Where Do I Debug Issues With An App Packaged By Fedora?
by Tim Spaulding
I'm an engineer and a user of Fedora. I've used Fedora at work for years now. Recently, I've run
into some problems using Evolution with our corporate exchange server. Figuring this was my
chance to get involved with the community, I started digging into the Fedora and Gnome projects
trying to figure out how to proceed. The big question I have is: Which project should I start
with?
Fedora packages Evolution, but as I understand it, doesn't really add anything to its development
other than bug reports and some fixes. Would it be more appropriate to start by installing the
development versions of Evolution from Gnome? Should I start by installing from rawhide?
How do you make a decision about where to start debugging? Also, I'd love to hear anyone's
strategies with debugging a specific application on Fedora without disrupting the rest of the
machine.
Thanks,
tims
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17 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20070319 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
glibc-2.5.90-19
---------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.5.90-19
- fix power6 libm compat symbols on ppc32 (#232633)
- fix child refcntr in NPTL fork (#230198)
- fix ifaddrs with many net devices on > 4KB page size arches (#230151)
- fix pthread_mutex_timedlock on x86_64 (#228103)
- various fixes (BZ#3919, BZ#4101, BZ#4130, BZ#4181, BZ#4069, BZ#3458)
* Wed Feb 21 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.5.90-18
- fix nftw with FTW_CHDIR on / (BZ#4076)
- nscd fixes (BZ#4074)
- fix fmod{,f,l} on i?86 (BZ#3325)
- support localized digits for fp values in *scanf (BZ#2211)
- namespaces fixes (BZ#2633)
- fix euidaccess (BZ#3842)
- glob fixes (BZ#3996)
- assorted locale data fixes (BZ#1430, BZ#672, BZ#58, BZ#3156,
BZ#2692, BZ#2648, BZ#3363, BZ#3334, BZ#3326, BZ#3322, BZ#3995,
BZ#3885, BZ#3884, BZ#3851)
scim-tables-0.5.7-2.fc7
-----------------------
* Mon Mar 19 2007 Caius Chance <cchance(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.7-2.fc7
- Fixed bz#217639: scim-tables Chang-Jie preedit was not cleared after focus
out then focus in.
startup-notification-0.9-1.fc7
------------------------------
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.9-1
- Update to 0.9
system-config-date-1.8.90-1.fc7
-------------------------------
* Mon Mar 19 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> 1.8.90
- add tooltip to zoomed-in canvas to describe panning
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- display to-be-selected city inside map instead of status bar (#211550)
- remove remaining regions cruft
- make currently selected city non-selectable
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com>
- implement panning of zoomed timezone map
system-config-printer-0.7.56-2.fc7
----------------------------------
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 0.7.56-2
- Updated to pycups-1.9.18.
xorg-x11-drv-via-0.2.2-1.fc7
----------------------------
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com> 0.2.2-1
- Update to 0.2.2
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 2 months
Problem setting up IP MASQUERADE with recent kernels
by Joseph Sacco
Problem
-------
With recent 2.6.21.x kernels IP-Masquerading, required by
Mac-On-Linux, has stopped working as expected.
Question
--------
Has anyone successfully set up IP Masquerading using a recent
kernel?
Discussion
----------
Mac-On-Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-on-linux/
is a Linux/PPC program that virtualizes MacOS or MacOSX in Linux. MOL
uses an IP tunnel to eastabish communications between the Linux host and
the virtualized MAC operating system.
-Ethernet----------------------------------------
| |
130.237.226.234 | 130.237.226.239
eth0 | other_machine
linux
tun1 |
192.168.41.1 |
| virtual
+--- ip-tunnel ------- MOL
192.168.41.2
The Linux host performs network address translation to enable MOL to
communicate with the external network.
The mechanisms used by Mac-On-Linux to set up the IP tunnel and set up
NAT have worked successfully with 2.4.x and 2.6.x series kernels until
recently. Mac-on-Linux networking works correctly when run on FC6. It
has also run on fedora/rawhide with earlier 2.6.20.x kernels.
Two thoughts come to mind:
* a kernel module has gone missing ==> kernel configuration
problem
* "something has changed" with how IP-Masquerading is setup /
works.
I have examined the kernel configuration file for IPV4 netfiltering and
have not found any obvious omissions. [That does not mean that there are
no omissions of required modules. It just means I did not spot them.]
The only "suspect" is CONN_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT.
What appears to be happening with the latest kernels is some necessary
kernel modules are not being loaded initially.
Consider the output from 'lsmod' from two successive attempts of
starting Mac-On-Linux:
Attempt #1
----------
Mac-On-Linux comes up. Networking is borked.
