devel November 2009

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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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jack2
by Andy Shevchenko 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hello. Nowadays the jack project has two branches - old jack (1) branch with version 0.116.2 and new one called jack2 version 1.9.3. I'd like to gather opinions and suggestions about applying new version for F13. Please, share your thoughts! Thank you. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko

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intent to retire: kudzu
by Bill Nottingham 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

I'd like to retire kudzu for F-13. Why? - There are places where it almost certainly does not work with current kernels - It's so deprecated that one of its replacements (HAL) has since been frozen and deprecated - Given that, its upstream is very dead However, it is still being required by two programs: - hwbrowser - fwfstab If someone wants to keep it limping along for thsese two programs I can orphan it. But I'd really rather just retire it. Bill

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Cannot rely on /dev being present in %post scripts?
by David Woodhouse 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

According to bug #517013, %post scripts should not assume that /dev is available -- so we can't do anything that requires the existence of /dev/null, /dev/urandom, etc. Is this a known and expected packaging rule, or is it a bug in the way that the user is attempting to install the packages? -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse(a)intel.com Intel Corporation

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Pulseaudio in F12
by Paulo Cavalcanti 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi, I made a clean install of Fedora 12, and pulseaudio seems to be behaving completely different. Any mixer control I have (master, pcm, front ,,,) affects the pulse volume slider (looking at pavucontrol). In the past, pulse only controlled PCM, I guess. But the worst point is that there is no more application volume memory. All applications when launched are at full volume, and this is really annoying ... Is this a kind of new feature? Is it configurable? -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ

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2009-10-22 - Power Management Test Day report
by Phil Knirsch 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Here a short report from the Power Management Fedora Test day on 10/22/09 [1]. First of all many thanks to all the people who participated in it and who reported their findings. In order to make things easier for testers and to make sure we get a lot more stable and comparable results Marcela Maslanova, Jan Vcelak and Petr Lautrbach put together a rpm that consisted of all our test scripts, an easy call-script to easily run them and a "collect" script to pack together all results. Additionally the rpm itself has requirements against all the packages we needed for the tests, so a simple installation of the testday rpm provided a solid and easy method for every tester. This worked out really well and made test results very consistent. Unfortunately time ran out for including the automatic upload script from Mike McGrath and the ALPM test script, but that didn't seem to pose a big problem, roughly half of the testers provided results for ALPM as well. We got 30 results overall with half of them including ALPM test results, too. Overall the results showed us what we wanted to know: - The tools we're shipping are working as expected, no crashes or anything like that observed - Wakeups and system behavior in genereral in comparison to our Fedora 11 test day doesn't show any regressions - New features seem to be working as expected Rudolf Kastel discovered one strange bug with one of the profiles which we couldn't reproduce yet, but we're still investigating with him. All in all the whole test day was a real success. Especially the great idea of Marcela, Jan and Petr to make a rpm for the testday which automated a lot of the work that needed to be done. For the next testday we already plan to expand that idea and include the automated upload script which will make it even easier for the testers. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-10-22 -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Team Lead Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.

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mono and snk key files
by Kalev Lember 20 Dec '09

20 Dec '09

Hello, I'm writing this to fedora-devel list and also cross-posting to fedora-mono, as the latter seems rather dead but might be useful for archiving purposes. I am not very familiar with Mono and .NET technology, so if I get something wrong, please correct me. I'm also neither nant's nor log4net's maintainer; I just saw that a large part of Mono is currently broken in rawhide and tried to figure out the root cause. Mono assemblies that get installed into GAC need to be strongname-signed. The resulting public key token gets placed into the assembly (DLL), and uniquely identifies a series of assembly releases that are all API/ABI compatible. When the assembly manufacturer releases an API-compatible updated version, they would strongname-sign the update with the same snk key as the previous release. This is supposed to prevent DLL hell: applications reference the public key token, and if there's an updated DLL with the same public key available, then applications are automatically redirected to the new version. There are several Mono source packages in Fedora that don't ship an .snk key file. The reason why the file sometimes isn't shipped with the source is probably this: upstream developers want to be able to create binary releases which are guaranteed to be API compatible, and don't want anyone else to sign non-compatible versions with the same key. However, since assemblies installed into the GAC need to be signed, several Fedora packages generate the public key files during build time. With this approach every single build gets signed with a DIFFERENT snk file, making every new build incompatible with the previous one. Right now nant is broken [1] in Fedora because someone rebuilt log4net. During the rebuild a new strong name key was generated, and log4net was signed with the new key. However, since nant was built against the previous log4net build, it is no longer able to find the rebuilt log4net assembly which is signed with a new key. Result: nant breaks, and with that also log4net breaks [2], because it uses nant for building itself. This situation not only applies for log4net, but for many different Mono libraries. Historically nant appears to have been fixed with bootstrapping [3]. Nant's source distribution contains a bunch of binary dll files. Someone has to flip a switch in the spec file so that nant uses those binary files to build itself. After that bootstrapping is disabled and nant is rebuilt against the assemblies from the system. However, this approach doesn't scale if every single update / rebuild needs to have nant manually bootstrapped/debootstrapped. I'd suggest to fix this changing the way snk files are generated. Instead of automatically generating a new key at build time, it should instead be generated once, and stored in cvs / lookaside cache. It would then be at a package maintainer's discretion to regenerate the snk file whenever an API incompatible update is made. However, casual rebuilds would be done with the same strongname key, making sure that everything depending on the assembly doesn't get automatically broken with each rebuild. Comments? [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538908 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539189 [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg01399.html -- Kalev

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190 packages with .la file(s)
by Pierre-Yves Chibon 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Dear all, Looking at: $ yum whatprovides "*.la" |grep x86_64 |wc -l 190 surprises me a bit. Do we have 189 bugs waiting to be filled ? (I filled one this morning) I guess some of these cannot be changed but I guess some can. 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review request - rasmol, Molecular Graphics Visualization Tool
by Carl Byington 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have built a spec file for rasmol 2.7.5 http://www.five-ten-sg.com/rasmol.spec based on an earlier one from Mandrake. It now builds and seems to run on Fedora 12. This spec file clearly needs some changes: 1) There were some menu icon references to files that are no longer in the package, but there is a rasmol_48x48.xpm image. What is the preferred mechanism to create menu icons, where do they go, etc? 2) There does not seem to be much point in creating gui icons for this, since it seems to be intended to run from a command prompt in a terminal. The program uses stdin to read commands, and the data is then displayed in a graphic window. Unless there is an easy way to create an icon that launches a gnome-terminal which in turn runs the rasmol binary, and allows the user to then type commands into that terminal session. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLDGbGL6j7milTFsERAlgeAJ99F85DAWZybSDcVbTHpyZy7qphXwCffpzX +Ogall1p4R3O8rp2fLk24ZU= =ZDPj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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