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Red Hat/Fedora: A Red Hat Story, Fedora Party, rpminspect Release

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 1st of May 2021 09:45:53 AM Filed under
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  • Flipping burgers to flipping switches: A tech guy's journey

    In my last week of high school in 1996, I quit my job at Carl's Jr. because I thought maybe without school, I'd have time to learn enough skills to get hired at a PC shop or something. I didn't know that I actually had incredibly marketable skills as a Linux sysadmin and C programmer, because I was the only tech person I'd ever known (except the people I chatted with on Undernet's #LinuxHelp channel).

    I applied at a local company that had maybe the weirdest tech mission I've experienced: Its entire reason for existing was the general lack of industrial-sized QIC-80 tape-formatting machines. Those 80MB backup tapes (gargantuan at a time when 200MB hard disks were huge) were usually formatted at the factory as they came off the line, or you could buy them already formatted at a significantly higher price.

    One of the people who developed that line at 3M noticed that formatting them took an hour—over 90% of their time in manufacturing. The machine developed to speed up formatting was, of course, buggy and years too late.

    [...]

    That "real tech job" I got was as a junior sysadmin for a local medical device manufacturer. I helped bridge their HP-UX ERP system to their new parent company's Windows NT printers using Linux and Samba—and I was hooked forever on the power of free and open source software (FOSS).

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    Fedora Linux 34 was released on Tuesday. Fedora Linux 32 will reach end of life on Tuesday 25 May.

    Join us tomorrow for day two of the Fedora Linux 34 Release Party

  • David Cantrell: rpminspect-1.5 released

    rpminspect 1.5 is now available. There are several new features in this along with the usual round of bug fixes.

    The biggest improvement in this release comes in the form of per-inspection ignore lists in the configuration file. rpminspect runs in Fedora CI for successful builds and I have been working with package maintainers on creating rpminspect.yaml files in pkg-git that help further control how rpminspect runs for your build. With per-inspection ignore lists, you can list individual files and paths using standard glob(7) syntax that you want an individual inspection to ignore. This gives more control than simply disabling the inspection or adding the file to the global ignore list. See the /usr/share/rpminspect/generic.yaml configuration file for documentation on how to use per-inspection ignore lists.

    The other big change I wanted to point out is being able to set size_threshold to info in the filesize inspection. For Fedora this inspection does not really offer a lot of advantage. It is really meant more for downstream distributions like CentOS and RHEL. Still, some package maintainers want to see overall file growth changes but not have those trigger failures. By setting size_threshold to info you will get all of the findings, but all reported at the INFO level in the results.

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