This week in rawhide (and a bonus branched), the late edition (2013-03-21)
Normally I write up my weekly rawhide post on tuesday, but this week has been crazy, so I only just now got to it. First, the branching off of f19 from rawhide happened last week. If you’re a package...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the bonus 2 weeks edition…
Getting a bit lax about sending these out of late. I will try and get back on a tuesday schedule again next week. So, looking back on the last twoish weeks there were a few interesting issues: The perl...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide 2013-04-09 edition
Oh look, a this week in rawhide post on tuesday again. A pretty boring week in rawhide again. webkitgtk was updated to 2.0.0 after a bit of tweaking on banshee. With 2.0.0, webkitgtk switches to using...
View ArticleRawhide week in review, 2013-04-15 edition
Another week of rawhide rolling along and only one really interesting bug hit: Some recent change, likely in lvm2, has caused my encrypted /home lv to not be activated right on boot. Root and swap come...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide 2013-04-23 edition
Just a tad late on this post this week. The lvm2 issue I ran into last week with /home not mounting on boot was quickly answered by lvm2 maintainers. I had a workaround quickly and then a real fix...
View Articlerawhide week for 2013-04-30
A final rawhide post for April. Another pretty dull week here in rawhide land. The updates flow has been pretty heavy, but breakage has not been. There’s a very likely fix to a xfce4-session crash that...
View ArticleRawhide weekly 2013-05-07
So, this last week in the world of rawhide: The 3.9.0 kernel came out, and quickly was replaced with 3.10.0 git snapshots. So far they have been all running just fine here, although there was a few...
View Articleunbound and nsd
After reading about upcoming bind10 changes and never really being all that happy with named, I decided to look around at other solutions for DNS serving. I’ve been running unbound (along with...
View ArticleFlock talk
Have you submitted a talk? Fedora is doing a new conference this year: flock It’s setup more like a traditional conference (sessions proposed in advance) and it’s timed after Fedora 19 comes out, but...
View ArticleRawhide week of fun, 2013-05-14
Another week of rawhide has gone by, so another blog post. Utterly boring this week. I cannot recall any problems here at all. In branched f19 news, we are moving into Beta freeze today. You can follow...
View ArticleAnother week of rawhide (2013-05-21 edition)
So, another pretty quiet week overall. There was a soname bump in libpng, but it was untagged and never landed in a rawhide compose. The maintainer is going to create a compat package for the old...
View ArticleAn observation on difficult to deal with community members
I got to thinking recently: Why are interactions with some small number of community members always unpleasant? It seems to me as a general rule that the people who are unpleasant to deal with (or at...
View ArticleRawhide week 2013-05-28
Another week of rawhide. Only one issue really stands out from this week: The kernel switched to using a script provided by systemd to install. See: http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/47131.html for the...
View Articlerawhide for 2013-06-04
Another very dull week in rawhide. No particular breakage or issues here. I’ve been on the latest 3.10 rc3 kernel and since it’s an RC the debugging is off, so its been nice and fast. I did play around...
View ArticleDistributions vs applications: Fight!
After reading http://groveronline.com/2013/06/fedora-for-servers/ and the comments on lwn ( https://lwn.net/Articles/552800/ ) I thought I would share some thoughts on this. First, I agree with Andy...
View ArticleRawhide week in review 2013-06-11
Another week another rawhide review post. This week the main thing that stood out for me was the rsyslogd breakage. A new upstream version landed and it crashed on startup. ;( A bug was filed (...
View ArticleAttention Fedora 19 prerelease users
Fedora 19 is winding up to release soon, and so it’s that time in the cycle when a new fedora-release package pushes out that disables the fedora-updates-testing repository so folks who install after...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide 2013-06-25, a word about comps
So another week in rawhide without too much blowing up, however, astute folks might have noticed that there was no rawhide compose on 2013-06-21. This was due to a typo in the rawhide comps file. What...
View ArticleFedora 18 to 19 yum upgrade
With Fedora 19 being final (release is tuesday), I went and upgraded my main virthost and guest from Fedora 18 last night. I used fedup to upgrade a laptop and another machine, but as my main server is...
View ArticleFedora release days aren’t as frantic as they used to be, and why it’s mostly...
Folks who have been involved in the Fedora project for a long time may remember early releases where things were very frantic on release days. Servers and networks melting under downloads, eager users...
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