devel March 2004

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To those interested in Thunderbird
by Eric Hattemer 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Please take a look at the srpm in https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1113 . I was able to build it without much trouble, but the thunderbird program hangs and gives no info. Please either take a look at the strace I made or download and compile that srpm yourself. Bare in mind that its missing the source. download http://members.ii.net/~the_hills/thunderbird-0.5-0.fdr.4.src.rpm download http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.5/thunderbird… unzip thunderbird-0.5-source.tar.gz find the thunderbird-0.5-source.tar.bz2 within and copy it to your SOURCE directory, then build the spec. That's what I did anyway. It builds without errors, but does not run. Please see if it runs on your system, and mine is broken, or whether the rpm is problematic. -Eric Hattemer

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Cron configuration program
by altivec87＠cox.net 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Hello all, I would like to work on one of the configuration programs that are needed in Fedora. Would a tool for the cron daemon be a good start? If so, if anyone has any special feature requests, post them and I will try to include them. BTW, I do NOT run Fedora - yet. I am looking for a way to help a Linux distribution. If I can help here, I will. Skills: C expert, familiar with Python and PyGTK, viable C++ skills, and a few other languages. Robert Burns

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Booting x86_64 devel tree
by Pete 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

Does anyone have any experience with the mkisofs commands to build an installable DVD? I've recently grabbed a copy of the x86-64 devel tree and built a DVD iso with a mkisofs command I found in the archives. The resulting DVD boots fine, but it doesn't find the packages to install on the DVD (works great until then). I've tried using an FTP and NFS boot option as well, but for some reason, the devel tree sk98lin driver doesn't work quite right and I can't build a network connection. Anyway, I'm guessing it's an issue with the mkisofs command I've used, but I'm hoping someone here can point it out. I don't see anything in the man pages to show me what's up. The following was run in the directory containing a mirror of pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/. Hope someone can help. Thanks. mkisofs -J -R -v -T -o fedora.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .

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up2date, system-config-packages and synaptic
by David Wagoner 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

My question here is why is the fedora team wasting so much time developing up2date and system-config-packages when synaptic is already an excellent replacement. Even though it uses apt, worst case would be to get the latest source and code in support for yum then. I have had nothing but problems with up2date. I have had packages fail to install and yet appear to be installed as far as up2date is concerned, system-config-packages though its getting better still has a ways to go before it has the features that synaptic has. If the developers choose to continue to use up2date and system-config-packages, I will continue to use the products during the rest of the test phase but when Fedora Core 2 is released I plan on switching to synaptic. Synaptic is full of features, stable and fast. I look foward to seeing what everyone has to say on this subject. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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Re: -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 - I'm so sick of seeing that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by altivec87＠cox.net 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

ByteEnable: in a word, performance. That will optimize code for 686 CPUs without breaking compatibility with 386. It's a good compromise between performance and compatibility, IMO.

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