Guidelines for huge spec changelogs?
by Michael Schwendt
Some [or many?] packages in the collection contain really huge spec
%changelog sections, which contain entries that date back as far as
the middle 90's.
It is not unusual that entries, which are several years old, have become
irrelevant or wrong or get lost among several dozen entries like "rebuilt"
or "update to x.y.z". The changelogs however are included in the rpm
packages completely and also in web pages generated from them, e.g. in
koji or repoview.
Do we have any guidelines about what to do with them and whether it
is permitted to strip the changelogs from time to time? (and if so,
whether to archive them anywhere other than in cvs?)
Not a big issue, not at all, I'm just curious. ;o)
16 years, 11 months
A word on package management
by J French
Package management could be greatly sped up if the header files were
split into two separate files, one containing only the package's
version, dependencies and conflicts and the other containing all of the
information that people don't normally look at (license, author,
changelog, etc)
Realistically speaking, all of the other package information could be
gained by someone who cares to read it with something like "yum viewinfo
thepackage". Some changes to createrepo and yum itself would probably
make implementation of this rather simple.
On the subject of licenses, at least the GPL should exist in an RPM by
itself and be a dependency of all packages covered under that license.
The same could be done for other licenses as well and this would ensure
the end user had a copy on system. Of course, this would require a bit
of work by the package management team as the dependency would need to
be added to all of those package. Even better, the proper license RPM
could be dictated by the License field already in those files.
Thoughts?
-Jeremy
16 years, 11 months
rc2 includes old kernel in new grub.conf
by sean darcy
upgrading t4 -> rc2, chose new bootloader, grub.
Here's the new grub.conf:
cat grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3190.fc7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3190.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5
title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
3190 was the t4 kernel. And vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3190.fc7 has
been removed. So on reboot, you get a file not found error
for the default boot kernel.
fedora-base does boot.
sean
16 years, 11 months
rc2 3190 kernel BUG
by sean darcy
On amd64:
...............
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Not
tainted)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80229e7b>] local_bh_enable+0x42/0x98
[<ffffffff8025c008>] cond_resched_softirq+0x35/0x4b
[<ffffffff8022e9f5>] release_sock+0x59/0xaa
[<ffffffff802252a6>] tcp_sendmsg+0x9ae/0xab8
[<ffffffff8020a06e>] __link_path_walk+0xd78/0xd9c
[<ffffffff8024ea00>] sock_sendmsg+0xea/0x107
[<ffffffff80293107>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff8020e438>] __alloc_pages+0x72/0x2d4
[<ffffffff803e81d1>] sys_sendto+0x128/0x151
[<ffffffff80225f79>] do_filp_open+0x1c/0x38
[<ffffffff8025711e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
..............
This does _not_ appear on a dual pentium D, nocona.
sean
16 years, 11 months
t4 upgrade from fc6: fails on lvm fstab naming
by sean darcy
Upgrading from fc6 to T4, fstab:
LABEL=/ / ext3
defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc
defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs
defaults 0 0
LABEL=WIN /win vfat
defaults 0 0
LABEL=Swap-sda3 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/dev/video-vol/video /video ext3
defaults 1 2
/dev/video-vol/swap swap swap
defaults 0 0
The upgrade died with a message about the /dev/video-vol/*
entries. Couldn't find how to LABEL lvm partitions, so just
deleted them from fstab, then installed.
After install, I added the lvm partitions back into fstab,
just as above. That works fine.
I couldn't find anything about this in bz, and I'm not sure
how to report it, or even if it is a bug.
sean
16 years, 11 months
IPv6 is explicitly disabled
by Steve Hill
I'm running rawhide and have 2 files in /etc/modprobe.d which are not
owned by any package and both contain the line "install ipv6 /bin/true".
The files are called disable-ipv6 and disable-ipv6-0 - with these files
present the ipv6 module is never loaded and therefore IPv6 will never
work, even when you explicitly configure the network to use IPv6 and have
a router advertising itself.
This seems like a backwards step - it causes problems for those of us who
use IPv6 networks in our day to day lives and doesn't exactly help promote
the badly needed migration towards IPv6.
Is there a good reason for disabling IPv6 by default (it's worth noting
that not only did previous releases of Fedora enable it by default, but so
does Mac OS X and I believe Windows Vista)?
--
- Steve
xmpp:steve@nexusuk.org sip:steve@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/
Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence
16 years, 11 months
Fedora 7 RC Live images available via torrent
by Jeremy Katz
RC of the Fedora 7 Live image set (i686, x86_64, i686 KDE and x86_64
KDE) are now available at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org.
Note that the i686 images require an i686 class machine and should be
able to be burned on 700 meg CD images.
