devel November 2012

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Coordinating libffi upgrade
by Anthony Green 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Several months ago I attempted to upgrade libffi 3.0.10 to 3.0.11. The change was reverted because the soname change in this version of the library broke the build environment. I would still like to get 3.0.11 in Fedora. I don't anticipate any future ABI-breaking changes, and 3.0.12 will include additional ports like Aarch64, which is likely of interest to some Fedora developers. How do we coordinate a rebuild for dependent packages? Also, I assume this will have to wait 'til F18 is out (fine by me), but I'd like to deal with it early in the F19 cycle. Thanks, Anthony Green

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Looking for a freemind maintainer
by Johannes Lips 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Hi all, I am looking for a new freemind maintainer. I've stated the reason for this in this mail to java-devel: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/2012-November/004561.ht… Perhaps someone would like to take over... Johannes

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Heads up: rpm 4.11 alpha coming soon to rawhide near you
by Panu Matilainen 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Now that FESCo accepted http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.11 for F19... (in what might well be a record time - less than a minute in the meeting from proposal to acceptance :) Rpm 4.11 alpha (or actually post-alpha snapshot to pull in a few accumulated fixes + enhancements) will be hitting rawhide shortly. There's no soname bump involved this time, so no rebuilds required. There's one thing that does affect nearly every package: new warnings about bogus spec changelog dates. The most common cause is the day name not matching the given date, such as: warning: bogus date in %changelog: Tue Jun 03 2009 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> - 4.7.0-5 Jun 03 2009 was Wednesday, not Tuesday, hence the warning. As rpm hasn't hasn't previously validated changelog dates make sense as a whole, nearly every spec has one or more of these mistakes. It's just a warning though and doesn't cause build failures. Other than that, chances are you wont notice much anything at all. Assuming all goes well that is. So its the usual drill: keep your eyes open on rawhide builds and report any new oddities found ASAP. I'm not expecting any major issues with this but you never really know. For further details see the draft release notes at http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.11.0 - Panu -

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prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18
by Jan Vcelak 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hello list, what is the expected way of handling X11 keyboard layouts in Fedora 18? I don't use xorg.conf, the configuration was autodetected from /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (probably) till F17 and it worked just fine. After upgrading to F18 using yum method, my keyboard layout stopped working. Should the X11 server (or login managers) autodetect the layout from new config files? Or is 'localectl set-x11-keymap' the only supported way now? If 'localectl' is the only supported way, we should add this information to "Upgrading Fedora using yum" instructions on the wiki. The same with old kernel options. (I do not know how is this handled in the other upgrade methods.) If the old configuration files are supposed to work, what is the responsible component I should file bug on? Jan

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Heads up: nc replaced by nmap ncat
by Petr Šabata 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Dear list, The old Fedora, heavily patched OpenBSD nc package was just obsoleted by the nmap ncat implementation, available as the nmap-ncat subpackage. Those are mostly compatible and this change shouldn't cause much headache but please check your netcat dependant scripts or apps. Related bug: #226187 Thanks to Michal Hlavinka for this. -P

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3D printing in Fedora
by Miro Hrončok 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

Hi, I am involved in a student group on FIT of Czech Technical University in Prague - in that group, we focus on 3D printing (RepRap). 3D printing needs a set of software on a control PC, such as some kind of 3D modeller (we're currently using OpenSCAD), a slicer (to convert a 3D model to set of instructions for the printer, we're currently using skeinforge and/or Slic3r) and printer interface software (currently Printrun). Installing this basic set of tools on a Linux machine is painful, they aren't usually available in repositories, compiling them includes compiling a bunch of dependencies and we usually end up using binary executables from a tar or git cloning plenty of python scripts. Desktop files and menu entries -> you don't get what you don't create yourself. I am currently working on adding this software to Fedora: https://github.com/hroncok/SPECS/ But that is not where I want to stop. I'd like to create a Fedora RepRap spin and make Fedora the best choice for 3D print guys. At this point, I would like to gather people interested in 3D printing and eventually create a 3D printing SIG. Would anyone be interested and help me? Miro Hrončok Jabber: miro(a)hroncok.cz Telefon: +420777974800

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Self Introduction
by Edward Mann 27 Dec '12

27 Dec '12

I would like to be the maintainer for the Enlightenment e17 for Fedora. I am sending this e-mail to seek guidance and also a sponsor. Getting e17 on Fedora i will need to build and install the following packages eina - Core data structure library. eet - Data encode/decode and storage library. evas - Canvas and scenegraph rendering library. ecore - Core mainloop, display abstraction and utility library. embryo - Small Pawn based virtual machine and compiler. edje - Abstract GUI layout and animation object library. efreet - Standards handling for freedesktop.org standards. e_dbus - Dbus wrapping and glue layer library. eeze - Device abstraction library. elementary - Elementary, the widget set... emotion - Emotion, video and audio codec API... ethumb - EThumb, thumbnail generation library... eio - Eio, async I/O library... and finally Enlightenment 17 - The Window Manager and Desktop Shell. I also build Terminology a new terminal emulator based on the efl libraries. I currently build these on a local vm and have a repository setup on my website. I tried to use Koji however seeing that the required packages needed to build e17 are not available i cannot build using Koji, or i don't know how to do the builds. I would need to work my list down in the order i have because eet depends on eina. So eina would need to be build first then it's dev packages installed. Then ecore depends on the packages listed above it. On my local machine i wrote a script that would build a package, install rpm and dev rpm then move on to the next package. I am not sure how i would do this with koji. I look forward to feedback on this. Thanks.

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MariaDB: Packagers needed
by Renich Bon Ciric 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hello, I am to start packaging MariaDB for Fedora. Is there anyone who wants to co-maintain? This is just me wanting to post it for a package review. -- It's hard to be free... but I love to struggle. Love isn't asked for; it's just given. Respect isn't asked for; it's earned! Renich Bon Ciric http://www.woralelandia.com/ http://www.introbella.com/

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Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?
by Álvaro Castillo 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hello devel list, I want know... Why Fedora doesn't included TapButton support of touchpad by default? I saw AskFedora and FedoraForum.org, and it happened to me too after install or show live CD to people, a lot users request, or asking about How to setup TapButton. It's ok, you can enable it from GNOME control panel, or touchpad tool, or KDE touchpad configuration, but who have installed only LXDE, XFCE... or another Window Manager...? How do? Search solution on Internet? Greetings! -- Álvaro Castillo http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Netsys Linux user #547784

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libjpeg-turbo API/ABI bump in F19 (transition from jpeg6 to jpeg8 API/ABI)
by Adam Tkac 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hello all, I've just created https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo-jpeg8-ABI page which contains plan how to successfully move from current jpeg6 API/ABI to more recent jpeg8 API/ABI for Fedora 19. All packages which depends on libjpeg.so will have to be rebuilt. Since I have provenpackager privileges, I will cook some script which will rebuild all pkgs automatically so no action will be required from maintainers. If there are no objections against this approach, I will start with this task next week. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.

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