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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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git push permission denied
by Neal Becker 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

I just had to setup a new machine, and new ssh keys. I visited https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/edit/xxxx I chose my new id_rsa.pub to upload. But I get: git push --verbose Pushing to ssh://nbecker@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/mercurial Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Hints?

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Moving xine-lib and dependent apps to RPM Fusion Free for F17?
by Kevin Kofler 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, the current xine-lib maintainer speaking. :-) The Xine project: http://www.xine-project.org/home has recently released a new major version, version 1.2.0. Unfortunately, among the list of changes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xine/files/xine-lib/1.2.0/README.txt.asc/vi… there are these new "features": * Use libavutil-provided implementations for CRC, SHA1 and BASE64 algorithms, this makes use of libavutil even outside the FFmpeg decoding plugin, but avoid duplication of algorithms between different plugins. * Use av_mallocz() when xine_xmalloc_aligned() wouldn't be needed. * FFmpeg is now required as an external dependency; if you want to build xine-lib from source, please download a copy of FFmpeg from their SVN server. which basically mean that xine-lib now has a global, non-optional dependency on FFmpeg's libavutil library. So there are 4 possible ways forward: (a) Stick with 1.1.x forever. I don't think that's a good idea in the long run, upstream won't be providing security fixes for the old branch forever. (b) Package libavutil (and only libavutil) from FFmpeg in Fedora. (I don't think libavutil, as opposed to libavcodec, is actually patent-encumbered, though that'd also have to be checked.) The issue there is that FFmpeg upstream obviously doesn't support this. It would need some more black packaging magic of the kind already done in xine-lib, and more legal auditing. I don't think I want to investigate going down that road. (c) Bundle parts or all of libavutil with xine-lib. Yuck!!! (d) Move the whole thing (back) to RPM Fusion (where it originally was, before we started needing xine-lib for Amarok and Phonon, which both no longer use it). It would go to the Free section, of course. My proposal is to go with (d). The following packages currently depend on xine-lib: * gxine * (k9copy – already in RPM Fusion, not affected) * kaffeine (my package, the reason why I maintain xine-lib in the first place) * oxine * xine-plugin * xine-ui These packages would have to move to RPM Fusion along with xine-lib. In Kaffeine's case, upstream is switching from xine-lib to MPlayer in their git repository, so it will likely have to move to RPM Fusion sooner or later anyway. This means the affected packages are basically *xine*. So my plan is to retire (for my packages, resp. have the respective maintainer retire) the listed packages in Fedora for Fedora ≥ 17 and get (or have the respective maintainer get) them into RPM Fusion Free instead. (I'd take care of xine-lib and kaffeine myself, I hope the maintainers of the other packages will take care of them.) Comments? Objections? Kevin Kofler

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cone : potentially orphaned package
by Michael Schwendt 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

2011-06-23 : FTBFS not responded to 2010-06-30 : -static packaging bug not responded to Plus, release 0.89 from 20-May-2011 is available whereas Fedora contains 0.84 from 2010 ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/files/cone/ ). This looks like somebody with interest in Cone should sign up as co-maintainer and find out what's up with the current maintainer. http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/cone -- Fedora release 16 (Verne) - Linux 3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 loadavg: 0.82 1.09 0.87

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orphan most of my packages
by Andy Shevchenko 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hello, I have no more time to support the following packages in the Fedora. jack-audio-connection-kit -- The Jack Audio Connection Kit klamav -- Clam Anti-Virus on the KDE Desktop man-pages-uk -- Ukrainian man pages from the Linux Documentation Project python-alsa -- Python binding for the ALSA library qstat -- Real-time Game Server Status for FPS game servers uniconvertor -- Universal vector graphics translator -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko

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Self Introduction
by Olivier BONHOMME 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Hello everybody, I am Olivier from France. I work now as a System/Network Architect in the Spatial domain especially in Satellite telecommunications. I work every day on Linux Platform especially Fedora / Redhat / CentOS platform doing software and hardware integration, architecture and packaging work. Moreover, I try to contribute to some projects like the SUDO French translation [1] and the Fusiondirectory project. [2] On this project, I maintain the public services and I am in charge of the RPM packaging. About that I have two Review requests opened about this project [3] [4] and it would be nice to participate to the integration in Fedora. Thanks for have read me. Regards, Olivier BONHOMME [1] - https://pootle.fusiondirectory.org/projects/sudo_debian/ [2] - http://www.fusiondirectory.org [3] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701028 [4] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704672

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PyXML package - deprecate it?
by Roman Rakus 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi all, looks like PyXML package is deprecated since python itself provides xml mechanisms. When you look deeper, python's xml provides: "dom", "parsers", "sax", "etree" and PyXML provides: 'dom', 'marshal', 'parsers', 'sax', 'schema', 'utils', 'xpath', 'xslt' So, PyXML duplicates dom, parsers and sax (and looks like python's is in better shape). Is any package using marshall, schema or any other not in python itself? Deprecate PyXML or just remove duplicated parts? RR

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upcoming libdb/db4/compat-db reorganization
by Jindrich Novy 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Hi all, it seems to be the right time to do an unification/reorganization of Oracle (Berkeley) DB packages in rawhide. The current situation is that there are three of them: compat-db - shipping old libdbs for compatibility (4.5,4.6 and 4.7) db4 - shipping latest 4.x libdb series (4.8) libdb - shipping latest libdb release (5.3) What I'm planning to do is getting rid of db4 package. But before that I want to clean-up compat-db for a bit. After fiddling a bit with repoquery nothing seems to be dependent on libdb-4.5 so if there are no objections I want to remove it. There was only one package dependent on 4.6 (squidGuard) because it had compilation problems with 4.7. This package is now built against 5.3 with no problem so 4.6 could go away from compat-db as well. Only one package (pam_abl-0:0.2.3-8.fc12) was dependent on 4.7 in Fedora 17 but it's already rebuilt in rawhide so 4.7 can go away as well. So the plan is: 1) remove 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 from compat-db 2) put 4.8 to compat-db 3) make db4 a dead package (db4 package name is not very descriptive any more as we have libdb-5.3 ...) The reason I'm sending this to fedora-devel is that I'm unable to reveal dlopen() or similar deps in packages so if your package requires older libdb I plan to remove and can not be rebuilt against newer libdb then please speak up! Thanks, Jindrich -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá, kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl. --- Jan Werich

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GitHub is a terrible upstream
by Corey Richardson 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

(Let's try this again, but with less fail!) Getting source tarballs from github is a nightmare. See http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/148676.html The debian tool doesn't help very much because one still needs revision garbage in the specfile. Is there any more recent ways to mitigate this? Perhaps we could "lobby" github to change their ways, at least partially?

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mounted external ext4 causes "high" kworker cpu
by Chris Murphy 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Normally top reports CPU line, sy at 0.4% when idle. If I format an external Firewire disk as btrfs and mount it, it remains at 0.4%. If I reformat as XFS and mount it, again top reports sy at 0.4%. However, if I reformat as ext4 and mount it, sy runs at 3.5%. These two processes are now at the top of top's results: kworker/1:2 kworker/0:4 Each uses on average 1.9% CPU. The light on the external drive flashes 4x per second. There are no processes using the disk at all while this is going on. If I umount it, the pulsing stops. If I remount it, the pulsing resumes as does the slightly higher CPU consumption. This doesn't happen with the same hardware mounted XFS or btrfs or HFS+. Odd? These reveal nothing related to the disk: lsof | grep sdb lsof | mapper If I sift through it unfiltered with the volume mounted and not, I don't really see anything obvious standing out. Chris Murphy

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