Fedora 9 updates-testing report

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Wed Mar 25 16:16:56 UTC 2009


The following builds have been pushed to Fedora 9 updates-testing

    NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-4.git20090324.fc9
    fbterm-1.4-1.fc9
    kernel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9
    libgdither-0.6-1.fc9
    ncmpcpp-0.3.2-1.fc9
    perl-5.10.0-64.fc9
    puppet-0.24.8-1.fc9
    selinux-policy-3.3.1-130.fc9

Details about builds:


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 NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-4.git20090324.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-3002)
 Network connection manager and user applications
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 24 2009 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 1:0.7.0.99-4
- nm: fix communication with Option GT Max 3.6 mobile broadband cards
- nm: fix communication with Huawei mobile broadband cards (rh #487663)
- nm: don't look up hostname when HOSTNAME=localhost unless asked (rh #490184)
- nm: fix crash during IP4 configuration (rh #491620)
- nm: ignore ONBOOT=no for minimal ifcfg files (f9 & f10 only) (rh #489398)
- applet: updated translations
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> - 1:0.7.0.99-3.5
- nm: work around unhandled device removals due to missing HAL events (rh #484530)
- nm: improve handling of multiple modem ports
- nm: support for Sony Ericsson F3507g / MD300 and Dell 5530
- applet: updated translations
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #487663 - Huawei mobile broadband fails with NetworkManager >= 0.7.0.97
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487663
  [ 2 ] Bug #490184 - NetworkManager shouldn't automatically synchronize machine hostname to external hostname
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490184
  [ 3 ] Bug #491620 - NM segfaults after trying to connect to previously connected AP (sugar)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491620
  [ 4 ] Bug #489398 - Networkmanager no longer automatically connects to eth0 after update
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489398
  [ 5 ] Bug #484530 - Unplugging CDMA modem doesn't update active connections
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484530
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 fbterm-1.4-1.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-3030)
 A frame buffer terminal emulator
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Update Information:

- Upstream update:    1. improved text rendering performence     2. added
private escape sequences for 256 color mode support     3. added a option "font-
width" to adjust character cell width     4. added support for older 2.2/2.4
kernel     5. fixed a crash bug with bitmap fonts     6. fixed a configure
failure in cross-compiling environment  - Note: iminput.patch is applied.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 23 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.4-1
- Upstream update:
  1. improved text rendering performence 
  2. added private escape sequences for 256 color mode support 
  3. added a option "font-width" to adjust character cell width 
  4. added support for older 2.2/2.4 kernel 
  5. fixed a crash bug with bitmap fonts 
  6. fixed a configure failure in cross-compiling environment
- Note: iminput.patch is applied.
* Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
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 kernel-2.6.27.21-78.2.41.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-2989)
 The Linux kernel
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Update Information:

Update to kernel 2.6.27.21:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.20
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.21    Plus ext4 bug
fixes scheduled for 2.6.27.22.    Also fixes bugs 490250, 479576, 490405 and
488371 (Fedora 10) and bug 485295 (Fedora 11.)
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 23 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.27.21-170.2.41
- 2.6.27.21
- Dropped patches, merged in -stable:
  linux-2.6.27-alsa-fix-vunmap-and-free-order.patch
  linux-2.6.27-alsa-hda-fix-dma-mask-for-ati-controllers.patch
  linux-2.6.27-alsa-mixart-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
  linux-2.6.27-alsa-pcm-oss-fix-locking-typo.patch
  linux-2.6-nfsd-drop-cap-mknod-for-non-root.patch
  linux-2.6-nfsd-provide-encode-routine-for-op-openattr.patch
  add-fwrapv-to-cflags.patch
* Fri Mar 20 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.27.20-78.2.40
- add-fwrapv-to-cflags.patch: avoid gcc optimizing away wrapping arithmetic.
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.27.20-78.2.39
- ALSA fixes headed for -stable:
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-fix-vunmap-and-free-order.patch
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-hda-fix-dma-mask-for-ati-controllers.patch
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-hda-workaround-for-buggy-dma-on-ati.patch
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-hda-workaround-for-buggy-dma-on-via.patch
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-mixart-fix-lock-imbalance.patch
    linux-2.6.27-alsa-pcm-oss-fix-locking-typo.patch
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.27.20-78.2.38
- Copy nfsd fixes from F-10:
    linux-2.6-nfsd-drop-cap-mknod-for-non-root.patch
    linux-2.6-nfsd-provide-encode-routine-for-op-openattr.patch
* Wed Mar 18 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.27.20-78.2.37
- Copy ext4 fixes from F-10 2.6.27 kernel.
* Tue Mar 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.27.20-78.2.36
- 2.6.27.20
- Dropped patches, merged in -stable:
    linux-2.6-x86-64-fix-int-0x80-enosys-return.patch
    ext4.git*
    selinux-netlabel_setsockopt_fix.patch
    linux-2.6-niagara-DAX.patch
* Wed Mar 11 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- linux-2.6-execshield.patch:
   Fix from H.J. Lu, arch_get_unmapped_exec_area is only appropriate for
   32-bit mmap currently.
* Thu Mar  5 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.27.19-78.2.34
- Add ext4 stable patch queue.
- Drop linux-2.6-ext4-ENOSPC-debug.patch, replaced by upstream stable patch.
* Thu Mar  5 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.27.19-78.2.33
- Add ALSA HDA probe_mask quirks from 2.6.29-rc7
* Fri Feb 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.27.19-78.2.32
- Add debug patch to try and track down #483532.
* Thu Feb 26 2009 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.27.19-78.2.31
- Add dcbw's back-port patches to age scan results on resume (#466136)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #466136 - wifi: age scan results on resume from suspend
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466136
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================================================================================
 libgdither-0.6-1.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-3021)
 Library for applying dithering to PCM audio sources
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 ncmpcpp-0.3.2-1.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-3032)
 Clone of ncmpc with new features and written in C++
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Update Information:

- ncmpcpp-0.3.2    - new feature: locate currently playing song in browser  -
new feature: stop playing after current song  - new feature: move item(s) in
playlist to actual cursor's position  - new feature: reverse playlist's order  -
support for external console editor  - support for multiple composer, performer
and disc tags  - support for basic and extended regular expressions  - make
blocking search constraints after succesful searching optional  - improved
searching in screens  - minor improvements and bugfixes    - ncmpcpp-0.3.1    -
support for columns in browser and search engine  - support for lyricsplugin
database  - support for any tag in search engine  - support for ignoring leading
"the" word while sorting (optional)  - new feature: apply filter to screen
(Ctrl-F by default)  - new feature: playlist sorting (Ctrl-V by default)  - new
feature: open lyrics in external editor  - other minor improvements and bugfixes
- ncmpcpp-0.3    - general core rewrite  - new screen - clock  - support for
asian wide characters  - support for non-utf8 encodings  - a lot of bugfixes
- ncmpcpp-0.2.5    - support for unix domain sockets  - support for adding to
playlist files outside mpd music directory (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)  -
support for browsing local directories tree (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)  -
support for searching in current playlist  - many bugfixes - ncmpcpp-0.3.1
- support for columns in browser and search engine      - support for
lyricsplugin database      - support for any tag in search engine      - support
for ignoring leading "the" word while sorting (optional)      - new feature:
apply filter to screen (Ctrl-F by default)      - new feature: playlist sorting
(Ctrl-V by default)      - new feature: open lyrics in external editor      -
other minor improvements and bugfixes    - ncmpcpp-0.3        - general core
rewrite      - new screen - clock      - support for asian wide characters
- support for non-utf8 encodings      - a lot of bugfixes    - ncmpcpp-0.2.5
- support for unix domain sockets      - support for adding to playlist files
outside mpd music directory (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)      - support for
browsing local directories tree (requires mpd >= 0.14_alpha*)      - support for
searching in current playlist      - many bugfixes
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 23 2009 Michal Nowak <mnowak at redhat.com> - 0.3.2-1
- 0.3.2
- added ncmpcpp man page
- enabled built-in clock
* Fri Mar 13 2009 Michal Nowak <mnowak at redhat.com> 0.3.1-1
- 0.3.1
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 perl-5.10.0-64.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-2997)
 Practical Extraction and Report Language
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Update Information:

An updated build of patch, that fixes the order of @INC, closes a memory leak in
regex, and contains other bug fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 24 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-64
- update module autodie
* Mon Mar 23 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-63
- update Digest::SHA (fixes 489221)
* Wed Mar 11 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-62
- drop 26_fix_pod2man_upgrade (don't need it)
- fix typo in %define ExtUtils_CBuilder_version
* Wed Mar 11 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-61
- apply Change 34507: Fix memory leak in single-char character class optimization
- Reorder @INC, based on b9ba2fadb18b54e35e5de54f945111a56cbcb249
- fix Archive::Extract to fix test failure caused by tar >= 1.21
- Merge useful Debian patches
* Tue Mar 10 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-60
- remove compatibility obsolete sitelib directories
- use a better BuildRoot
- drop a redundant mkdir in %install
- call patchlevel.h only once; rm patchlevel.bak
- update modules Sys::Syslog, Module::Load::Conditional, Module::CoreList,
  Test::Harness, Test::Simple, CGI.pm (dropping the upstreamed patch),
  File::Path (that includes our perl-5.10.0-CVE-2008-2827.patch),
  constant, Pod::Simple, Archive::Tar, Archive::Extract, File::Fetch,
  File::Temp, IPC::Cmd, Time::HiRes, Module::Build, ExtUtils::CBuilder
- standardize the patches for updating embedded modules
- work around a bug in Module::Build tests bu setting TMPDIR to a directory
  inside the source tree
* Sun Mar  8 2009 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> - 4:5.10.0-59
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Feb 16 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-58
- add /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl to otherlibs (bz 484053)
* Mon Feb 16 2009 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 4:5.10.0-57
- build sparc64 without _smp_mflags
* Sat Feb  7 2009 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 4:5.10.0-56
- limit sparc builds to -j12
* Tue Feb  3 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com> - 4:5.10.0-55
- update IPC::Cmd to v 0.42
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #478939 - SHA digest unable to read file with name ending in spaces
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478939
  [ 2 ] Bug #489204 - Memory leak with regex in 5.10.0
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489204
  [ 3 ] Bug #483563 - Update perl-IPC-Cmd to 0.42
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483563
  [ 4 ] Bug #486579 - Suggest splitting perl-CGI into its own package
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486579
  [ 5 ] Bug #489221 - perl: @INC order incorrect
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489221
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 puppet-0.24.8-1.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-3040)
 A network tool for managing many disparate systems
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Update Information:

This is an upstream bugfix release.  A large number of bugs and performance
issues have been corrected.  Fact syncing / fileserver issues with SELinux
enable and improved Augeas support are among the many improvements.  For more
details please see the upstream release announcement at:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev/msg/512917d610d390a1
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 23 2009 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 0.24.8-1
- Update to 0.24.8
- Quiet output from %pre
- Use upstream install script
- Increase required facter version to >= 1.5
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.24.7-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
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 selinux-policy-3.3.1-130.fc9 (FEDORA-2009-2988)
 SELinux policy configuration
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Update Information:

- Add xenner fixes  - Add google-earth labeling
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 25 2009 Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl at redhat.com> 3.3.1-130
- Add xenner fixes
* Mon Mar 23 2009 Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl at redhat.com> 3.3.1-129
- Add google-earth labeling
* Fri Mar 20 2009 Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl at redhat.com> 3.3.1-128
- Add gitosis policy
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