[output from ldmod]
Module Size Used by
nf_nat 20660 0
nf_conntrack_ipv4 13448 1
nf_conntrack 73408 2 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink 8344 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
ip_tables 14900 0
x_tables 18404 1 ip_tables
tun 13728 1
mol 59304 1
Conspicuously absent from this list are
* iptable_nat
* ipt_MASQUERADE
Running 'dmesg' may provide a hint:
[output from dmesg]
MOL 0.9.73-SVN kernel module loaded
PM: Adding info for No Bus:mol
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk(a)qualcomm.com>
PM: Adding info for No Bus:tun
PM: Adding info for No Bus:tun1
Hmmmm... "can't setup rules." There it is again. Wonder what's going on.
Thoughts???
-Joseph
--
jsacco [at] gnome [dot] org
17 years, 2 months
50% speed penalty for LVM on mdraid
by Andy Burns
I have an F7/rawhide machine with 6x400GB SATA II disks all
partitioned as 100MB + 399.9GB
/boot is on /dev/sda1 (would be RAID1 across /dev/sd[abc]1 partitions
except for mkinitrd raid1.ko breakage) with /dev/md1 as RAID5 on
/dev/sd[abcdef]2
Then a single LVM vg00 on top of /dev/md1
root and swap as LVs within vg00 and plenty of spare space.
Doing some timings of the various block devices (so far just roughly
with hdparm, bonnie installed for more detail later). Results of
"hdparm -Tt" averaged over a few runs, showing cached and buffered
speeds
/dev/sda1 gives 1995MB/s and 72MB/s which seems quite good for a single spindle
/dev/md1 gives 2040MB/s and 260MB/s also fairly good (I had hoped with
six spindles and parity to get closer to 5x performance than 3.5x)
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv01 (my root fs) gives 2100MB/s and 135MB/s which is
a little disappointing
Nearly a 50% speed penalty seems a heavy price to pay for LVM, is
there any slow debug code currently in rawhide that might explain it?
Could I have some bad choices of block sizes between RAID/LVM layers
which are reducing throughput by splitting reads? Anything else?
17 years, 2 months
Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2007-03-18
by Fedora Koji Build System
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras development: 19
R-2.4.1-4.fc7
Zim-0.18-1.fc7
aumix-2.8-13.fc7
NEW giggle-0.1-3.fc7
gimmie-0.2.5-1.fc7
gnome-schedule-1.1.0-2.fc7
grip-3.2.0-16.fc7
gweled-0.7-8.fc7
hatari-0.90-6.fc7
jd-1.8.8-0.2.cvs070318.fc7
kronolith-2.1.5-1.fc7
libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.50-2.fc7
ngspice-17-11.fc7
notecase-1.4.5-1.fc7
qucs-0.0.11-1.fc7
scribes-0.3.1-1.fc7
sysprof-kmod-1.0.8-1.2.6.20_1.2997.fc7
xca-0.6.0-1.fc7
xmlrpc-c-1.06.11-1.fc7
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 6: 16
R-2.4.1-4.fc6
Zim-0.18-1.fc6
aumix-2.8-13.fc6
buildbot-0.7.5-1.fc6
NEW giggle-0.1-3.fc6
gimmie-0.2.5-1.fc6
grip-3.2.0-16.fc6
gweled-0.7-8.fc6
hatari-0.90-6.fc6
imp-4.1.4-1.fc6
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc6.1
ngspice-17-11.fc6
notecase-1.4.5-1.fc6
qucs-0.0.11-1.fc6
scribes-0.3.1-1.fc6
xmlrpc-c-1.06.11-1.fc6
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 5: 10
R-2.4.1-4.fc5
Zim-0.18-1.fc5
aumix-2.8-13.fc5
grip-3.2.0-16.fc5
hatari-0.90-6.fc5
imp-4.1.4-1.fc5
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc5.1
ngspice-17-11.fc5
qucs-0.0.11-1.fc5
xmlrpc-c-1.06.11-1.fc5
aumix-2.8-13.fc7
----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu> 2.8-13
- bumped rel. to 13, to be ahead of latest core (unreleased) cvs
giggle-0.1-3.fc7
----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 James Bowes <jbowes(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-3
- Minor specfile fixes from the initial review.
* Fri Mar 09 2007 James Bowes <jbowes(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-2
- Use desktop-file-install for the desktop file.
