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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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Cannot rely on /dev being present in %post scripts?
by David Woodhouse 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

According to bug #517013, %post scripts should not assume that /dev is available -- so we can't do anything that requires the existence of /dev/null, /dev/urandom, etc. Is this a known and expected packaging rule, or is it a bug in the way that the user is attempting to install the packages? -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse(a)intel.com Intel Corporation

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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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another spin of TeX Live 2009 packages
by Jindrich Novy 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi, first off, thanks many people who sent me RFE and bugfix proposals. I've tried to fix most of them in the current package set in the testing repository: rpm -i http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/texlive-release-2009-0.1.fc11.noarch.… If you use the older TeX Live 2009 packages, please reinstall them completely: yum remove texlive (and to be sure rm -rf /usr/share/texlive, due to ordering it could leave some directories there) yum clean all yum install texlive <or other packages> The reason for it is the following list of improvements: - binary packages do no more have the '.ARCH' postfix, the postfix changed to '-bin' - new font support add new 'fedora-fonts' packages which allows you to use TeX Live 2009 fonts (TrueType and OpenType for now) in Fedora - packages for TeX Live t1utils and psutils are no more built but dependencies to existing utilities in Fedora are added - kpathsea packages should now be correctly obsoleted. The lcdf-typetools dep errors you might see installing texlive-collection-fontutils is caused by the fact that lcdf-typetools in Fedora is linked against kpathsea libraries and TeX Live 2009 increases the soname so lcdf-typetools will work after rebuilt with the new kpathsea - fixed texlive-xetex conflict with older TL2007 packages - added older tetex-latex, etc. provides for compatibility (you are now able to install TL2009 together with R analysis package, etc.) - new packages should automatically clear /var/lib/texmf in %post scriptlets to avoid format incompatibilities I haven't added obsoletes to .ARCH packages to keep spes files readable and because TL2009 packages are not yet imported. The spec format should be final now. Only some font formats can be added or the Fedora font support updated for a bit. I will announce next repo updates here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/TeXLive Thanks, Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/

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