Archive for April 26, 2007

Opening development for Gutsy Gibbon

Noteworthy changes are: The Java compatible environment in main (gij/gcj) was updated to provide Java 1.5 compatibility, allowing now packages in main, which require 1.5 compatibility and can be built using gcj. Nice job Matthias!

yum source and debug info

Getting package source and debug info isn’t always as transparent on Fedora as I would like. But there is yum-utils that provides yumdownloader which can get packages given that you know the source package name (is there an easy way to find that out/automate that?). yumdownloader –enablerepo=core-source –source gcc (don’t forget that you have to […]