* Wed Mar 07 2007 James Bowes <jbowes(a)redhat.com> - 0.1-1
- Initial packaging.
gimmie-0.2.5-1.fc7
------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Deji Akingunola <dakingun(a)gmail.com> - 0.2.5-1
- New release
* Thu Mar 01 2007 Deji Akingunola <dakingun(a)gmail.com> - 0.2.4-1
- New release
gnome-schedule-1.1.0-2.fc7
--------------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Frank Arnold <frank(a)scirocco-5v-turbo.de> 1.1.0-2
- Added BuildRequires gnome-python2-devel gnome-python2-gconf
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Frank Arnold <frank(a)scirocco-5v-turbo.de> 1.1.0-1
- Updated to 1.1.0
- Fix for help display problems (GNOME 419213)
- Fix for help build problems (GNOME 409311)
grip-3.2.0-16.fc7
-----------------
* Wed Jan 17 2007 Adrian Reber <adrian(a)lisas.de> - 1:3.2.0-16
- fixes for #220777, #222574, #232755
gweled-0.7-8.fc7
----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora[AT]leemhuis.info> - 0.7-8
- create gweled.timed.scores manually, fixes 232184
hatari-0.90-6.fc7
-----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Andrea Musuruane <musuruan(a)gmail.com> 0.90-6.fc7
- dropped --add-category X-Fedora from desktop-file-install
- changed .desktop category to Game;Emulator;
- now using sed to fix makefile not to strip binaries during make install
- cosmetic changes to BR section
jd-1.8.8-0.2.cvs070318.fc7
--------------------------
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.8-0.2.cvs070318
- cvs 070318 (12:25 JST)
kronolith-2.1.5-1.fc7
---------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Brandon Holbrook <fedora at theholbrooks.org> 2.1.5-1
- Upgraded to upstream 2.1.5
libnetfilter_conntrack-0.0.50-2.fc7
-----------------------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Paul P. Komkoff Jr <i(a)stingr.net> - 0.0.50-2
- new way of handling rpaths (as in current packaging guidelines)
ngspice-17-11.fc7
-----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> 17-11
- droped patch: ngspice-bjt.patch, upstream will provide a better patch soon
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> 17-10
- fixed bug #227519 in spec file - Ville Skyttä
- patch: ngspice-bjt.patch fixes the problem with bjt devices that have less than five nodes
notecase-1.4.5-1.fc7
--------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Damien Durand <splinux(a)fedoraproject.org> 1.4.5-1
- Upgrade to 1.4.5
- Fix desktop file
qucs-0.0.11-1.fc7
-----------------
* Sun Mar 18 2007 Eric Tanguy <eric.tanguy(a)univ-nantes.fr> - 0.0.11-1
- Update to 0.0.11
R-2.4.1-4.fc7
-------------
* Tue Mar 13 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2.4.1-4
- get rid of termcap related requires, replace with ncurses
- use java-1.5.0-gcj instead of old java-1.4.2
- add /usr/share/R/library as a valid R_LIBS directory for noarch bits
scribes-0.3.1-1.fc7
-------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Peter Gordon <peter(a)thecodergeek.com> - 0.3.1-1
- Update to new upstream release (0.3.1).
- Update Source0 URL
- Drop pygobject2 as a run-time dependency (since it's pulled in by pygtk2).
- Drop the fix-plugins-installation-dir patch (this bug was fixed upstream):
- fix-plugins-installation-dir.patch
- Don't mark installed GConf schemas file as %config.
sysprof-kmod-1.0.8-1.2.6.20_1.2997.fc7
--------------------------------------
xca-0.6.0-1.fc7
---------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.6.0-1
- updated to 0.6.0
- removed old patches
xmlrpc-c-1.06.11-1.fc7
----------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz(a)informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 1.06.11-1
- updated to 1.06.11
Zim-0.18-1.fc7
--------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Chris Weyl <cweyl(a)alumni.drew.edu> 0.18-1
- update to 0.18
- fix homepage/download links
- drop dep on shared-mime-info as bz#215972 has been resolved
For more information about the built packages please see the repository
or the Fedora Info Feed: http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/
17 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20070318 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
gcc-4.1.2-5
-----------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.1.2-5
- update from gcc-4_1-branch (-r122833:123011)
- PRs debug/29906, middle-end/30364, middle-end/30433, target/31123
- rebuilt against newer rpm to fix libgcj debuginfo (#232222)
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 2 months
tcl in rawhide
by Sander Hoentjen
Hi,
when updating tcl in rawhide i get the following:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# yum update tcl
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
Checking deps for tcl.x86_64 1-8.4.13-12.fc7 - None
Checking deps for tcl.x86_64 1-8.4.13-13.fc7 - u
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository
Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
tcl x86_64 1:8.4.13-13.fc7 development
1.8 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : tcl #########################
[1/2]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/tcl8.4: cpio:
rename
Updated: tcl.x86_64 1:8.4.13-13.fc7
Complete!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have 2 comments about this:
- Should yum complain about this, like putting failed instead of
complete? (first time i didn't notice the update failed)
- I think the problem is because in the tcl specfile there is:
mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_prefix}/lib
ln -s %{_datadir}/%{name}%{majorver} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/%{name}%{majorver}
the top line should have libdir too of course. If this is the problem, why doesn't the build fail instead of failing on install time?
