Friday 1st December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Module-Extract-Namespaces to 1.021 in Rawhide:
Removed the shim code for PPI older than 1.125; now you have to have an updated PPI that understands the v5.12 package syntax
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302120 in Rawhide:
- Fix IPC reload bug
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-Extract-Namespaces to 1.021 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Moo to 2.003004:
Re-allow stubs for attribute parameters like isa or coerce (CPAN RT#123753)
Fix accidentally removed space in coderef error message (GH#33)
Fix test errors with old Carp versions
Updated perl-Test-Simple to 1.302120 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Test2-Suite to 0.000094:
- Minor test changes for thread safety
Saturday 2nd December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated proftpd (1.3.6) in Rawhide to disable tcp_wrappers support via libwrap/mod_wrap for builds from F-28 onwards (Bug #1518776)
Note that similar functionality is still available using mod_wrap2, which does not use libwrap
Local Packages
Updated proftpd (1.3.6) as per the Fedora version
Friday 8th December 2017
Local Packages
Updated perl-Data-Alias to 1.21
- Update for context stack changes in Perl 5.23.8
Update to accommodate PERL_OP_PARENT builds of Perl 5.21.11 or later (which is the default from Perl 5.25.1)
Update for removal of LEX_KNOWNEXT in Perl 5.25.1
Update test suite to not rely on . in @INC, which is no longer necessarily there from Perl 5.25.7
Use cleaner wrap_op_checker() API to control op checking
Note that the module still doesn't work with dtrace-enabled Perls ≥ 5.24 such as that in Fedora, and so isn't available after Fedora 24
Updated sendmail (8.15.2) to drop tcp_wrappers support from F-28 onwards (Bug #1518782) and to build with TLS EC support from EL-7, F-23 onwards
Monday 11th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Exception-Class to 1.44 in Rawhide:
You can now pass "frame_filter", "filter_frames_early" and "skip_frames" to the throw() method of an exception class; these will be passed on to the Devel::StackTrace constructor (GH#6)
Local Packages
Updated perl-Digest-SHA to 6.00:
Added "tag" option (BSD-style checksums) to shasum
Consistent with GNU sha1sum, sha224sum, etc.
Modified SHA.pm to use XSLoader
Falls back to DynaLoader if necessary
Decoupled Digest::SHA and Digest::SHA::PurePerl
- Scripts/tests in each module now fully independent
Digest::SHA::PurePerl to be phased out eventually
- Past versions will remain available
Updated perl-Exception-Class to 1.44 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Test2-Suite to 0.000097:
- Discourage use of fragile thread features (rarely used)
- Skip fragile/discouraged tests outside author testing
- Document the above, and an environment variable to activate tests when desired
- Documentation fixes
Tuesday 12th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.428 in Rawhide:
Fix GH#22 (Upgrading from LMU 0.416 to split XS/PP version will fail), this time hopefully the right way (CPAN RT#123310)
Fix GH#29 (pairwise() PP implementation add tail undefs if array sizes differ)
Local Packages
Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.428 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 13th December 2017
Local Packages
Updated perl-interpreter metapackage to use the same epoch and version as the perl package from the underlying distribution
Updated perl-List-SomeUtils-XS to 0.56:
The one() sub returned true when given an empty list, but it should return false (GH#3)
Friday 15th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perltidy to 20171214 in Rawhide (see CHANGES for details)
Local Packages
Updated cdrtools to 3.02 alpha release 09
Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20171214 as per the Fedora perltidy package
Monday 18th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.834 in Rawhide:
Fixed croak handling inside MCE::Shared::Server
Enhanced sequence (bounds_only) to return optional 3rd value (id)
Improved seconds method for _delay package inside MCE::Hobo
Improved clear and get methods for shared objects
Tweaked shared_cache_lru test script
Local Packages
Updated perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder to link XS modules to libperl.so with EU::CBuilder on Linux from Fedora 20 onwards (Bug #960048)
Updated perl-MCE-Shared to 1.834 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Net-DNS to 1.14:
'use base' should not be used in packages with several subpackages defined (CPAN RT#123702)
Fix Net::DNS::Nameserver malformed message on big axfr (CPAN RT#123676)
Tuesday 19th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-Try-Tiny to 0.29 in Rawhide:
Skip tests of "when" and "given/when" usage for Perl 5.27.7 only (see CPAN RT#123908)
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.68 in Rawhide:
Local Packages
Updated getmail to 5.5:
Added record_mailbox configuration parameter, to allow turning off the header getmail adds with this information
Updated perl-Try-Tiny to 0.29 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.68 as per the Fedora version
Wednesday 20th December 2017
Local Packages
Updated ppp (2.4.7) to update the EAP-TLS patch to version 0.999, and to switch to supporting building with OpenSSL 1.1
Thursday 21st December 2017
Moin Wiki
I'm still in the process of updating my web server machine from Fedora 25 (now EOL) to Fedora 27. One of the things I noticed that wasn't working was search on this wiki, which was failing with this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):, referer: http://www.city-fan.org/tips/PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-12-02
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/support/flup/server/fcgi_base.py", line 574, in run
protocolStatus, appStatus = self.server.handler(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/support/flup/server/fcgi_base.py", line 1159, in handler
