rawhide holiday edition 2013
This will likely be the last of my week in rawhide blog posts this year. First some thoughts about recent holiday breakage in rawhide, and then some retrospective. Right as everyone left for the...
View ArticleThese weeks in rawhide, the mid January edition
Skipped last week as things were very busy ramping up from the holidays, so this is a double edition. The selinux execstack/execmem issue turned out to be all due to a krb5 package bug. I had dismissed...
View ArticleEmail handling
Vincent Danen recently posted about email handling ( http://linsec.ca/blog/2014/01/23/email-tagging/ ) and since I have been dealing with emails since about 1994 or so I (wow, I must be old) thought I...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the late January edition
Another few weeks of rawhide rolling along. Last week (friday) there was an unfortunate soname bump in the bind package. This cased the dhcp package to be unhappy until it was rebuilt. If you were...
View ArticleRawhide week(s) for mid February
I’ve not done a rawhide post in a few weeks because there wasn’t much interesting going on. I finally had a few things this last week, so here’s another installment. Last week there was a libicu bump...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the late February edition
Another few weeks, another rawhide weekly(ish) blog. There were a few issues which I didn’t hit at all, but others did reported over on the Rawhide watch blog. Namely a selinux issue with gdm and a...
View ArticleJust say no to re-releasing the same version of software
I have seen this a few times this week, so I thought I would make a plea to free software producing projects: Please don’t re-release some version of your software with changes without changing the...
View ArticleLooking up at the cloud (the Fedora infrastructure private cloud)
We have been running an openstack folsom cloud in Fedora Infrastructure for a while now, and I thought I would take a snapshot of whats running on it right now to see what kinds of things we are using...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide, the mid march edition…
Time for another exciting edition of this week in rawhide… Last week saw a new systemd version landing in rawhide and with it a few changes to the way systemd-logind worked. This was fine (progress,...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide (The april edition)
A few jucy tidbits this week for rawhide. First, there was a bug in the grubby package that landed on friday in rawhide. If you installed a kernel after that, you likely had it not boot correctly. If...
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