Monday 3rd September 2007

Fedora Project

• Built imlib for EPEL-5 at the request of GilboaDavara, who maintains Icewm

Tuesday 4th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated gtkwave to 3.1.0

Fedora Project

• Updated gtkwave to 3.1.0 (Rawhide only)

Wednesday 5th September 2007

Local Packages

• Reverted curl to build against OpenSSL by default rather than NSS, though NSS support is available at build time by using rpmbuild --with nss for distributions that support it; this change is due to the fact that the curl application behaves differently depending on the crypto backend it uses, which causes problems for scripts that expect the built-against-OpenSSL behaviour (see Bug #266021)

• Updated unrar to 3.7.7

Thursday 6th September 2007

New Arrival

Helen Samantha Howarth was born at 18:56 at Trafford General Hospital, around 25 minutes after her mummy and daddy arrived at the maternity ward.

She weighed in at 3.550 Kg, which is 7 lb 13 oz in old money.

Saturday 8th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated fetchyahoo to 2.11.2

Sunday 9th September 2007

New Arrival

Leon is cautiously interested in Helen, and certainly likes her changing mat, as he's new refusing to use his old one and wants to use hers instead.

Monday 10th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated dovecot to 1.0.5

• Updated unrar to 3.7.8

Tuesday 11th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated libidn to 1.1

• Updated libpng10 to 1.0.28

Fedora Project

• Updated libpng10 to 1.0.28

Friday 14th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated curl to 7.17.0

• Updated mod_fcgid to 2.2

• Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.09

• Updated perl-Pod-Coverage to 0.19

Saturday 15th September 2007

Fedora Project

• Updated mod_fcgid to 2.2 (Rawhide and Fedora 7 updates-testing)

Friday 21st September 2007

Internet Outages

Had two long outages this week that have affected this site, both from problems with the LLU at the local telephone exchange: this one on Tuesday had me offline for around 8 hours, as did this one today.

Wednesday 26th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated dkms to 2.0.17.4

• Updated smbldap-tools to 0.9.4

Fedora Project

• Updated smbldap-tools to 0.9.4 in Rawhide

Thursday 27th September 2007

Local Packages

• Updated sendmail to address a compatibility issue with the initscript on Fedora Core 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and older distributions

The entire repository, or sections of it, are now available using rsync:

$ rsync rsync.city-fan.org::
ftp             whole ftp area
yum             yum repositories for all supported distributions
yum-rhl9        yum repository for Red Hat Linux 9
yum-rhel3       yum repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
yum-rhel4       yum repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
yum-rhel5       yum repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
yum-fc1         yum repository for Fedora Core 1
yum-fc2         yum repository for Fedora Core 2
yum-fc3         yum repository for Fedora Core 3
yum-fc4         yum repository for Fedora Core 4
yum-fc5         yum repository for Fedora Core 5
yum-fc6         yum repository for Fedora Core 6
yum-f7          yum repository for Fedora 7
yum-development yum repository for Fedora Development

If you use any of the "yum*" modules, I suggest you use:

$ rsync -av --no-l --copy-links

This is because the RPM packages in the yum repo are symlinks pointing to other directories in the ftp area.

The /etc/rsyncd.conf I'm using for this on rsync.city-fan.org is like this:

uid = rsyncd
gid = rsyncd
use chroot = no
max connections = 4
syslog facility = ftp
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

[ftp]
path = /srv/ftp/pub
comment = whole ftp area

[yum]
path = /srv/ftp/pub/contrib/yum-repo
comment = yum repositories for all supported distributions

[yum-rhl9]
path = /srv/ftp/pub/contrib/yum-repo/rhl9
comment = yum repository for Red Hat Linux 9

[yum-rhel3]
path = /srv/ftp/pub/contrib/yum-repo/rhel3
comment = yum repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

[yum-rhel4]
path = /srv/ftp/pub/contrib/yum-repo/rhel4
comment = yum repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

... more of the same ...

Friday 28th September 2007

Fedora Project

• Updated gtkwave to 3.1.1 (Rawhide)

• Updated lat to 1.2.3 (Rawhide and F-7)

There is an updated version of perl-MIME-tools (5.423) available, but I can't update Fedora because it requires perl(File::Temp) >= 0.17 and this version is so recent that it's not even in Rawhide's perl package (File::Temp is a core perl module).

Local Packages

• Updated gtkwave to 3.1.1

• Updated perl-Test-Manifest to 1.21

• Updated perl-YAML to 0.66

• Rebuilt python-twisted-core to bring it more in line with the official Fedora version and fix some minor packaging issues