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Infra and RelEng Update – Week 41 2024

Posted by Fedora Community Blog on 2024-10-11 10:00:00 UTC

This is a weekly report from the I&R (Infrastructure & Release Engineering) Team. It also contains updates for CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team as the CPE initiatives are in most cases tied to I&R work.

We provide you both infographic and text version of the weekly report. If you just want to quickly look at what we did, just look at the infographic. If you are interested in more in depth details look below the infographic.

Week: 7th October – 10th October 2024

I&R infographic

Infrastructure & Release Engineering

The purpose of this team is to take care of day to day business regarding CentOS and Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora release engineering work.
It’s responsible for services running in Fedora and CentOS infrastructure and preparing things for the new Fedora release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
List of planned/in-progress issues

Fedora Infra

CentOS Infra including CentOS CI

Release Engineering

List of new releases of apps maintained by CPE

If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on matrix.

NOTE: There are currently internal changes happening in CPE Team (we will see if the name even remains), which caused that the last week update didn’t came out (it was also caused by the login issue in community blog, but that was just a coincidence) and caused change in the content (some sections are currently missing). We apologize for that and we see how the format will look in the future.

The post Infra and RelEng Update – Week 41 2024 appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.

PHP version 8.2.25RC1 and 8.3.13RC1

Posted by Remi Collet on 2024-10-11 07:11:00 UTC

Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and also as base packages.

RPMs of PHP version 8.3.13RC1 are available

  • as base packages in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 39-41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8
  • as SCL in remi-test repository

RPMs of PHP version 8.2.25RC1 are available

  • as base packages in the remi-modular-test for Fedora 39-41 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8
  • as SCL in remi-test repository

emblem-notice-24.png The packages are available for x86_64 and aarch64.

emblem-notice-24.pngPHP version 8.1 is now in security mode only, so no more RC will be released.

emblem-notice-24.pngInstallation: follow the wizard instructions.

emblem-notice-24.png Announcements:

Parallel installation of version 8.3 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php83

Parallel installation of version 8.2 as Software Collection:

yum --enablerepo=remi-test install php82

Update of system version 8.3:

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.3
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

Update of system version 8.2:

dnf module switch-to php:remi-8.2
dnf --enablerepo=remi-modular-test update php\*

emblem-notice-24.png Notice:

  • version 8.4.0RC2 is also available in the repository
  • EL-9 packages are built using RHEL-9.4
  • EL-8 packages are built using RHEL-8.10
  • oci8 extension uses the RPM of the Oracle Instant Client version 23.5 on x86_64 or 19.24 on aarch64
  • intl extension uses libicu 74.2
  • RC version is usually the same as the final version (no change accepted after RC, exception for security fix).
  • versions 8.2.25 and 8.3.13 are planed for October 24th, in 2 weeks.

Software Collections (php82, php83)

Base packages (php)

Debugging Jekyll posts locally

Posted by Pavel Raiskup on 2024-10-11 00:00:00 UTC

Just a quick post about a small side-project. For a few years now, I’ve been maintaining a Jekyll Container image. Mostly for my own convenience—whether I’m working on posts for this blog or writing documentation for Mock (or other). I thought I’d share a few words about it now.

Keep My Box Clean! (and DRY)

The motivation was simple: to be able to debug Jekyll/GitHub Pages posts locally before pushing them to GitHub. I wanted to do this consistently across multiple pages, and I didn’t want to repeat myself in the future (following the DRY principle).

Back then, I realized that running Jekyll locally wasn’t a trivial task—at least not on Fedora, if, like me, you prefer staying on a “pure” Fedora system (meaning you only install software distributed through Fedora repositories). Notably, installing the GitHub Pages additions from gems wasn’t easy either, and it still isn’t (as of autumn 2024). Building your own container can also cause some headaches.

Jekyll made easy

So here we are—assuming you have a blog post or any documentation root directory, you can run the Jekyll server in a container, and available on http://localhost:4000/, using just:

$ jekyll-host ./your-jekyll-root
Installing deps, may take several minutes
=========================================
 Server listens on http://127.0.0.1:4000
 Jekyll Log: /tmp/jekyll-server.log (in container)
 Install logs: /tmp/bundler-install.log (in container)
=========================================

The jekyll-host script (which must be in your $PATH) is just a one-line wrapper around a podman run command that uses a pre-built container image hosted and built by https://quay.io/.

