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upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only
by Didier Casse 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

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. --- PhD student Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\ didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg

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kernel/accounting question ...
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

(I know that this question might be more reasonable on a kernel list, but a while back I posted the question twice and got no answers.) The acct struct is defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h includes both ac_io and ac_rw for bytes transferred and blocks read or written, respectively. Fair and good - works (on paper) similarly to unix, solaris, hp-ux, etc. However, in the kernel code [kernel/acct.c], ac_io (char) and ac_rw (blocks) are always set to 0 by these two lines: ac.ac_io = encode_comp_t(0 /* current->io_usage */); ac.ac_rw = encode_comp_t(ac.ac_io / 1024); For most purposes, this probably wouldn't be an issue, but I also do extensive performance analysis on several platforms and have written a fairly compresive accounting package (as a wraparound for psacct or as a standalone) including both an improved acctcom and a built-in reporter for it. Does anyone know wby the kernel zero's out the bytes transferred data? (Overhead comes to mind.) Not that it makes a huge differnce for my purposes (I had to write some wraparound code to make a "best-guestimate" about the data I'm missing), but curiosity is bugging me now. When I compile my program on other OS's I get useful data for char and block i/o and I'd like to find out whether there is something obvious that I'm just totally missing here...). Thanks -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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acctcom for linux
by William W. Austin 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

I recently made several updates to a Linux version of of acctcom (actually another accounting add-on package) which I've been using for several years, and one of the people testing it asked a question which I cannot answer. I'm hoping that someone on this list can give me some info. I have previously (over a year ago) asked on both this and a couple of kernel lists (several times there) about this issue, but nobody has ever answered. So if you have any info about this, I'd really appreciate it. As in many (all?) previous Linux kernels, the struct acct (defined in /usr/include/sys/acct.h) has members ac_io and ac_rw which are presumably counts of characters transferred and blocks read/written respectively. However, in the kernel code, the ac_io is set to 0 and the ac_rw gets set to (ac_io/512) or some such - it is set to 0 as well (and thus these are always reported as 0 in process accounting records. not good if you're trying to measure them...). Does anybody know why this is done that way? A long time ago (IIRC late 2.2 and an early 2.4 kernel) I looked into "fixing" this in the kernel code but was not successful (I finally produced a bootable kernel, but it was unstable. Then I changed jobs, got swamped at work, and eventually gave up). As I said above, I have previously asked about this issue without success, and I have essentially given up changing or "fixing" it. But if anyone knows __WHY__ it is this way (I'm hypothesizing that it's just too much work for too little added value), I'd really appreciate knowing the reason. Curiosity and the cat and all that ... Thanks - Bill -- william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."

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ctrlproxy-3.0.6
by Bernie Innocenti 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Ciao, I updated ctrlproxy to 3.0.6, and the resulting packages are here: http://www.codewiz.org/pub/fedora/pkgs/ Patch follows. Can I commit it to CVS? diff -u -p -r1.15 ctrlproxy.spec --- ctrlproxy.spec 19 Feb 2008 07:31:45 -0000 1.15 +++ ctrlproxy.spec 25 May 2008 14:25:14 -0000 @@ -1,12 +1,18 @@ +%define ctrlproxy_homedir %{_var}/lib/ctrlproxy +%define ctrlproxy_logdir %{_var}/log/irc +%define ctrlproxy_service ctrlproxy +%define ctrlproxy_user ctrlproxy + Summary: ctrlproxy Name: ctrlproxy -Version: 3.0.5 -Release: 2%{?dist} +Version: 3.0.6 +Release: 1%{?dist} License: GPLv2+ Group: Applications/Internet Source: http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/releases/ctrlproxy-%{version}.tar.gz Url: http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/ctrlproxy/ -Patch0: ctrlproxy-fix-ansi-build.patch +Source100: ctrlproxy.init +Source101: ctrlproxy.config BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n) BuildRequires: glib2-devel, popt, gnutls-devel @@ -31,7 +37,6 @@ ctrlproxy development headers %prep %setup -q -%patch0 -p1 %build %configure @@ -45,6 +50,23 @@ mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT -C doc install chmod 0644 ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/ctrlproxy/motd +install -D -m 0755 %{SOURCE100} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/ctrlproxy +install -D -m 0640 %{SOURCE101} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{ctrlproxy_homedir}/config +install -D -d -m 0750 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{ctrlproxy_logdir} + + +%pre +/usr/sbin/useradd -s /sbin/nologin -M -r -d %{ctrlproxy_homedir} \ + -c "ctrlproxy IRC daemon" %{ctrlproxy_user} &>/dev/null || : + +%post +/sbin/chkconfig --add %{ctrlproxy_service} + +%preun +if [ $1 = 0 ]; then + /sbin/service %{ctrlproxy_service} stop > /dev/null 2>&1 || : + /sbin/chkconfig --del %{ctrlproxy_service} +fi %clean [ -d "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -a "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "/" ] && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT @@ -59,12 +81,24 @@ chmod 0644 ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/ %dir %{_docdir}/ctrlproxy %{_docdir}/ctrlproxy/* +%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/ctrlproxy +%attr(0750, ctrlproxy, ctrlproxy) %dir %{ctrlproxy_logdir} +%attr(0750, ctrlproxy, ctrlproxy) %dir %{ctrlproxy_homedir} +%attr(0750, ctrlproxy, ctrlproxy) %config(noreplace) %{ctrlproxy_homedir}/config + + %files devel %defattr(-,root,root) %{_includedir}/ctrlproxy-3.0/* %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/ctrlproxy.pc %changelog +* Sun May 25 2008 Bernardo Innocenti <bernie(a)codewiz.org> 3.0.6-1 +- Update to latest upstream +- Drop ctrlproxy-fix-irssi-log.patch +- Add initscript +- Create a ctrlproxy user to run ctrlproxy as a daemon + * Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.0.5-2 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 -- \___/ _| X | Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \|_O_| "It's an education project, not a laptop project!"

