PaulHowarth/Blog/2006-12

Paul's Blog Entries for December 2006

Friday 1st December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated libidn to 0.6.9

  • Updated bittorrent to 5.0.2; more fixes for the command line client crashes are now upstream, but they still haven't attended to the launchmany-* clients

Monday 4th December 2006

Local Packages

Tuesday 5th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.0.18

  • Updated bittorrent to 5.0.3; all of the patches I added in earlier versions to fix tracebacks in the command-line clients are now included upstream

  • Updated most of the moin-related packages to fix dependency issues when they're built with python 2.3

Fedora Extras

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.0.18

Thursday 7th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt proftpd for changes in Rawhide (new Postgresql library version, new tcp_wrappers-devel buildreq)

Saturday 9th December 2006

Fedora Extras

  • Bumped and rebuilt bittorrent and python-zope-interface to go with python 2.5

Monday 11th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Convert-UUlib to 1.07

  • Updated nmap to 4.20

  • Updated a whole bunch of python-based packages since Rawhide now has python 2.5: bittorrent, python-twisted-core, python-twisted-web, getmail, moin, moin-macro-MiniPage, moin-macro-TitleIndexNonPersonal, moin-theme-balanced, moin-theme-hypermodern, moin-theme-mentalwealth, moin-theme-monobook, moin-theme-monomoin, moin-theme-widget

Fedora Core

  • Submitted a patch for pyOpenSSL to get it building on Rawhide again

Tuesday 12th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt the remaining python-requiring packages affected by the release of python 2.5 on Rawhide: python-twisted-words, python-twisted-runner, python-twisted-news, python-twisted-names, python-twisted-mail, python-twisted-lore, python-twisted-conch, xxdiff

Wednesday 13th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated getmail to 4.6.6

  • Updated dovecot to 1.0rc15

  • Rebuilt sendmail to have buildreq of tcp_wrappers-devel on Rawhide

Monday 18th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Convert-UUlib to 1.08

  • Updated perl-Module-Build to 0.2806, which finally resolves CPAN rt#19406 regarding excessively long @INC paths

Friday 22nd December 2006

A very quiet week this week, at least software-wise. Hardly any new releases to package. Perhaps everyone's as busy at work as I am?

Fedora Extras

  • Updated perl-Crypt-RSA to 1.58; upstream now includes the GPL license text as requested

Wednesday 27th December 2006

Local Packages

  • Updated python-twisted-core to include Thomas' new version of twisted-dropin-cache, which addresses the problem described in the python-twisted-web review

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