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Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Francesco

Francesco — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:51:33 +0000

Hi Glandvador,

Thanks for your suggestions!

I’ll add your changes in the next release

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Glandvador

Glandvador — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:56:43 +0000

Hi Francesco,

Just some things I have done in my configuration:

1) added -n flag in the /etc/sysconfig/freepopsd file
The daemon will create a file /var/run/freepopsd.pid as root but unable to access it later as it drops privileges due to -s nobody.nobody flag.
2) in file logrotate.d/freepopsd replaced restart by condrestart
If I have installed the package it doesn’t mean I want to have it work when the system decide to rotates log files

If any of them make sense for you please add them to the rpm package.

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Stefano

Stefano — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:58:08 +0000

Yes!!
I can use the repo without problems, thanks!!!
If there are any other problems (I hope no) I’ll tell you
Stefano

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Francesco

Francesco — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:10:43 +0000

Hi stefano!

It Should be ok now. Let me know

bye!

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Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Francesco

Francesco — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:39:26 +0000

Hi Stefano,
Freepops for Fedora core 11 is not ready yet.
I hope to make it available as soon as possible.
So yes, you have just to wait for a new version!

Bye!
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Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:48:39 +0000

Hello, (I’m italian too, but i’m trying to speak English for others) here is my question: is there a new version of your repo for fedora 11?
The one that I’ve installed is ok, but when I use yum or Package-kit, there is the following msg:
“Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: flaurita. Please verify its path and try again”
I’m not very expert in Linux…
Anyway, do I have to modify any configuration file? (I don’t know which and where they are) or do I just wait for a new version?

Thanks!

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Diego

Diego — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:26:37 +0000

Aha, I see. It’s too bad that’s so difficult to create packages valid for downstream…

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:09:10 +0000

Hi Diego!

Making FreePoPs compliant with the Fedora’s packages policies isn’t so simple.

Freepops uses at least 3 external libraries:

-luafilesystem
-luacurl
-luaexpat

It means I have to submit three packages first since they does not exist into the official repository.

After that this three packages will be ready and approved (that is not so simple) I’ll have to modify the build process of freepops program since freepops uses a module called luabox (from luabox.c) that needs header file came from the external libraries.

As you can see isn’t a simple task making freepops ready for Fedora policy and I have no time atm

Any help will be appreciate

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Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by Diego

Diego — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:28:20 +0000

Have you forgotten your review request?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233850

Comment on Freepops rpm for Fedora by John E.

John E. — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:10:54 +0000

RE: Red Hat/Centos 5
There also seems to be an EL5 repo that can be installed with
http://repo.francesco-laurita.info/flaurita-epel-release-1.0-1.el.noarch.rpm

It seems to have FreePOPs for EL5. Also, Lua 5.1 is available in the atrpms repo — http://atrpms.net/ .

So, if you add these two repos to your yum config, you should be able to install and update FreePOP automatically.

It might be a good idea to include that info and have a EL5 link on the FreePOPs download page pointing here.