epel-devel February 2010

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New git in EPEL?
by Michael Stahnke 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

After some discussion in IRC (Fedora-admin) we are wondering if pushing a new git in EPEL is a good idea. There are some changes such as git-command vs git command. So there could be some breakage. Should we push a new git and cause some breakage or stick with old-n-busted? My thoughts are to push out a new one, since I think if you are using git, you curse everytime you touch this old crusty thing :) stahnma

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Upgrade hack for bacula in EPEL5
by Felix Schwarz 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hi, == summary == The current bacula package in EPEL is faulty. I built an upgrade hack so that we don't require manual intervention by sysadmins. In order to get it right this time, an rigorous review is desirable. == background == The bacula package (storage+director) in EPEL5 which is shipped since September 2007 contains a nasty bug in the %post/%postun scriptlets. If the package is ever updated, a symlink will be missing and bacula will not start anymore. This can be fixed e.g. by a manual install/uninstall of the bacula package. This error was present in Fedora but was fixed there a long time ago. == current situation == We can not update the bacula package (e.g. for security reasons) without breaking a lot of installs. == plan for attack == The old package will remove the symlink generated by alternatives during %postun unconditionally (also during upgrade). Therefore we replace the symlink in the new package with a copy of the real file, alternatives won't touch it and the user is happy. After some time when everyone ("almost everyone") upgraded, we ship another update which reverts this ugly hack. == current implementation == I have a series of spec file patches which implement the fix: http://www.felix-schwarz.name/files/misc/2010/bacula_upgrade_hack/ Also I built some test scripts which check some install/uninstall/upgrade procedures. I wrote at least some lines how to use them in 'how_to_test.txt'. Scratch builds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1964332 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1964343 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1964372 == roadmap == I would like to gather as many reviews as possible on that issue: - Is this issue worth tackling? - Is my plan of action sane? - Any other issues? 1) Wait for reviews+suggestions (1-2 weeks) 2) Commit/build (assuming that the plan is approved) 3) Push a new bacula to testing (2 months) 4) Push bacula to stable 5) Revert upgrade hack [ ] done fs

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EPEL and Java Projects.
by Nathan Potter 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Greetings, My group is looking at bringing our project into EPEL. Among the reasons for doing so is to provide our users with ABI stability. The project is a web service application that is built from a C++ coded back-end that is driven by user requests through a java servlet. The way that C and C++ projects are brought into fedora and along into EPEL seems pretty clearly documented, as are the ABI stability benefits that are part of EPEL design goals. However I am seeing almost no discussion about the java side of the equation. Can you point me to any specific documents or guidelines that would help me get educated on what the issues are with bringing a java project into EPEL? IS there any discussion of ABI stability with regards to Java? Or is API stability the only real issue for java? I did find this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies Where I learned that EPEL projects must follow the Fedora Packaging and Maintenance Guidelines, and which led me to this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines Which led me to this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java Where the details of including an ant project are discussed. However my core questions about ABI vs API stability vis-a-vis EPEL remain unanswered. Additionally, the page on packaging java provides examples of "Specfile Templates". Is there also a resource to which you may direct me where I can learn about the format and role of the Specfiles in the RPM process? Any help you could offer me in this regard would be most appreciated. Thanks, Nathan = = = Nathan Potter ndp at opendap.org OPeNDAP, Inc. +1.541.231.3317

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qemu-img in EPEL overrides kvm-qemu-img in RHEL
by David Juran 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hello. Back again to the discussion about EPEL packages that override their RHEL counterparts... RHEL5 contains kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.22 that provides qemu-img = 0.9.1.kvm.83 EPEL however provides qemu-img-0.10.5-1.el5.2 so after installing e.g. python-virtinst from RHEL which requires qemu-img, the user will end up with qemu-img from EPEL and not kvm-qemu-img. -- David Juran Sr. Consultant Red Hat +358-504-146348

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Incompatible upgrade - Is this workaround ok? (mysql-mmm)
by BJ Dierkes 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hello all, I maintain Multi-Master Replication Manager for MySQL in both Fedora and EPEL. With changes from 2.0.11 -> 2.1.0 there was an incompatible change in that the daemon scripts were renamed: mmmd_agent -> mmm_agentd mmmd_mon -> mmm_mond Upgrades obviously break because the INIT scripts and configuration files reference the path to the files. Would a sufficient work-around be a symlink to the old path, or would that not be kosher for any reason? Thank you for your feedback. --- derks

