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New PackageDB deployed. Now with less features and more focus

Quite a few months ago we announced that we were going to start the process
of moving features that were not central to the Package Database's mission
of managing package maintainer's acls from packagedb into other
applications. We've now deployed the first release that starts implementing
this.

PackageDB 0.6.0 removes several sections of the PackageDB's UI:

* tags and ratings are gone. Use <a href="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger" title="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger">https://apps.fedoraproject.org/tagger</a>
instead.
* Applications is gone. Use <a href="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages" title="https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages">https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages</a> instead
* builds is gone.

NetworkManager: do not tend missing hardware

When booting a Live spin, how can I tell NetworkManager to avoid any hardware
that is not present? There is [and will be] no ISDN, no ADSL, no dialup modem,
no Bluetooth, no wired ethernet; and I want to reduce RAM usage as much as possible.
This is to support netbooks and other machines with only 1GB RAM.
Already I found setroubleshootd sitting on 55MB of physical RAM (rhbz #953676),
but I want more.

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koji.fedoraproject.org: An error has occurred on the main server

<a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5301180" title="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5301180">http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5301180</a>

Error

An error has occurred on the main server. This could be a software bug, a server
configuration issue, or possibly something else.
GenericError: query returned no rows
Full tracebacks disabled

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retired checkgmail

Hi

Upstream has been dead for a really long time (last commits were in
2011) and the software is not functional without third party patches. I
have retired this package

Rahul

RHEL bug, how to proceed?

Hello,

I have a package that needs procps. While building it in EPEL, i stepped
onto a packaging problem [1] in the RHEL 6 package.

I've opened the bug, but nobody is looking at it and (my guess) it will be
probably fixed for RHEL 6.5. Note that the bug has been tagged as "EasyFix"-

The workaround for the problem would be as follows:

%if 0%{?rhel} == 6
BuildRequires: procps
%else
BuildRequires: procps-devel
%endif

I suppose there's no "provenpackager" group in RHEL, so what should I do in
this case?

Self Introduction

Hi, my name is David Beveridge. my username is bevhost (Beveridge
Internet Hosting)

I have been using redhat since about version 3.

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Review exchange

Hi,

I have three pending review requests for font packages: 956120, 956127,
and 956134. I'm willing to exchange reviews for those.

These are my first font packages, so I'd prefer to review something
else in return.

Cheers,

--alec

rpmbuild: double free or corruption (fasttop)

Hello,

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong regarding a package which
includes file capabilities support or if I've hit a bug.

I've added libcap-devel as BuildRequires (probably it's already part of a
base system) and replaced the %attr tags in the file section (to remove
setuid) with a %caps directive.

The rpm builds and links fine as long as I don't use the %caps directive in
the file section.

2013-04-24 @ 16:00 UTC - F19 Beta Blocker Bug Review #1

# F19 Beta Blocker Review meeting #1
# Date: 2013-04-24
# Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT)
# Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net

The first blocker review meeting for F19 Beta will be held tomorrow.
Should be a short one, just a few proposed blockers so far.

We'll be running through the Beta blockers and freeze exception bugs.
The current list is available at:
<a href="http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/19/beta/buglist" title="http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/19/beta/buglist">http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/19/beta/buglist</a>

We'll be reviewing the bugs to determine ...

1. Whether they meet the Beta release criteria [1] and should stay
on the list
2.

Broken dependencies - eg

Hi

I need help in one package "eg"

eg has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree:
On x86_64:
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(one)
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(it)
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(an)
On i386:
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(one)
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(it)
eg-1.7.5.2-2.fc20.noarch requires perl(an)
Please resolve this as soon as possible.

What I need to solve this problem.

Best Regards!

Luis Bazán

I want to take ownership of orphaned package nzbget

In the pkgdb i could already take ownership of f17 and epel6 branch but
not master.
id like to update and maintain the package.