Sander
17 years, 2 months
Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2007-03-17
by Fedora Koji Build System
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras development: 20
abcm2ps-5.3.1-1.fc7
bwm-ng-0.6-1.fc7
comix-3.6.3-1.fc7
firmware-addon-dell-1.2.4-1.fc7
firmware-tools-1.2.4-1.fc7
gdal-1.4.0-16.fc7
NEW gle-4.0.12a-1.fc7
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-4.fc7
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc7
lat-1.2.2-2.fc7
linphone-1.6.0-4.fc7
linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc7
openvrml-0.16.3-4.fc7
paraview-2.4.4-6.fc7
perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.14-1.fc7
smolt-0.9.4-1.fc7
sysprof-kmod-1.0.8-1.2.6.20_1.2990.fc7
NEW tetrinetx-1.13.16-2.fc7
wesnoth-1.2.3-1.fc7
xmoto-0.2.6-2.fc7
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 6: 24
abcm2ps-5.3.1-1.fc6
aquamarine-0.2.0-1.fc6
bdock-0.2.0-1.fc6
beryl-core-0.2.0-1.fc6
beryl-manager-0.2.0-1.fc6
beryl-plugins-0.2.0-1.fc6
beryl-settings-0.2.0-1.fc6
comix-3.6.3-1.fc6
emerald-0.2.0-1.fc6
emerald-themes-0.2.0-1.fc6
NEW firmware-addon-dell-1.2.4-1.fc6
gdal-1.4.0-16.fc6
NEW gle-4.0.12a-1.fc6
heliodor-0.2.0-1.fc6
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc6
lat-1.2.2-2.fc6
linphone-1.5.1-4.fc6
linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc6
openvrml-0.16.3-3.fc6
perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.14-1.fc6
smolt-0.9.4-1.fc6
NEW tetrinetx-1.13.16-2.fc6
wesnoth-1.2.3-1.fc6
xmoto-0.2.6-2.fc6
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 5: 8
Inventor-2.1.5-26.fc5
comix-3.6.3-1.fc5
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc5
linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc5
perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.14-1.fc5
smolt-0.9.4-1.fc5
NEW tetrinetx-1.13.16-2.fc5
xmoto-0.2.6-2.fc5
abcm2ps-5.3.1-1.fc7
-------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Gerard Milmeister <gemi(a)bluewin.ch> - 5.3.1-1
- new version 5.3.1
bwm-ng-0.6-1.fc7
----------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Patrick "Jima" Laughton <jima(a)beer.tclug.org> 0.6-1
- Update
- Filename change: changelog -> ChangeLog
- Removed tag at start of spec (since I don't use it)
comix-3.6.3-1.fc7
-----------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 3.6.3-1
- 3.6.3
firmware-addon-dell-1.2.4-1.fc7
-------------------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown at dell.com> - 1.2.4-1
- Add ExcludeArch to fix problem where f-a-d was being added to ppc repo
firmware-tools-1.2.4-1.fc7
--------------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown at dell.com> - 1.2.4-1
- fix typo in sitelib path -- only for RHEL3 build
gdal-1.4.0-16.fc7
-----------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Balint Cristian <cbalint(a)redhat.com> 1.4.0-16
- fix gdal flag from pkgconfig file
gle-4.0.12a-1.fc7
-----------------
* Tue Mar 13 2007 Terje Rosten <terjeros(a)phys.ntnu.no> - 4.0.12a-1
- New src upstream, lots of fixes
- Dropped subpackage: see updated LICENSE.txt
- Add ghostscript to req
- Add PDF doc
* Mon Mar 12 2007 Terje Rosten <terjeros(a)phys.ntnu.no> - 4.0.12-4
- Try to fix X11 preview support
- Drop preserve timestamps patch
* Mon Mar 12 2007 Terje Rosten <terjeros(a)phys.ntnu.no> - 4.0.12-3
- Subpackage: gui (different license on gui)
- Fix perms on src files (for debug pkg)
- Fix src url
- Fix LICENSE.txt
- Preserve timestamps
- More info: bz #229676
* Thu Feb 22 2007 Terje Rosten <terjeros(a)phys.ntnu.no> - 4.0.12-2
- Spec cleanup
- Build and ship qgle
- Add patch to avoid stripping
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-4.fc7
----------------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.0.0-4.fc7
- Remove config(noreplace) markings on security.d files.
