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Outage Notification - 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC
by Mike McGrath 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

There will be an outage starting at 2009-07-01 01:00 UTC, which will last approximately 2 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2009-07-01 01:00 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem CVS / Source Control Unaffected Services: Database DNS Fedora Hosted Fedora People Fedora Talk Mail Mirror System Torrent Translation Services Websites Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1496 Reason for Outage: Final migration step for new cvs server. It will hopefully be offline for only 30-45 minutes. The additional time is for some further tuning if needed and some verification steps. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce

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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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kernel/accounting question ...
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

(I know that this question might be more reasonable on a kernel list, but a while back I posted the question twice and got no answers.) The acct struct is defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h includes both ac_io and ac_rw for bytes transferred and blocks read or written, respectively. Fair and good - works (on paper) similarly to unix, solaris, hp-ux, etc. However, in the kernel code [kernel/acct.c], ac_io (char) and ac_rw (blocks) are always set to 0 by these two lines: ac.ac_io = encode_comp_t(0 /* current->io_usage */); ac.ac_rw = encode_comp_t(ac.ac_io / 1024); For most purposes, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but I also do extensive performance analysis on several platforms and have written a fairly compresive accounting package (as a wraparound for psacct or as a standalone) including both an improved acctcom and a built-in reporter for it. Does anyone know wby the kernel zero's out the bytes transferred data? (Overhead comes to mind.) Not that it makes a huge differnce for my purposes (I had to write some wraparound code to make a "best-guestimate" about the data I'm missing), but curiosity is bugging me now. When I compile my program on other OS's I get useful data for char and block i/o and I'd like to find out whether there is something obvious that I'm just totally missing here...). Thanks -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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acctcom for linux
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

I recently made several updates to a Linux version of of acctcom (actually another accounting add-on package) which I've been using for several years, and one of the people testing it asked a question which I cannot answer. I'm hoping that someone on this list can give me some info. I have previously (over a year ago) asked on both this and a couple of kernel lists (several times there) about this issue, but nobody has ever answered. So if you have any info about this, I'd really appreciate it. As in many (all?) previous Linux kernels, the struct acct (defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h) has members ac_io and ac_rw which are presumably counts of characters transferred and blocks read/written respectively. However, in the kernel code, the ac_io is set to 0 and the ac_rw gets set to (ac_io/512) or some such - it is set to 0 as well (and thus these are always reported as 0 in process accounting records. not good if you're trying to measure them...). Does anybody know why this is done that way? A long time ago (IIRC late 2.2 and an early 2.4 kernel) I looked into "fixing" this in the kernel code but was not successful (I finally produced a bootable kernel, but it was unstable. Then I changed jobs, got swamped at work, and eventually gave up). As I said above, I have previously asked about this issue without success, and I have essentially given up changing or "fixing" it. But if anyone knows __WHY__ it is this way (I'm hypothesizing that it's just too much work for too little added value), I'd really appreciate knowing the reason. Curiosity and the cat and all that ... Thanks - Bill -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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Need a sponsor: mod_proxy_html (apache)
by Philip Prindeville 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hi. I need a sponsor for this. An RPM has been built on several systems (including FC8 and FC9 and Centos5) and tested on all of those. The ticket has been languishing now unassigned for almost a year. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452636 Can someone please pick this up? It's just an .src.rpm for Apache's mod_proxy_html. It's pretty trivial. Thanks, -Philip

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Packages looking for new owners
by Trond Danielsen 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hi everyone, it is becoming clear to me that I can no longer provide the collection of packages I maintain the love and care that they deserve. If only there were more hours in a day, but the current situation does no leave much room for volunteer work on free software :-(. Hopefully I will find time in the future to return to Fedora related work The list if packages I maintain is available here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/trondd?acls=owner I don't mind keeping libopenraw, avrdude and uisp unless anyone _really_ want to maintain these packages. Best regards, -- Trond Danielsen