result = self.application(environ, start_response)
File "/srv/www/tips/cgi-bin/moin.fcg", line 60, in script_name_fixer
return app(env, start)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 264, in __call__
response = run(context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 89, in run
response = dispatch(request, context, action_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 137, in dispatch
response = handle_action(context, pagename, action_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/wsgiapp.py", line 203, in handle_action
handler(context.page.page_name, context)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/action/fullsearch.py", line 196, in execute
results = searchPages(request, query, sort, mtime, historysearch)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/__init__.py", line 35, in searchPages
return _get_searcher(request, query, sort, mtime, historysearch, **kw).run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/builtin.py", line 328, in run
hits, estimated_hits = self._search()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/Xapian/search.py", line 53, in _search
search_results = index.search(self.query, sort=self.sort, historysearch=self.historysearch)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/builtin.py", line 168, in search
return self._search(query, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/Xapian/indexing.py", line 168, in _search
searcher = self.get_search_connection()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/Xapian/indexing.py", line 147, in get_search_connection
return MoinSearchConnection(self.db)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/support/xappy/searchconnection.py", line 741, in __init__
self._index = _log(_xapian.Database, indexpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/support/xappy/replaylog.py", line 413, in log
return call(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xapian/__init__.py", line 8303, in __init__
_xapian.Database_swiginit(self, _xapian.new_Database(*args))
FeatureUnavailableError: Flint backend no longer supportedIt seems the update to the underlying Xapian search library rendered my existing index obsolete. The fix was to rebuild the index:
# runuser -s /bin/sh -c "moin --config-dir=/srv/www/tips/cgi-bin --wiki-url=http://www.city-fan.org/tips/ index build --mode=buildnewindex" apache # systemctl stop httpd # runuser -s /bin/sh -c "moin --config-dir=/srv/www/tips/cgi-bin --wiki-url=http://www.city-fan.org/tips/ index build --mode=usenewindex" apache # systemctl start httpd
Fedora Project
Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the December 2017 databases in Rawhide
Updated perl-List-MoreUtils-XS to 0.428 in Rawhide:
Fix build fails on perl ≥ 5.27.4 with -DDEBUGGING (CPAN RT#123613)
Update ppport.h to 3.37 for improved blead support
Fix context arg to croak() (CPAN RT#123869)
Fix one() returning true on empty list (CPAN RT#123870)
Pamper $a/$b/$_ refcounting bugs (CPAN RT#123868)
Updated perl-Try-Tiny to 0.30 in Rawhide:
Expand "when" test skippage to more Perl versions
Local Packages
Updated GeoIP-GeoLite-data to the December 2017 databases
Updated perl-Archive-Zip to 1.60:
Wrong shell bang in examples/selfex.pl (CPAN RT#123913)
Updated perl-List-MoreUtils-XS to 0.428 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20171220:
- Updated for v5.27.7
Updated perl-Module-Manifest to 1.09:
Switch packaging to Dist::Zilla, which makes the distribution installable again on Perl 5.27.7 (CPAN RT#123867)
Updated perl-Task-Weaken to 1.05:
Switch packaging to Dist::Zilla
Require List::Util::XS in some cases
Updated perl-Try-Tiny to 0.30 as per the Fedora version
Updated php-Smarty to 3.1.31
Friday 22nd December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-JSON to 2.97001 in Rawhide:
Updated backportPP with JSON::PP 2.97001
Updated perl-JSON-PP to 2.97001 in Rawhide:
Tweak internal number detector always to consider a flagged value as a string (GH#35)
Clarify json_pp options (CPAN RT#123766)
Local Packages
Updated perl-JSON to 2.97001 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-JSON-PP to 2.97001 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 24th December 2017
Local Packages
Cleaned up and rebuilt svnmailer (1.1.0 pre-release)
Tuesday 26th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.75 in Rawhide:
Fixed tests to pass with blead Perl (GH#19)
Local Packages
Updated perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to 1.75 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-Digest-SHA to 6.01:
Added "--ignore-missing" and "--strict" options to shasum
Consistent with GNU coreutils
Removed PERL_CORE preambles from test scripts
- Preambles no longer needed for core testing
Updated perl-Perl-Critic-Pulp to 96:
ProhibitUnknownBackslash: allow for non-ascii in strings (CPAN RT#123922)
Thursday 28th December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.69 in Rawhide:
Local Packages
Updated perl-Module-CoreList (5.20171220) to Obsolete/Provide perl-Module-CoreList-tools, a separate sub-package in the Fedora package
Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML to 0.69 as per the Fedora version
Sunday 31st December 2017
Fedora Project
Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.16 in Rawhide:
Added 5.27.7 changes (CPAN RT#123948)
Added cperl class keywords
- Added keywords per version back to 5.004
Updated perl-DateTime to 1.45 in F-27 and Rawhide:
Added month_length(), quarter_length() and year_length() methods (GH#70)
I also updated perl-Params-ValidationCompiler to 0.26 in F-27 as per the Rawhide version to go along with this F-27 update
Updated perl-MCE to 1.833 in Rawhide:
Fixed bug with sequence, broken in 1.832 (GH#10)
Local Packages
Updated perl-B-Keywords to 1.16 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-DateTime to 1.45 as per the Fedora version
Updated perl-MCE to 1.833 as per the Fedora version
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