devel January 2008

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Re: ctrlproxy
by Bernie Innocenti 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

(cc dwmw2, fedora-devel) Josh Boyer wrote: >> I'd like to import the latest version of ctrlproxy because >> 3.0.2 randomly crashes every few days of operation. > > Odd, I've been running it without problems for quite a while. Hmmm... Must be something specific to my configuration, then. I'm thinking x86_64, or the fact that I connect through 2 xchat clients all the time. Or irssi-style logging. >> Additionally, I wrote an initscript to run ctrlproxy >> as a daemon. Would you approve such a change to the package? > > Oh, interesting. I've scratch-built a candidate RPM for you to try: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=336094 It includes both ctrlproxy-3.0.5 and the daemonization work. I'm also cc'ing dwmw2 because I know he uses ctrlproxy and may like to test this new version. > Could you open a bug in bugzilla and attach a patch there? (Or point > to the SRPM from there.) I'd certainly be interested in the changes. Unfortunately, I could never catch ctrlproxy 3.0.3 crashing when I had enabled coredumps with ulimit. Since I upgraded to 3.0.5, I've not yet seen another crash. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/

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thinkpad-acpi upstream version?
by Nicolas A. Corrarello 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Maybe I still don't get how upstream works, but I found that the latest thinkpad-acpi version is 0.19, still Fedora's latest kernel has [root@localhost ibm]# cat driver driver: ThinkPad ACPI Extras version: 0.16 - -- - - -- Nicolas A. Corrarello Fedora Ambassador Argentina c: +54 (911) 6017-2120 e: ncorrare(a)fedoraproject.org GPG Key: DFC893EE h: fedoraproject.org/wiki/NicolasCorrarello/ GPG Fingerprint: 5C93 42DA 98E1 4EEF B24B 7F8C E145 B2F9 DFC8 93EE Import my key: $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0xDFC893EE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhSom4UWy+d/Ik+4RAmN9AJsG2PIgkZB3tZIBt+dWyMuPrz9GwQCeJh8U zc0n9cU6+syRQ1/QKCZVJFY= =3w9p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Haskell Packaging Guidelines Review
by Yaakov Nemoy 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi List, I've been working on writing up guidelines for packaging Haskell packages. I need some input from people who know their way around Fedora very well. Some of the issues involved nuances of Haskell, but many of them are questions because I don't know enough about Fedora myself. If any one has the time to give these a looking over, and comment on some of the points where I've left question marks, it would be very helpful so that hopefully I might have a few interesting things in for Fedora 9 Beta. You can find the draft in question here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Haskell Thanks for any advice. Cheers, Yaakov

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Orphaning packages
by Paul F. Johnson 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, Just to let you know that other than the mono packages I currently maintain, I'm going to have to drop the other packages I have down for me. For ease, if it's a mono or mono-related package (such as mono-develop, libgdiplus, db4o etc), I'll maintain it. Anything else is dropped. I'll update the wiki and the owners lists as soon as I can. Basically, it's the old problem of time.... TTFN Paul -- Get your free @ukpost.com account now http://www.ukpost.com/

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How much personal information is necessary to close a bug?
by Lex Hider 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hi, I was wanting to do some bug triage for fedora. I checked out the list of NEW bugs for one of my favourite apps: amarok. There seemed a pretty obvious bug that could now be closed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248625 I tried to close it and found I didn't have the privileges to do so. I asked on #fedora-devel and was pointed to the triage team wiki page and that I need a Fedora Account. Apparently to open a Fedora account I need to give my postal address and telephone number. Why is it necessary to give this personal information just to close a bug? Contrast to other projects I have contributed to where some realizes you know what you are doing or get sick of you pestering to close bugs on your behalf and give you the relevant privileges. Here's an example of my bug closing credentials: Look at Bug Killers: http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-30/ Lex.

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space on the live cds
by Matthias Clasen 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

As usual, the live cd isos don't fit... I've spent some time last night looking for suspicious dependencies, etc. Here are some of the things I spotted: * Some devel packages get dragged in: - policycoreutils-gui pulls in selinux-policy-devel, which in turn pulls in checkpolicy. Why ? - mono-winforms pulls in libgdiplus-devel * Some other questionable dependencies: - man pulls in diffutils just so that man -a can optionally use /usr/binb/cmp - ekiga pulls in SDL ? * Packages which appear too large for other reasons - About half the size of mono-core seems to be .mdb files. Isn't that debuginfo and should go in a -debuginfo package ? - opal contains the largest shared library by far. Something must go really wrong with the autogenerated C++ code there. The library contains > 35.000 symbols... - ghostscript ships the next largest shared library. From the looks of it, this is because it includes copies of libpng, libjpeg, libjasper and libz.... Matthias

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Firefox and Epiphany crash after today's updates
by Horst H. von Brand 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

After updating today, trying to get into <https://evalcyt.conicyt.cl/declaracion-astronomia> (I have a password saved for that site in Firefox) both browsers crash. BZ'd at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430981>. [Yes, the site could very well be badly built, but crashing isn't acceptable.] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513