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Orphaning packages
by Conrad Meyer 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, I intend to orphan the JRuby package and some of the dependencies I don't believe anything else uses. It's a piece of software upstream really doesn't intend to be packaged, and bumping to new versions is a constant struggle. Furthermore, I don't have anymore use for it. Here is the list of packages I'll orphan sometime in the next week or so: - bytelist - constantine - jcodings - jline - jna-posix - joni - jvyamlb If anyone wants any of them, let me know. (In case it's not obvious, they are all java packages.) Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <cemeyer(a)u.washington.edu>

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Packaging Survey - May 2009
by Rahul Sundaram 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi I did a quick survey from Fedora on what software Fedora users are using that is not available in the repo. Here are the results. If you find anything interesting, feel free to pick it up. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_Survey_May_2009 Rahul

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Possible packages...
by Nathanael D. Noblet 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hello, So I've been toying with the idea of getting more involved with fedora. Up till now if there has been a bug or other issue, i'll file a bug or simply get the srpm and try to update it to a newer version, or create my own specs / rpms when they don't already exist. Lately I've figured that I should get more involved with some of the packages that I use or anything like that. The packaging guidelines kinda describe entry to the packager group as being done via new packages. I've offered to try to help on some recently orphaned packages. Though that may be more work than just submitting a new package. So after all that rambling, I'm wondering about the two following pieces of software. Apple's Calendar Server. It runs using python 2.5 or greater (I've installed it on a F11 machine and it work well). I've started looking at some of its dependancies. 90% of them are in fedora already, and of the ones in F11, only one if I remember correctly isn't at the version it requires). It seems like a great addition to Fedora if you ask me. So basically it would require two new packages, and an update to one other package (libevent) which is a minor version bump it seems if at all needed. PS3MediaServer. A Java program to talk to a PS3 with DLNA. I'm guessing this one would have problems because it requires ffmpeg or mplayer/mencoder... Plus as a java program its probably a bit more complex to create a proper spec file for. I've made the other kind often enough, but java ones not so much... Any feedback on either?

