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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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thunderbird is removing spaces
by Stefan Assmann 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hi, thunderbird seem to remove spaces from lines that only consist of one or more spaces. Any way of preventing thunderbird from doing so? I already have "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed false" and turned of line wrapping. With these option sending patches works pretty well, only recently I had a patch that got corrupted because of spaces being removed. Any ideas? Stefan -- Stefan Assmann | Red Hat GmbH Software Engineer | Otto-Hahn-Strasse 20, 85609 Dornach | HR: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 | GF: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, sassmann at redhat.com | Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera

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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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Fedora Linux Format software review: January 2010
by Christopher Brown 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi folks, Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I thought: a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is included in Fedora b) It would be a good idea to get that which is not in and/or up to date c) If there is enough interest I would like to form a SIG to do the monthly reviews - a kind of packaging wishlist on steroids perhaps :) I blogged about this recently and you can read the basic idea there: http://chruz.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/ive-got-the-music-on-my-radio/ The editor has expressed his willingness to send details of software which they will review to us so we have a head start. I have conducted the first review of the January 2010 issue which you can read here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFormatPackaging There are some interesting omissions, for example Recoll, the desktop search tool which came out ahead of Beagle and Google Desktop and which doesn't even have a review request opened for it yet. A few points that need mentioning: 1) I do not and have never worked for Linux Format nor has anyone I know :) 2) There may be some glaring errors - this is why this is on the wiki so please feel free to update/change etc. For example I have not undertaken rigorous reviews for the software's suitability. 3) This is not intended as anything other than a distillation of what would be good to have in the repositories. I welcome your comments as ever. -- Christopher Brown

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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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Anyone else want to maintain alltray?
by Rahul Sundaram 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hi It is a application that lets you minimize any app to the system tray and is compatible with GNOME, Xfce, KDE etc. It has a dormant upstream and I haven't had time to look into all the crash reports from Abrt. If noone picks it up, I will orphan it in a week. $ yum info alltray Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Available Packages Name : alltray Arch : i686 Version : 0.70 Release : 4.fc12 Size : 62 k Repo : fedora Summary : Dock any application in the tray URL : http://alltray.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2+ Rahul

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Can some provenpackager bump openvpn in EL-5
by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have this bz open for some time now, with no response. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544944 Can some one with proven packager access bump the EL-5 version to the latest one in devel. Thanks. - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) GnuPG Fingerprint: 3A0F DAFB 9279 02ED 273B FFE9 CC70 DCF2 DA5B DAE5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLOsgRzHDc8tpb2uURAj7nAJ9IsE1qHV+TzaG0S+Mz3DgAimhkoACgjN/y 5SKpIFhDa4YB9JEFW1ERZz8= =PCW0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ABRT considered painful
by Michael Schwendt 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

What's wrong with ABRT? Originally, with stock F-12, I had received a couple of good backtraces in bugzilla. Incredibly useful. A wonderful improvement over F-11 and older. And later? - Recently, in all the backtraces dozens of debuginfo packages are missing. :-(

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