KDE-SIG weekly report (09/2008)
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
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= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 09/2008
Time: 2008-02-26 16:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-02-26
Meeting log:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-02-26?action=AttachF...
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= Participants =
- LukasTinkl
- KevinKofler
- RexDieter
- SebastianVahl
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= Agenda =
- PolicyKit integration (#428212)
- Preparing for Beta and Feature Freeze 4 March 2008
- Package list for the live images [1]
- Call for 3.5.9 testing
- KDE 4 packages "branding" (#434815, add -DKDE_DISTRIBUTION_TEXT="Fedora -
packages" to %{cmake_kde4} in /etc/rpm/macros.kde4)
recent bugs:
- CUPS printer configuration broken on x86_64 (#230979, #416101) - fixed in
3.5.9-2
- #434624: Administrator Mode Not Working In KDE Control Center
- #434824: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode
- #374011: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/kdm (xdm_t) "execute" to
(bootloader_exec_t).
- #429966: startkde becomes Zombie Child of gdm-binary on logout
= Summary =
o Preparing for Beta and Feature Freeze 4 March 2008:
- KDE 4.0.2 would be tagged on Feb 27 and be released on Mar 05
- Because this is mostly a bugfix release it should pass rel-eng
- some non-functional KDE 3 packages were EOL'd
- for other packages bugs are already filed
o Package list for the live images:
- konversation pulls in kdebase3 which is likely not needed
- with ktorrent-3.0.0 another app is ported to KDE 4
o Call for KDE 3.5.9 testing:
- KDE 3.5.9 is in fedora-updates-testing for some days now
- it could be pushed to stable next week if no breakage reports appear
- because of KDE 4 being in Rawhide this is the only testing ground and needs
to be advertised before pushing it to stable
- proposals for the advertise: blogs, fedora-list, fedora-test-list,
kde-redhat-lists
o KDE 4 packages "branding":
- we should brand the fedora packages with "Fedora Packages"
- this would be done by a patch for kdelibs by LukasTinkl
== recent bug reports ==
#434624: Administrator Mode Not Working In KDE Control Center:
- hard to reproduce
#230979, #416101: CUPS printer configuration broken on x86_64:
- already fixed
#433511: vnc server through krfb and accessing by http broken:
- already fixed
#374011: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/kdm (xdm_t) "execute" to
(bootloader_exec_t):
- a bug with recent activity but still open
#429966: startkde becomes Zombie Child of gdm-binary on logout:
- hard to debug and still open
#434824: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode:
- known upstream bug [2]
- LukasTinkl will try to look into it
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-04
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= Links =
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SebastianVahl/CurrentPackageList
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151669
Buglist:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230979
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374011
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416101
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428212
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434624
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434824
16 years, 2 months
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16 years, 2 months
Warning: Rawhide Orphanarium will be Purged Thursday, Feb 28th
by Warren Togami
Fedora Rel-eng has decided that all packages in rawhide that remain
orphaned will be removed on Thursday, February 28th. Some of the below
look like they may be important.
aget
bea-stax
blam
cgi-util
check
classpathx-jaf
cryptix-asn1
debootstrap
eds-feed
galago-daemon
gnome-blog
isorelax
jaxen
jaxen-bootstrap
jgroups
jlex
jzlib
ldapjdk
libgalago
libgalago-gtk
log4j
purple-galago
tanukiwrapper
velocity
windowlab
xmlrpc
(NOTE: Even after removal a package can be re-added upon adoption.)
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
16 years, 2 months
3 simple steps to make booting/shutdown faster...
by Arjan van de Ven
So I got a tad annoyed by why the initscript processing is (in my impatient perception) slow;
most initscripts (in timing) only take like 0.1 second themselves after all.
Turns out.. the rest of the initscript system had quite a bit of overhead.
(More so on F7 than on F8, but still).
Now... I made a bunch of tweaks to the 3 key files and this made things quite
a bit faster; F8 is 50% slower than the new situation
(for a specific test, new code takes 0.275 seconds, F8 code takes 0.41 seconds).
What I changed:
* if you do if [ -f FOO -o -f BAR ] in bash, bash will look to see if BOTH files exist,
and then decides that since FOO exits, everything is fine and executes the if body. Looking for non-existing files
(first time) is expensive.. so splitting this kind of "if" in two reduces disk seeks and IO.
[this kind of split I had to do in a few places]
* Don't let the initscripts change the VGA font; after all, this is done during early boot already.
