devel January 2006

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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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Self-Introduction: Denis Ovsienko and /etc/net project
by Denis Ovsienko 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Denis Ovsienko Russia, Moscow Linux system administrator and developer ValueCommerce/Russia I develop /etc/net project (http://etcnet.org) and my goal is to integrate it into Fedora Core. I am a member of ALTLinux Team. /etc/net is already integrated into ALTLinux development tree and should soon be seen in 3.0 version. I know that ArchLinux has /etc/net in its repository. IDMS Linux did so too, but i haven't heard from them for last months. My skills include 6 years Linux experience, several programming languages, 5 years of mixed software development and system/network administration and so on, but I guess it's not related much to my goal now. I have reviewed current initscripts buglist. Some bugs are not bugs in /etc/net: #65114 RFE: ifup-aliases iproute support, ifup/ifup-aliases scop... #75390 it would be nice to tie bandwidth shaping into the networ... #129820 initscripts maclist patch #132252 Request for addition of routing rule config file #132912 No additional IP addresses at ethX without aliased devices #132925 initscripts use old ifconfig instead of iproute2 #154348 Adds support for WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) to the ifup... #168990 No ifup-gre/ifdown-gre scripts. #170884 MTU of ethernet card can't be set before interface is up #171763 Enhancement to initscripts Some bugs gave me ideas how to improve /etc/net: #59114 .d-style scripts for ifup/ifdown #119952 RFE: Add hook for "local" network initialization #124045 Support setting a metric on interface routes The whole process, if we don't face some unexpected problems, should take 3 to 6 months. What I need: 1. Ability to advocate patches (sometimes heavy) to about 10-20 FC packages. 2. Probably some help with documentation. How can we start? pub 1024D/6D1844F2 2002-11-11 Key fingerprint = AF2F DDAE 7EB3 4699 09FF F0FC 00B1 6D41 6D18 44F2 uid Denis Ovsienko <linux(a)pilot.org.ua> uid Denis Ovsienko (http://pilot.org.ua) <pilot(a)altlinux.ru> sub 2048g/57B7ACBE 2002-11-11 -- DO4-UANIC

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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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Zeroconf in FC5?
by Daryll Strauss 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

I saw zeroconf in action at a Mac based facility a while back and I have to say I was impressed. It makes their networking setup very easy. The biggest downside was that they knew very little about how their network actually worked. That made my life integrating a Linux system in to their environment much more difficult. So, I'd like to see zeroconf really integrated in to FC5. I think it'll make network setup for a lot of users much easier. For those who don't know, zeroconf provides several functions: *) Dynamically allocating an IP address to a system when it boots (without requiring a DHCP server) *) Translate between names and IP addresses (without any setup or directory server) *) Allows for the publishing and discovery of services such as DNS, NFS, ftp, http, printers, whatever (without requiring any setup or directory server) *) Allocates multicast addresses (without a MADCAP server). (This part isn't yet supported and I'm not sure I know what it means :)) Fedora ships with Howl which looks to be the framework for doing zeroconf. It seems that what's needed is integrating howl in to all the appropriate places. - |Daryll

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Reporting bugs upstream
by Bart Vanbrabant 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Hello, When I find a bug in fedora and it's obviously a bug upstream I report it there. But do we have to report them in fedora bugzilla too and reference the upstream bugreport? So if an other users files a bugreport for the same bug and doesn't check upstream maintainer of the module know it's already filed upstream. Or do we have to notify the maintainer in other way? I've searched the fedora wiki for this but I can't find any information about this. thanks, Bart -- Bart Vanbrabant <bart.vanbrabant(a)zoeloelip.be> PGP fingerprint: 093C BB84 17F6 3AA6 6D5E FC4F 84E1 FED1 E426 64D1

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New /etc/services for testing available
by Phil Knirsch 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hi folks. I'd like to get some feedback on a hugely updated /etc/services i've done today. It basically merges the old /etc/services with almost all current official IANA services. I've tried to make sure the file is sane and in order, but due to the huge amount of new services i'd like to give it some selected exposure and feedback before i think about putting it into our setup package. The file can be downloaded from here: http://people.redhat.com/pknirsch/services Just dump it as a replacement in /etc (maybe making a copy of the old /etc/services first, but shouldn't be necessary as the first part of the file is identical to our old one). I'd especially like to get some feedback from people using it on network servers or monitoring machines where apps like nmap, tcpdump and ethereral are run. My main interest is if any errors pop up and if anyone gets performance problems (because for worst case scenarios it can now take up to 15 times as long for getservbyname() to complete). Thanks in advance, Read ya, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Development | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <phil(a)redhat.de> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.de/ D-70178 Stuttgart Motd: You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.

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Re: Re: gphoto2 problem: usb access for non root users
by Gianluca Cecchi 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:04:59 +0100 Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> Asap I'll reboot ala windows and see if anything changes... ;-( Actually I did: - init 3 - yum update of other latest packages - init 5 - re-login in gnome as gcecchi - plug digicamera - all ok now! Gianluca

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Yum and SRPMs
by n0dalus 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi, I was wondering if is or ever will be possible to install srpms using yum. In the yum manpage it says you can specify a package using 'package.arch', so I was wondering if that could be done with 'package.src'. I think this would really be a helpful feature. At the moment to get a srpm I have to go to one of the ftp mirrors, find the right folder then search for the right package among hundreds of other files. n0dalus.

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Fedora in need of testers?
by Arthur Pemberton 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

I got the feeling from looking aroung the mailing lists that fedora is in need of testers. I am willing to use my FC4 on my Compaq Preasio 2210US to do some testing. I have a desktop with FC4 installed but it is my primary OS/machine, so I rather not play around on it. What would be required of a potential tester? -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.

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iptables problems after kernel 1871
by Gianluca Cecchi 24 Feb '06

24 Feb '06

after upgrade to 1871 kernel and iptables 1.3.4-3 I have problems with iptables. Actually I made a localupdate when 1869 and 1871 were in place. I didn't notice that yum proposed to deinstall 1869 and reinstall 1871. I had these messages when overwriting my running kernel: [root@fedora fedora]# less /tmp/yum.log Installing: kernel ####################### [18/70] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64393: line 1: 3235 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5 [snip] Installing: kernel-smp ####################### [25/70] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.86392: line 1: 3829 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.15-1.1871_FC5smp [snip] Cleanup : pirut ####################### [64/70] Could not parse file '/usr/share/applications/redhat-ekiga.desktop': Failed to open file '/usr/share/applications/redhat-ekiga.desktop': No such file or directory Removing : openh323 ####################### [65/70] Now iptables give these errors: [root@fedora fedora]# service iptables restart Flushing firewall rules: iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021. iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links iptables: loop hook 0 pos 0 00000021. iptables: Too many levels of symbolic links [FAILED] Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: nat iptables: Invalid argument [FAILED] Unloading iptables modules: Removing netfilter NETLINK layer. [ OK ] Applying iptables firewall rules: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack iptables-restore v1.3.4: Can't set policy `POSTROUTING' on `ACCEPT' line 4: Bad built-in chain name [FAILED] Any hint? No changes made at /etc/sysconfig/iptables file. [root@fedora fedora]# rpm -q --changelog iptables|head -20 * Tue Jan 24 2006 Thomas Woerner <twoerner(a)redhat.com> 1.3.4-3 - added important iptables header files to devel package * Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - rebuilt

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