I prefer to stay 100% focused on writing, not on the infrastructure. After a quick chat with my colleagues, it seems this setup could be helpful to others as well. If that’s the case, enjoy!

Switch Upgrade

Posted by Fedora Infrastructure Status on 2024-10-10 15:00:00 UTC

A 10G switch in our main datacenter needs upgrades. Many machines may drop off the network and come back during the outage window.

Gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix

Posted by Fedora Magazine on 2024-10-10 14:30:00 UTC

Better support for gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix has been a long standing user request. Today at XDC 2024, we announced the preliminary availability of our game playing toolkit, integrating x86 emulation with MS Windows compatibility. This toolkit, with the conformant Vulkan 1.3 and OpenGL 4.6 drivers, enables playing commercial AAA games on Apple Silicon Macs running Fedora Asahi Remix 40. For more details, see Alyssa’s talk and blog post , or head over to our documentation.

Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration with the Fedora Asahi SIG and the Asahi Linux project. As part of our work on the Remix, we’ve also been working on a Change to integrate the FEX emulator into Fedora Linux 42. The goal is to provide a delightful out-of-box experience for users that want to run x86_32 and x86_64 binaries on their AArch64 systems. Today’s release provides a preview of this work. It allows us to perfect the integration and improve the experience on Apple Silicon systems. The aim is for Fedora KDE systems, on AArch64, to offer this functionality out of the box for all supported Fedora ARM desktop systems.

Please report any Remix-specific issues in our tracker. You may also reach out in our Discourse forum or our Matrix room for user support.

The syslog-ng Insider 2024-10: 4.8.0 release; version number; Debian Stable

Posted by Peter Czanik on 2024-10-10 11:48:31 UTC

The September syslog-ng newsletter is now available:

  • Improved FreeBSD and MacOS support in 4.8.0

  • Setting the version number in the syslog-ng configuration

  • Switching containers from Debian Testing to Stable

You can read it at: https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2024-10-4-8-0-release-version-number-debian-stable

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Switching Fedora Copr RHSM account to SCA

Posted by Fedora Infrastructure Status on 2024-10-10 10:00:00 UTC

We plan to switch the community RHSM account to Simple Content Access. Systems should stay available during this period.

This outage could impact the copr-frontend and the copr-backend servers.

Syslog-ng needs some karma on Fedora

Posted by Peter Czanik on 2024-10-10 07:27:54 UTC

Version 4.8.1 of syslog-ng was released last week. It is a bugfix release, and it contains fixes for problems also reported by members of the Fedora community. The Fedora 41 release is near, so package updates now need some additional testing, and “karma” in Bodhi. You can find information on how to install syslog-ng 4.8.1 from a testing repo on Fedora 41 beta at https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4e812b8a23. This is also the place where you can provide feedback and karma. Thanks for your help!

syslog-ng logo

koji upgrades

Posted by Fedora Infrastructure Status on 2024-10-09 21:00:00 UTC

We will be upgrading koji to the latest upstream version, 1.35.0 with various bugfixes and enhancements.

During the outage the koji hubs will be down as the database schema is updated, and various builders may restart as their koji version is updated.

Additionally, we will be reinstalling some …

Open source is not consent for experiments

Posted by Ben Cotton on 2024-10-09 12:00:00 UTC

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Ian Malcolm, “Jurassic Park”

ScanOSS gave an accidental lesson about this recently when, apparently, an “experiment” resulted in filing issues about profanity in open source project code. According to a comment from ScanOSS’s CTO, this was a “brief experiment involving contributions to a small set of repositories” with the intention “to gather insights.” It’s not clear what insights the experiment wanted to produce. What is clear is that they didn’t work with project maintainers before conducting this experiment.

CTO Julian Coccia made it worse with this comment:

The terms of service of Github (and the Open Source license of your choice under which your contribution was released), openly allow contributions from other users. Therefore, people looking at contributing to your project don’t really need your consent before issuing a PR. You always have the right to accept or reject contributions at your discretion.

[…]

If you are not willing to receive contributions from the community, if you are not interested in your Open Source contribution gaining adoption, or if you prefer people to sign special agreements to make contributions, perhaps you are better off closing down your repository, making it private.

