Re: Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream versions]
by PLinnell
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:16:33 -0700
> From: Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu>
> Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream
> versions]
> To: jpo(a)di.uminho.pt, Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:51, Jos Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> > package(s) upsteam rawhide
> > =======================================
> ghostscript 8.01 7.0.7
>
> GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (from the main Ghostscript maintainers, they
> dropped the official GNU affiliation after 7.0.7 essentially because of
> disagreements with the FSF so it's no longer called GNU Ghostscript) was
> announced without much fanfare in February (strangely there is no
> release announcement on the ghostscript.com web page but there was an
> announcement on the mailing list [1].) I haven't tried it yet and can't
> vouch for how useful an upgrade this is but it can be found here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108...
> ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar...
>
> (Note that it's now in the GPL directory as opposed to the gnu directory
> of the Ghostscript FTP site.) Is the Fedora version so heavily patched
> that an upgrade would be difficult? (The Fedora package has certainly
> gone through quite a few iterations and seems to have a bunch of
> patches.)
>
> Cheers,
> Per
>
> [1] http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html
>
> --
> Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu>
> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
I have filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126326
This is a bear of a package to build and include all the extra printers
it supports. Updating this is not a trivial job, even with the new auto*
stuff used to build GS.
GPL GS 8.02 is expected to have CUPS integration of some sorts, but I
would not expect it soon.
T. Waugh might not talk to me in IRC anymore ;)
Cheers,
Peter
19 years, 10 months
how to override kernel modules?
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
>From what I have read in the list, FC >= 1 has a /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/updates directory where kernel modules could be dropped to override
modules that are included in the standard kernel.
Apparently that is not happening. The kernel modules in the "updates"
directory are always showing up in modules.dep _after_ the kernel
modules in the main tree.
Anything I need to do to change this?
-- Fernando
19 years, 10 months
Self-Introduction: Neil Horman
by Neil Horman
Hey all!
My Name is Neil Horman and I'm interested in getting more involved in
the open source community. I've read the self introduction guide on
fedora.redhat.com and am please to introduce...me :)
Name:
Neil Horman
Location:
Raleigh, North Carolina
Profession:
Software Engineer
Employer:
Red Hat
My Goals For Fedora:
As far as the Fedora project as a whole goes, I'd like to see it move
into a role that makes it the best Linux development platform in the
world (i.e. the bleeding edge of application and kernel development).
I'd like to see it have the most comprehensive package list of any
distribution available, with documentation that accurately details the
development state and stability of each package.
Personally, I'd like to start using Fedora to build my experience in
package development and maintenence. In a former life I developed linux
device drivers, and one day I would like to return to that, but before I
do, I'd really like to get more involved in the community development
process, so that if/when I take on more/other development roles, I have
a good understanding of how the development/qa/release process works.
Historical Qualifications:
My previous emplyoment was largely closed source, so I was afforded
little opporunity to participate without making people (bosses) nervous.
However, in my personal time, I've manged to participate by submitting
feature and bug fix patches to several projects, including ddd,
ethereal, cscope, and a few (internally at Red Hat) for the kernel. In
my last job, I developed device drivers for network switches that ran
embedded linux, so I have a strong interest in NIC driver development as
well. I've also tried to be active in comp.os.linux.development.*
newsgroups. I should have a number of entries in the archives... :)
Gpg Key ID:
pub 1024D/92A74FA1 2003-08-28 Neil Horman <nhorman(a)redhat.com>
Key fingerprint = 00BE 52A6 EB8E 979F 117E 101D 33E6 C4A1 92A7 4FA1
sub 2048g/C6D2F3B3 2003-08-28
I think thats about it. I'll be posting my cscope rpm up here, as soon
as I think its up to snuff (shouldn't be too long). Thanks for your
time, and I'm looking forward to getting more involved.
Neil
--
/***************************************************
*Neil Horman
*Software Engineer
*Red Hat, Inc.
*nhorman(a)redhat.com
*gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1
*http://www.keyserver.net
***************************************************/
19 years, 10 months
new kernel naming convention?
by Brian Millett
After yuming the current bleed from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6, I
noticed a new version convention.
kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.437ɤ
kernel-2.6.7-1.437ɤ
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.437ɤ
Is this OK?
thanks, just currious.
--
Brian Millett
Enterprise Consulting Group "Shifts in paradigms
(314) 205-9030 often cause nose bleeds."
bpmATec-groupDOTcom Greg Glenn
19 years, 10 months
Re: Kernel Stack Sizes
by Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:03 PM -0400 Steve Brenneis
<sbrenneis(a)surry.net> wrote:
> I searched the archives of the list for discussion on this topic and
> couldn't find anything. Can anyone tell me why the Fedora 2.6 kernels
> are configured for 4K stacks?
A little googling turned up this technical explanation:
<http://lwn.net/Articles/84583/>
I'm unclear why the pages need to be physically contiguous, though. Is this
a limitation in the x86 architecture?
