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Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by "Nils O. Selåsdal" 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

Dax Kelson wrote: >The FC3 Release Notes say: > >============= > RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has > changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one > already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be > installed) caused the installation of the package containing the > conflicting file to abort. > > In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package > installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from > previously-installed packages. >============ > >What's the rationale for this? > >Dax > > > Then my hunch about this were right. I was yelling a bit about that on IRC, but most people claimed RPM does NOT work like that. Apparantly it does on my system. Rather bad imho, it allows for easily screw up.

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lslR in the download tree
by Leonard den Ottolander 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

Hi, Would it be a big trouble to put lslR files in the download tree at download.fedora.us? This might help in locating packages if one isn't sure whether they are stable or in testing. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by Pete Zaitcev 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:06:43 -0600, Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> wrote: > > > > In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package > > > > installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from > > > > previously-installed packages. > > > > > > Is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour ? > > > > rpm --fileconflicts > > So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the > behavior. But we haven't heard what the reason for the change was. There's nothing magic about "a reply from an @redhat.com". I've got such an address, too, but so what. Wait until you see a mail from Jeff Johnson or Christian Gafton. It's a weekend. -- Pete

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Re: FC3 rpm behavior change
by "Nils O. Selåsdal" 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

Rex Dieter wrote: >> >> >> So we've got a reply from an @redhat.com that says how to avoid the >> behavior. > > > I have to agree with the consensus shown here that this change in > default behavior is, to put in mildly, *just plain stupid*. Please, > please revert to previous, proper behavior, and force folks who insist > on this broken behavior to use > rpm --replacefiles > > Has anyone bothered to submit anything to bugzilla yet? (If not, I'd be > happy to). Please do. It might just be that. A bug. -- Nils O. Selåsdal www.utelsystems.com

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Status of IT8212 RADI/IDE and pwc drivers (Alan!)
by Peter Backlund 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

Hello. I'd like to know what the status of the IT8212 RAID/IDE Controller driver is with regard to the FC3 kernel. Is it possible to pick the driver from the -ac patchset and build against the FC3 kernel, or do the API differ too much? If it's not possible to build, could the driver be modified to use the old IDE API? Also, could you bring back the pwc driver please? It's gone missing from 2.6.9-1.643 again. I suppose it's marked buggy, but it works fine (for me at least). On the other hand, if it's easier to create an add-on package containing both pwc and pwcx when the pwc module is _not_ distributed with the main kernel, it's better to leave it this way. /Peter Backlund

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rawhide report: 20041030 changes
by Build System 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

Updated Packages: FreeWnn-1.10pl020-5 ------------------- * Fri Oct 29 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:1.10pl020-5 - before upgrading modify the wnn user and group (in the same way mailman does) rather than deleting and recreating them to really fix the upgrade failure with nis (136551) - simplify this by introducing %wnnuser, %wnnuid, %wnngrp, %wnngid and %wnndir and use them aspell-bg-0.50-5 ---------------- * Tue Oct 26 2004 Adrian Havill <havill(a)redhat.com> 50:0.50-5 - aspell already owns cp1251.dat (#137022) authconfig-4.6.5-3.1 -------------------- * Thu Oct 28 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> - force broken_shadow option on network auth (#136760) gthumb-2.4.2-4 -------------- * Fri Oct 29 2004 David Malcolm <dmalcolm(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.2-4 - added patch to fix crash on startup on 64-bit architectures (#137594) * Thu Sep 30 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 2.4.2-3 - PreReq desktop-file-utils >= 0.9 gtk2-2.4.13-5 ------------- * Thu Oct 28 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.13-5 - Include an upstream bugfix in the gtk+-2.4.9-treeview-activate.patch. This fixes a crasher bug (#137461) hal-0.4.0-10 ------------ * Thu Oct 28 2004 David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat,com> 0.4.0-10 - Allow adding SCSI optical drives to the /etc/fstab file (#137364) - Fix typo where 'async' was used instead of 'sync' (#137456) im-sdk-12.1-4 ------------- * Fri Oct 29 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - 1:12.1-4 - leif-unit-revert-1961~1971.patch: reverted the changes for the per-user config stuff to avoid crashing when UNIT LE is loading. (#137007) * Thu Oct 28 2004 Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> - 1:12.1-3 - iiimf-gtk requires iiimf-libs to upgrade from FC2 without error and to run (137018) and iiimf-x requires iiimf-libs to run * Wed Oct 20 2004 Akira TAGOH <tagoh(a)redhat.com> - fix the ownership of /usr/lib64/im/share (136306) kernel-2.6.9-1.649 ------------------ * Fri Oct 29 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Fix raid5 oops (#127862) * Thu Oct 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Remove the possibility of some false OOM kills. (#131251) - Add more USB card readers to SCSI whitelist (#131546) - Disable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT for iseries. * Wed Oct 27 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Reenable ISA NIC support (#136569) rpmdb-fedora-3-0.20041030 ------------------------- yum-2.1.11-2 ------------ * Fri Oct 29 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.1.11-2 - add patch to fix multilib updates on ia32e (#135396)

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Re: fedora.linux.duke.edu downtime
by seth vidal 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 29 October 2004 17:10, seth vidal wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > The physics department at duke university is victim of another > > power outage. We will be shutting down fedora.linux.duke.edu (also > > fedoraproject.org) for about 3 hours today starting at 6pm EDT > > -4UTC > > > >Thanks > >-sv > > Gee, and just as I was about to fire off another wget session. I take > it you've been having too much fun there Seth? They must have > started 20 minutes early with the shutdown. :) Yah the power went out promptly at 6:00 so we shut down about 20 minutes early. We're back now. Feel free to download. -sv

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fedora.linux.duke.edu downtime
by seth vidal 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi Folks, The physics department at duke university is victim of another power outage. We will be shutting down fedora.linux.duke.edu (also fedoraproject.org) for about 3 hours today starting at 6pm EDT -4UTC Thanks -sv

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NFS install and i815 graphics
by Russell Coker 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

I have a machine with an i815 graphics device on the motherboard. When I do a regular CD install the GUI works fine. When I boot with "linux askmethod" with FC3T3 and select NFS install then at the time it goes to graphics mode the machine locks up. What are the differences between CD-ROM and NFS install modes in terms of graphics? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page

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Question regarding choice of python
by Amitabha Roy 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

I am curious as to why redhat chose python as the language to code the user interfaces to many of the system tools. I am assuming that system-config-network etc, all were written by redhat people and most of them were written in python (with gtk). Was there any discussion as to the benefits of python over other alternatives (tcl-tk, perl etc) ? Amitabha

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