devel April 2008

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Sponsor required
by Joe Orton 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hi, Elio Maldonado Batiz has been diligently hacking away at converting the crypto-utils package to use NSS instead of OpenSSL, see bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=346731. This is a big chunk of work and is now ready to commit; I don't particularly want to play gatekeeper for this, could someone sponsor Elio to join the cvsextras group? Elio's username is emaldonado. Regards, joe

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Java debugging
by Jerry James 02 May '08

02 May '08

To be able to debug a Java problem, I need class files compiled with -g and the source files. Java packages set up for AOT compilation with GCJ do have debuginfo packages, but they are symbol files for the GCJ-compiled .so files only, with no source files. Has anybody looked at what it would take to set things up for a reasonable Java debugging environment? The source file problem can be solved pretty easily, I think, but what about compiling with -g? I see 4 answers to that question: 1. Never compile with -g. People who want to debug have to recompile their own JARs. 2. Always compile with -g and make everybody eat the bloat. 3. Compile all Java code twice, once to create a debug JAR and once to create the normal distribution JAR. The debug JAR goes into the corresponding debuginfo package. 4. Always compile with -g. Store the original JAR in the corresponding debuginfo package, then strip out the debug symbols and put the resulting JAR into the regular package. I looked through both the JPackage and the Fedora Java guidelines but did not see anything that addresses this issue. Has anybody thought about this before? I prefer the answer to be "not #1". :-) This came up, by the way, because I'm having problems with a web service call. It looks like an AXIS bug to me, but I can't step into the AXIS code.... -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/

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Orphaning package
by Alain PORTAL 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hi, As I get too many conflicts, first with the french translation team six month ago, second with some Redhat people, today, with a big head (as several people in the french translation team), I make the decision to definitevely leave the Fedora Extras Team. So, as I merged some useful software in Fedora, I hope somebody would continue on them. Most of them are electronics relative. - fcron [1] - gputils - gpsim - gtk+extras - kicad - kbackup - pikdev - piklab - pikloops - utrac - tetex-euro-font Hope I don't miss somebody. I'll delete also in a few days my man-pages-fr repository, as the Redhat packager never consider me again. And as we say in the french navy: « Bon vent, bonne mer » No more regards than you give me. Alain [1] fcron is a better tool than cron and anacron -- Les pages de manuel Linux en français http://manpagesfr.free.fr/

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Wanted: (Co-)maintainer for Kronolith
by Lubomir Kundrak 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hi, It has came to my attention, that maintainer of kronolith has been unresponsive for some time. Jan Ondrej (thanks to him) has upgraded kronolith to fix a security flaw, but since he does not actually use Kronolith he did not do much testing. I am wondering whether anyone would volunteer to help with the maintaining package. Note that in case maintainer won't start to responds, he's unlikely to accept watchcommits, or watchbugzilla changes in FAS. In that case Non-Responsive Maintainer procedure would probably have to be applied [1]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMainta… Thanks, -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)

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Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
by Tom Callaway 01 May '08

01 May '08

I propose that we add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path for normal users (as well as root) for F10? There are plenty of useful tools in there for non-root users (ifconfig, fdisk, parted), and IMHO, any tool which assumes the user is root because it lives in /sbin is fundamentally broken. The LSB doesn't mandate this (at least, not anywhere I can see), so I propose that we just do it. Anyone opposed to such an action? ~spot

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Plan for tomorrows (20080501) FESCO meeting
by Brian Pepple 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Please find below the list of topics that are likely to come up in the next FESCo meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday at 17:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org: /topic FESCo-Meeting -- F9 Blocker Status - all /topic FESCo meeting -- Free discussion around Fedora You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to this mail and I'll add it to the schedule. You can also propose topics in the meeting while it is in the "Free discussion around Fedora" phase. If your name/nick is on above list please update the status on the Extras schedule pages in the wiki ahead of the meeting. That way all the other FESCo members and interested contributors know what up ahead of the meeting. And we will avoid long delays in the meeting -- those often arise if someone describes the recent happenings on a topic directly in the meeting while all the others have to wait for his slow typing... Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E

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preupgrade - upgrade error
by Richard Hally 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

After completing the download of the needed packages and other things, I clicked on reboot. Grub showed me the upgrade to rawhide option. after selecting it, the kernel booted and then the following error came up: "An error occured reading the install from the ISO images. please check your ISO images and try again." the F3 console shows(after some INFO lines): "04:36:38 ERROR : failed to open /mnt/isodirbootupgradestage2.img: No such file or directory" the F5 console shows "Running... /bin/mount -n -t ext3 -o ro /dev/sda3 /mnt/isodir" and that is all. what is going on? where should I look? An upgrade directory was created in /boot and it has the initrd.img, the stage2.img and the zmlinuz. Any where else I should check? Richard

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Automatic python requires
by Orion Poplawski 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

I just discovered that recent scons packages don't require python, even though it is clearly written in python. Isn't this supposed to get generated automatically by rpm? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444678 -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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Re: rpms/gnome-packagekit/F-9 gnome-packagekit-gpg-bodge.patch, NONE, 1.1 gnome-packagekit.spec, 1.30, 1.31
by Todd Zullinger 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Greetings, Richard Hughes wrote: > gnome-packagekit-gpg-bodge.patch: > > --- NEW FILE gnome-packagekit-gpg-bodge.patch --- > diff --git a/src/gpk-application.c b/src/gpk-application.c > index 559bfc4..320f569 100644 > --- a/src/gpk-application.c > +++ b/src/gpk-application.c ... > + ret = pk_client_rollback (application->priv->client_action, key_package_id, &error); > + if (!ret) { > + pk_warning ("failed to install signature: %s", error->message); > + if (strcmp (error->message, "org.freedesktop.packagekit.install no") == 0) { > + gpk_application_error_message (application, _("You don't have the necessary privileges to install a signature"), NULL); > + } else if (g_str_has_prefix (error->message, "org.freedesktop.packagekit.install")) { > + /* canceled auth dialog, be silent */ > + } else { > + /* ick, we failed so pretend we didn't do the action */ > + gpk_application_error_message (application, _("The signature could not be installed"), error->message); > + } > + g_error_free (error); > + } I know this is just a temporary hack (the GIGANTIC HACK wording in the patch gave it away for me :), but can the wording here be changed to be a little more accurate? You don't "install" signatures. What's being installed (or perhaps imported, rather) is the repository's key. Maybe something more like the following wording for the two strings above: pk_warning ("failed to import key: %s", error->message); _("You don't have the necessary privileges to import a key") _("The repository's key could not be imported") I don't know what terminology pk uses to refer to repository's, so that bit might be better worded. But IMO the signature bit should be changed, since it makes no sense to install a signature. :) This doesn't seem to be in the upstream git anywhere yet, else I'd have sent a more thorough patch to replace signature with key where it seems appropriate. Perhaps the anon-git server just hasn't been synced yet today? -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damn you and your estrogenical treachery! -- Stewie Griffin

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FC9 and NetworkManager
by Louis Garcia 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

First NetworkManager fails to come up at boot. One needs to restart the service. NetworkManager doesn't work with static ip. After fc9 desktop install with a stacic ip I disabled network service and enabled Network manager. I get system eth0 and auto ethernet in the nm-applet. system eth0 connects but can't get to the internet seems the nameservers are missing and the broadcast is 0. With system-config-network under DNS the values are always missing even when I enter them and save. /etc/resolv.conf is empty. Why does nm-applet have both system eth0 and auto ethernet? -Louis

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