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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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autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken; and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what exactly needs to be fixed. Consider something like this: LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no)) Here's what happens on x86_64: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5 /tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main': /home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to `res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5147: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [ blah blah blah ] | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | char res_query (); | int | main () | { | res_query (); | ; | return 0; | } The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work. The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64 in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype. So, what now?

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DMRaid in Fedora devel
by Mark Wormgoor 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi, Attached are three patches that I made to get Fedora-devel to install on a bios sata raid-0 system (Sil 3112 on Abit AN7). It uses Heinz Mauelshagen's dmraid for detecting the disks. The first patch is against Anaconda. It removes the raid disks from the isys disklist and replaces them with the mapper device. The patch requires the full (not enable-mini) dmraid binary in the stage 2 image. I tested the patched Anaconda in install, upgrade and rescue mode (text and gui) and had no problems on my system. The second patch is against mkinitrd. It adds /sbin/dmraid.static to the initrd if necessary and updates the initscript. The /sbin/dmraid.static binary is not yet a part of the current dmraid rpm, so you need to provide your own. The third patch is against rc.sysinit so that dmraid.static is run at boot. Again, you need the full dmraid binary under /sbin/dmraid.static (not enable-mini) because the rc.sysinit script uses the testmode first before enabling the mapper devices. I now have a Fedora-devel system booting from my two raid-0 disks. Unfortunately, there is no bootloader for /dev/mapper devices. There is a patch against lilo to make it work on devmapper devices here (http://www.saout.de/misc/) and Eric Agsjö has a patch to make it work with raid-1 devices here (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2004-October/msg00007.html) I am still using lilo under FC1 (using the medley.o module) and that works for me. I hope someone finds these patches useful; it would be very nice if FC4 would install on and boot from these bios ide raid devices without too much hacking. Kind regards, Mark Wormgoor -- *************************************************************** * |\ /| | /| / Mark Wormgoor * * | \ / | | / | / mailto:mark@wormgoor.com * * | \/ |ark |/ |/ormgoor http://www.wormgoor.com/mark/ * ***************************************************************

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Emacs cvs snapshot packages available
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

I finally got round to packaging a snapshot of current development Emacs from CVS. Noone knows when the next actual release of Emacs will be, but there are many new features and changes: improved utf-8 and gtk2 support in particular. See http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/ for more details. Enjoy and please report any problems directly to me (ie not to bugzilla or the emacs-devel list:), Jens

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Improving security
by Hans de Goede 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi, I just read this interesting article on lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/106214/ (lwn subscriber only) This talks about things like: 1 Stack Smash Protection 2 PAX (alternative Exec Shield) 3 Position Independent Executables. Stack Smash Protection sounds like a cool feature to me. I don't know what the performance impact is, but as a developer even if it is to slow to use by default I would love to have it intergrated into the gcc shipped by Fedora to make debugging easier. PAX uses tricks to get a non executable stack, and assignes random addresses to PIE executables, which Fedora already has in the form of Exec Shield, good! But if I undertand it correctly PAX does more for example also make data pages non executable, this might be something worth looking into. PIE we already have, good! Regards, Hans

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Upgrading readline
by Tim Waugh 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

For upgrading readline to a new major release (in Fedora development), do I need to provide a readline4 package, or is it sufficient to just rebuild the packages that depend on it? Tim. */

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why doesn't yum cache anything?
by Jamie Zawinski 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Here's a typical use case for yum with me: - notice that "xmtr" is not installed (but "mtr" is) - yum list '*mtr*' - wait through ~60 seconds of: Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files base : ############################################# 2622/2622 updates-re: ############################################# 405/405 - yum -y install mtr-gtk - wait through that same ~60 seconds of junk before it actually starts downloading the package. So my questions are: - Is there some way to make yum cache all that crap? I'd be perfectly ok with it just reusing the same repository data for days at a time. Certainly there's no need to re-download it every single time I invoke yum. - If there's no way to do that... how can you guys stand it? Do you really suffer through this every time, or do you just not use yum? Is there something else I should be using instead? -- Jamie Zawinski jwz(a)jwz.org http://www.jwz.org/ jwz(a)dnalounge.com http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/

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rawhide report: 20041222 changes
by Build System 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

