Fedora 20 notes and links
Fedora 20 is released tomorrow! (16UTC) In the mean time a few notes: If you have installed a prerelease version at any point in the past: Thanks for helping us test! I hope you reported any bugs or...
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Holiday geeking so far
Well, we are a little less than 1/2 way through the holidays here (at least for me), and I thought I would post about some misc geekery I have been working on in between eating too much, watching...
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rawhide holiday edition 2013
This will likely be the last of my week in rawhide blog posts this year. First some thoughts about recent holiday breakage in rawhide, and then some retrospective. Right as everyone left for the...
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These weeks in rawhide, the mid January edition
Skipped last week as things were very busy ramping up from the holidays, so this is a double edition. The selinux execstack/execmem issue turned out to be all due to a krb5 package bug. I had dismissed...
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Email handling
Vincent Danen recently posted about email handling ( http://linsec.ca/blog/2014/01/23/email-tagging/ ) and since I have been dealing with emails since about 1994 or so I (wow, I must be old) thought I...
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This week in rawhide, the late January edition
Another few weeks of rawhide rolling along. Last week (friday) there was an unfortunate soname bump in the bind package. This cased the dhcp package to be unhappy until it was rebuilt. If you were...
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Rawhide week(s) for mid February
I’ve not done a rawhide post in a few weeks because there wasn’t much interesting going on. I finally had a few things this last week, so here’s another installment. Last week there was a libicu bump...
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This week in rawhide, the late February edition
Another few weeks, another rawhide weekly(ish) blog. There were a few issues which I didn’t hit at all, but others did reported over on the Rawhide watch blog. Namely a selinux issue with gdm and a...
View ArticleJust say no to re-releasing the same version of software
I have seen this a few times this week, so I thought I would make a plea to free software producing projects: Please don’t re-release some version of your software with changes without changing the...
View ArticleLooking up at the cloud (the Fedora infrastructure private cloud)
We have been running an openstack folsom cloud in Fedora Infrastructure for a while now, and I thought I would take a snapshot of whats running on it right now to see what kinds of things we are using...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the mid march edition…
Time for another exciting edition of this week in rawhide… Last week saw a new systemd version landing in rawhide and with it a few changes to the way systemd-logind worked. This was fine (progress,...
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This week in rawhide (The april edition)
A few jucy tidbits this week for rawhide. First, there was a bug in the grubby package that landed on friday in rawhide. If you installed a kernel after that, you likely had it not boot correctly. If...
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java remote console on DRAC7 and Fedora…
Just a short blog about accessing the java remote console on DRAC7 using servers from a Fedora client (mostly so I can find this again in a few years and remember what I had to do): If you just try and...
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This week in rawhide, the late april edition
Greetings intrepid rawhiders. It’s been a few weeks as nothing too exciting was going on, but now I have piled up all sorts of fun rawhide tidbits for you. A recent library so version jump in libgcrypt...
View ArticleRawhide: The mid may edition
A few rawhide happenings for you this time: There’s an ongoing issue with single cpu systems not booting. This is a systemd bug. see bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095891 If you are...
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Fedora badges: over 10,000 ranked users
Just happened to see that we now have over 10,000 ranked users in Fedora Badges along with over 180 badges. It’s a great way to contribute to Fedora and have some fun along the way. If you’ve not...
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Bodhi2 / Taskotron FAD day 1
Folks started arriving and after a quick run to the airport and hotel, 4 of us gathered at the site of the FAD and started doing some planning and goals for the next few days. We have some big ones,...
View ArticleBodhi2 / Taskotron FAD day 2
Day two started with some catchup on emails and so forth, then another run to the airport for me. Then, everyone had arrived and we had some great discussions. I talked with Tim Flink from QA about...
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Bodhi2 / Taskoton FAD day 3
Today for me was all about getting our staging releng env better up to snuff so we could test things properly like bodhi2 once it’s ready. Dennis and I got our koji.stg.fedoraproject.org all functional...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide: the pre-mass rebuild edition
A few fun things to share with everyone in rawhide land: First, we turned on xz repodata a while back, so if you have noticed your yum/dnf updates being a bit quicker and less BW intensive that might...
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