DevHeads.net

I need help here too. The problem ist here the cmake don´t compile the
.pc file (pkgconfig file)
And upstream don´t will fix that :(.
I have talked about this with cwickert and he have said it is patchable
but he don´t have the time to make it.
Can any other please help me?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549051

All,

I'm curious why Fedora chose to include Zarafa as opposed to other (mostly) opensource groupware solutions?

Ones that come to mind: Scalix, Open-Exchange, Zimbra.

Thanks,
Brian

Need help with this FTBFS fife bug. It don´t find boost for compiling.
But with F-13 ist works not in devel (F-14)

Can anyone please help to find out why please?

Hi,

Since it is the fav season for proposals apparently, let me throw in my
Fedora/hat in the ring too. This only applies to updates to general
releases.

For critical path packages
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages) :

* Must go through updates-testing repository
* Only major bug fixes and security fixes.
* Must go through updates testing repository even for security fixes
Rationale: Expedited security fixes have caused some serious regressions
in the past (D-Bus, Bind, Thunderbird updates etc).

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed.

The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the
free operating system that shows off the best new technology of
tomorrow? You can see the future now at:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease?anF13a

== What is the Alpha release? ==

The Alpha release contains all the features of Fedora 13 in a form that
anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps
us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta
release available. A Beta release is code-complete, and bears a very
strong resemblance to the third and final release.

Today I wanted to give F13 Alpha a test and installed it. The
installation went fine but I do not get a proper screen resolution
setup. The basic setup was done via system-config-display, I only added
a modeline. But it seems to me that the modeline is ignored. Is this a
new behavior because of kernel based mode setting or is this a bug and I
should file a report? At the moment the screen resolution is 1024x768
but I expected 1280x1024. Can someone confirm this behavior?

I'm wondering because before F10 was installed, and I even did not need
to setup a modeline.

Additions or corrections to the agenda? Reply to this email.

= Agenda =

* follow ups from last meeting

* your item here! (let us know before the meeting)

* open floor

Please do come out for the meeting - it'd be great to see more faces,
and we don't bite, we promise! It's a great opportunity to raise any
issues you've come across while bugzapping, or ask any questions you
might have.

fedora for the fact that it is >>leading the way with the newer software and
that it has constant updates. (ie >>freedom,friends,features,first!) this
argument that most fedora users want a more stable system is not >>what the
fedora users i came across are after. tbh i think this whole identity crisis
is blown of of all >>proportion, you'd think that something like this would
have come with the fedora10 dbus probs or the >>'stabilisation cannot be
detected' not now with a little kde popup window :0

+1 for these comments.

This is the policy that I expect to be discussed during the Fesco
meeting tomorrow.

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I would like to transfer ownership of the libedit package to Kamil
Dudka (kdudka). I am a bit wary of PackageDB transferring not letting
me select the new owner. Could someone please take care of it or
advise what I need to do about this?

I do not want to remain as a co-maintainer.

Thanks,
Debarshi

Hi All,

I am looking at building a fedora package. I have been over guidelines
and taken a look at the build system. What I am not clear on is how I
maintain spec files for different distributions i.e., F12, F11, F10, or
even EPEL.

Do I have to branch and maintain each spec file separately or is there a
better way? Are there any tools that abstract the commonality? Do
people try to write spec files that work on any distro with conditionals?

Thanks for any wise words,

Matt.

So I submitted a rebuild for libguestfs in F-13 (just now). This
was built against:

plymouth-core-libs 0.8.0-0.20100114.2.fc13

But the version of plymouth that I get when I install plymouth from
F-13 updates-testing on a local machine (after
'yum --enablerepo=\* clean all') is:

plymouth-core-libs 0.8.0-0.20100225.1.fc13

and neither of those versions is mentioned by Bodhi.

What is the new process to push an update to F-13 between alpha and beta? The
packages I have in mind are out of the set of critical packages.

mercurial and tortoise-hg need (generally) to be pushed in sync. They
are maintained by 2 different people. What are suggested ways to make sure
pushes are synchronized?

Past months I spent investigating `gold' - the new GNU linker
and how it now works with stock Fedora packages.

Result is `gold-rebuild', Bash script which automates `gold's
involvement in Mock buildroot. Tarball can be obtained here:
http://mnowak.fedorapeople.org/gold-rebuild/dist/

What it can do for you? You give it package name or comps group
to rebuild and it downloads binutils daily snapshot, incorporates
it into latest Rawhide binutils SRPM and builds it with `gold'
instead of usual `ld' as a /usr/bin/ld.