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EPEL report week 04/2008
by Thorsten Leemhuis 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week04 = Weekly EPEL Summary = Week 04/2008 == Most important happenings == * We have now more then 1000 different software packages (counting SRPMs) in the EPEL5 repositories for RHEL5/CentOS5. Thanks to all Fedora contributers that participate in EPEL! You made this happen! == Mailing list == === Noteworthy discussions === * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00156.html livecd-tools for EPEL] * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00130.html Conflicts in EPEL] * [https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2008-January/msg00115.html Package EVR problems in EPEL] == Meeting == === Next Meeting === Wednesday, 20080130 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting. === Last weeks meeting === There was no meeting scheduled for the past week. == Stats == === General === Number of EPEL Contributors: 169 We welcome 3 new contributors: emunson gouldwp jfearn === EPEL 5 === Number of source packages: 1019 Number of binary packages: 1913 There are 27 new Packages: * ddclient | Client to update dynamic DNS host entries * fftw2 | Fast Fourier Transform library * grace | Numerical Data Processing and Visualization Tool * kscope | KDE front-end to Cscope * libvpd | VPD Database access library for lsvpd * mimetex | Easily embed LaTeX math in web pages * mogilefs-server | Server part of the MogileFS distributed filesystem * nedit | A GUI text editor for systems with X * nickle | A programming language-based prototyping environment * openser | Open Source SIP Server * ovaldi | Reference implementation of the OVAL interpreter * pam_mysql | PAM module for auth UNIX users using MySQL data base * perl-Alien-wxWidgets | Building, finding and using wxWidgets binaries * perl-DBIx-ContextualFetch | Add contextual fetches to DBI * perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig | Simplistic interface to pkg-config * perl-File-Tail | Perl extension for reading from continously updated files * perl-Net-NBName | NetBIOS Name Service Requests * perl-SNMP-Info | Object Oriented Perl5 Interface to Network devices and MIBs through SNMP * perl-Sub-Uplevel | Run a perl function in an upper stack frame * perl-Test-Exception | Library of test functions for exception based Perl code * perl-Test-MockModule | Override subroutines in a module for unit testing * perl-Tie-IxHash | Ordered associative arrays for Perl * perl-UNIVERSAL-can | Hack around people calling UNIVERSAL::can() as a function * perl-UNIVERSAL-isa | Hack around module authors using UNIVERSAL::isa as a function * postgresql-ip4r | IPv4 and IPv4 range index types for PostgreSQL * unpaper | Post-processing of scanned and photocopied book pages * vnc-ltsp-config | Easy Enabler of VNC remote LTSP desktops === EPEL 4 === Number of source packages: 618 Number of binary packages: 1150 There are 18 new Packages: * ddclient | Client to update dynamic DNS host entries * kscope | KDE front-end to Cscope * libevent | Abstract asynchronous event notification library * libvpd | VPD Database access library for lsvpd * mimetex | Easily embed LaTeX math in web pages * ovaldi | Reference implementation of the OVAL interpreter * pam_mysql | PAM module for auth UNIX users using MySQL data base * perl-Alien-wxWidgets | Building, finding and using wxWidgets binaries * perl-DBIx-ContextualFetch | Add contextual fetches to DBI * perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig | Simplistic interface to pkg-config * perl-File-Remove | Convenience module for removing files and directories * perl-File-Tail | Perl extension for reading from continously updated files * perl-Sub-Uplevel | Run a perl function in an upper stack frame * perl-Test-Exception | Library of test functions for exception based Perl code * perl-Test-Manifest | Test case module for Perl * perl-Test-MockModule | Override subroutines in a module for unit testing * perl-Tie-IxHash | Ordered associative arrays for Perl * perl-UNIVERSAL-isa | Hack around module authors using UNIVERSAL::isa as a function ---- ["CategoryEPELReports"]

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some package splits
by Matthias Clasen 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Last night I built a new evince, and since evince backends are modular now, I've split off the dvi and djvu backends as subpackages, evince-dvi and evince-djvu. This allows us to avoid the extra dependencies on the live cd that those backends would drag in. I've made the new subpackages installed by default in comps, but you may have to manually install them if you are updating from an older version of evince. Another package split is that there is now a poppler-glib (and -glib-devel) package. Please adjust your dependencies accordingly. Matthias

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readline-devel version mismatch(F8 x86_64)
by Sean Bruno 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Looks like readline-devel needs a bump? [sean@home-desk firecontrol-0.2]$ sudo yum install readline-static Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package readline-static.x86_64 0:5.2-7.fc8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: readline-devel = 5.2-7.fc8 for package: readline-static --> Running transaction check ---> Package readline-devel.x86_64 0:5.2-7.fc8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: ncurses-devel for package: readline-devel --> Processing Dependency: readline = 5.2-7.fc8 for package: readline-devel --> Running transaction check ---> Package readline-devel.x86_64 0:5.2-7.fc8 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: readline = 5.2-7.fc8 for package: readline-devel ---> Package ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.6-12.20070812.fc8 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: readline = 5.2-7.fc8 is needed by package readline-devel [sean@home-desk firecontrol-0.2]$ rpm -q readline readline-5.2-9.fc8 readline-5.2-9.fc8 [sean@home-desk firecontrol-0.2]$ Sean

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