" out there
(a hard and thankless job IMO), and reach compromises in order to
provide the best possible desktop experience. This has nothing to do
with kernel development, but rather in picking the right features to
use in that kernel without breaking the most popular components,
coordinating schedules and releases with said components, to make sure
a Fedora Core release doesn't break the Nvidia drivers (one of those
most popular components, whether you like it or not) or doesn't happen
one week before Firefox 1.0 is released. Isn't there somebody in the
Fedora community (whether he/she's a RedHat employee or not) that
should be working on this ? His/her job would include calling Nvidia
and saying something like this "Hi, i work on the Fedora distro. Even
though our kernel developers hate you, half of our users use your
drivers and we'd rather not break it for our next release. Is there
anything we can do?". To which there is or isn't of course, but at
least somebody's gotta try...
Anyways, sorry for the long rant :-)
-denis
http://cdrdao.sf.net/
19 years, 5 months
Fail to install in graphic mode into Mebius PC
by miyauchk＠pisces.livedoor.com
Hello,
This is merely a report of install failure, but, it successed using Fedora Core 2.
Graphic installing of Fedora Core 3 fails since there up small screen without buttons
in beginning to install.
It causes in PC-GP1-C3E, however, I could do it using Fedora Core 2.
This seems to be regression.
I've successed using Text install mode, but, I can report this phenomenon more exactly
for improving Fedora Core 3.
If members have no interest about this type of failures, ignore this mail, please.
Thanks,
19 years, 5 months
kmodule does not look into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
by Féliciano Matias
I have a proprietary drivers that install modules
into /lib/modules/`unmae -r`/extra .
For me it's the right place.
But kmodule don't look into extra directory.
Which one is wrong ?
The code (kmodule.c from initscripts) :
int isAvailable(char *modulename)
{
struct utsname utsbuf;
char path[512];
uname(&utsbuf);
snprintf(mod_name,100,"%s.ko",modulename);
snprintf(cmod_name,100,"%s.ko.gz",modulename);
snprintf(path,512,"/lib/modules/%s/kernel",utsbuf.release);
/* Do not set the third argument of this function to < 6. Blarg. */
if (ftw(path,isModule,15) == 1) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
19 years, 5 months
hwconf layout
by John Mizell
Does anyone have a hwconf layout document. I need to know all the
possible classes, buses, and any entries that may fall below them. This
information will be used to setup the database scheme of a project I am
working on.
example:
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: emu10k1-gp
desc: "Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port"
vendorId: 1102
deviceId: 7002
subVendorId: 1102
subDeviceId: 0020
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 2
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 1
19 years, 5 months
stateless linux
by Peter Schobel
why does my /etc/modprobe.conf keep disappearing?
Peter Schobel
~
19 years, 5 months
rawhide images/pxeboot issue?
by Joe Orton
I've been unable to boot into the Raw Hide
images/pxeboot/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} for a few days, is that just me or
is something borked?
2.6.9-1.650_devel fails like:
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=md0, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(9,0)
(then loops forever saying:
<4>atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like
XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86,
ight be trying access hardware directly.
but I guess that's something different)
19 years, 5 months