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rkhunter doesn't remove suspscan tmp files in /dev/shm
by Camron W. Fox 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Alle, We have installed rkhunter (V1.3.6-2) from EPEL on our RHEL 5.4 machines and it appears that it does not remove the /dev/shm/suspscan.* files it uses for the SUSPSCAN test, thus triggering a warning for said test. AFAIK, this was a known bug that was supposed to be have been fixed in V1.3.1. Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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May I perform buildroot overrides for EPEL?
by Till Maas 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hiyas, for a few days I have given permission to perform buildroot overrides. There was now a request for a buildroot override in all branches including EPEL. Therefore I wonder whether I should do these, too, or just ask to create a new ticket for EPEL? Regards Till

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SRPM Differences between RHEL-5.0 and RHEL-5.5beta
by Stephen John Smoogen 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Ok here is a difference between SRPMS between 5.0 and 5.5beta (and in between). Let me know how I could make this more useful for people :). Added: -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.0 -> RHEL-5.5b -------------------------------------------------- blktrace celt051 cmirror cmirror-kmod compat-libcom_err cpufreq-utils crash-spu-commands crypto-utils ctdb dapl dnsmasq dstat e4fsprogs ecryptfs-utils edac-utils etherboot fcoe-utils fipscheck freeipmi freeradius2 fuse gcc44 gnupg2 gpxe gsl gtk-vnc hmaccalc iasl ibmasm-xinput ibsim infiniband-diags isns-utils java-1.6.0-openjdk ktune kvm libassuan libcmpiutil libcxgb3 libehca liberation-fonts libhbaapi libhbalinux libibcm libibcommon libibmad libibumad libibverbs libipathverbs libksba libmlx4 libmthca libnes libpciaccess librdmacm libsdp libsmi libspe2 libvirt-cim log4cpp meanwhile mozldap mpi-selector mpitests mstflint mvapich mvapich2 nedit newt-perl nfs4-acl-tools nspluginwrapper ofed-docs opensm openswan pdksh perftest perl-Config-General perl-Mozilla-LDAP perl-Sys-Virt perl-TimeDate pexpect pidgin pinentry postgresql84 pth python-dmidecode python-iniparse python-setuptools qcairo qffmpeg qlvnictools qperf qpixman qspice rds-tools rsyslog samba3x scsi-target-utils setroubleshoot-plugins sgpio srptools svrcore system-config-netboot tpm-tools trousers tunctl tvflash udftools virt-viewer wacomexpresskeys watchdog wdaemon xorg-x11-drv-qxl xorg-x11-xdm xulrunner xz yum-updatesd yum-utils -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.0 -> RHEL-5.1 -------------------------------------------------- cpufreq-utils crypto-utils dnsmasq edac-utils gfs2-kmod ibmasm-xinput liberation-fonts meanwhile mozldap newt-perl nfs4-acl-tools perl-Mozilla-LDAP perl-TimeDate pidgin scsi-target-utils svrcore watchdog yum-utils -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.1 -> RHEL-5.2 -------------------------------------------------- dapl dstat ecryptfs-utils freeipmi gtk-vnc ibsim infiniband-diags isns-utils libcxgb3 libehca libibcm libibcommon libibmad libibumad libibverbs libipathverbs libmlx4 libmthca libnes librdmacm libsdp libsmi mpi-selector mstflint nspluginwrapper ofed-docs opensm openswan perftest pexpect python-iniparse python-setuptools qlvnictools qperf rsyslog setroubleshoot-plugins srptools system-config-netboot tpm-tools trousers tvflash udftools virt-viewer wdaemon xulrunner yum-updatesd -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.2 -> RHEL-5.3 -------------------------------------------------- cmirror cmirror-kmod compat-libcom_err crash-spu-commands e4fsprogs fipscheck gcc43 java-1.6.0-openjdk ktune libcmpiutil libspe2 libvirt-cim mpitests mvapich mvapich2 nedit openib-mstflint openib-perftest openib-tvflash perl-Config-General sgpio wacomexpresskeys -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.3 -> RHEL-5.4 -------------------------------------------------- blktrace celt051 etherboot fcoe-utils fuse gcc44 gnupg2 hmaccalc iasl kvm libassuan libhbaapi libhbalinux libksba libpciaccess log4cpp pdksh perl-Sys-Virt pinentry pth qcairo qffmpeg qpixman qspice rds-tools xorg-x11-drv-qxl xorg-x11-xdm -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.4 -> RHEL-5.5b -------------------------------------------------- ctdb freeradius2 gpxe gsl postgresql84 python-dmidecode samba3x tunctl xz Removed: -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.0 -> RHEL-5.5b -------------------------------------------------- cachefilesd frysk gaim pump sysreport -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.0 -> RHEL-5.1 -------------------------------------------------- gaim pump -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.1 -> RHEL-5.2 -------------------------------------------------- (nothing) -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.2 -> RHEL-5.3 -------------------------------------------------- cachefilesd frysk gfs2-kmod sysreport -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.3 -> RHEL-5.4 -------------------------------------------------- gcc43 openib-mstflint openib-perftest openib-tvflash -------------------------------------------------- RHEL-5.4 -> RHEL-5.5b -------------------------------------------------- (nothing) -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

