4:39 p.m.
Greetings! My name is Ryan Martin, and I've been an OSS developer and
part-time sysadmin for about 10 years. My strongest skills are in
Perl, database, and web development, but I'm something of a
jack-of-all-trades, preferring to figure things out and make them work
rather than wait for someone "more qualified" to get around to it.
I've been using RedHat/Fedora/CentOS as my development workstation and
server OS of choice since 2005.
Recently, I was able to fix a bug in the Omnibook support package, a
somewhat abandoned set of drivers for certain laptop-specific
functions of many HP and Toshiba laptops.
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3157406&group_id=...)
I've got the source on my laptop and I can manually build a new kmod
each time I upgrade my Fedora kernel. However, this is time-consuming,
and potentially leaves me with an unbootable kernel if I forget to
build the new kmod after installation but before rebooting. What I'd
really like is for the upstream patches to be included in the RPM
Fusion kmod and akmod packages going forward.
I've been going through the process of joining RPM Fusion in order to
update these packages, but I've hit a bit of a deadlock. According to
the contributors page, in order to get sponsored and get CVS access to
RPM Fusion, I'm supposed to submit a package for review. However,
rather than reinvent the akmod and kmod spec file from scratch, I'd
like to update the exising ones. It seems that without getting
sponsored, I cannot get the ssh access to cvs.rpmfusion.org that would
allow me to check out and review the work that's already been done.
How can I get access to the spec files for the above packages, so that
I can create packages for review?
Best regards,
Ryan Martin
7:42 p.m.
2011/5/22 Ryan Martin <kynalvarus(a)gmail.com>:
..
How can I get access to the spec files for the above packages, so
that
I can create packages for review?
Hello Ryan,
Thx for joining RPM Fusion and welcome on board !
Is there any existing bug at bugzilla.rpmfusion.org where you've tried
to get in touch with the current maintainer for a reference ?
About submitting a patch, I guess you can grab the latest src.rpm for
the component you plan to update.
Then someone will review the change and give you access as needed.
While at it, do you wonder why this module isn't merged in the vanilla
kernel and when it can be ?
At least I saw you patch was merged in the upstream git tree for the
omnibook project, which if fine.
Nicolas (kwizart)
4:27 a.m.
On Sunday 22 May 2011 22:42:25 Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
2011/5/22 Ryan Martin <kynalvarus(a)gmail.com>:
..
> How can I get access to the spec files for the above packages, so that
> I can create packages for review?
Hello Ryan,
Thx for joining RPM Fusion and welcome on board !
Is there any existing bug at bugzilla.rpmfusion.org where you've tried
to get in touch with the current maintainer for a reference ?
About submitting a patch, I guess you can grab the latest src.rpm for
the component you plan to update.
Then someone will review the change and give you access as needed.
While at it, do you wonder why this module isn't merged in the vanilla
kernel and when it can be ?
At least I saw you patch was merged in the upstream git tree for the
omnibook project, which if fine.
Nicolas (kwizart)
Its possible that it already is merged.... I do not know one way or the other.
However, I have a fairly recent Toshiba Qosmio. When I first got the computer
I needed the kmod in order to get the computer to boot properly without extra
parameters and bluetooth to work. Currently, the computer seems to work
properly without the kmod and also, with the kmod the computer does not boot.
Consequently, I'm assuming that their is somekind of conflict with the kmod
and more recent kernels which would seem to indicate that the drivers have
been merged.
Worth triple checking
Eli
12:33 p.m.
Hi Ryan,
welcome on board.
On Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 18:39, Ryan Martin wrote:
[...]
Recently, I was able to fix a bug in the Omnibook support package, a
somewhat abandoned set of drivers for certain laptop-specific
functions of many HP and Toshiba laptops.
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3157406&group_id=...)
While I can't say if your fix is proper, your work is definitely
welcome. I don't have as much time as I used to to work on my packages,
so someone with the same hardware would be appreciated.
I've been going through the process of joining RPM Fusion in
order to
update these packages, but I've hit a bit of a deadlock. According to
the contributors page, in order to get sponsored and get CVS access to
RPM Fusion, I'm supposed to submit a package for review.
Becoming a packager without creating a new package is not without
precedent and I could sponsor you. However, I'd like you to do a couple
of package reviews (non-binding, obviously), to evaluate your grasp
of packaging guidelines and best practices. The package reviews can be
done either in Fedora or RPMFusion.
