infrastructure March 2009

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hi, i newly joined fedora infrastructure group
by p sena 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I am new to the fedora infrastructure group. I am going throug few of the links in the site to get a feel of the work. I have submitted my .ssh_rsa_key.pub from the site. I think I will get some intimation on this. Please someone can let me know further proceedings from here onwards. Cheers. Regards & Thanks Prabir Senapati mailto: senapati2001(a)yahoo.com

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hosts for rawhide build chroots - different rpm versions?
by Axel Thimm 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hi, AFAIK the build hosts are RHEL5 (or maybe F10 by now?). At any rate the rpm used in rawhide is quite different than the ones from the hosts, how has this been solved in the build hosts? Has the hosting OS upgraded its rpm to be compatible to all hosted chroots? Or is the rpm within the chroot used? I'm asking in a double context: First I'd like to understand if smart can properly handle chroots of rawhide/F11 on F10/RHEL5 hosts. Anders Björklund (in the Cc, please keep him there on replies) has put a great deal of effort to have smart working on F10 and F11, and a smart version for managing F11 and later chroots on F10 or earlier would be great. And second I'd like to know how to setup a build environment for F11 for getting some ATrpms packages out. Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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Hello, My intro
by Chris Johnson 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi all, I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while and I finally registered for my fedora account today (username: chrisj) I'm interested in helping out as time permits. I got on irc once (lurking again) and haven't really logged in since. I'll try to make a few meetings after the holidays I'm planning to get my personal test systems setup soon. I just moved and still getting things straight at home. Bought a 750GB drive last night and will be installing F10 over the weekend. I had been running the U... distro and it's time to get back to the fedora/RH rpm way of doing things :-) I've used RedHat since before Fedora existed (I think 6 was the first one). Started as a hobbyist, 2 years. Then got a job as an admin and have been doing Linux admin and Cisco networks for the last 5 years. My current employer is a Win shop so I just get to run the DNS, email, and network, but the network is 50 remote offices and 3 different data centers in the midwest. I don't mind the Windows too much and can find my way around them, it's also kinda fun to get the Linux and MS products to play nice together. I've worked with a lot of different linux and OSS software products including: postfix, openldap, apache, bind, samba, mailman, pam, built some custom rpm's, etc. I use RHEL mostly at work and some fedora and Cent for testing (some suse, deb, and slackware in the past). I used to do lots of security firewall apliances with various linux distros (I was a big fan of LRP when it would fit on a floppy), most of this is now done with Cisco in my world. I can shell script pretty well and I've written several perl scripts in the last few years (dabbled in php but not enough to know it well). I've always been interested in python but don't have much if any exp with it. I also don't have much experience with SQL/DB or source control. I was looking at the FIGs and would be interested in the base sysadmin and sysadmin-noc for now while I figure out where everything is and what it does. I'm also interested in more info on the sysadmin-tools and sysadmin-web FIG. So, next just apply for the FIGs, keep lurking, ask some questions, show up for IRC meetings? Thanks all, -- Chris Johnson ++++++++++ j.chris.johnson(a)gmail.com ++++++++++++++++++++

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More auth options
by Dennis Gilmore 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

So doing a liitle looking around I cane across some options that look interesting, the following options would mean you need to physically have something to login. yubikey http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ It would require a pam module and for us to setup a server for managing keys. it looks to be fairly low cost. it would implement a 2 facter authentication. etoken http://www.aladdin.com/etoken/devices/pro-usb.aspx it moves the public key from your hard drive to something you physically need to have ubikey is max USD$25 where the etoken is probably at least USD$30. I would think that with yubikey we could work out a deal with them to get a discount in return for us being a case study/prominent user of there product. all of the software for yubikey AFAICT is open source. some of it would require packaging. Dennis

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Fedora Calendering system: listing clear requirements.
by susmit shannigrahi 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi, The other mail was getting too long. I am writing this as I think I have found the solution. (by using zicula and phpical together) So I want to understand the required functionalities. What I have got so far: 1. Having a calender. ;) 2. Updating and Syncing from different clients using caldev protocol. 3. Having a web-interface to view/update/sync the calenders. Right? Thanks. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from: Calcutta WB India.