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xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages
by Braden McDaniel 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Is this as it should be? Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Updating: xulrunner x86_64 1.9.1.1-1.fc11 updates 9.5 M Installing for dependencies: GConf2 i586 2.26.2-1.fc11 updates 1.7 M ORBit2 i586 2.14.17-1.fc11 fedora 186 k PolicyKit i586 0.9-6.fc11 fedora 165 k alsa-lib i586 1.0.20-1.fc11 fedora 419 k atk i586 1.25.2-2.fc11 fedora 222 k audit-libs i586 1.7.13-1.fc11 updates 83 k avahi i586 0.6.25-3.fc11 updates 292 k avahi-glib i586 0.6.25-3.fc11 updates 19 k bzip2-libs i586 1.0.5-5.fc11 fedora 39 k cairo i586 1.8.8-1.fc11 updates 514 k cracklib i586 2.8.13-4 fedora 50 k cups-libs i586 1:1.4-0.b2.18.fc11 fedora 341 k cyrus-sasl-lib i586 2.1.22-22.fc11 fedora 145 k db4 i586 4.7.25-11.fc11 fedora 669 k dbus-glib i586 0.80-2.fc11 fedora 178 k dbus-libs i586 1:1.2.12-2.fc11 updates 132 k e2fsprogs-libs i586 1.41.4-10.fc11 fedora 154 k expat i586 2.0.1-6 fedora 86 k fontconfig i586 2.6.99.behdad.20090508-1.fc11 fedora 203 k freetype i586 2.3.9-3.fc11 fedora 388 k gamin i586 0.1.10-4.fc11 fedora 134 k glib2 i586 2.20.4-1.fc11 updates 1.5 M glibc i686 2.10.1-2 fedora 5.8 M gnome-vfs2 i586 2.24.1-2.fc11 fedora 947 k gnutls i586 2.6.6-1.fc11 fedora 379 k gtk2 i586 2.16.2-1.fc11 updates 4.3 M hal-libs i586 0.5.12-26.20090226git.fc11 fedora 70 k jasper-libs i586 1.900.1-10.fc11 fedora 155 k keyutils-libs i586 1.2-5.fc11 fedora 19 k krb5-libs i586 1.6.3-20.fc11 fedora 705 k libICE i586 1.0.4-7.fc11 fedora 55 k libIDL i586 0.8.13-1.fc11 fedora 89 k libSM i586 1.1.0-4.fc11 fedora 27 k libX11 i586 1.2.1-2.fc11 updates 1.0 M libXau i586 1.0.4-5.fc11 fedora 21 k libXcomposite i586 0.4.0-7.fc11 fedora 16 k libXcursor i586 1.1.9-4.fc11 fedora 30 k libXdamage i586 1.1.1-6.fc11 fedora 12 k libXext i586 1.0.99.1-2.fc11 fedora 35 k libXfixes i586 4.0.3-5.fc11 fedora 16 k libXft i586 2.1.13-2.fc11 fedora 52 k libXi i586 1.2.1-1.fc11 fedora 32 k libXinerama i586 1.0.3-4.fc11 fedora 14 k libXrandr i586 1.2.99.4-3.fc11 fedora 31 k libXrender i586 0.9.4-5.fc11 fedora 30 k libXt i586 1.0.5-2.fc11 fedora 182 k libacl i586 2.2.47-4.fc11 fedora 24 k libattr i586 2.4.43-3.fc11 fedora 15 k libbonobo i586 2.24.1-1.fc11 fedora 487 k libcap i586 2.16-4.fc11.1 updates 32 k libdaemon i586 0.13-2.fc11 fedora 28 k libgcc i586 4.4.0-4 fedora 94 k libgcrypt i586 1.4.4-6.fc11 updates 234 k libgnome i586 2.26.0-1.fc11 fedora 732 k libgpg-error i586 1.6-3 fedora 66 k libjpeg i586 6b-45.fc11 fedora 145 k libpng i586 2:1.2.37-1.fc11 updates 256 k libselinux i586 2.0.80-1.fc11 fedora 107 k libstdc++ i586 4.4.0-4 fedora 323 k libtasn1 i586 1.8-2.fc11 fedora 302 k libthai i586 0.1.9-7.fc11 fedora 189 k libtiff i586 3.8.2-14.fc11 updates 309 k libxcb i586 1.2-4.fc11 updates 131 k libxml2 i586 2.7.3-2.fc11 fedora 855 k ncurses-libs i586 5.7-2.20090207.fc11 fedora 334 k nspr i586 4.8-1.fc11 updates 123 k nss i586 3.12.3.99.3-2.11.3.fc11 updates 1.0 M nss-softokn-freebl i586 3.12.3.99.3-2.11.3.fc11 updates 136 k openldap i586 2.4.15-3.fc11 fedora 338 k openssl i686 0.9.8k-5.fc11 updates 1.4 M pam i586 1.0.91-6.fc11 fedora 767 k pango i586 1.24.4-1.fc11 updates 400 k pixman i586 0.14.0-2.fc11 fedora 123 k popt i586 1.13-5.fc11 fedora 41 k python-libs i586 2.6-9.fc11 updates 663 k readline i586 5.2-14.fc11 fedora 187 k sqlite i586 3.6.12-3.fc11 fedora 322 k xulrunner i586 1.9.1-0.20.beta4.fc11 fedora 10 M zlib i586 1.2.3-22.fc11 fedora 75 k Updating for dependencies: cairo x86_64 1.8.8-1.fc11 updates 506 k cairo-devel x86_64 1.8.8-1.fc11 updates 185 k dbus x86_64 1:1.2.12-2.fc11 updates 234 k dbus-devel x86_64 1:1.2.12-2.fc11 updates 45 k dbus-libs x86_64 1:1.2.12-2.fc11 updates 133 k dbus-x11 x86_64 1:1.2.12-2.fc11 updates 39 k epiphany x86_64 2.26.3-1.fc11 updates 4.9 M epiphany-extensions x86_64 2.26.1-4.fc11 updates 1.0 M glib2 x86_64 2.20.4-1.fc11 updates 1.6 M glib2-devel x86_64 2.20.4-1.fc11 updates 1.3 M pango x86_64 1.24.4-1.fc11 updates 407 k pango-devel x86_64 1.24.4-1.fc11 updates 321 k xulrunner-devel x86_64 1.9.1.1-1.fc11 updates 3.9 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 79 Package(s) Update 14 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) -- Braden McDaniel <braden(a)endoframe.com>

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