Schedule for Wednesday's FPC Meeting (2013-04-24 16:00 UTC)

Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FPC
meeting Wednesday at 2013-04-24 16:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 on
irc.freenode.net.

Local time information (via.

Announcing the release of Fedora 19 Alpha!

The Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" alpha release has arrived with a
preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology
currently under development. Take a peek inside:

<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease" title="http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease">http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease</a>

*** What is the Alpha Release? ***

The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 19 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.

Q: bundled fonts.

In a large package (openerp7) I have found some bundled .ttf and .otf
font files. One of these (Inconsolata) seems to exist in Fedora as
levien-inconsolata-fonts, the others (see below) I cannot find with a
quick search.

The fonts are parts of specific addons (a. k. a. plugins).

ABRT, Faf and current state of bug reporting

Hi all,

I'll try to explain how crash reporting currently works in Fedora.

Typical reporting process looks like this:
- crash is reported to Faf server which responds with 'known' or
'unknown' reply;
- in case it responds with 'known' and the bug was already reported to
both the server and bugzilla, the reporting is stopped and only report
counts on the server are updated;
- if the crash is unknown, the reporting either continues or stops
depending on the configuration (for Gnome, only automated reporting to
faf is enabled);
- if enabled, the rest of the process continues with local or r

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Koji - Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - getaddrinfo

Hi,

Since not a long ago, I cannot build Ruby for Rawhide, while it works
just fine for F19.

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Right %cmake flags

This problem was starting here:
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929256" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929256">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929256</a>
And repeating again and again:
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947049" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947049">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947049</a>
Problem is: what flags I mast to add to "%cmake .." if application
itself not set -O3, but %cmake macro doing this?
-O2 - bad idea.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release - bad idea
-DNDEBUG - bad idea

What to do?

Package review statistics: 2013-04-16 - 2013-04-23

Hi!

Here are the package review statistics for the past week, from
2013-04-16 to today, 2013-04-23. Anderson did the most reviews this
week.

Fedora 19 Graphics Test Week starts tomorrow (2013-04-23)!

Hi, folks. It's that time again: Graphics Test Week! Tomorrow
(2013-04-23) is Intel Test Day, Wednesday 2013-04-24 is Nouveau Test
Day, and Thursday 2013-04-25 is Radeon Test Day:

<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-23_Intel" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-23_Intel">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-23_Intel</a>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-24_Nouveau" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-24_Nouveau">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-24_Nouveau</a>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-25_Radeon" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-25_Radeon">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-04-25_Radeon</a>

This is one of those events where we really need as much data as
possible - the idea is just to get testing on as wide a range of
hardware as we can manage. So please, if you have a few spare minutes,
come out and test! It's very easy.

question about journald and rsyslogd in f19, are both enabled by default?

Hi,

I noticed this after many freezes (due to bug 954181) in the messages:

[ 3.549075] systemd-journald[177]: File
/var/log/journal/4697cb8e07b94ed28925792b701e629f/system.journal corrupted
or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.

But why is it running if i did not enable it nor have i changed the default
syslog?

# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

# uname -r
3.9.0-0.rc7.git3.1.fc19.x86_64

# systemctl list-units |grep -i journal
systemd-journald.service loaded active running Journal Service
systemd-journald.socket loaded active running Jo

clock-applet memory leak

I reported the large memory leak in clock-applet:

<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952763" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952763">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952763</a>

(TLDR: clock-applet grows by 1GB/day when reporting weather)

Since clock-applet is a default install on every Fedora, I thought this
would be widely reported---it essentially makes the system unusable
within a day or two if you run into this problem---but that doesn't
seem to be the case.

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Receiving bugs from "Crash Catcher" with [faf] in the subject line

Seems like someone turned on a bot this morning. Just a heads up..
these have [faf] in the subject line and seem to be filing bugs on old
components (for me at least). Looks like it's just starting to make
the rounds. Who owns this?

Dan

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Strange ssh / openldap linking problem

I'm not sure whether or not this is a bug, but it sure looks strange.