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Improving QA test result submission and organization
by James Laska 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Greetings, As you may know, the Fedora QA plans and tracks test execution against Fedora milestones using the wiki. While the wiki has proven quite valuable for content-driven test documentation (e.g. test plans and test cases), recording test results has it's drawbacks. First, in our current implementation, it relies on careful mediawiki table edits. The table edits are too easy to mess up and aren't tremendously inviting to new contributors. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Alpha_Install_Test_Results * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-19 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-12 Second, the wiki-based implementation lacks ability to sort, query and organize test results. We can use categories for organizing plans and cases, but this mechanism isn't suitable for results. As a long-term solution, we'd be looking to a web application. However, in the short term (now to F12) with limited resources, we're interested in what off-the-shelf components we can use to help provide a better QA assessment. One solution that fits nicely with the current mediawiki setup is the semantic extension to mediawiki. The laptop.org testers are using this currently and were kind enough to share their findings (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-February/msg00756.html). One important note from the laptop.org folks was that enabling the semantic mediawiki extension could introduce a performance impact to the wiki. I'm in the process of setting up a private mediawiki+semantic instance as a proof of concept. But a few questions for the infrastructure team ... * I'm curious if others in fedora-infrastructure@ have experience with the semantic extension? * Is there a defined process for reviewing mediawiki extensions for the fedoraproject wiki? * Should the semantic performance impact be significant, is hosting a separate Fedora QA mediawiki (with semantic enabled) a possibility? Thanks, James -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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sysadmin group
by Rino Mardo 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

ok i found a FIG and it's called sysadmin. i think this is the closest to my actual experience. i want to join sysadmin. should i apply now or wait for a nod?

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[PATCH] Add dist-f12 to the static repos.
by Jesse Keating 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

We're allowing for early branching now. --- configs/build/update-static-repos.py | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/configs/build/update-static-repos.py b/configs/build/update-static-repos.py index 16ee6ac..98d48c9 100755 --- a/configs/build/update-static-repos.py +++ b/configs/build/update-static-repos.py @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import os import sys import koji -TAGS = ('dist-olpc2-build', 'dist-olpc3-build', 'dist-olpc4-build', 'dist-f8-build', 'dist-f9-build', 'dist-f10-build', 'dist-f11-build', 'dist-rawhide', 'olpc2-update1', 'olpc2-ship2') +TAGS = ('dist-olpc2-build', 'dist-olpc3-build', 'dist-olpc4-build', 'dist-f9-build', 'dist-f10-build', 'dist-f11-build', 'dist-f12-build', 'dist-rawhide', 'olpc2-update1', 'olpc2-ship2') STATICPATH = '/mnt/koji/static-repos' SUFFIX = '-current' -- 1.5.5.6

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An Introduction
by Rino Mardo 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hello, my name is Ferino Mardo but you can call me Rino. I am a network professional having been in the industry for more than 18 years. I used to be a coder (from assembler to C) but now working as a network manager. I don't consider myself a newbie though I also don't call myself a h4ck3r :-) but I do know my way around computers and the Internet. I have time available and want to contribute it to this dynamic team. i used to do shell scripts but that part is now rusted because my company now is using closed source softwares. As the nature of things outside of the US, we techies don't have any specialization to speak of. If you know a little sql command, bang!, you're the dba. but i do know my dns (also rusty), firewalls (closed source too), WAN management, UTP network cabling (handmade), install and maintain server OS, do patches, and other things as needed to do the job. Lookin at the FIG, I'm not sure which to join I hope someone can suggest a starting point? Am looking forward to contribute and hope to "see" you soon! Regards, Rino Mardo Key fingerprint = 71E1 31C1 7CE8 9E5A 295E 36B9 8BE8 C3B5 414B FCBD

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Intrusion Update
by Mike McGrath 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

For those not on the announce list: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00010.ht… -Mike

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