For now in fedora there are 11 packages which contains language
mutations of man-pages (man-pages-{cs,da,de,es,fr,it,ja,ko,pl,ru,uk})
and man-pages package.
Only 2 of them (man-pages-es, man-pages-it) requires man package. I
think man dependences should be consistent in all man-pages* packages.
From my point of view man dependency should be in all of them.
Any ideas?
Ivana Hutarova Varekova

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Updating : selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.32-92.fc12.noarch
64/215
libsepol.scope_copy_callback: audioentropy: Duplicate declaration in module:
type/attribute entropyd_var_ru\
n_t (No such file or directory).
libsemanage.semanage_link_sandbox: Link packages failed (No such file or
directory).
semodule: Failed!

Hello all,

The first beta of the new PackageDB is running in our staging environment
now.

https://admin.stg.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/

All the features for 0.5.x should be present but there's definitely bugs to
be found in the implementation. When you across one, feel free to find me
on IRC to report it (abadger1999) or send email to me
<...> at fedoraproject dot org. If it's not something that I feel will be fixed
for 0.5.0, I'll open a ticket on the fedorahosted trac instance for it.

URLs should no longer change position but a few minor changes in query
parameters may still occur.

Good news everyone,

you can probably expect to receive more positive bodhi karma for your
updates in the future (or you already got unexpected much), because
there is now a script called 'fedora-easy-karma'[0], that makes
providing feedback a lot easier.

This makes it more important to consider the "karma automatism" for your
updates. By default testing updates updates are declared stable when
they get three karma points. In the past this probably never happened,
but now I have seen several updates, where this occurred.

I thought to myself yesterday, 'what this long and fractious thread
about update policy *really* needs is some unscientific and
controversial numbers'. =) So, I ran a forum poll! Everyone loves those,
right?

Here it is: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=241710

I tried to present the poll in a very neutral way, and as far as I know,
it hasn't been linked to from anywhere else; only regular forum members
are likely to come across it.

While we are at it, here is another great update:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-3326

* New version introduced in F11.
* Doesn't fix any bugs but it's an enhancement only.
* Useless update description "update to 4.7.1".
* And *of course* it was pushed directly to stable, even in F-13.

Dear maintainers, please stop this!

Regards,
Christoph

I am trying to build a package on F13, and got a gcc internal error:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2034791

I have no idea how to proceed ....

The package builds just fine on F12, F11 and F10.

Hi

Everytime I push a new update for Fedora 13 I am also now committing and
building in Rawhide and I am wondering if that is necessary or what
would the best way to avoid repetitiveness? Would the buildsystem
inherit whatever is the newer version in between these branches?

Rahul

Hi all,

I am currently writing an IMAP client script in perl.

Since this script will only be used in one single use case and the IMAP
server supports Kerberos authentication, I thought it would be a good
idea to use Mail::ImapClient together with Authen:SASL

This works well until I want to really something, since the kerberos
protocoll implements some encryption of every message and Authen::SASL
does not support more than authentication.

Any ideas how one would implement the en/decryption using perl?

*>>* flags
*>*> fedora-review: i have only a "?", i dont have any "+"
*>*> fedora-cvs: i can't change it, see the link below.
*>>*
*>*> my info:
*>*> taljurf: Approved Groups: fedorabugs packager marketing altvideos freemedia
*>*> cla_fedora cla_done cvsl10n ambassadors
*>>*
*>>* flags section screenshot (notice the fedora-cvs)
*>*> http://taljurf.fedorapeople.org/bugzilla-flags.png
*>>*
*>*> What should i do?
*>>*
*>*> Thanks in advance
*>[..]

So what should i do, fas is registered to my gmail, while bugzilla is
registered to @fedoraproject.org
i saw some other guys which have their bu

Hi,

I have some ideas to speedup the availability of updates. Are there any
reasons except that the tools to do this do not exist yet, to switch to
this? I created a wiki page for this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Till/update_availability_speedup_ideas

The basic idea is to create new repos $repo-recent, that only includes
metadata for the new rpms, but references to the same rpms on the
filesystem that $repo uses.

Regards
Till

When i'm using bugzilla, i've noticed that i have some limited options in
flags
fedora-review: i have only a "?", i dont have any "+"
fedora-cvs: i can't change it, see the link below.

my info:
taljurf: Approved Groups: fedorabugs packager marketing altvideos freemedia
cla_fedora cla_done cvsl10n ambassadors

flags section screenshot (notice the fedora-cvs)
http://taljurf.fedorapeople.org/bugzilla-flags.png

What should i do?

Thanks in advance

Obviously, some people want this and some don't. It isn't appropriate
to simply hand down an edict that things will be one way or the other if
we truly consider Fedora a community run project. It must be a
community decision. That means, as Adam Williamson pointed out, this is
likely a decision to be made by the board, based upon what the community
wants and what's best for Fedora.