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/ssh
openssh-clients-6.1p1-6.fc18.x86_64

$ ldd /usr/bin/ssh|grep ldap
libldap-2.4.so.2 => /lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0x00007fad274fc000)

/usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2 is a symbolic link to a symbolic link
which passes through a -devel package.

/usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2 -> libldap.so # openldap-2.4.34-1.fc18
/usr/lib64/libldap.so -> libldap-2.4.so.2.9.0 # openldap-devel-2.4.34-1.fc18
/usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2.9.0 is a real file # openldap-2.4.34-1.fc18

To cut a long story short, I fixed this

2013-04-22 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2013-04-22
# Time: 15:00 UTC
(<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto</a>)
# Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net

Greetings testers!

It's meeting time again today/tomorrow! We signed off on Alpha this week
(yay!), so it's time for some Beta prep.

This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic
suggestions to the meeting wiki page:
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20130422" title="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20130422">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20130422</a>
The current proposed agenda is included below.

== Proposed Agenda Topics ==
1. Previous meeting follow-up
2.

Re: Embedded SIG

I have an interest in an Embedded SIG, although less for the ARM as for
the Microchip devices (PIC, dsPIC) which are reasonably well supported.
Not that I don't play with ARM, too, but it is somewhat less of a
passion.

--McD

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Embedded SIG

Hi,

I have started developing for embedded devices (aka microcontrollers)
lately (mainly ARM cortex-M3 devices).

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license change: libwpg

Hi,

libwpg 0.2.2 changes license from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv2+/MPLv2+ .

D.

license change: libwps

Hi,

libwps 0.2.8 changes license from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv2+/MPLv2+ .

D.

license change: libwpd

Hi,

libwpd 0.9.7 changes license from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv2+/MPLv2+ .

D.

A requisite for joining GSoC project under fedora team as mentoring organization

Hi,

I'm AjayKumar N Kulkarni. I'd like to participate in GSoC and I'd like to
submit my proposal to fedora team for review. I'm awaiting your response.
As soon as I get back response from you, I'll submit the proposal

Thanking you,
AjayKumar N Kulkarni

gradle problem in f{19,20}

hi
groovy 2.x series (and other libraries) require gradle for build, but
with gradle there is a problem I tried to solve without success in f19
and f20 (in f18 work fine :( ).
(the same happen when rebuild gradle in non bootstrap mode)

gradle --debug jar javadoc -g
/builddir/build/BUILD/hibernate-release-4.1.7.Final/gradlehome -b
/builddir/build/BUILD/hibernate-release-4.1.7.Final/buildSrc/build.gradle
10:28:52.228 [DEBUG]
[org.gradle.logging.internal.DefaultLoggingConfigurer] Finished
configuring with level: DEBUG, configurers:
[org.gradle.logging.internal.OutputEventRenderer@14bd4d1

FirewallD - terminology

Bonjour,

I noticed an inconsistency in terminology that can confuse a grandma so
she doesn't know with whose fleece to knit. :)
*Persistent*(firewalld) vs *Permanent*(firewall-cmd).

poma

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OSSD Motivations

Hi

Don't know if this is a bit off topic, but I am in real need of you. Thing
is, I am a frequent user of open source software, and I am often amazed by
the efforts people make in order to provide me with products and services
for free. I am now conducting research for a masters' thesis trying to find
out what motivates developers to participate in open source projects. I
would be pleased if you could fill out a survey and pass it on within the
community mail list. The survey only takes 3-5 minutes to fill out, and all
information is kept confidential. Again, thank you for your efforts.

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looking for co-maintainer / new owner

Hello,

The package barry is used to sync a blackberry device with a desktop.
I took it over awhile ago when I owned a blackberry. I've since moved on
to own various other devices and don't see myself returning to a
blackberry anytime soon. As such I'm wondering if anyone wants to take
ownership.

There is a semi-active upstream. They have new releases and a few
community members contributing. A very responsive main developer - any
issues we've had he's helped resolve and accepts patches readily. Its a
low maintenance package by most accounts.

