Attention Fedora 19 prerelease users
Fedora 19 is winding up to release soon, and so it’s that time in the cycle when a new fedora-release package pushes out that disables the fedora-updates-testing repository so folks who install after...
View ArticleThis week in rawhide 2013-06-25, a word about comps
So another week in rawhide without too much blowing up, however, astute folks might have noticed that there was no rawhide compose on 2013-06-21. This was due to a typo in the rawhide comps file. What...
View ArticleFedora 18 to 19 yum upgrade
With Fedora 19 being final (release is tuesday), I went and upgraded my main virthost and guest from Fedora 18 last night. I used fedup to upgrade a laptop and another machine, but as my main server is...
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Fedora release days aren’t as frantic as they used to be, and why it’s mostly...
Folks who have been involved in the Fedora project for a long time may remember early releases where things were very frantic on release days. Servers and networks melting under downloads, eager users...
View ArticleAn Incomplete remembrance of a friend
As many folks may know, Seth Vidal was taken from us this last Monday Night. He will be dearly missed by many. He was part of many families: Fedora, Red Hat, Open Source community, Biking enthusiasts...
View Articlerawhide week(s) 2013-07-16 edition
Skipped a week there as there wasn’t much going on in the rawhide world, just rolling on. There’s a few oddities to mention this week however: On recent rawhide kernels, booting up results in no...
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This week in Fedora Infrastructure
I’m a happy consumer of the excellent cyanogenmod android distro, and recently they have started doing a short weekly blog post with interesting things of note that happened in their community over the...
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This week in rawhide for 2013-07-24
Another slightly late edition of this week in rawhide. Overall things continue along in a pretty boring manner, with a few exceptions: I ran into a situation the other day where systemd stopped talking...
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This week in fedora infrastructure
Another week and a second ‘this week in Fedora infrastructure’ post. Early this week I switched one of our backup servers over to ansible from puppet and added some rdiff-backup setup on it. Still need...
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This week in Fedora Infrastructure
A bit late this week, but was a bit too busy to get this post out the door until now. So, this last week was a busy one. I was out at our main datacenter. We have some excellent on-site folks that do...
View ArticleFlock notes of interest…
A few notes of interest to folks coming out to flock ( http://flocktofedora.org ) later this week (and even a thing or two for folks not able to make it out): If you find yourself unable to reach...
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This week in rawhide, the mass rebuild edition…
Another week, another rawhide update. This week saw the Fedora 20 mass rebuild finish and land. This time it finished in under 3 days, which I think is a record. Monday’s rawhide included all those...
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Flock day 0
Like day 0 of any conference, it’s travel time. Up at 5am to get ready and get out to the airport for my 8am flight. Due to: traffic, then slow shuttle bus, then long long security checkpoint line I...
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Flock day 1
Day one! Early start as always, and folks started assembling in the auditorium for the world famous state of Fedora talk from our lovely Fedora Project Leader. She talked about love and why we love...
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Flock day 2
Another all too early start of the day, and we all had gathered in the auditorium to hear Aeva Palecek from lulzbot talk about 3d printing. Most every disaster you can think of happened during this...
View ArticleFlock day 3
Day 3 started with a keynote from Dave Crossland about free fonts and making them. Lots of great background on the free fonts world and some ideas on how to fund things to make it better. Next was...
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Flock day 4: hackfests
Day 4 was more hackfests than scheduled talks. First up was a gpg key signing and cacert assurance event. There was about a 50% turn out from those who asked to attend, which isn’t too bad considering...
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This week in Fedora Infrastructure (2013-08-16)
Much of this last week many of the members of the Fedora Infrastructure team were at flock. Many kudos to those that organized and ran things, it was a great time. We had a lot of great face to face...
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This week in rawhide, the branch day edition
It’s here! Branch day! This is the time when Fedora 20 branches off rawhide and becomes it’s own seperate collection of packages and buildroots and install trees. Rawhide itself marches on with only a...
View ArticleThis week in Fedora Infrastructure
Another exciting and busy week in Fedora Infrastructure. I finished getting our rdiff-backup setup in place. We have been using bacula to do backups to tape, but getting things off tape can be anoying....
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