upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse
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.
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1 year, 10 months
orphan most of my packages
by Andy Shevchenko
Hello,
I have no more time to support the following packages in the Fedora.
jack-audio-connection-kit -- The Jack Audio Connection Kit
klamav -- Clam Anti-Virus on the KDE Desktop
man-pages-uk -- Ukrainian man pages from the Linux Documentation Project
python-alsa -- Python binding for the ALSA library
qstat -- Real-time Game Server Status for FPS game servers
uniconvertor -- Universal vector graphics translator
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
11 years, 2 months
Improvements Eclipse Installation
by sami wagiaalla
Hi,
The way we currently install Eclipse plugins in Fedora is incorrect and
somewhat fragile.
RPM places all the plugin artifacts in the proper directories. However
that does not update the eclipse metadata. This means that until the
next time eclipse starts it is unaware of the newly installed plugins.
Because the user would normally run Eclipse not as root Eclipse does not
have permission to write to the meta data files located in the
installation directory. It therefore creates a parallel version in the
user's home directory ~/.eclipse. This creates a fragile installation
and leads to a whole host of problems.
To improve this I have written apatch which runs the Eclipse reconciler
during rpm installation. The Eclipse reconciler is an Eclipse
application which goes through and checks the installation directories
and updates the eclipse metadata with any newly installed plugins.
To add support for this in your eclipse package you have to add the
following line to your rpm spec file:
%_eclipse_pkg [package name]
Here is an example from the eclipse-rse spec file for the
eclipse-rse-sdk rpm:
%package sdk
[...]
%_eclipse_pkg sdk
The above macro expands to the following:
%post sdk
touch /var/run/eclipse/run-reconciler
%postun sdk
touch /var/run/eclipse/run-reconciler
if [ $1 == 0 ]; then
eclipse-reconciler.sh
fi
%posttrans sdk
eclipse-reconciler.sh
I apologize if you have experienced instability in Eclipse installations
on rawhide, it is probably due to these changes. Please let me know if
you have any comments questions or suggestions.
I will be filing a request to update the Eclipse packaging guidelines.
If you are interested in the details of the work, here is a summary in
the form of a patch: http://fpaste.org/pPEC/
Cheers,
Sami
11 years, 9 months
Orphaning techtalk-pse
by Ian Weller
I am orphaning the techtalk-pse package because the Gtk2::MozEmbed perl
module will no longer be maintained in Fedora because gtkmozembed
support has been removed from xulrunner.
If upstream (or anybody) has the time to work on techtalk-pse and get it
working with something like Gtk2::WebKit, I'm glad to pick up package
maintenance again. (I would, but my perl skills go as far as running
programs.)
--
Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org>
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\/"/_ All Hail the Beefy Miracle!
/_/ beefymiracle.org
\ \
11 years, 11 months
orphaning gdk-pixbuf
by Kevin Fenzi
Greetings.
I just orphaned gdk-pixbuf in pkgdb.
It failed the mass rebuild, not much left that depends on it, and
nothing I need. ;)
% repoquery --source --whatrequires gdk-pixbuf
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-38.fc12.src.rpm
soundtracker-0.6.8-8.fc12.src.rpm
xosd-2.2.14-13.fc12.src.rpm
So, if anyone really really really wants to keep it alive, feel free to
take it and fix it so it builds and works. ;)
kevin
11 years, 12 months
Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?
by Richard Shaw
It looks like I'll be taking over mythtv packaging for RPM Fusion and
I noticed it still only uses a sysv init script.
In the sysv script it sets some ACL permissions on video and audio
devices necessary for the backend service, and then on shutdown
changes it back.
I don't see any way to accomplish this in a systemd unit file other
than running a script.
What's the right way to do this? I have a template unit file (not
meant to "work" yet):
[Unit]
Description=MythTV backend service
After=mysqld.service
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/mythbackend.pid
ExecStart=/bin/sh /usr/libexec/mythtv/startmythbackend.sh
ExecStop=/bin/sh /usr/libexec/mythtv/stopmythbackend.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Thanks,
Richard
12 years
FESCo meeting agenda for 2011 Oct 24
by Tomas Mraz
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo
meeting today at 17:00UTC (1:00pm EDT) in #fedora-meeting on
irc.freenode.net.
Links to all tickets below can be found at:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9
= Followups =
#topic #667 Request to fix CRITPATH update process
.fesco 667
#topic #663 Late F16 Feature Java7
.fesco 663
= New business =
No new tickets since last FESCo meeting.
= Fedora Engineering Services tickets =
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/report/6
= Open Floor =
For more complete details, please visit each individual ticket. The
report of the agenda items can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9
If you would like to add something to this agenda, you can reply to
this e-mail, file a new ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fesco,
e-mail me directly, or bring it up at the end of the meeting, during
the open floor topic. Note that added topics may be deferred until
the following meeting.
--
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb
12 years, 1 month