If you’ll pardon my language, I think the fuck not! Maintainers are overworked. They don’t need to deal with spam. If you are making a contribution, whether individually or on behalf of a company, it is your responsibility to make sure it’s meaningful. Yes, you’ll get it wrong sometime, but you have to make a good faith effort.

Typically, making a non-trivial contribution involves spending some time learning about the community. At a minimum, reading the contribution guide (if it exists). It does not mean you’re allowed to lob automated issues at projects and then get indignant when the maintainers are mad about it.

With open source licenses, you can do whatever you want with the code you download. Run any experiments your heart desires on it. But once you’re writing instead of reading, you need to be a good participant. No amount of good intention changes that.

This post’s featured photo by Vedrana Filipović on Unsplash

The post Open source is not consent for experiments appeared first on Duck Alignment Academy.

Contribute to Fedora 41 Upgrade and Virtualization Test Days

Posted by Fedora Magazine on 2024-10-09 08:00:00 UTC

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started.

There are two test periods occurring in the coming days:

  • Friday October 11 through October 15 , is to test the Fedora Upgrade
  • Friday October 11 through October 13 , is to test Virtualization

Come and test with us to make Fedora 41 even better. Read more below on how to do it.

Upgrade test day

As we approach the Fedora Linux 41 release date, it’s time to test upgrades. This release has many changes, and it becomes essential that we test the graphical upgrade methods as well as the command-line methods.

This test period will start on Friday, October 11. It will test upgrading from a fully updated F39 or F40 to F41 for all architectures (x86_64, ARM, aarch64) and variants (WS, cloud, server, silverblue, IoT). See this wiki page for information and details. For this test period, we also want to test DNF5 Plugins before and after upgrade. Recently noted regressions resulted in a Blocker Bug. The DNF5 Plugin details are available here.

Virtualization test day

This test period will start on Friday, October 11 and will test all forms of virtualization possible in Fedora 41. The test period will focus on testing Fedora Linux, or your favorite distro, inside a bare metal implementation of Fedora Linux running Boxes, KVM, VirtualBox and whatever you have. The test cases outline the general features of installing the OS and working with it. These cases are available on the results page.

How do test days work?

A test period is an event where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. Test days are the perfect way to start contributing if you not in the past.

The only requirement to get started is the ability to download test materials (which include some large files) and then read and follow directions step by step.

Detailed information about all the test days are on the wiki page links provided above. If you are available on or around the days of the events, please do some testing and report your results

Reinstalling openqa virthost and database hosts

Posted by Fedora Infrastructure Status on 2024-10-08 21:00:00 UTC

We will be reinstalling some openqa virthost and database hosts as well as reinstalling workers to use a common partitioning and networking setup.

This outage impacts openqa and openqa-labs. During the outage, updates may not go stable; waiting for testing. After the outage is over, openqa will test all pending …

Budapest Audio Expo 2024

Posted by Peter Czanik on 2024-10-08 10:35:05 UTC

This weekend I visited the first Audio Expo in Budapest. It was the first music event I truly enjoyed in years. Even if corridors and rooms were packed, there was enough fresh air. What sets this event apart from other events is the focus on listening to music on the vendors’ products rather than just the speeds and feeds on why you should buy their products. While, of course, the expected outcome is the same, with the emphasis on listening to live systems, I found the event much more comfortable to walk around.

Key takeaway

Do not judge quickly! Go back to a place multiple times! If you are lucky, there will be less people in the room, and you can sit at a better spot. You can also listen to a different music, or listen to the same speakers with a different amplifier. Actually, both of these happened to me this weekend, and brought drastic changes to the experience.

Best of Audio Expo

Everyone is asking me what I liked the most. I am not an engineer when it comes to listening to music. I just listen to my ears and do not care much about the technical details. At home I listen to a pair of Heed Enigma 5 speakers, which are omnidirectional. At the expo the best listening experience was another omnidirectional speaker: the MBL speakers at Core Audio. This was also probably the most expensive setup at the expo.

According to my ears the best value award should go to NCS Audio Reference One PREMIUM. I visited all rooms on all floors and listened to many different speakers along the way. Some were close to or matching the sound quality of the NCS Audio speakers, however for a lot higher price. I only felt with the MBL speakers that they sounded better, however from the price difference you can buy a luxury car :-)

Exhibitors

I had various programs in the neighborhood, so instead of a long block at the Audio Expo, I spent three times a few hours there. Some places I visited multiple times, just to ensure that my first judgment was not too quick. Let me share here my experiences with some of the exhibitors, in alphabetical order.