The x86_64 images are more intended for DVD media, but brave souls may
get away with the extended CD formats :-)
Thanks for your testing help!
Jeremy
16 years, 11 months
RFC: Fedora 8 and KDE 4
by Kevin Kofler
Last week, I have prepared a draft document detailing how to go on with KDE 4
in Fedora as I see it:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KevinKofler/F8KDE4Plan
This has already gotten some quick looks and positive reactions at last week's
KDE SIG meeting. However, not all interested parties were present. Now that the
CVS devel branch has unfrozen for Fedora 8, I think it's time to subject this
to broader discussion.
Once a plan is agreed on, we need to put the result (something like this
document, probably this document with some edits) into a more official
namespace on the wiki.
Kevin Kofler
16 years, 11 months
Fedora Extras Package Build Report 2007-05-25
by Fedora Koji Build System
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 6: 17
bugzilla-3.0-2.fc6
fail2ban-0.8.0-7.fc6
jss-4.2.4-6.fc6
ocaml-3.09.3-2.fc6
NEW perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.04-2.fc6 : Perl interface to OpenSSL for Random
NEW perl-Math-Base85-0.2-2.fc6 : Perl extension for base 85 numbers, as referenced by RFC 1924
plone-2.5.3-1.fc6
poker-engine-1.0.25-1.fc6
poker-eval-134.0-1.fc6
poker-network-1.0.37-1.fc6
poker2d-1.0.37-1.fc6
pypoker-eval-134.0-1.fc6
NEW ruby-shadow-1.4.1-5.fc6 : Ruby bindings for shadow password access
smolt-0.9.8.1-1.fc6
NEW surfraw-1.0.7-3.fc6 : Shell Users Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
ufraw-0.11-8.fc6
zope-2.9.7-2.fc6
Packages built and released for Fedora Extras 5: 9
fail2ban-0.8.0-7.fc5
plone-2.5.3-1.fc5
poker-engine-1.0.25-1.fc5
poker-eval-134.0-1.fc5
poker-network-1.0.37-1.fc5.1
poker2d-1.0.37-1.fc5.1
pypoker-eval-134.0-1.fc5
NEW ruby-shadow-1.4.1-5.fc5 : Ruby bindings for shadow password access
zope-2.9.7-2.fc5
Changes in Fedora Extras 6:
bugzilla-3.0-2.fc6
------------------
* Fri May 18 2007 John Berninger <jwb at redhat dot com> - 3.0-2
- update Requires for bz's 241037, 241206
fail2ban-0.8.0-7.fc6
--------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> - 0.8.0-7
- logrotate should restart fail2ban (Zing <zing(a)fastmail.fm>).
- send mail to root; logrotate (Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com>)
jss-4.2.4-6.fc6
---------------
* Thu May 24 2007 Rob Crittenden <rcritten(a)redhat.com> 4.2.4-6
- Use _jnidir macro instead of _javadir for the jar files. This will break
multilib installs but adheres to the jpackage spec.
ocaml-3.09.3-2.fc6
------------------
* Thu May 24 2007 Gerard Milmeister <gemi(a)bluewin.ch> - 3.09.3-2
- added ocamlobjinfo
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.04-2.fc6
------------------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Wes Hardaker <wjhns174(a)hardakers.net> - 0.04-2
- Add document file: LICENSE
* Mon May 21 2007 Wes Hardaker <wjhns174(a)hardakers.net> - 0.04-1
- Update to upstream 0.4 with proper license
* Mon May 14 2007 Wes Hardaker <wjhns174(a)hardakers.net> - 0.03-3
- BuildRequire perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
* Tue May 08 2007 Wes Hardaker <wjhns174(a)hardakers.net> - 0.03-2
- Add BuildRequire openssl-devel
- Don't manually require openssl
- Use vendorarch instead of vendorlib
perl-Math-Base85-0.2-2.fc6
--------------------------
* Tue May 22 2007 Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <foolish[AT]guezz.net> - 0.2-2
- Add rfc1924.txt to %doc
- Remove unnecessary BR
- Fix license tag
* Sat May 05 2007 Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <foolish[AT]guezz.net> - 0.2-1
- Initial build
plone-2.5.3-1.fc6
-----------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Jonathan Steffan <jon a fedoraunity.org> 2.5.3-1
- Fixed CacheFu squid scripts (removed pyc and pyo)
- Updated to 2.5.3
poker-engine-1.0.25-1.fc6
-------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.25-1
- Upstream sync
poker-eval-134.0-1.fc6
----------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 134.0-1
- Upstream sync
- Minor spec file cleanups
poker-network-1.0.37-1.fc6
--------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1
- Upstream sync
- Remove no longer needed db patch
poker2d-1.0.37-1.fc6
--------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1
- Upstream sync
* Thu Mar 15 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.36-1
- Upstream sync
pypoker-eval-134.0-1.fc6
------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 134.0-1
- Upstream sync
- Remove libtool archive instead of %excluding it
ruby-shadow-1.4.1-5.fc6
-----------------------
* Fri May 18 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-5
Removed the ruby abi macro since it doesn't work in mock
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-4
Cleaner ruby abi macro
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-3
Fixed struct defines (0 != NULL in C)
Calculate ruby abi at runtime instead of a hard coded version
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-2
Converted README.euc to utf8 README.ja
Patched extconf.rb to use provided CFLAGS
* Mon May 14 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-1
Initial rpm release
smolt-0.9.8.1-1.fc6
-------------------
* Thu May 24 2007 Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.8.1
- Upstream released new version
surfraw-1.0.7-3.fc6
-------------------
* Mon May 14 2007 Joe Rozner <livinded(a)deadbytes.net> 1.0.7-3
- Added BuildArch to build as noarch.
