PaulHowarth/Blog/2009-01

Paul's Blog Entries for January 2009

Monday 5th January 2009

Well I feel quite refreshed after taking a break for nearly a couple of weeks over Christmas, with my only vaguely work-related activity being to update my home desktop-cum-server box to Fedora 10 (uneventful) and of course to replace the ageing Iiyama CRT monitor on that machine with the shiny new HP w2216 flat panel display I got for Christmas, which is very nice.

Local Packages

  • Updated bluefish-unstable to 1.3.1

Fedora Project

  • Updated F-9 and F-10 branches of perl-Test-Warn to 0.11 as requested in Bug #477298 and pushed the resulting builds to updates-testing

Thursday 8th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.2rc3

Tuesday 13th January 2009

PPTP Client Project

  • built Fedora 10 versions of the repositories for PPTP and PoPToP

Wednesday 14th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated sendmail to merge in most of the recent changes from Fedora as I feel the maintenance burden will be too high if I maintain forked initscripts/makefiles

PPTP Client Project

Thursday 15th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot to 1.1.8 and added managesieve support and a sub-package for it

  • New package python-setuptools, needed to build python-zope-interface

  • New package python-zope-filesystem to handle common directory ownership

  • Updated python-zope-interface to 3.5.0 where possible (requires python >= 2.4 so RHEL 4 and early Fedora releases stick with 3.4.1)

Friday 16th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated the python-twisted stack to 8.2.0

    • python-twisted

    • python-twisted-core

    • python-twisted-conch

    • python-twisted-lore

    • python-twisted-mail

    • python-twisted-names

    • python-twisted-news

    • python-twisted-runner

    • python-twisted-web

    • python-twisted-words

Tuesday 20th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.19.3; built against openssl as the NSS-based SSL is still broken

  • Updated libxml2 to 2.7.3

  • Updated perl-IPC-Run to include additional documentation as per the Fedora version

  • Rebuilt nmap to pick up the new openssl in Rawhide

Wednesday 21st January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated sendmail to build libmilter as a shared library rather than a static one, as per Fedora Rawhide; new subpackage sendmail-milter introduced for the shared library

Thursday 22nd January 2009

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Date-Simple to 3.03 in Rawhide

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.20 in Rawhide

RPM Fusion Project

  • Imported and built my first package for the project, perl-Crypt-IDEA (1.08)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Clone to 0.31

  • Updated perl-Data-OptListto 0.104

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.20

  • Updated perl-Module-Build to 0.31012

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 2.17

  • Updated perl-Net-CIDR to 0.13

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 0.64

  • Updated perl-NetAddr-IP to 4.023

  • Updated perl-PAR-Dist to 0.42

Friday 23rd January 2009

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.2.0RC4 in Rawhide (by request - see Bug #481264

Local Packages

  • Updated gtkwave to 3.2.0RC4

  • Rebuilt dovecot and proftpd for Rawhide to pick up the new MySQL version

  • Updated perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta to 0.04

  • Updated perl-Sub-Exporter to 0.982

  • Updated perl-Sub-Install to 0.925

  • Updated perl-Test-Prereq to 1.036

Saturday 24th January 2009

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.22 in Rawhide

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 1.22

  • Updated perl-PAR-Dist to 0.43

Monday 26th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot to 1.1.9

  • Updated libidn to 1.12

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.0

  • Updated moin to 1.8.1

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.2rc4

Tuesday 27th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated dovecot to 1.10

  • Updated perl-NetAddr-IP to 4.024

  • Updated perl-Net-DNS to 0.65

Wednesday 28th January 2009

Local Packages

  • Updated bluefish-unstable to 1.3.2

Saturday 31st January 2009

Local Packages

  • New package spamass-milter; this one includes the changes in the pipeline from Bug #452248 for better support for Postfix (included in a -postfix subpackage) and is linked against the shared milter library from the sendmail-milter package. I hope to push this into testing for Fedora next week but also need to work on getting my milter policy for SELinux backported from upstream into F-9, F-10, and Rawhide.

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