dnf (or yum) and metalinks
Like yum before it, dnf also uses (by default) metalinks served by Fedora Mirrormanager mirrorlist servers. Metalinks are a great thing, but it seems like many people don’t understand them or realize...
View Articlemirrorlist/metalink woes now fixed
As many of you may have noticed, we have had some issues the last few days in Fedora Infrastructure, in particular with metalinks (the files used by dnf/yum to pull down repository data). First, I’d...
View Articlegnome on wayland testing
With the recent release of gnome 3.17.3 I decided to take a look at running gnome under wayland again. I run rawhide on my laptop, so it was pretty easy to just select gnome on wayland from gdm and...
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new fedorapeople.org
We just switched the fedorapeople.org server over from a old rhel6, puppet managed instance to a new shiny rhel7 ansible managed one. Hopefully everything is humming along fine, but if you run into...
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We moved the planet!
The Fedora planet that is. The old site: http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ will continue to work and redirect to the new site: http://fedoraplanet.org for quite some time to come, but you should go...
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This week in rawhide, the early August edition
It’s been a little while since my last rawhide post. Things have been busy. Fedora 23 has branched off rawhide heading for it’s Alpha release hopefully next week. A number of people have hit a common...
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Flock 2015 Rochester coming up next week!
The summer is just flying by and next week is the 2015, North America version of Flock, this time in Rochester, NY. Flock is the annual Fedora conference, which alternates between North American and...
View ArticleTraveling to flock – monday – 2015-08-10
Monday morning was a pretty ordinary one, fix some broken things, sort out some tickets and so forth. Then, in the afternoon it was time to head out to flock 2015. Flock doesn’t officially start until...
View ArticleFedora 23 Alpha release day – tuesday – 2015-08-11
Morning came far too soon, but on the plus side there was a nice blanket of fog over the city. The Fedora 23 Alpha release went out nice and smoothly. I merged websites branch into master, fixed a...
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Flock 2015 day 1 – wed
Flock is finally here! The conference is in the hotel, so there was pretty much no travel time or chance to get lost. Registration was quick and easy and well run. The keynote was from our Fedora...
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