Fedora Rules

Moved my blog away from wordpress.com, because i wanted to play with some WP plugins

like this one. It is very nice to show code examples in the  blog like this one:

class FedoraRules:
    ''' Fedora Rules main class '''
 
    def __init__(self):
        for i in xrange(1,10):
            print "Fedora Rules !!!!"

This one (Highslide4WP) is kind of cool too.

Still feeling high after the great concert with Tim Christensen (DK), my wife and I went to last night, The warmup was Mike Viola (US) was a nice surprice too.

Today is was looking for a new laptop for my wife, the old one is not working to good any more. She use it for reading mails, browsing the web and to store our photos.

I was looking for one that could fullfil the following:

• Should work out of the box in Fedora 9 (gfx,wireless etc)
• No M$ Taxes, dont want to pay for something i dont use.
• No close source drivers needed.
• Looking good, a nice girl need a good looking laptop.
• not to big and heavy, so no 19″ widescreen

I found this one

It almost only intel parts and they are well supported out of the box in Fedora, it is tested on Linux and can be bought without any OS and it looks good and is made in Denmark.

I am not much of a sports fan, but i have on weak spot, Tour de France, i followed the race in 20 years, sitting glued to the TV, 3 weeks every summer, this year it was better than it have been i a lot of years, an my favourite team CSC Saxo bank won the yellow jersey, the white jersey,  the team competition and 2 stages. I twas nice to see that Carlos ended up winning the race, i can’t think of any body deserve it as much as he does.

It saw this tagline on a danish linux page, it make me laugh, so i must be some kind of a nerd

“There are 10 kinds of people.  Those that understand binary and those that don’t.”

400 nop
350 familly time
234 drinking coffee
123 browsing
100 reading mail
93  coding
33  eating
25  stuck in traffic
17  sleeping
9    working

For a while i have been working on making better support for yum to handle packages with dependency problems. The current skip-broken plugin has a lot of problems, so i have worked on building the the skip-broken support into yum, without needing a special plugin.

The first step was to make the yum depsolver collect the packages causing problems while it was depsolving.

The second step was to find a good way to skip the packages causing problems and all the deps they have pull in to the yum transaction.

In the latest couple of months there have been some very nice progress in adding a test suite to yum, so there is a good infrastructure for building test cases for the yum code, this is very important in testing the skip-broken functionality, because it is a good way to simulate all kind of dependency problems and to test if code changes is breaking something.

The new skip-broken code is now checked into the yum git HEAD and will be available in yum 3.2.9.

If you want to test it, you can check out the yum git HEAD and check it out.


git clone http://linux.duke.edu/yum/git/yum.git
cd yum
sudo ./yummain.py --skip-broken some-yum-action


The code conflict with then yum-skip-broken plugin, so it have to be removed if you want to test tje new code

Fedora Rawhide is a nice place to test it, there have been a lot of packages with dep problems lately.

This is good news for Linux Wireless

http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20070920/madwifi-moves-away-from-binary-only-hal 

After partisipating in a long discussion on fedora-maintainers about the Fedora update process and Bodhi, i decided to start helping Luke with some hacking on Bodhi.

I started out by setting up a local Bodhi instance as described here.

In about 10 min, i got a local Bodhi to play with and see how the code was working.

I have worked a lot with python, but never worked with TurboGears before, so i stared with the The 20 minutes wiki tutorial, it is a very good, it is really showing how easy and powerful TurboGears is to work with.

I have created  a patch to make the Bodhi command line client being able
to import information about update type, bugzilla records, CVE’s and Notes from a text file, in a format created by Till Maas great Makefile addon to create Bodhi updates from the fedora package CVS checkouts and a patch to make it possible to do ‘push to testing’ and ‘push to stable’ from the command line client.

Luke have made a lot of nice changes to the current development edition of Bodhi, to make the life easier to the hard work fedora contributors.

Looks like the rumors about AMD/ATI will release video driver specs and code as open source.

http://www.linux.com/feature/119049

This is a big step for Desktop Linux, hope that Nvidia will see the light and follow.