Re: [Server-devel] Patch fixing a problem with --kickstart-include

2008-09-11 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Martin Langhoff wrote: By naming the kickstart file as ks.cfg, anaconda would _always_ take it, regardless of kernel boot options. This is not what was expected - it is safer to give it a different name, and then use the boot menu item to select it. So what you're saying is that anaconda

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Hi Martin, On 9/9/08, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - F9 libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.20.p49-1 - F9/XO (8.2-759) libertas-usb8388-firmware-5.111.22.p18-1 You are definitely better off using

Re: [Server-devel] Creating a spin - any mechanisms around $product-release, $product-release-notes, $product-logos packages...?

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 21:42 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: My key question is: will anything in the Fedora machinery (anaconda, rpm, yum) be looking for a magic product name, and then try to use it to request $product-release? Nothing that I know of Jeremy

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 10 2008, at 11:04, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: Now that I have a F9-based XS build, I've dropped the custom-compiled driver and the firmware for Libertas, hoping to use the stock standard F9. But that might be a bit optimistic :-) After a quick check it looks like the XO

Re: [Server-devel] recover from broken yum transaction

2008-09-11 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Trying rpm -Va, I am getting lots of these lines S.?./usr/bin/kblankscrn.kss S.?./usr/bin/kcminit S.?./usr/bin/kcminit_startup Basically, the size has changed, and the md5 check cannot be performed ?! I understand this is due to prelink, but that sux ! This effectively

Re: [Server-devel] recover from broken yum transaction

2008-09-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:53 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote: Trying rpm -Va, I am getting lots of these lines S.?./usr/bin/kblankscrn.kss S.?./usr/bin/kcminit S.?./usr/bin/kcminit_startup Basically, the size has changed, and the md5 check cannot be performed ?! I

Re: [Server-devel] recover from broken yum transaction

2008-09-11 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Ahmed Kamal writes: Trying rpm -Va, I am getting lots of these lines S.?./usr/bin/kblankscrn.kss S.?./usr/bin/kcminit S.?./usr/bin/kcminit_startup Basically, the size has changed, and the md5 check cannot be performed ?! I understand this is due to prelink, but that

Re: [Server-devel] Revisor / yum oddity with package conflicts...

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seth Vidal wrote: isn't fedora-logos being pulled in in @core in comps? that's why kickstart is pulling it in, I think. Very true, notting has just closed #456882, having removed fedora-logos from @core, but that is

[Server-devel] PostgreSQL mgmt on Fedora: pg_cluster-like tools?

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
I'm getting familiar with the Fedora tools around Pg, and wondering whether there is anything similar to the pg_cluster stuff that's available in Debian/Ubuntu. So far I've looked at the postgresql-* packages and rhdb-utils -- nothing I've found seems to fill that space. Is there a package I am

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Carrano
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fedora 9 ships with a 2.6.25 kernel with a new libertas driver. Because of the changes implemented in this driver, you should use the latest

Re: [Server-devel] recover from broken yum transaction

2008-09-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:54 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: That is not very useful for us. I don't worry so much about the machine being killed in the 'download stuff' part, bit AFAIK that's not part of the 'transaction'. When yum-complete-transaction is called, I am expecting it to work with

Re: [Server-devel] PostgreSQL mgmt on Fedora: pg_cluster-like tools?

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, well, maybe I haven't been paying enough attention. I remember the cursing ;-) but not whether they'd gotten it sorted adequately. Cursing? When!? :-) -- anyway, from the don't do this, dummy department, a tiny patch,

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Michail Bletsas
Martin, I really miss the point of your tirade. Our advice is to use 5.110.22.p18 M. Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/2008 10:15 PM To Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED], OLPC Devel [EMAIL PROTECTED], XS Devel server-devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our advice is to use 5.110.22.p18 Sorry if I am sounding difficult -- I am just trying to understand the upsides and downsides of 22.p18 Clearly, it fixes some bugs we knew about and we already know it introduces others.

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Sep 12 2008, at 14:12, Martin Langhoff was caught saying: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, I need an overview of what works and what doesn't with F9 stock kernel and 22.p18. So far: - Deepak mentions issues w/multicast I'm not

Re: [Server-devel] Libertas firmware on F9 for the XS

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Michail Bletsas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that list? Who has it? Who coordinates bugtracking for the libertas stuff? Can't be that much of a mistery. /important If that's a mystery to you after so many months of working for OLPC, I really don't want to

Re: [Server-devel] PostgreSQL mgmt on Fedora: pg_cluster-like tools?

2008-09-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/9/12 Devrim GÜNDÜZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am *very* against this one. It is not packager's job to run dump/reload: I agree with you in a normal rpm package. I am working to some very special requirements :-) * You may never be sure that it will work. We had this issue in 8.3 for example.