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Maintainer Responsibility Policy
by Brian Pepple 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hi all, I'm looking for some feedback on what I've got so far for the Maintainer Responsibility Policy. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MaintainerResponsibilityPolicy -- == Maintainer Responsibility Policy == === How long to maintain? === 13 months from initial release. === Belong to the appropriate low-traffic mailing list === * Package maintainers will receive important announcements through the moderated fedora-devel-announce mailing list. Maintainers will be automatically subscribed to this list. Everyone that is a primary maintainer of a package in Fedora is also strongly encouraged to subscribe to the fedora-devel list, though this is not mandatory. * http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce * http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list === Manage security issues === * Package maintainer should handle security issues quickly, and if they need help they should contact the Security Response Team. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/ResponseTeam === Deal with reported bugs in a timely manner ==== * 'Nuff said. === Maintain stability for users === * Package maintainers should limit updates within a single Fedora release to those which do not require special user action. Many users update automatically, and if their applications stop working from no action of their own then they will be upset. This goes doubly for services which may break overnight. === Track dependency issues in a timely manner === * In the development tree, and to a small degree in the release trees as well, updates to packages may cause other packages to have broken dependencies. Maintainers will be alerted when this happens, and should work to rebuild their packages with all due haste. Broken dependencies may leave end user systems in a state where no updates will be applied. In order to keep the distribution in a reasonable state, someone will step in and rebuild packages that have had dependency issues for some time, but package maintainers should not rely on these rebuilds. === Notify others of changes that may affect their packages === * Some packages are depended upon by others; in this case, changes to one package may cause issues for others. Maintainers should be aware of the effects that changes to their packages may have, and should alert to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list of updates which contain ABI or API changes which may cause dependency problems for other packages. The announcement should occur a week before the packages update, so all maintainers affected are notified. The announcement should include the following information: * Nature of the change. * Branches (devel, F9, etc.) which will be affected by the change. * Expected date of the change. * List of packages which are affected by the change. Generally, this is merely the list of packages which depend directly on the package which is being updated, and can be found with "repoquery --whatrequires package" where "package" is the package being updated. * If your package upgrade breaks other packages in Rawhide, you should try to help fix the packages affected. For example, when Python-2.5 was integrated into Rawhide, Jeremy Katz at least fixed the important packages and queued a rebuild for all the other packages affected. === Miscellaneous Items === * Maintainers need to maintain an upgrade path for their packages. * F(current-1) -> F(current) -> Rawhide * Packages should be pushed to the Rawhide branch first. If it builds and works fine for a few days, then it can be pushed to F(current). If there is a good reason to push it to F(current-1), it should be done after a few days of being in F(current). --- Thanks, /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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mock 0.8.9 will not build anything
by Frank Büttner 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hello, when I try to build an package mock will fail with: ERROR: Command(/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 102 mockbuild) failed. See logs for output. At the root.log: 2008-01-18 09:48:01,860 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 20: ENTER: doChroot((<mock.backend.Root object at 0xb7dc8e8c>, '/usr/sbin/grou padd -g 102 mockbuild', ''), {}) 2008-01-18 09:48:01,861 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 20: ENTER: do(('/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 102 mockbuild', '/var/lib/mock/fedora-de velopment-i386/root', 0, True, 0, None, None, None, None), {}) 2008-01-18 09:48:01,862 - DEBUG util.py, Line: 212: Run cmd: /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 102 mockbuild 2008-01-18 09:48:01,862 - DEBUG util.py, Line: 218: Executing timeout(0): /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 102 mockbuild 2008-01-18 09:48:01,866 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 20: ENTER: condPersonality((None,), {}) 2008-01-18 09:48:01,869 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 30: LEAVE condPersonality --> None 2008-01-18 09:48:01,870 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 20: ENTER: condChroot(('/var/lib/mock/fedora-development-i386/root', None), {} ) 2008-01-18 09:48:01,871 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 30: LEAVE condChroot --> None 2008-01-18 03:48:01,872 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 20: ENTER: condDropPrivs((None, None, None), {}) 2008-01-18 03:48:01,873 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 30: LEAVE condDropPrivs --> None 2008-01-18 09:48:01,973 - DEBUG util.py, Line: 234: groupadd: name mockbuild is not unique 2008-01-18 09:48:01,977 - DEBUG trace_decorator.py, Line: 27: EXCEPTION: Command(/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 102 mockbuild) failed. See logs f or output. Any ideas, what goes wrong?? Frank