Programming the VGA fonts is SLOW. (Note: in F7 this was done for each init script, in F8 things were
a tad, but not much, smarter than that)
* Cache the information from /bin/consoletype. this info is used (and calculated with an exec!) all over the place;
the new code just sticks it in an environment variable. (well it was in one before, just it STILl got recalculated)
* Check if the service is running before deciding if it's a good service; the common case for "telinit' is that it is and then
no further file IO on the service needs to be done. (and if it's not we need to check that regardless)
* cache the value of "the user wants me to ask"; that's not changing so just stick that in a variable rather than looking at
the file every time. We still do look at the file IF the var is set, because the user might hit continue
* don't call into "rhgb" if rhgb isn't on the kernel commandline (I have that off on all machines to make them boot faster).
rhgb got called several times, and isn't cheap, because each time it has to realize rhgb is really not there ;)
* don't grep each script just to see how to pretty print it; assume a fedora quality script and if not, it's only a tad less pretty
Attached are the new files that implement these tweaks:
/etc/rc.d/rc
/etc/init.d/functions
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh
I hope others who are as impatient as I am find these tweaks as useful as I do :)
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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16 years, 2 months
KDE4 causes cluttered up gnome "other" applications menu
by Hans de Goede
Hi All,
I've also got KDE installed on my box, and I just noticed that I've a very full
other menu under gnome, which is full with KDE control center modules,
shouldn't these have an OnlyShowIn=KDE line in their .desktop file?
Shall I file a bug, and ifso against which component?
Regards,
Hans
16 years, 2 months
Fedora Rel-Eng Meeting Recap 2008-FEB-25
by John Poelstra
Recap and full IRC transcript found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2008-feb-25
Please make corrections and clarifications to the wiki page.
== Rebuild status ==
* going fairly smoothly
* the triage team is taking good swaths of those and isolating the
build failures and sorting them into buckets (either compile failure, or
other failure)
== Orphan package removals ==
* propose those orphans that haven't been picked up be blocked from
dist-f9 today
* gives some folks time to realize "oh that was important, I'll take
it over" before we hit beta freeze
* warren will work on analyzing the orphan list
== Release Engineering Representative ==
*
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-February/msg00...
* f13 nominated
== Discussion of Custom Spins ==
* 11 more in the pipeline
* See IRC log
== Misc ==
* setting up a meeting tomorrow to talk about the fedora build system
instability and get some time lines for fixing what we can, etc.
== IRC Transcript ==
16 years, 2 months
KDE4 causes cluttered up gnome "other" applications menu
by Hans de Goede
Hi All,
I've also got KDE installed on my box, and I just noticed that I've a very full
other menu under gnome, which is full with KDE control center modules,
shouldn't these have an OnlyShowIn=KDE line in their .desktop file?
Shall I file a bug, and ifso against which component?
Regards,
Hans
16 years, 2 months
Package re-review / sponsorship
by Jesus M. Rodriguez
I volunteered to take over 4 orphaned packages:
tanukiwrapper
velocity
xmlrpc
log4j
I've been told that I'm not in the cvsextras group so I can't see the
"Take ownership" button on the
pkgdb ui to take over these packages. I've also been told I need
sponsorship as I have never
been a package maintainer.
As I don't have a new package to submit, I created a bug for re-review
of tanukiwrapper:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434880
The above packages are slated to get dropped on 2/28 unless they get owners. I'd
like to see if I can get sponsorship before then, otherwise, someone
else will have
to take them.
Sincerely,
jesus
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sr. software engineer | irc: zeus
red hat network | 919.754.4413 (w)
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| are doomed to repeat it." |
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16 years, 2 months
multi-user mock
by Neal Becker
How should I use mock so that multi-users can work on debugging 1 package?
I thought
mock -r fedora-devel-x86_64 --unique nb unuran-1.2.1-1.fc9.src.rpm
That's fine, now I have my own fedora-devel-x86-64-nb. But I can't chroot
to it:
mock -r fedora-development-x86_64-nb shell
ERROR: Could not find required config
file: /etc/mock/fedora-development-x86_64-nb.cfg
What do you guys do? Surely not create a mock config for each possible
user?
16 years, 2 months
Editing comps.xml
by Jerry James
I just made my first attempt at editing comps.xml. I noticed a couple
of things:
1) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CompsXml describes
the "required" level, but the actual comps files use "mandatory"
instead.
2) The authoring-and-publishing group description is wrong. I'm a
little leery of changing it myself, though. It says that the tools in
that group are used to create documents in the DocBook format and
convert them into other formats. I propose the following replacement
description:
"These tools allow you to author documents in formats such as DocBook
and LaTeX, and convert documents to formats such as HTML and PDF for
publishing."
Also, the xsltproc invocation on the wiki page turned up some extra
whitespace at the end of an unrelated entry in comps-f9.xml.in. When
I committed, I removed that extra whitespace. I hope that's okay.
--
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/
16 years, 2 months
