Paul's Blog Entries for October 2008

Wednesday 1st October 2008

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Monday 6th October 2008

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Tuesday 7th October 2008

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Fedora Project

Thursday 9th October 2008

Fedora Project

Monday 13th October 2008

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Fedora Project

Tuesday 14th October 2008

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Thursday 16th October 2008

Local Packages

Built/upgraded a bunch of perl modules needed to build/test the perl bindings now included in libspf2:

Friday 17th October 2008

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Thursday 23rd October 2008

Local Packages

The perl-Test-Output package initially failed to build for Fedora 8 and 9, a problem that I had come across earlier when building the initial version of the package, and which appeared to be result of updates to perl-Test-Simple for those releases (as I commented in Bug #434865 and Bug #462444). Further investigation today revealed that bumping perl-Test-Tester to version 0.107 fixed the problem. I already had packages of this but they weren't built for Fedora 7 onwards. Once I'd done that, perl-Test-Output built successfully.

Friday 24th October 2008

Fedora Project

Today I built an updated version of mod_fcgid (Rawhide, Fedora 9, Fedora 8) that has a new SELinux policy. Instead of using its own httpd_fastcgi_* domain and types, the policy is merged with the regular CGI policy (httpd_sys_* types). The types from the old policy are now aliased to the new types to hopefully provide a smooth upgrade path. This change in approach came out of discussions with Dan Walsh about how best to merge the policy module into the main selinux-policy package, which will happen real soon now. Today's update (to mod_fcgid-2.2-6) should also resolve Bug #462318, where Fedora 8 systems with mod_fcgid-selinux installed get (harmless) messages about multiple different specifications for the context type of the /var/run/mod_fcgid directory and its contents.

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Monday 27th October 2008

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Tuesday 28th October 2008

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Wednesday 29th October 2008

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As Fedora 10 is now in final development freeze, I built a Fedora 10 version of my repository. Apart from cloning the existing development repo, I also needed to build a bunch of stuff that hadn't been built since Fedora 9 came out so that my repo-assembly-script would include everything. This took much less time than the corresponding activity for Fedora 9, the big difference this time being that Fedora 10 has the same perl version so no long dependency trees to work through.

Thursday 30th October 2008

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Friday 31st October 2008

Fedora Project

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