- Make java-1.4.2-gcj-compat* provides strictly-greater-than
1.4.2.0-40jpp.111.
- Remove gjdoc build requirement.
- Import java-gcj-compat 1.0.72.
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 1.5.0.0-3.fc7
- Require sinjdoc.
jd-1.8.8-0.2.beta070317.fc7
---------------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> - 1.8.8-0.2.beta070317
- 1.8.8 beta 070317
lat-1.2.2-2.fc7
---------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> 1.2.2-2
- Upstream now installs correctly into %{_libdir} rather than %{_prefix}/lib
so there's no need to override the destination directory in %install; this
change gets the plugins installed into the correct directory too (#232278)
linphone-1.6.0-4.fc7
--------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us> - 1.6.0-4
- Fix up encodings in Czech manpages
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us> - 1.6.0-3
- Move autoheader after aclocal, fixes 232592
linux-libertine-fonts-2.4.9-1.fc7
---------------------------------
* Sat Mar 17 2007 Frank Arnold <frank(a)scirocco-5v-turbo.de> 2.4.9-1
- Updated to 2.4.9
- Reenabled generation of PDF files
openvrml-0.16.3-4.fc7
---------------------
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com> - 0.16.3-4
- Updated firefox dependency to 2.0.0.2.
paraview-2.4.4-6.fc7
--------------------
* Thu Mar 08 2007 - Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.wnra.com> - 2.4.4-6
- Don't build mpi version until upstream fixes the build system
* Fri Dec 22 2006 - Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.wnra.com> - 2.4.4-5
- Fix .so permissions
- Patch for const issue
- Patch for new cmake
- Build with openmpi
* Thu Dec 14 2006 - Jef Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> - 2.4.4-4
- Bump and build for python 2.5
perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.14-1.fc7
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* Sat Mar 17 2007 Ralf Corsépius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> - 1.14-1
- Upstream update.
smolt-0.9.4-1.fc7
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* Fri Mar 16 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> 0.9.4-1
- Upstream released new version
- Major changes
- Added initial i18n support (Probably doesn't work)
sysprof-kmod-1.0.8-1.2.6.20_1.2990.fc7
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tetrinetx-1.13.16-2.fc7
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* Tue Mar 13 2007 Francois Aucamp <faucamp(a)csir.co.za> - 1.13.16-2
- Cleaned up sed scripts in %prep
- Replaced config.h patch with sed script in order to support RPM macros
- Removed trademarked names from %description
wesnoth-1.2.3-1.fc7
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* Fri Mar 16 2007 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-1
- Update to 1.2.3.
xmoto-0.2.6-2.fc7
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* Fri Mar 16 2007 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> 0.2.6-1
- Bumped release, build mistake.
* Fri Mar 16 2007 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> 0.2.6-1
- New upstream release.
- Removed Application from .desktop.
- Spec cleanup.
- Fixed man path with patch.
- Removed X-Fedora.
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17 years, 2 months
repoview in our repositories
by Michael Schwendt
I believe the repoview pages in the Extras repository still cause some
mirrors to choke on mirroring many hundreds to thousands of regenerated
html files all few days:
extras-tree$ find . -name \*.html|wc -l
61450
That's how many html pages are in Extras 5+6+devel presently!
The reason is that although repoview doesn't need to create all its web
pages from scratch, it changes many of them too often due to the many
package versions in them, which point to adjacent packages.
For example:
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core-extras/development/i386/...
The navigation bar at the left contains links to 20 packages, which come
before and after "yap-devel" in the alphabetically sorted list of package
names. It links to web page file names, which contain not only the package
name, but also version and release. Changing any of the 20 packages
changes the web pages for all its neighbours. Plus, the navigation bar
lists not only the latest package release, but all releases (which is by
design) found in the repo metadata, although it hides the version-release
and causes confusion.
The more often packages in the neighbourhood of one package are changed,
added or removed, the more web pages are updated due to the heavy use of
package versions in them. Even deleting an old package release triggers
such a rebuild of a chain of web pages.
IMO, we would do better in the short-term if we modified repoview to
simplify the web page file names to just "%{name}.html". Then a package
page would only be updated if the package changed actually or if
the list of its 19 neighbours changed.
What is the estimated popularity of the repoview pages on our master
download site and on the mirrors? Perhaps there are even plans on
making a public interface to the package database obsolete repoview?
Comments?
17 years, 2 months