- Removed dependencies for browsers so that users will not need all three.
* Sat May 12 2007 Joe Rozner <livinded(a)deadbytes.net> 1.0.7-2
- Added dependencies for links, links, w3m, and screen.
- Fixed the license to be the correct one.
ufraw-0.11-8.fc6
----------------
* Thu May 24 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-8
- use correct patch
* Thu May 24 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-7
- prevent crash in CMS error handler (#239147)
* Wed Apr 25 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject> - 0.11-6
- exiv2 patch (#237846)
* Wed Apr 25 2007 Rex Dieter <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject> - 0.11-5
- respin for exiv2-0.14
* Tue Apr 24 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-4
- eventually put GConf2, shared-mime-info requirements into -common subpackage
(#235583)
* Mon Mar 12 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-3
- split pkg from fc6/rhel5 on to avoid upgrading mess
* Mon Mar 12 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-2
- use %rhel, not %redhat
* Mon Mar 12 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.11-1
- version 0.11
* Mon Feb 19 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-2
- don't ship dcraw binary (#229044)
* Wed Feb 07 2007 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-1
- version 0.10
- add BR: perl, exiv2-devel, gettext
- split standalone tools and GIMP plugin in Rawhide
zope-2.9.7-2.fc6
----------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Jonathan Steffan <jon a fedoraunity.org> 2.9.7-2
- Added zope.pth to fix misc. zope scripts including some zeo stuff
Changes in Fedora Extras 5:
fail2ban-0.8.0-7.fc5
--------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> - 0.8.0-7
- logrotate should restart fail2ban (Zing <zing(a)fastmail.fm>).
- send mail to root; logrotate (Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com>)
plone-2.5.3-1.fc5
-----------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Jonathan Steffan <jon a fedoraunity.org> 2.5.3-1
- Fixed CacheFu squid scripts (removed pyc and pyo)
- Updated to 2.5.3
poker-engine-1.0.25-1.fc5
-------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.25-1
- Upstream sync
poker-eval-134.0-1.fc5
----------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 134.0-1
- Upstream sync
- Minor spec file cleanups
poker-network-1.0.37-1.fc5.1
----------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1.fc5.1
- Fix BR for FC5
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1
- Upstream sync
- Remove no longer needed db patch
poker2d-1.0.37-1.fc5.1
----------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1.fc5.1
- Add SOAPpy to BR for FC5
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.37-1
- Upstream sync
* Thu Mar 15 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.36-1
- Upstream sync
* Mon Feb 19 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 1.0.35-3
- Remove NIHPHOBIA from %doc
- Remove libtool archive files
pypoker-eval-134.0-1.fc5
------------------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> 134.0-1
- Upstream sync
- Remove libtool archive instead of %excluding it
ruby-shadow-1.4.1-5.fc5
-----------------------
* Fri May 18 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-5
Removed the ruby abi macro since it doesn't work in mock
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-4
Cleaner ruby abi macro
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-3
Fixed struct defines (0 != NULL in C)
Calculate ruby abi at runtime instead of a hard coded version
* Tue May 15 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-2
Converted README.euc to utf8 README.ja
Patched extconf.rb to use provided CFLAGS
* Mon May 14 2007 Kostas Georgiou <k.georgiou(a)imperial.ac.uk> 1.4.1-1
Initial rpm release
zope-2.9.7-2.fc5
----------------
* Wed May 23 2007 Jonathan Steffan <jon a fedoraunity.org> 2.9.7-2
- Added zope.pth to fix misc. zope scripts including some zeo stuff
For more information about the built packages please see the repository
or the Fedora Info Feed: http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/
16 years, 11 months
