devel January 2005

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upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my iso-mounted files, how do I do it? i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc.. Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks. Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use apt-cdrom. Thanks. With kind regards, Didier. --- PhD student Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\ didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken; and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what exactly needs to be fixed. Consider something like this: LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no)) Here's what happens on x86_64: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5 /tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main': /home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to `res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5147: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [ blah blah blah ] | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | char res_query (); | int | main () | { | res_query (); | ; | return 0; | } The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work. The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64 in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype. So, what now?

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DMRaid in Fedora devel
by Mark Wormgoor 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi, Attached are three patches that I made to get Fedora-devel to install on a bios sata raid-0 system (Sil 3112 on Abit AN7). It uses Heinz Mauelshagen's dmraid for detecting the disks. The first patch is against Anaconda. It removes the raid disks from the isys disklist and replaces them with the mapper device. The patch requires the full (not enable-mini) dmraid binary in the stage 2 image. I tested the patched Anaconda in install, upgrade and rescue mode (text and gui) and had no problems on my system. The second patch is against mkinitrd. It adds /sbin/dmraid.static to the initrd if necessary and updates the initscript. The /sbin/dmraid.static binary is not yet a part of the current dmraid rpm, so you need to provide your own. The third patch is against rc.sysinit so that dmraid.static is run at boot. Again, you need the full dmraid binary under /sbin/dmraid.static (not enable-mini) because the rc.sysinit script uses the testmode first before enabling the mapper devices. I now have a Fedora-devel system booting from my two raid-0 disks. Unfortunately, there is no bootloader for /dev/mapper devices. There is a patch against lilo to make it work on devmapper devices here (http://www.saout.de/misc/) and Eric Agsjö has a patch to make it work with raid-1 devices here (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2004-October/msg00007.html) I am still using lilo under FC1 (using the medley.o module) and that works for me. I hope someone finds these patches useful; it would be very nice if FC4 would install on and boot from these bios ide raid devices without too much hacking. Kind regards, Mark Wormgoor -- *************************************************************** * |\ /| | /| / Mark Wormgoor * * | \ / | | / | / mailto:mark@wormgoor.com * * | \/ |ark |/ |/ormgoor http://www.wormgoor.com/mark/ * ***************************************************************

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Emacs cvs snapshot packages available
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

I finally got round to packaging a snapshot of current development Emacs from CVS. Noone knows when the next actual release of Emacs will be, but there are many new features and changes: improved utf-8 and gtk2 support in particular. See http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/ for more details. Enjoy and please report any problems directly to me (ie not to bugzilla or the emacs-devel list:), Jens

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Proposal: swap epic for irssi
by Colin Charles 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi, For FC-4, what would folk think about removing epic and replacing it with irssi in Core? irssi currently sits in Extras, and we could very likely just move epic to Extras after the swap. Thoughts? -- Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

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grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]
by Trever L. Adams 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

So, why is grip being removed? Sound Juicer does not yet allow quality selection. Trever -- "Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who reason with the head." -- DeLescure

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binary rpm package checking
by Florian La Roche 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

This is a start to check binary rpm packages for consistency. Right now mostly the rpm header is checked to get a feeling how much "strange" binary rpm packages might be out there. It has two modes of checking, one for the current Fedora Development tree with more strict checks and a more relaxed one that should work for all existing rpm packages, also other distributions. I'd be interested to get feedback on what output is generated for rpm addon expositories and non - Red Hat distributions if the script generates warning messages. At least for Fedora Core only very few rpm tags are actually used in the rpm header. Examples usage: ./pyrpm.py --strict /mirror/fedora/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/*.rpm Checking all rpms: locate .rpm | xargs ./pyrpm.py find /mirror/linux -name "*.rpm" -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 ./pyrpm.py greetings, Florian La Roche

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fedora stable branch updates Q&A policy
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

What is this policy today? Who does the testing before an update is released for large numbers of users to install via yum? I am wondering, not because there are very many bad updates (99% of them are OK), but i simply wonder - who does this? And who does this for extras? Personally, i would believe a q&a mailinglist and a "testing" repo for yum could be a good idea, in order to get packages as good tested as possible - as fast as possible. Kyrre

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redhat abe
by Christof Damian 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I just read about RedHat ABE (Application Build Environment) which seems to be something similar to mach. Will this be available or work on fedora? Has anyone tried it ? I found some info here: http://people.redhat.com/mwaite/ Christof -- Christof Damian christof(a)damian.net

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radical suggestion for fc4 release
by seth vidal 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

Hi folks, this is a touch silly but possibly useful and it would definitely cut down on the old crap blocking up cdroms. how about if we kill all rpm spec file changelog entries OLDER than 2 years. they'll still live on in older srpms and rpms but it'd be a useful reduction and it would make the specfiles that much smaller, along with the rpm headers. thoughts? -sv

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