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libdvdread slight API breakage
by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Since libdvdnav (and libdvdread) have been forked by one of MPlayer's developers, there's been a significant bugfixing effort going on. Unfortunately, the new upstream broke the API a bit. While before you'd use #include <dvdread/dvd_reader.h> now you have to use #include <libdvdread/dvd_reader.h>. A libdvdread build that requires the above change has already landed in rawhide. The ABI hasn't changed, so there's no immediate need to rebuild. Affected packages: dvdauthor k3b lsdvd python-kaa-metadata Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"

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RFC: FEver and RPath checks in Koji
by Debarshi Ray 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

I have a couple of proposals which I wanted to sound out. + Would it be possible to run FEver (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/FEver) on a regular basis? Currently I get the feeling that it is run manually at irregular intervals, and since I depend heavily on it for tracking upstream releases this often means that a release is missed occasionally. + Would it be a good idea to have rpath related checks in Koji? Although I use "%__arch_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot" in my ~/.rpmmacros, some rpath issues are only detected on x86_64 systems? Although I have a x86_64 desktop, it can be a bit problematic when a x86_64 system is not available. Such issues do not get detected during the Koji build resulting in violation of the packaging guidelines. Comments? Cheers, Debarshi -- Free software for the Indian community: * ftp://fedora.glug-nith.org/ * http://fedora.glug-nith.org/ * http://gnu.glug-nith.org/ * http://mirror.wbut.ac.in/

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ext4dev oddity
by Trever L. Adams 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

I am having some pretty good success on some different machines with ext4. However, I am getting this message: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 717: 23410 blocks in bitmap, 23411 in gd EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 721: 19309 blocks in bitmap, 19333 in gd What do I need to do to help debug this, if anything, and how do I find out which files or directories are affected? Thank you, Trever Adams -- "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is too far for me. Today is what I have, and what I fight for." -- Unknown

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Fedora 9 on ASUS EeePC 900
by Jos Vos 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Hi, I'm investigating the issues that I can expect when I want to install Fedora 9 on an ASUS EeePC 900. I found some references, mainly referring to Fedora 8 and the EeePC 701, and I found the Fedora Wiki page <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc>, that lists various issues. Will the wired Ethernet still not work for installing F9, for example? Any references to more detailed information are welcome. Thanks, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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Move libgnome[ui] Python bindings to gnome-python2-gnome?
by Matthew Barnes 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

The OLPC guys are asking me to split the Python bindings for libgnome and libgnomeui into a new subpackage of gnome-python2 called gnome-python2-gnome (see [1]). The rationale being that libgnome drags in extra dependencies that some of the other gnome-python2 subpackages don't need. For example, gnome-python2-gnomevfs doesn't need libgnome but still requires its parent package, gnome-python2. This sounds like a reasonable idea to me but it will break other packages that require gnome-python2 expecting to get the libgnome[ui] bindings. Those packages would have to require gnome-python2-gnome instead. Possibly affected packages include: audit-viewer autobuild-applet awn-extras-applets blogtk decibel-audio-player deskbar-applet fwbackups gjots2 gnome-password-generator gnome-python2-desktop gnome-python2-extras gourmet gramps hamster-applet hwbrowser listen meld policycoreutils-gui qa-assistant rhythmbox setroubleshoot system-config-bind system-config-cluster system-config-httpd system-config-lvm system-config-netboot system-config-network system-config-printer wallpapoz Any objections or alternate suggestions? Thank, Matthew Barnes [1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456122

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The results are in for the Fedroa 10 naming
by Josh Boyer 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Drum roll... And the winner of the Fedora 10 codename is: Cambridge The full GPG-signed information from our election coordinator, Nigel Jones, including vote totals, is located here: http://jwboyer.fedorapeople.org/fedora10relname.txt.asc Many thanks to the Board, Paul Frields, and Nigel Jones for their effort in getting the name candidates and vote set up. josh -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce

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XULRunner and you
by Will Woods 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