However,
rather than reinvent the akmod and kmod spec file from scratch, I'd
like to update the exising ones. It seems that without getting
sponsored, I cannot get the ssh access to cvs.rpmfusion.org that would
allow me to check out and review the work that's already been done.
You can get the src.rpm and see the specfile inside. Please send any
patches my way and I'll apply them.
Regards,
Dominik
--
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann
RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu
"Faith manages."
-- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"
8:52 p.m.
Sorry about the pause, life got busy on me. I've submitted the omnibook-kmod
SRPM for review.
Best, Ryan
On May 25, 2011 8:33 AM, "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski"
<
dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
Hi Ryan,
welcome on board.
On Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 18:39, Ryan Martin wrote:
[...]
> Recently, I was able to fix a bug in the Omnibook support package, a
> somewhat abandoned set of drivers for certain laptop-specific
> functions of many HP and Toshiba laptops.
> (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3157406&group_id=...
)
While I can't say if your fix is proper, your work is definitely
welcome. I don't have as much time as I used to to work on my packages,
so someone with the same hardware would be appreciated.
> I've been going through the process of joining RPM Fusion in order to
> update these packages, but I've hit a bit of a deadlock. According to
> the contributors page, in order to get sponsored and get CVS access to
> RPM Fusion, I'm supposed to submit a package for review.
Becoming a packager without creating a new package is not without
precedent and I could sponsor you. However, I'd like you to do a couple
of package reviews (non-binding, obviously), to evaluate your grasp
of packaging guidelines and best practices. The package reviews can be
done either in Fedora or RPMFusion.
> However,
> rather than reinvent the akmod and kmod spec file from scratch, I'd
> like to update the exising ones. It seems that without getting
> sponsored, I cannot get the ssh access to cvs.rpmfusion.org that would
> allow me to check out and review the work that's already been done.
You can get the src.rpm and see the specfile inside. Please send any
patches my way and I'll apply them.
Regards,
Dominik
--
Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann
RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu
"Faith manages."
-- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"
4:26 p.m.
I was able to generate a full set of binary and source packages for both
omnibook and omnibook-kmod. I should point out that the actual change to the
existing package is tiny, almost trivial, and was only needed to compensate
for a change in linker behavior. If the old package was acceptable, the new
should be as well.
I suspect everyone's busy with F15-related things just now, so I should
mention that the akmod worked fine on my Toshiba laptop after my preupgrade
to F15. Hope someone can get to the review soon!
Best,
Ryan
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Ryan Martin <kynalvarus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry about the pause, life got busy on me. I've submitted the
omnibook-kmod SRPM for review.
Best, Ryan
On May 25, 2011 8:33 AM, "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski"
<
dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> welcome on board.
>
> On Sunday, 22 May 2011 at 18:39, Ryan Martin wrote:
> [...]
>> Recently, I was able to fix a bug in the Omnibook support package, a
>> somewhat abandoned set of drivers for certain laptop-specific
>> functions of many HP and Toshiba laptops.
>> (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3157406&group_id=...
)
>
> While I can't say if your fix is proper, your work is definitely
> welcome. I don't have as much time as I used to to work on my packages,
> so someone with the same hardware would be appreciated.
>
>
>> I've been going through the process of joining RPM Fusion in order to
>> update these packages, but I've hit a bit of a deadlock. According to
>> the contributors page, in order to get sponsored and get CVS access to
>> RPM Fusion, I'm supposed to submit a package for review.
>
> Becoming a packager without creating a new package is not without
> precedent and I could sponsor you. However, I'd like you to do a couple
> of package reviews (non-binding, obviously), to evaluate your grasp
> of packaging guidelines and best practices. The package reviews can be
> done either in Fedora or RPMFusion.
>
>> However,
>> rather than reinvent the akmod and kmod spec file from scratch, I'd
>> like to update the exising ones. It seems that without getting
>> sponsored, I cannot get the ssh access to cvs.rpmfusion.org that would
>> allow me to check out and review the work that's already been done.
>
> You can get the src.rpm and see the specfile inside. Please send any
> patches my way and I'll apply them.
>
> Regards,
> Dominik
> --
> Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann
> RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu
> "Faith manages."
> -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"
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