Yum speaks native languages

Yum now speaks native languages.

Localization has been on the Yum todo list for a long, so for i couple of weeks ago i started to make it happen.
Added the pieces of code and makefile magic to build the yum.pot and LANG.po files and adding a lot of _() translations wrappers around the strings to be translated in the yum source. (386 different messages at the moment)

Here is the result, Yum speak danish (Not eating danish, SPEAKING DANISH)

I also speak Norwegian by the way.
Now you ask yourself, how do i make yum speak my locale language.
Just go here and pick up yum.pot, rename it to LANG.po and start translating the strings using gtranslator,Kbabel or another translation editor.

http://translate.fedoraproject.org/module/yum#master

When you have done the translation, then make a bugzilla report against yum in the Redhat Bugzilla

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alfa frigivet

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alfa frigivet
Denne Alfa er den første mulighed for en større del af Fedora brugerne
at teste et snapshot af Fedora udviklings udgaven “Rawhide”, som bliver til den
næste Fedora udgave, den skulle kunne boote på de flest systemmer og
give mulighed for at se de nye features som bliver en del af den næste
Fedora udgivelse og en mulighed for at give feedback og oprette
fejlrapporter så den næste Fedora udgivelse bliver så god som muligt.

Nogle højdepunkter fra Fedora 9 Alfa:

• GNOME 2.21 Udviklings Release
• KDE 4.0
• Firefox 3 Beta 2
• Support for at resize ext2, ext3 og NTFS partitioner under installationen
• Support for ar oprette og installer på krypterede filsystemmer
• PackageKit
• Kernel 2.6.24

Og adskillige andre forbedringer og udvidelser.

Hvordan for man fat i den:

Denne Alfa udgave er tilgængelig via lokale mirror sites og via
bittorrent.

Direkte http adgang til et lokalt mirror site:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/

En list over mirrors og de forskellige protokoller de supportere:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/

bittorrent:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Mere Information:
For mere information om denne Alfa udgave, besøg denne side med
udgivelses notater (Engelsk):

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes

Sulphur

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is out

Mixing 10% sulfur, 15% softwood charcoal and 75% potassium nitrate and i have and explosive cocktail

New Fedora Ninja Overlords

Congrats, to spot with his new job as Fedora Ninja overlord, it think he have done a great job with license and legal stuff, that is very importent, but something most people avoid like fire

Also congrats to Paul with his position as the Fedora Project Manager, looks like a great choice.

And the the Fedora Oscar goes to ‘Max’ for his great job as the Fedora Shogun, He has done a great job of promoting Fedora. And it seems like he have pulled at lot strings inside Red Hat to the benefit of Fedora and have recruited some very skilled Fedora Ninjas. Hope he will continue his work for fedora, after he have passed on his throne to Paul.

Better skip-broken support in yum

For a while i have been working on making better support for yum to handle packages with dependency problems. The current skip-broken plugin has a lot of problems, so i have worked on building the the skip-broken support into yum, without needing a special plugin.

The first step was to make the yum depsolver collect the packages causing problems while it was depsolving.

The second step was to find a good way to skip the packages causing problems and all the deps they have pull in to the yum transaction.

In the latest couple of months there have been some very nice progress in adding a test suite to yum, so there is a good infrastructure for building test cases for the yum code, this is very important in testing the skip-broken functionality, because it is a good way to simulate all kind of dependency problems and to test if code changes is breaking something.

The new skip-broken code is now checked into the yum git HEAD and will be available in yum 3.2.9.

If you want to test it, you can check out the yum git HEAD and check it out.


git clone http://linux.duke.edu/yum/git/yum.git
cd yum
sudo ./yummain.py --skip-broken some-yum-action


The code conflict with then yum-skip-broken plugin, so it have to be removed if you want to test tje new code

Fedora Rawhide is a nice place to test it, there have been a lot of packages with dep problems lately.