In last week's QA meeting, Chris Aillon (aka caillon, our fearless firefox/xulrunner maintainer) stopped by to tell us what happened with xulrunner dep breakage, and how package maintainers can help reduce / prevent it in the future. Here's a quick summary: There are two APIs provided by xulrunner - the stable API (gecko-devel), and the unstable one (gecko-devel-unstable). The stable API, as you might guess, is not expected to change. So if a package uses the stable API, it won't have any problems when the xulrunner package is updated. The unstable API could change at any time, so if your app is using the unstable API it must be rebuilt *every time* xulrunner is updated. Packages using the stable API should have: Requires: gecko-libs >= 1.9 BuildRequires: gecko-devel >= 1.9 Packages using the unstable API should have: %define gecko_ver 1.9.0.1 Requires: gecko-libs = %{gecko_ver} BuildRequires: gecko-devel-unstable = %{gecko_ver} Anything with BuildRequire: xulrunner-devel or xulrunner-devel-unstable should be changed to gecko-devel or gecko-devel-unstable. (The xulrunner-devel packages provide those things). Also: if your package uses the -unstable API, please send caillon(a)redhat.com a note, and *please* consider adding him to the ACL (or opening it entirely). He keeps tabs on all packages requiring the unstable API so they can all be rebuilt for each security update. caillon is out 'til next week, so it would be really good if you can help clean this stuff up in his absence. Thanks! -w

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%configure assuming in-source-tree builds
by Michel Salim 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Some upstream developers recommend that their software (thinking of LLVM and PLT Scheme, but there must be others) *not* be configured and built at the top-level source directory (typically recommending using build/, object/ or some such). When this is needed, currently the Fedora packager has to revert to calling the configure script directly, foregoing the %configure macro, and copying as much of the configure settings by hand. Would it be a desirable feature to, say, be able to declare %define configure_relative_path .. and then have %configure use the value of that instead of './' when calling the actual configure script? Thanks, - -- Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkheiA4ACgkQWt0J3fd+7ZDb1QCeLjtxpBimjo0YS20SIHqorgJF WFcAoIkX+dkp+8EbwZ5RzFyr7sLxHCbq =zuT3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Features that would be great for Fedora 10
by Valent Turkovic 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Here are just few features that I believe would be great for Fedora 10 to have: 1. RFE: Add desktop folder with examples of what "fedora thing" can do :) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315171 Lisa gets Fedora 10 Live CD from her Joe (her geeky boyfriend) and puts it in her laptop. After she gets presented with a different looking desktop that she is usually presented she doesn't know what this "fedora thing" actually does and can do. Joe gives her a CD version of Ubuntu, after loosing temper with trying to explain what fedora can actually do. Lisa puts Ubuntu CD in and after few minutes she clicks through a few examples on her new desktop and sees that this "Ubuntu thing" does more that that "Fedora thing" like plays music & videos, shows nice spreadsheets and other documents. It would be great for Fedora to add directory on desktop with some nice examples what Fedora and OSS can do. There are great videos on redhat magazine page and I'm sure there are other great resources - new users need to be exposed to them in this way. Also there is a initiative for contriburots to make screencasts and this feature would be a great match with it if they merged together. 2. RFE: Desktop shortcut for joining Fedora IRC (aka "Get Live Help"): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430217 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179703 Fedora is about freedom+communication, right? Why not make this statement more that just a nice slogan. If you installed sabayon linux you could experienced for yourself what this really means. I as a new user to gentoo (sabayon is based on gentoo) was really blown away with this feature. It is really, really simple to implement and gives a real meaning to a communication friendly linux distro. In sabayon link to their IRC chat has a simple name "Get Live Help" and it work fabulous! I didn't have any Portage experience so I poped in IRC chat room and was on my way after I got quick help. Whis kind of help was precious to me and would love to see it in fedora as one of it's main features and not just as a slogan. screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382063978&size=l 3. Add abillity to define ntfs mount points in anaconda https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430084 We can define ext3, reiserfs, xfs and vfat partition mount points in anaconda during the install but just ntfs. Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Does your app use LIRC?
by Bastien Nocera 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

If your app uses liblirc_client, it would be nice if you could follow the instructions, and the two examples at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport#User_Experience to make your application work out-of-the-box in Fedora 10. Elisa, Totem and Rhythmbox are already fixed. I'd have had a nice list using repoquery, but it just seems to hang there doing nothing (and then gives me useless answers, might just be me...). Let me know if you have any questions about the setup. Cheers

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