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Glade(2/3) and Anjuta in comps-f9.xml
by Debarshi Ray 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Looking at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/comps/comps-f9.xml.in?view=markup I find that Glade2 and Anjuta are marked as default and optional respectively. While Glade 3.4.1 (separate package from Glade2) is already there in the repositories, we are soon going to have a fresh new Anjuta package (atleast 2.2.3) in Fedora. However, the latest versions of Anjuta -- both 2.2.3 (stable) and 2.3.x (unstable) -- need Glade3 for its Glade plugin to work. So can we consider replacing Glade2 by Glade3 in the comps-f9.xml.in for Fedora 9? As far as I know, this would affect the Live Developer Spin and the non-live GNOME DVD. What do you think? Cheerio, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ (Fedora) * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ (GNU) * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/ (CRAN, Fedora, Mozilla, TLDP)

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Off Topic: where I can see how I translate old gdm conf files to new ones?
by casimiro barreto 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hello, After upgrading to Fedora Rel 9 I've had trouble to drop the -nolisten in the Xserver (old defaults.conf is not working anymore) and I need to set the command=/usr/bin/X ... Gdm was shipped without proper documentation (no man pages, nothing for the missing gdmsetup and other programs... Best regards and sorry for the inconvenience... Casimiro Barreto

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Help wanted with Samba4 and OpenChange
by Andrew Bartlett 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

I've recently been working on packaging Heimdal, Samba4 and OpenChange for Fedora. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452212 (heimdal) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453083 (Samba4) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453395 (libmapi - OpenChange) This will enable much better access to Microsoft Exchange servers from clients such as kdepim, and hopefully Evolution (pending a re-licensing). I've got a feature page for this here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OpenChange Now, the reason I'm posting here is that I would rather not do this alone, and would love some co-maintainers of the packagers above, or at least some help with the review and sponsorship, or advise on the best way forward. Any assistance gratefully received, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.

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file system mount
by Amitakhya Phukan 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

hi all! i have a system with fedora 7 and rhel 5 installed. recently, i changed the f7 to rawhide. now whenever i boot up, it mounts all the file systems related to rhel5 along with it and displays on the desktop. dmesg says /dev/sda1 mounted on /media/_1 and so on. I want to disable this feature. i don't know if this is anything useful ?? i even don't know if its a feature or a bug... can any one please help me out with this thing ? i understand hal is doing this (??), but why ? and even when i unmount it, the same can still be found in /media. right clicking on those partitions give me the option of mounting/unmounting them. but i don't want to let them appear in my rawhide systems totally. anyone else has this experience on rawhide??how do i disable it ?? thanks in advance. with regards, amitakhya phukan.

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