New package GFS GFS - The Global File System New package GFS-kernel GFS-kernel - The Global File System kernel modules New package ccs CCS - The Cluster Configuration System New package cfengine GNU cfengine - a systems administration tool for networks New package cman cman - The Cluster Manager New package cman-kernel cman-kernel - The Cluster Manager kernel modules New package dlm dlm - The Distributed Lock Manager New package dlm-kernel dlm-kernel - The Distributed Lock Manager kernel modules. New package fence fence - The cluster I/O fencing system New package gnbd gnbd - GFS's Network Block Device New package gnbd-kernel gnbd-kernel - The kernel module for GFS's Network Block Device New package gulm gulm - One possible lock manager for GFS New package iddev iddev is a library that identifies device contents. New package lvm2-cluster Cluster extenstions for userland logical volume management tools New package magma A cluster/lock manager API abstraction library New package magma-plugins Cluster manager plugins for magma New package rgmanager Open Source HA Resource Group Failover for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Updated Packages: MAKEDEV-3.16-3 -------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.16-3 - raise number of loop devices from 16 to 256 (Kenneth Lee) - create 'vmware' alias for vnet,vmnet,vmmon devices - change vmnet->vnet to vmnet0->vnet0, so that it isn't left dangling dialog-1.0.20041219-1 --------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 1.0-20041219-1 - new version 1.0-20041219 glib2-2.6.0-1 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-1 - Upgrade to 2.6.0 glibc-2.3.4-3 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-3 - rebuilt * Mon Dec 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-2 - work around rpm bug some more, this time by copying iconvconfig to iconvconfig.%{_target_cpu}. * Mon Dec 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-1 - update from CVS - glibc 2.3.4 release - add -o and --nostdlib options to iconvconfig - if /sbin/ldconfig doesn't exist when running glibc_post_upgrade.%{_target_cpu}, just don't attempt to run it. This can happen during first install of bi-arch glibc and the other arch glibc's %post wil run /sbin/ldconfig (#143326) - use -o and --nostdlib options to create all needed gconv-modules.cache files on bi-arch setups grep-2.5.1-44 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-44 - Fixed -Fi for multibyte input (bug #143079). gtk2-2.6.0-1 ------------ gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7 -------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-6 - remove pixbuf engine which is integrated in gtk+ 2.6 kernel-2.6.9-1.1048_FC4 ----------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Fix two silly bugs in the AGP posting fixes. kernel-utils-1:2.4-13.1.49 -------------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Fix missing delimiter token in microcode_ctl initscript. (143372) * Sun Nov 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - More SMP cpuspeed work. (#134398) - Don't enable smartd by default. (#114669) - Update irqbalance to 1.12 (#130625) - Don't use binaries from /usr too early. (#102049) - Fix bogus "" in microcode_ctl initscript. (#112014) - Don't start microcode_ctl on 586's (#112088) * Sat Oct 30 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> - Install irqbalance manpage. (#90023) lapack-3.0-28 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - fix bug #143420 problem with compiler optimalizations lm_sensors-2.8.8-1 ------------------ * Tue Dec 21 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2.8.7-3 - Added Buildprereq for bison (#138888) - Update to lm_sensors-2.8.8 mc-1:4.6.1a-0.3 --------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 4.6.1a-0.3 - rewrote mbstrlen() in utf8 patch, this fixes: - dir name truncation in command prompt for ja_JP, ko_KR locales (#142706) - localized texts will fit dialog windows and pull-down menus - tweak create_menu() - dialog titles are centered correctly - fix bad displaying of mc logo in help (#143415) - merge msglen patch with utf8 patch mktemp-2:1.5-22 --------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 2:1.5-22 - fix permission issue mysql-4.1.7-8 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-8 - Run make test on all archs except s390x (which seems to have a bdb issue) * Mon Dec 13 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-7 - Suppress someone's silly idea that libtool overhead can be skipped * Sun Dec 12 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-6 - Fix init script to not need a valid username for startup check (bz#142328) - Fix init script to honor settings appearing in /etc/my.cnf (bz#76051) - Enable SSL (bz#142032) pango-1.8.0-1 ------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1.8.0-1 - Version 1.8.0 - Drop unneeded patches and hacks pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-4.1 ------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - fix broken close-on-exec patch (#135508) rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041222 --------------------------- selinux-policy-strict-1.19.15-1 ------------------------------- * Mon Dec 20 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-15-1 - Update to latest from NSA selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.15-1 --------------------------------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-15-1 - Update to latest from NSA tmpwatch-2.9.2-1 ---------------- * Wed Dec 22 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.2-1 - Mention skipping of lost+found in the man page (#143526) udev-048-4 ---------- * Tue Dec 21 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 048-4 - Call selinux_restore to fix labeling problem in selinux - Fixes rh#142817 * Tue Dec 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 048-3 - maybe fixed bug rh#143367

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Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!
by seth vidal 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Want to be REAL sure you notice this: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/departments/fedora_status/ That's Right CVS is open - you need to run, don't walk, to: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com It's all exciting - except for the boring parts. Tomorrow morning we will have another exciting item for you but I'm busy typing things and colin is on an airplane and all the other slackers are sleeping or some such nonsense as that so you'll have to wait until the morning. Deal. It's a bright, shiny, new day. But the fog isn't quite lifted yet. -sv

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Updates on the Fedora CVS server
by Cristian Gafton 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

We have opened to the public the anonymous access CVS server for Fedora Core and Fedora Extras. The server lives on http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com and it has been in use for quite some time now. The CVS server currently hosts two major projects, with more headed its way: 1. Fedora Core read-only anonymous mirror for our internal Fedora development tree. Now you can follow through CVS every commit done by the Red Hat engineers to the Fedora Core development tree. You can quickly reference when, where and why certain changes have been inserted into your favorite packages. CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/dist export CVSROOT 2. Fedora Extras repository. Thanks to a group of very dedicated volunteers the repository has been updated to be compatible with the Fedora Core 3; we're working on getting an automated build system in place that will provide binary rpms for all out of this repository. CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/extras export CVSROOT Detailed checkout instructions are available on the CVS server's home page, at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/ For those that do not want to read instructions and want to get to the "bleeding edge" as fast as possible, we have daily checkout snapshots available at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/webfiles/ After unpacking your download, you can issue a "cvs update" to bring the tree in sync with the latest changes since the archive was created. If this is the first time accessing the Fedora CVS server, you will need to do a "cvs login", hit Enter when asked for a password, and then attempt the "cvs update". ViewCVS is also available for both of these repositories if you prefer to browse through the packages: - Fedora Core: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/?root=core - Fedora Extras: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/?root=extras There are also CVS-related mailing lists that you can subscribe to. these mailing lists publish the CVS commits as they happen. If you are curious, you can sign up for the mailing lists at the following links: - Fedora Core: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-cvs-commits - Fedora Extras: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-commits Have fun, Cristian -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton(a)redhat.com -- Red Hat, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Linux is a leprosy; and is having a deleterious effect on the U.S. IT industry because it is steadily depreciating the value of the software industry sector." -- Kenneth Brown, President, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

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