Fedora Core 6 Test Update: gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Nov 20 16:50:29 UTC 2006


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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2006-1257
2006-11-20
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : gamin
Version     : 0.1.7
Release     : 8.fc6
Summary     : Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API
Description :
This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration
monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide
daemon.

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Update Information:

This release fixes a bug causing the polling backend in to
not work. This affects NFS mounts where its used
automatically and any mountpoint manually configured to use
polling.

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* Mon Nov 20 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-8.fc6
- Fix polling backend, making NFS work again (#212551)
* Fri Sep  8 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-7
- Fix problems in new inotify backend (#205731)
* Tue Sep  5 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-6
- Remove last regular timers from gamin
* Tue Sep  5 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-5
- Use sigaction to reset old signal handler (from cvs)
- New inotify backend from cvs (based on gnome-vfs code)
- Only create timer on demand
- This should fix #204906
* Mon Aug 28 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-4
- Flush in-buffer on connection reset (#196444)
- Patch from Ariel T. Glenn
* Tue Aug 22 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-3
- Use /dev/null as stdin/out/err when spawning gam_server
- This could help if there is stdout output somewhere.
* Wed Aug 16 2006 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-2
- Add patch that avoids closing the fd after FAMOpen, fixes some 100% cpu bugs
* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2.2
- rebuild
* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2.1
- bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
* Tue Feb  7 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 0.1.7-1.2
- rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
* Fri Dec  9 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
- rebuilt
* Thu Oct 27 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.7-1
- hopefully fixes gam_server crashes
- some portability fixes
- removed a minor leak
* Thu Sep  8 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.6-1
- revamp of the inotify back-end
- memory leak fix
- various fixes and cleanups
* Tue Aug  9 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.5-1
- Improvement of configuration, system wide configuration files and
  per filesystem type default
- Rewrite of the inotify back-end, reduce resources usage, tuning in
  case of busy resources
- Documentation updates
- Changes to compile inotify back-end on various architectures
- Debugging output improvements
* Tue Aug  2 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.3-1
- Fix to compile on older gcc versions
- Inotify back-end changes and optimizations
- Debug ouput cleanup, pid and process name reports
- Dropped kernel monitor bugfix
- Removed the old glist copy used for debugging
- Maintain mounted filesystems knowledge, and per fstype preferences
* Wed Jul 13 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.2-1
- inotify back end patches, ready for the new inotify support in kernel
- lot of server code cleanup patches
- fixed an authentication problem
* Fri Jun 10 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.1-1
- gamin_data_conn_event fix
- crash from bug gnome #303932
- Inotify and mounted media #171201
- mounted media did not show up on Desktop #159748
- write may not be atomic
- Monitoring a directory when it is a file
- Portability to Hurd/Mach and various code cleanups
- Added support for ~ as user home alias in .gaminrc
* Thu May 12 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.1.0-1
- Close inherited file descriptors on exec of gam_server
- Cancelling a monitor send back a FAMAcknowledge
- Fixed for big files > 2GB
- Bug when monitoring a non existing directory
- Make client side thread safe
- Unreadable directory fixes
- Better flow control handling
- Updated to latest inotify version: 0.23-6
* Tue Mar 15 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.26-1
- Fix an include problem showing up with gcc4</li>
- Fix the crash on failed tree assert bug #150471 based on patch from Dean Brettle
- removed an incompatibility with SGI FAM #149822
* Tue Mar  1 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.25-1
- Fix a configure problem reported by Martin Schlemmer
- Fix the /media/* and /mnt/* mount blocking problems from 0.0.24 e.g. #142637
- Fix the monitoring of directory using poll and not kernel
* Fri Feb 18 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.24-1
- more documentation
- lot of serious bug fixes including Gnome Desktop refresh bug
- extending the framework for more debug (configure --enable-debug-api)
- extending the python bindings for watching the same resource multiple times
  and adding debug framework support
- growing the regression tests a lot based on python bindings
- inotify-0.19 patch from John McCutchan
- renamed python private module to _gamin to follow Python PEP 8
* Tue Feb  8 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.23-1
- memory corruption fix from Mark on the client side
- extending the protocol and API to allow skipping Exists and EndExists
  events to avoid deadlock on reconnect or when they are not used.
* Mon Jan 31 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.22-1
- bit of python bindings improvements, added test
- fixed 3 bugs
* Wed Jan 26 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.21-1
- Added Python support
- Updated for inotify-0.18
* Thu Jan  6 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.20-1
- Frederic Crozat seems to have found the GList corruption which may fix
  - Frederic Crozat also fixed poll only mode
* Fri Dec  3 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.19-1
- still chasing the loop bug, made another pass at checking GList,
  added own copy with memory poisonning of GList implementation.
- fixed a compile issue when compiling without debug
* Fri Nov 26 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.18-1
- still chasing the loop bug, checked and cleaned up all GList use
- patch from markmc to minimize load on busy apps
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.16-1
- chasing #132354, lot of debugging, checking and testing and a bit
  of refactoring
* Sat Oct 16 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.15-1
- workaround to detect loops and avoid the nasty effects, see RedHat bug #132354
* Sun Oct  3 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.14-1
- Found and fixed the annoying bug where update were not received
  should fix bugs ##132429, #133665 and #134413
- new mechanism to debug on-the-fly by sending SIGUSR2 to client or server
- Added documentation about internals
* Fri Oct  1 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.13-1
- applied portability fixes
- hardened the code while chasing a segfault
* Thu Sep 30 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.12-1
- potential fix for a hard to reproduce looping problem.
* Mon Sep 27 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.11-1
- update to the latest version of inotify
- inotify support compiled in by default
- fix ABI FAM compatibility problems #133162
* Tue Sep 21 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.10-1
- more documentation
- Added support for a configuration file $HOME/.gaminrc
- fixes FAM compatibility issues with FAMErrno and FamErrlist #132944
* Wed Sep  1 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.9-1
- fix crash with konqueror #130967
- exclude kernel (dnotify) monitoring for /mnt//* /media//*
* Thu Aug 26 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.8-1
- Fixes crashes of the gam_server
- try to correct the kernel/poll switching mode
* Tue Aug 24 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.7-1
- add support for both polling and dnotify simultaneously
- fixes monitoring of initially missing files
- load control on very busy resources #124361, desactivating
  dnotify and falling back to polling for CPU drain
* Thu Aug 19 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.6-1
- fixes simple file monitoring should close RH #129974
- relocate gam_server in $(libexec)
* Thu Aug  5 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.5-1
- Fix a crash when the client binary forks the gam_server and an
  atexit handler is run.
* Wed Aug  4 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> 0.0.4-1
- should fix KDE build problems

