Summary of Dropped Packages
by Stephen John Smoogen
I am trying to play pickup as quickly as possible while juggling my
normal job. Is there a summary of all the packages that have been
dropped to meet the 4 CDRom limit? I think xfce and cfengine are on
that list.. but what else?
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19 years, 2 months
nash, initrd, cpio...
by Gildas Bayard
Does anyone knows who I should ask about nash and cpio initrd support?
(see my yesterday post)
Or at least where to ask for someone who knows?
Documentation is often out of date and I could not find any information
about why does FC3 changes initrd format from ext2 fs to cpio archive...
Gildas
19 years, 2 months
re: pup
by The DJ
Thanks for the pointer to pup stuff.
you wrote:-----
But, the pup:yum::synaptic:apt-get thing isn't quite correct, as pup is
designed specifically to only address the issue of package updating,
and
isn't meant to be a general GUI frontend.
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Does this mean it won't be able to be used for yum install or yum remove commands? What a shame. Or is there some other aspect of synaptic that you're assuming I know about (not your fault - mine for using it in the comparison) because I have only used it once almost a year ago.
Are there screenshots of pup anywhere?
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19 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Status - Slip
by Bill Nottingham
Looking at the overlap of the FC4 schedule with the GCC 4.0 schedule,
it appears that shipping GCC 4.0 in FC4 has become viable.
In order to avoid a large duplication of bandwidth by rebuilding
with GCC 4.0 between test releases, Fedora Core 4 Test 1 has now
slipped two weeks to allow for integration of a GCC 4.0 snapshot,
and rebuilds against it.
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is now scheduled for March 14; the schedule
at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ will be updated
shortly.
Quick FAQs:
- Is GCC 4.0 released yet?
No. It's likely to be released around mid-April.
- Does that mean Fedora Core 4 will ship with a pre-release compiler?
We're not *that* crazy. If GCC 4.0 is delayed, we will either
revert, or slip.
- What's so cool about GCC 4.0?
GCC 4.0 includes:
- new intermediate languages that allow for new/better optimizations
http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/
As part of this, this allows for better compile and run-time memory
checking and overflow protection.
- better and more complete Java support
- Fortran 95 support
- Is GCC 4.0 ABI compatbile with GCC-3.4.x?
- For C/C++, yes.
Bill
19 years, 2 months
[ANNOUNCE]: ia64 FC4 Development
by Prarit Bhargava
Hello everyone,
Last week at FUDCon, I presented a 10-15 minute discussion on the an
ia64 FC4 (hopefully ;)) distribution.
I've had interest from several developers and now am going to make a
general call onto the devel list for others who wish to participate.
Please email prarit(a)sgi.com and we'll see where we go from here.
Thanks,
P.
19 years, 2 months
pup
by The DJ
I think about a dozen digests ago someone mentioned a
program called pup replacing yum. Is there somewhere
I can look to see information about this program? Is
pup to yum as synaptic to apt-get or is it completely
independent?
Thanks,
Eric
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19 years, 2 months
nash, cpio and linuxrc
by Gildas Bayard
Hello,
First of all, please direct me to an other mailing list if I'm going off
topic.
I've investigated a bit the initrd system and there are some questions I
could no find answers for:
- why are regular desktop distributions always using the initrd system?
I understand that this system is mandatory to load exotic scsi drivers
or add a pause when booting to usb but I wonder why it is always used
- on kernel 2.4 (red hat 9) the initrd image is an ext2 filesystems. It
contains a linuxrc nash script. On kernel 2.6 (fedora 3) the initrd is a
cpio archive and does not contains a linuxrc script. Could someone
briefly explain me why these differences? Particularly I wondering about
3 things:
1) I tried to repack my custom initrd ext2 filesystem into a cpio
archive and found that when packed as a cpio archive it's not executing
my linuxrc script (is it the way it's supposed to be?)
2) What are the differences between pivot_root and switch_root (new in
2.6) ?
3) Why using nash in the first place? Could we just wait until the end
of the linuxrc script? At that time the kernel would move to the new
root fs (whitout the need for pivot_root or switch_root)
And finally, if I'm right the end of the nash script (after switch_root)
is never executed?
Gildas
19 years, 2 months
udev + usb2 kernel race?
by Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi,
We have a computer acting as a server that locks hard (PS2 keyboard
stops responding, prompt never returns, boot gets no further) when USB2
is enabled on FC3 (there were no lockups with FC1). I finally traced
this down to being some sort of interaction between udev and USB2. The
following steps reproduce the problem:
Boot the kernel with init=/bin/sh
mount -n -t proc /proc /proc
mount -n -t sysfs /sys /sys
/sbin/start_udev
/sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd
The machine will hang and not get any further nor will it respond to a
ctrl-alt-del or sysrq commands.
modprobing uhci-hcd before starting udev causes the problem to disappear
as does disabling USB2 (but leaving USB1 on) in the BIOS. Kernels tested
are kernel-2.6.9-1.667 and kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3. lspci prints the
following USB controller:
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16)
Does this sound like a known issue?
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19 years, 2 months