I'm also curious if there are any good static analysis tools that can be
run against the kernel source to compute worst-case stack depth? Surely
someone in the gcc group has come up with such a critter?
19 years, 10 months
ForteMedia FM801 alsa module missing from FC2 kernel
by Arnaud Abélard
Hello,
Is there any special reason why the ForteMedia FM801 alsa module isn't
compiled in the FC2 kernel?
Not that a lot of ppl have that kind of card, but at least some do ;-)
Arnaud Abélard
19 years, 10 months
dependency problems with gettext and subversion
by Richard Hally
Below is the console output from trying to do 'yum update' on
development. It show that there are some dependency problems that have
been happening since last week. Would the people rsponsible for these
packages please straighten this out,
Thanks and of course please let me know if I have done something
incorrectly wrt updating.
Richard Hally
[root@new2 root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.Package php needs libintl.so.3, this is not available.
Package xemacs-common needs libintl.so.3, this is not available.
Package xemacs needs libintl.so.3, this is not available.
Package xemacs-nox needs libintl.so.3, this is not available.
[root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package subversion needs libswigpy.so, this is not available.
Package gettext-devel needs gettext = 0.14.1-6, this is not available.
Package subversion-perl needs libswigpl.so, this is not available.
[root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext\* --exclude=subversion\* update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package mod_dav_svn needs subversion = 1.0.4-2, this is not available.
[root@new2 root]# yum --exclude=gettext\* --exclude=subversion\*
--exclude=mod_dav_svn update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[update: sysklogd 1.4.1-18.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user command.
[root@new2 root]#
19 years, 10 months
RE: new kernel naming convention?
by Kenneth Benson
You, Jef, are an evil person. =)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Spaleta [mailto:jspaleta@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 11:11 AM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: new kernel naming convention?
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:03:37 +0200, Tarjei Knapstad
> <tarjei.knapstad(a)predichem.com> wrote:
> >
> > Check the recent archives for this list and fedora-test for more.
>
> I dont think he's commenting about the change to "sourcecode".
> I think the comment was about the non-ascii character
> dangling off the end.
> Which i think its a particularly new twist just in arjan's
> p.r.c at the moment.
> I think this is the first time i've seen a package version with a
> release number that used non ascii characters. It will be fun to watch
> how this sort of thing breaks existing tools
> that have been explicitly or implicitly assuming ascii.
>
> -jef"contemplating building a package that just uses symbols as its
> release number"spaleta
>
>
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19 years, 10 months
RE: Kernel Stack Sizes
by Kenneth Benson
Get ready to watch this happen in the M$ world. XP service pack 2 is due to
break
a lot of things because of the security patches (which is just about all of
the
service pack =P)
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Brenneis [mailto:sbrenneis@surry.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:13 PM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: Kernel Stack Sizes
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:05, Peter Maas wrote:
> > > I have downloaded the linuxant kernels and installed
> them. The nVidia
> > > drivers and ndiswrapper work after a fashion. However, I
> just discovered
> > > that the sound drivers in FC2 no longer work as well. As
> much as I would
> > > like to reap the benefits of the 2.6 kernel, heigh-ho
> heigh-ho it's back
> > > to FC1 I go. Or maybe I'll try Mandrake.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > This is not a Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, Suse, etc issue
> here, this is a,
> > After vanilla kernel 2.6.6, 4K stacks are enforced, Linus
> has spoken from on
> > high, the discussion about it being in the kernel is over.
> From this point
> > on its all about bugfixes, if you find a problem, notify
> the person in
> > charge of fixing it.
>
> I understand all of this on a philosophical level and from the kernel
> purist point of view. I guess my point is that the most
> beautiful kernel
> in the world doesn't do anyone any good if it won't operate
> the hardware
> that is being supplied with most of the systems being sold
> today. Isn't
> it the responsibility of the distributions to provide a full O/S that
> functions on as many systems as possible? Red Hat has certainly never
> been shy about distributing modified kernels before now. That
> is more a
> matter of survival than of purity.
>
> Another point: Linux has made great strides with the hardware
> vendors. A
> few short years ago, a company like nVidia would never have even
> considered producing a Linux driver, binary or otherwise. Does it make
> sense now to get up in their faces and say, in essence, "you
> will now do
> things to suit us?" Remember, they have little or no incentive to do
> anything for Linux.
>
> I'm not advocating that Linux should dumb down for the masses
> and end up
> being just another M$ Windows, but I think it is a wise team that
> recognizes every user of their O/S is not interested in being a kernel
> hacker. I have built my share of custom kernels to suit
> arcane hardware
> and I have even written some device drivers myself, but I don't have
> time to do that constantly and neither do the majority of Linux users.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> --
> Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis(a)surry.net>
>
>
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19 years, 10 months
