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, 8 months
Moving xine-lib and dependent apps to RPM Fusion Free for F17?
by Kevin Kofler
Hi,
the current xine-lib maintainer speaking. :-)
The Xine project:
http://www.xine-project.org/home
has recently released a new major version, version 1.2.0.
Unfortunately, among the list of changes:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/xine-lib/1.2.0/README.txt.asc/...
there are these new "features":
* Use libavutil-provided implementations for CRC, SHA1 and BASE64 algorithms,
this makes use of libavutil even outside the FFmpeg decoding plugin,
but avoid duplication of algorithms between different plugins.
* Use av_mallocz() when xine_xmalloc_aligned() wouldn't be needed.
* FFmpeg is now required as an external dependency; if you want to build
xine-lib from source, please download a copy of FFmpeg from their SVN
server.
which basically mean that xine-lib now has a global, non-optional dependency
on FFmpeg's libavutil library.
So there are 4 possible ways forward:
(a) Stick with 1.1.x forever. I don't think that's a good idea in the long
run, upstream won't be providing security fixes for the old branch forever.
(b) Package libavutil (and only libavutil) from FFmpeg in Fedora. (I don't
think libavutil, as opposed to libavcodec, is actually patent-encumbered,
though that'd also have to be checked.) The issue there is that FFmpeg
upstream obviously doesn't support this. It would need some more black
packaging magic of the kind already done in xine-lib, and more legal
auditing. I don't think I want to investigate going down that road.
(c) Bundle parts or all of libavutil with xine-lib. Yuck!!!
(d) Move the whole thing (back) to RPM Fusion (where it originally was, before
we started needing xine-lib for Amarok and Phonon, which both no longer
use it). It would go to the Free section, of course.
My proposal is to go with (d).
The following packages currently depend on xine-lib:
* gxine
* (k9copy – already in RPM Fusion, not affected)
* kaffeine (my package, the reason why I maintain xine-lib in the first place)
* oxine
* xine-plugin
* xine-ui
These packages would have to move to RPM Fusion along with xine-lib.
In Kaffeine's case, upstream is switching from xine-lib to MPlayer in their git
repository, so it will likely have to move to RPM Fusion sooner or later
anyway. This means the affected packages are basically *xine*.
So my plan is to retire (for my packages, resp. have the respective maintainer
retire) the listed packages in Fedora for Fedora ≥ 17 and get (or have the
respective maintainer get) them into RPM Fusion Free instead. (I'd take care
of xine-lib and kaffeine myself, I hope the maintainers of the other packages
will take care of them.)
Comments? Objections?
Kevin Kofler
9 years, 11 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
PyXML package - deprecate it?
by Roman Rakus
Hi all,
looks like PyXML package is deprecated since python itself provides xml
mechanisms.
When you look deeper,
python's xml provides:
"dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree"
and PyXML provides:
'dom', 'marshal', 'parsers', 'sax', 'schema', 'utils', 'xpath', 'xslt'
So, PyXML duplicates dom, parsers and sax (and looks like python's is in
better shape). Is any package using marshall, schema or any other not in
python itself?
Deprecate PyXML or just remove duplicated parts?
RR
11 years, 2 months
upcoming libdb/db4/compat-db reorganization
by Jindrich Novy
Hi all,
it seems to be the right time to do an unification/reorganization of
Oracle (Berkeley) DB packages in rawhide. The current situation is that
there are three of them:
compat-db - shipping old libdbs for compatibility (4.5,4.6 and 4.7)
db4 - shipping latest 4.x libdb series (4.8)
libdb - shipping latest libdb release (5.3)
What I'm planning to do is getting rid of db4 package. But before that
I want to clean-up compat-db for a bit.
After fiddling a bit with repoquery nothing seems to be dependent on
libdb-4.5 so if there are no objections I want to remove it.
There was only one package dependent on 4.6 (squidGuard) because it
had compilation problems with 4.7. This package is now built against
5.3 with no problem so 4.6 could go away from compat-db as well.
Only one package (pam_abl-0:0.2.3-8.fc12) was dependent on 4.7
in Fedora 17 but it's already rebuilt in rawhide so 4.7 can go away as
well.
So the plan is:
1) remove 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 from compat-db
2) put 4.8 to compat-db
3) make db4 a dead package
(db4 package name is not very descriptive any more as we have
libdb-5.3 ...)
The reason I'm sending this to fedora-devel is that I'm unable to
reveal dlopen() or similar deps in packages so if your package
requires older libdb I plan to remove and can not be rebuilt against
newer libdb then please speak up!
Thanks,
Jindrich
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Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá,
kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl.
--- Jan Werich
11 years, 2 months