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/

ca64cb3cc651dbcee40e10b448f9df375ede127b  SRPMS/gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.src.rpm
ca64cb3cc651dbcee40e10b448f9df375ede127b  noarch/gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.src.rpm
8b4616c707b61c6865915bd9692990de4d475e4f  ppc/gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.ppc.rpm
b7a8d82745a204220596555852b25079d8bf3afe  ppc/gamin-python-0.1.7-8.fc6.ppc.rpm
dd968a4dd402f92638bd9b6f37a4f35fce989389  ppc/gamin-devel-0.1.7-8.fc6.ppc.rpm
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fcdb524f48989556c0e63ed2c7f1f6fd83b93801  x86_64/gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm
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cdbdc0e95c35f1b39469b314d934cf5b5d2f42d6  x86_64/gamin-python-0.1.7-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm
489c1f46768540994eb8637ed08e93c4415449de  i386/gamin-python-0.1.7-8.fc6.i386.rpm
7e05a1c8f7ff497570fa32daaddd12d0de3a310f  i386/gamin-devel-0.1.7-8.fc6.i386.rpm
16e5409aa11fc53cdef53e97b4a81f3b18cae656  i386/debug/gamin-debuginfo-0.1.7-8.fc6.i386.rpm
77736045dc795800f54f50c56ceabe80673c8d8c  i386/gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.i386.rpm

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