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Meeting summary/notes from today's EPEL meeting 2010-02-12
by BJ Dierkes 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-12/fedora-meeting.2… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-12/fedora-meeting.2… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-02-12/fedora-meeting.2… --- derks

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RPM Differences between RHEL-5.4 and RHEL-5.5beta
by Stephen John Smoogen 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Downloaded client and server x86_64 DVD's for 5.4 and 5.5beta. Got a list of package names and made a difference list. I am downloading the src dvd's to do a better 'blocking' list but at the moment here is a list of changes between 5.4 and 5.5beta Items removed from 5.5beta that were in 5.4: pfmon Items added from 5.5beta that were NOT in 5.4 apr-util-mysql celt051 celt051-devel e4fsprogs-devel e4fsprogs-libs etherboot-pxes etherboot-roms etherboot-roms-kvm etherboot-zroms etherboot-zroms-kvm freeradius2 freeradius2-krb5 freeradius2-ldap freeradius2-mysql freeradius2-perl freeradius2-postgresql freeradius2-python freeradius2-unixODBC freeradius2-utils gpxe-roms-qemu gsl gsl-devel gsl-static iasl kmod-kvm kvm kvm-qemu-img kvm-tools libipathverbs libipathverbs-static libsmbclient libsmbclient-devel libtalloc libtalloc-devel libtdb libtdb-devel log4cpp log4cpp-devel log4cpp-docs mcelog openoffice.org-ure postgresql84 postgresql84-contrib postgresql84-devel postgresql84-docs postgresql84-libs postgresql84-plperl postgresql84-plpython postgresql84-pltcl postgresql84-python postgresql84-server postgresql84-tcl postgresql84-test python-dmidecode qcairo qcairo-devel qffmpeg-devel qffmpeg-libs qpixman qpixman-devel qspice qspice-libs qspice-libs-devel rsyslog-gnutls rsyslog-gssapi rsyslog-pgsql samba3x samba3x-client samba3x-common samba3x-doc samba3x-domainjoin-gui samba3x-swat samba3x-winbind samba3x-winbind-devel sblim-sfcb sblim-sfcc sblim-sfcc-devel sblim-smis-hba tdb-tools tunctl valgrind-devel xz xz-devel xz-libs xz-lzma-compat Now for the ODD things.. some stuff were moved from RHEL 5.4 client to 5.5 server? apmd gnu-efi gpart ibmasm ibmasm-xinput kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-devel xorg-x11-drv-apm xorg-x11-drv-ark xorg-x11-drv-chips xorg-x11-drv-cyrix xorg-x11-drv-glint xorg-x11-drv-i128 xorg-x11-drv-i740 xorg-x11-drv-neomagic xorg-x11-drv-nsc xorg-x11-drv-rendition xorg-x11-drv-tseng xorg-x11-drv-v4l and vice versa... libpfm libpfm-devel Hope this helps people. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning

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