But let's be clear. That's a *policy* decision. One of the things that
got very confusing in the previous thread(s) was the intermixing of
policy decisions and technical issues.

To be clear, no one is ignoring anything. (What a silly thing to say?...
well, maybe not so silly... means there's a bad pr/perception problem. :( )

Like most any group making hard decisions, the KDE SIG bases them on the
best information available. Fact is, we extensively tested this new version
for over a month, and every serious issue/blocker that was reported or
identified was addressed prior to releasing this.

Unfortunately, it seems there were more problems than what we were aware of
when the decision was made to do the 4.4.0 (stable) update.

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I cannot do a yum update of openoffice on F-13 RC4 with the
updates-testing repo enabled. There seems to be an inconsistency around
the dep checking, with it wanting both the old and new versions of
openoffice.org-langpack-en.

If it is limited on the packages the user is installed, a lot of
packages are not tested.

So here is a first ugly script to easily give feedback for all installed
testing updates that were created after a certain date (I did not find
an easy way to get all testing updates, one did not yet comment on):
http://till.fedorapeople.org/tmp/give-feedback.py

It kind of works like this: Show the update, ask for karma to create a
comment, otherwise it is skipped.

It has been almost a year since we announced changes to the Packaging
Guidelines, so this will be a long list.

Hi

Increasingly a number of broadband connections require usb_modeswitch to
connect online

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/03/vodafone-australia-mobile-broadband-an...

Any opposition to adding this to the base group?

Rahul

I met with them on numerous occasions (eg last at GSoC Mentor Summit
where we toegether worked on fedora tor bugs and created numerous "upstream'
bug reports so I could file the below bugzilla report to you.

WONTFIX:

* Sun Dec 17 2006 Enrico Scholz -
0.1.1.26-1
- do not turn on logging by default; it's easier to say "we do not log
anything" to the police instead of enumerating the logged event
classes and trying to explain that they do not contain any valuable
information

Upstream reports a logging bug.

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Dear Fedora package maintainers

This is kind reminder asking you to rebuild your package with latest
translation. Localization team has been translating for updated and/or
newly added strings since the String is frozen (2010-02-09). To allow
translators to review and correct their latest translation in UI, this
is essential. This is different from 'Rebuild all translated packages
for Beta', this is added entry since Fedora 12 [1].

"Build F-13 collection packages for all language translators" is
expected between 2010-03-03 to 2010-03-05.

It took me all of about 2 minutes to find a worthless pending update for
Fedora 11.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.7...

No data in the bodhi ticket.

Rpm changelog says "Upstream update"

If I google for upstream and look for a changelog, I come to this:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DRTECH/Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.79/Changes

in which the grand total of changes between what shipped with F11, and
what is in this update is:

* Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Tie
- Removed a deprecated use of "defined %" for Perl 5.11+

* Locale::Maketext::Lexic

Join us on irc.freenode.net #fedora-meeting for this important meeting.
This is Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 01:00 UTC, which makes it *WEDNESDAY
EVENING* in North America: 20:00 EST, 17:00 PST.

"Before each public release Development, QA, and Release Engineering
meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular
release. This meeting is called the: Go/No-Go Meeting."

"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."

For more details about this important meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Engineering_Readiness_Meetings

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This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed.

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Split off from the stable pushes in Bodhi thread just because I'd like
to see it not get lost.

One could argue that the current bodhi karma system is simply too
simplistic for real use cases.

Hi all!

My username on my private pc is josephine, my username on my
workstation is josephine.tannhauser, but my fas-username is tannhauser.

how can I use fedora-cvs on these machines? It seems that fedora-cvs
want to use the local username. How can I change this behavior with
editing a configfile in my home-dir? I don't want to edit the
fedora-cvs package-files.

Currently i have a alternate user on my private pc, but this is not a
good solution. :-)

Hello,

I have seen the long thread about Updates Policy. I just wish
to inform you that I (as part of the QA team) have been working
on a draft of exactly such a policy. I suppose I will be able
to make it public during this week. I will post a link here,
so all the people will have some basis what to discuss.

The timing of this discussion is quite interesting, because
otherwise the whole discussion would be around my proposal
about a week later.

This is off topic, but important to open software developers & supporters

Brazil may be punished because government supports free software...

IIPA is willing to put Brazil in the black list of copyrights because
Federal & State governments support free software. According to IIPA, by
supporting free software it shows Brazil has an inadequate policy
against violations on intellectual property.

IIPA... & its gangster supporters must be denounced now.