Retina 13" Macbook pro and fedora19

Fedora 19 boots ok and the installer opens,
but as soon The installation starts and Anaconda tries to mount the efi
partition it crashes. Saying the efi partition can not be mounted.

I selected automatic partitions and it created / /home /boot and /boot/efi
I deleted /home and left
/ /boot /boot/efi partitions

In Fedora 18 the installation is OK.

I created the USB-bootable drive using
dd if=~/Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-Alpha-1.iso of=/dev/disk1
under OS X for both f18 and f19.

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Package-split upgrade path

Hello,

In python-pillow (the python imaging fork which replaced PIL in F19+),
there is a module (ImageQt) which requires PyQt4, but that dependency is
missing in python-pillow (and in python-imaging before). I don't really
like adding PyQt4 as a dependency to the main package, since it pulls in
lots of stuff. So, I'd go for creating a python-pillow-qt subpackage
(albeit with just one file), and now am wondering about the upgrade
path.

Review swap

I'd like to offer a review swap.

Here are my review requests:

<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953379" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953379">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953379</a>

and <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947492" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947492">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947492</a>

Let me know.
Thanks,

Appropriate location for cmake support files

Hi all,
does anybody know where should I put cmake support files such as:

OpenIGTLinkBuildSettings.cmake
OpenIGTLinkConfig.cmake
UseOpenIGTLink.cmake

in order for cmake to find them automatically? Can I put them in
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/ ?

I read a lot of tutorials on how cmake's find_package works, but I'm
still a bit confused... Maybe there is a packaging guideline somewhere
and I missed it?

Thanks and regards,

Mario

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OSSD motivations

*

Hi

Don't know if this is a bit off topic, but I am in real need of you. Thing
is, I am a frequent user of open source software, and I am often amazed by
the efforts people make in order to provide me with products and services
for free. I am now conducting research for a masters' thesis trying to find
out what motivates developers to participate in open source projects. I
would be pleased if you could fill out a survey and pass it on within the
community mail list. The survey only takes 3-5 minutes to fill out, and all
information is kept confidential. Again, thank you for your efforts.

kdm sessions in EL6

<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953101" title="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953101">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953101</a>
As for Fedora - I can remove %_datadir}/apps/kdm/ (in my package) -
%_datadir/xsessions/* still works.
What about EL6?

Fedora 19 Alpha status, karma requests

Hi folks!

So, good news: following the blocker review meeting this morning, we're
looking quite close to signing off on Alpha. We just need to fill out
the RC4 test matrices before tomorrow's go/no-go meeting, and hope we
don't find any more blocker bugs.

util-linux: no more /usr/bin/floppy

The util-linux package for Fedora >= 19 does not contain floppy(8)
command anymore, reasons:

* util-linux contains fdformat(8)

* floppy(8) is not part of the util-linux upstream

* floppy(8) upstream seems inactive:
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/floppyutil/files/" title="http://sourceforge.net/projects/floppyutil/files/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/floppyutil/files/</a>

* if you really need floppy(8) then you can follow:
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors" title="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors</a>

Karel

Re: Kernel functionality which replaced cpuspeed daemon thermal limits ?

Hi Matthew,Daniel, Petr,

Give your opinion about
<a href="https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon" title="https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon">https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon</a>

to solve your situation.

Thanks,
Srinivas

Open Source Technology Center,
Intel Corp.

Open Seat on the Fedora Packaging Committee

The Fedora Packaging Committee has one open seat and is accepting
submissions from interested candidates to serve on the FPC.

The FPC would like to thank Rex Dieter for his service, as he is
stepping down after several years.

This position involves not only reviewing Packaging Guideline drafts
submitted to the FPC for consideration, but also rewriting drafts
(sometimes from scratch) to resolve the issue in a more acceptable
fashion. Additionally, the FPC reviews bundling exceptions (and UID/GID
soft static assignment).

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