Allegro Audio

As usual, the system exhibited at Audio Expo sounded really nice. Allegro Audio not only distributes some quality components, but also has its own amplifier: Flow. I really love listening to their Franco Serblin Accordo monitor speakers, but Ktema was not bad either :-)

Core Audio

Probably the most expensive setup of the expo was exhibited by Core Audio. However, the first time I visited them, they played some terrible (at least to me) music. With that music, the whole setup sounded like a pair of $100 computer speakers. So, I started to wonder what is all the hype about MBL speakers… Fortunately, I returned to the show the next day and with a different selection of music, the system really shined, and became the best sounding system of the whole Expo. However, price is prohibitively expensive for most people…

Heed

I listen to various Heed components at home: DAC, amp and speakers. So, I was very happy to see the founder talking about the latest Heed products, and also having the opportunity to listen to them. I love Heed speakers, especially the omnidirectional variants, however for the demo they used GoldenEar speakers with the Heed amplifiers at the Expo. Not bad at all, but different.

Heed

NCS Audio

I already listened to Reference One a few times, and I was amazed. Rock, classical, jazz and others, all sounded perfectly on these speakers, no matter the room size. This time Reference One Premium was on stage, using cables from Bonsai Audio. This pair sounded even better than speakers costing many times more.

NCS Audio

Popori Acoustics

I have been reading about Popori Acoustics for years. Finally I had a chance to listen to these electrostatic speakers made in Hungary for the first time. And I must admit that my first listening experience was not that good. Hearing a woman singing was fantastic. However, even if the sound of bass guitar was very detailed, it still sounded a kind of meh. Luckily I went back on the second day of the expo again. The amplifier was replaced, and suddenly not just human voice, but everything sounded perfectly.

Popori Acoustics

Closing words

Of course there were many more exhibitors. In some cases I loved the sound I heard, but did not have enough time to go back, ask questions, take photos. Some examples are 72audio and Sabo Audio. And there were many more, where the sound was not bad, but did not impress me too much either.

I really hope that next year we will have a similarly good Audio Expo in Budapest!

pagure.io network upgrades

Posted by Fedora Infrastructure Status on 2024-10-08 06:00:00 UTC

Networking gear at the datacenter that hosts pagure.io will be upgraded. Network may be up or down during the outage window as routers and switches are rebooted.

This outage impacts pagure.io.

Hackathon Copa 2024

Posted by Alejandro Perez on 2024-10-07 22:00:00 UTC

 It has been a long time, with out sharing some words here, but there is something that may work doing it.


At the end of last year Luis Bazan (from Fedora Panama) invite me to share some words with the attendees to Hackathon Copa 2023, it was a fun time sharing with organizers, students and teachers. That lead to been invited to become  part of the organizers team for this year hackathon.



The subjec of this year HackathonCopa was Linux, therefore it was really fan and interesting, with the lead of Hugo Aquino from Copa Airlines (the main sponsor) and the Fedora Panama team and Floss-pa we help providing workshops and talks about Linux. Many other sponsors join us including Red Hat team from our area, so it was a great time to meet and share experience and activities. 

A full year of work meetings and planning came to the end at October 4 and 5, were sponsors, volunteers and mentors work with over 500 students on talks on the first day.



First day was over and we share with hundred of students about Fedora, Alma Linux and risc-v, showing a risc-v board that got from http://risc-v.org many stickers and tshirts were shared at our stand.


Second day was the challenges, 115 teams of 4 members accepted the challenge, our group from Fedora Panama, Flosspa serve as part of the mentors we have the task to guide with out helping and grade the teams it was a long day but at the end the teams won this edition:

  • "Los Reales" - primer lugar 
  • "ZeroTrust" - segundo lugar 
  • "Tux Team" - tercer lugar 
  • "Pingüinos Pioneros" - cuarto lugar 
  • "KernelKnights" - quinto lugar 
  • "Sudo rm-rf" - sexto lugar

 







Winner team photos are not in order


 
It was fun to share and meet the new Linux talent in our country. Some of the are wiling to learn and contribute to our beloved Fedora distro so you may ear from them.

As we all experience we learn some new tricks. Thanks to Fedora Project and Alma Linux for sponsoring this event.