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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    [Cooker] Cooker Weekly News, issue 22 ( 2005-05-07 to 2005-05-25 )
From:       Michael Scherer <scherer.michael () free ! fr>
Date:       2005-05-30 20:10:26
Message-ID: 200505302210.31291.scherer.michael () free ! fr
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              Cooker Weekly News, issue 22 ( 2005-05-07 to 2005-05-25 )
						
						
Welcome to the 22nd issue of the Cooker Weekly News. Once again, this 
issue is late, so sorry if you have been waiting on it ( as I have read 
on some linux news website ). 

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* FHS and current system layout

Claudio Matsuoka reviewed the current layout of a cooker system [1], and 
wondered why the lsb package was not installed by default [2]. However,
the question of /srv and /media was still undecided, as some change are 
as / naming space pollution [3], and the mounting of foreign filesystem
is not clear [4]. 

[1] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02250.php
[2] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02256.php
[3] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02336.php
[4] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02486.php

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* The path to enlightenment ( 0.17 )

Austin Acton revived the package of enlightenment 0.17 [5]. The new and 
the old version of enlightenment can be installed side by side [6]. If 
you want to help, the menus are not yet adapted to our menu scheme, and 
entrance is not yet integrated, and there is some problem with pam [7] 
[8].


[5] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg01197.php
[6] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg01229.php
[7] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02602.php
[8] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02641.php

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* Discussion about automake

In order to prevent future breakage of package due to automake and 
autoconf incompatibility, it has been decided to keep versionned 
packages [9] [10]. As Frederic reminded, the version of automake to use 
can be found in the file Makefile.in [11]. Current proposal is that  
automake will always be the latest stable version, no unversionned call 
to autotool should be added to spec, and packages are forked when 
automake is no longer compatible [12].


[9] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02134.php
[10] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02501.php
[11] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02080.php 
[12] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02503.php

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* Java application in contribs.

David Walluck, from jpackage.org, posted a proposal on the wiki 
regarding java packaging [13]. First rpms have been uploaded and are 
available for testing.


[13] : http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/JavaPackaging

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* Using rpm directory based config file

Olivier Thauvin posted a mail explaining how to use globbing of macros 
to easily add macro to rpm [14]. This can be useful to provides 
customised macro, and some macros were added to ease the packaging of 
such configuration files.

[14] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg00688.php

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* Python search path on x86_64

Gaetan Lehmann tried to use a noarch package from i586 mirror on a 
x64_64 system, however, due to different path on these architecture, 
this doesn't work [15]. Various solutions were presented, like tagging 
python as arch dependant [16], or changing $PYTHONPATH [17]. Gaetan 
proposed also to use different directory for compiled module and noarch 
module, with a fedora patch [18].

[15] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02296.php
[16] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02297.php
[17] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02299.php
[18] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02308.php

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* Wiki news

John Keller announced that the style proposed 1 month ago for the wiki 
was applied [19]. Now, the next step is to clean the list of users, so 
John asked everyone to review the current list [20]. Guillaume Rousse 
also reworked the wiki to have a clearer organisation [21].

[19] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg01151.php
[20] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg01154.php
[21] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02478.php

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* Technical documentation on the wiki

Claudio Matsuoka posted on the wiki a list of papers and technological 
reviews concerning various aspects of the distribution [22]. And in 
order to to help debugging of removable media interaction, Frederic 
Crozat posted a article on the wiki explaining the inner working of 
hal, hotplug and dbus [23].


[22] : http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ClaudiosTechReview
[23] : http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2005-05/msg02222.php

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Thanks to aspell, coke and phoebe for helping to proofread and write 
this issue.

-- 
Michaël Scherer


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