devel January 2007

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Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler
by Mike McGrath 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hey guys, smolt is in a state now where it can be released and tested by the general public. Currently smolt-firstboot has firstboot integration with opt in/out. My question for the dev's is: Do we as a community want to include this by default in Fedora 7? For more information on smolt see: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki and https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki/Scope Current stats can be found at: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats You can have your machine send its stats by installing smolt with yum and typing "smoltSendProfile" *Note: this is not LHCP, which is going to be a much larger project. Smolt has a much smaller scope and will ultimately (hopefully) be replaced by LHCP when it is ready. -Mike

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/etc/init.d in the default $PATH ?
by Florin Andrei 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

So, what it the rationale for /etc/init.d not being in the default $PATH, for root at least? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Move from TeTeX to TeXLive
by Leo 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi there, The TeTeX project had this announcement in May this year which was in the beginning of FC6 cycle: ,---- | I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any | more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time | goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live | project. `---- Now it is the beginning of FC7, I would suggest Fedora core 7 move to texlive. Here is how debian packages texlive: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texlive-{bin, base,extra} Thanks, -- Leo

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F7 KDE spin
by Rex Dieter 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

OK, I've slapped down a quick-n-dirty laundry list of items off the top of my head to get started on the F7 KDE spin: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraKDE Folks are welcome to contribute, criticize, add-to. -- Rex

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Adding modules to Fedora's kernel package
by Topher 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Is there a standard process for getting things added to Fedora's kernel package. In particular, I'm interested in the hdaps modules (IBM's Hard Drive Active Protection System). I believe it has been in the stable kernel since 2.6.14. Or, am I just thinking about this wrong. Do uncommon modules not go in the kernel package? Do they usually get packaged separately? -- Topher Fischer GnuPG Fingerprint: 3597 1B8D C7A5 C5AF 2E19 EFF5 2FC3 BE99 D123 6674 javert42(a)cs.byu.edu

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export restrictions in EULA
by Jason Corley 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I'm not sure what list this is really appropriate for, so apologies if this is the wrong forum. I noticed that the Fedora EULA still include notes about export restrictions, specifically: "... understands that certain of the software are subject to export controls under the U.S. Commerce Departments Export Administration Regulations (EAR) ..." Cuba, Iran, North Korea, etc. are all restricted areas. Out of curiosity how is that being enforced on the Fedora infrastructure end, and how is that restriction handling passed to mirrors? Is each mirror required to implement their own set of restrictions? Does a Fedora mirror server in Canada (or some other non-restricted country) sidestep that issue? If so, doesn't that basically make the EULA clause moot (from a once the dam is broken kinda perspective)? Jason

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Why ship mx?
by Jesse Keating 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Does anybody see any reason why we should continue to ship mx, in any form? If not, we need to put it in the dead.package pile. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Spyware, smolt, yum
by Chris Schumann 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I read that the number of machines using Fedora is being counted from their use of getting updates with yum. FC6 sets this up by default, with no instruction or permission to me, nor any notice or question to me. Is it spyware, by your definition? (Where you = anyone.)

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F7 KDE spin: kmenu-gnome
by Chitlesh GOORAH 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello, Since I'm the maintainer of kmenu-gnome and possible kmenu-gnome on the kde spin, I'm asking what changes/enhancements you would like to see in that package to enhance usability on f7 kde. Any changes or critics ? Chitlesh -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Enabling SELinux Alert notification
by Daniel Yek 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hi, I read about FC6 ships with SELinux alert notification tool, but I couldn't get it to work. After installing FC6 in full, I didn't find the alert tool installed. (I had problem with FirstBoot; workaround found; then my rpm database corrupted after the first update; it was restored. Newbie would really find it not easy, unless they are good at searching for solution on the web. But that is a different story...) I read a few web pages and figured out the package to install, so this is what I had done: # yum install setroubleshoot I started the service: #/etc/init.d/setroubleshoot start I didn't get notification when I copied a file from my home directory to apache html directory and attempted to access the file. I got "403 Forbidden" error page, but there is no notification. I tried the following commands, but they didn't work with root privilege: # /usr/bin/sealert -b could not attach to desktop process, running standalone # /usr/bin/sealert could not attach to desktop process With user privilege, I can start the setroubleshoot browser, but it couldn't access /var/log/messages as expected. What am I missing? Thanks for your help. -- Daniel Yek

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