Debroglie's repository

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• From: “Jon Stanley” <jonstanley gmail com>
• To: fedora-announce-list redhat com
• Subject: Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life
• Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:34:01 -0500

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As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release
one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance
would end one month after Fedora 10 was released).  In this instance,
that date would be December 25.

At today's FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to slightly deviate from
this policy.   This decision was made in order to avoid having it
happen over the holidays, since according to policy, EOL would have
been on Christmas Day.

It was therefore decided to extend the end-of-life date of Fedora 8 to
Jan 7, 2009. After this time, there will be no more updates, including
security updates, issued for Fedora 8, and new builds will no longer
be allowed in koji, our buildsystem.

Also at or shortly after that time, all bugs open against Fedora 8
will be closed, since no more updates will be made.

Thanks!
-Jon

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02014.html

I don’t know about updates on Debroglie’s repo, I’ll see. Send an e-mail (address in about, right) if you want to have updates on Fedora 8.

Olex2 is now in the release repo! The bug was tracked down to a floating point error in the nodoka gnome GTK theme which was being caught by cctbx.

The bug is still there in the theme but now cctbx ignores it!

Thanks to a rather nasty crashing bug of doom, in Olex2 it has been moved back to testing. It appears when a scroll bar is dragged or already located on the extreme left.

If you are effected by this please just delete your $HOME/olex2 directory and then start olex2 from the menu icon or cmdline. When a box pops up asking if you would like to upgrade hit cancel and olex2 will start. Then edit your usettings.dat file by going to help > update options > and selecting never.

You will be fine to use olex2 with the new “engine” and existing GUI as long as you don’t allow the GUI to auto update. When we find a stable GUI we will update the repo with it.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by this.

Olex2 from the Durham boys has seen much success and has come along in leaps and bounds since its birth. It now encompasses the full gambit of operating systems from Windows to Mac and of course this includes the very important Linux.

The Olex2 guys have been supporting the SUSE 10.1 builds whilst debroglie.net has been supporting Fedora 8, 9 and Centos 5. Over the next few weeks debroglie.net will also try to fully support Fedora 10 as well.

Over the past 2-3 months or so Olex2 has been updated and stored in the “testing” repo of debroglie.net from today this will change to being in the release area. One small step for man……….

This update brings debroglie in line with the recent spell of platon updates carried out with Ton.

Enjoy

PS
No Fedora 10 builds were updated this time, they will be done towards the end of next week (hopefully).

wxgtk 2.4 no longer compile on fedora 10. Modification have been made in crystals to compile with gfortran and wxgtk 2.8. Unfortunately I can’t make it work for now.

Crystals will be dropped of fedora 10 until I make it work.

OK, in an attempt to reduce bandwidth and work for all I’ve switched my Olex2 build from weekly to fortnightly and I suspect by early December it will switch from testing to release unless any one has found an obvious bug in it. This should be just in time for EOL of fedora 8.

I have therefore today battled through a complete rebuild of all the mock environments the building of new olex2 and platon rpms then the discovery of a new and important update to olex2 requiring a rebuild, again!

I am now slowly uploading all the rpms on to the server. They should be ready for everyone shortly.

I must add that I was then dreading the thought of creating the file structure for fedora 10 on the server but to Pascal’s greatness he has already done all the hard work. I guess he knew that I would be switching to fedora 10 in due course.

Please enjoy!

Its all in the title. Files uploaded for your enjoyment.

I’d figured you’d be tired of hearing about Platon updates and version numbers by now so I thought I would distract you whilst a whisper that another version of Platon has been released and the debrog rpms updated appropriately.

You may have noticed that your debroglie RPM is version 081103 whilst the platon software internal version is 311008. Unfortunately although Ton updated the source code on the 031108 (hence our version number) he didn’t update his version.

What’s more fun is you don’t know what version the software will be until after building and running the software for the first time. Which means in this case we should technically not referred to the build as being 081103 or 901108 and instead made it 081031-2 or something like that if we wanted to link our builds with Ton’s adhoc version numbering. However if we keep to our version reference based on the day of build, then all is correct.