Fedorahosted going away (fixed except xmlto)

[Pierre Labastie]

See ​https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedorahosted-sunset-2017-02-28/

We have four packages in the book, formerly or currently hosted on fedorahosted. I summarize here the new locations:

​https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality/releases/download/libpwquality-1.3.0/libpwquality-1.3.0.tar.bz2

​https://releases.pagure.org/newt/newt-0.52.9.tar.gz

​https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/releases/download/3.11.0/logrotate-3.11.0.tar.xz, see also #8928

The problematic case is xmlto, since there is no indication the maintainer would move the package to another place.

[bdubbs@…]

I've updated the urls and checked the currency scripts for libpwquality, newt, and logrotate. That leaves xmlto.

[bdubbs@…]

There are two other reference to fedorahosted in the book:

postlfs/config/firmware.xml: ​http://fedorahosted.org/released/microcode_ctl/ x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml: ​https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

I found an entry on ​https://pagure.io/microcode_ctl, but it is a placeholder. No content yet.

I can find nothing outside of fedorahosted for liberation-fonts.

[ken@…]

I've found the current liberation fonts at ​http://sources.openelec.tv/mirror/liberation-fonts-ttf/ and the md5sum for a downloaded tarball matches the copy I already had.

[ken@…]

For microcode_ctl, fedora are still on 2.1.11, but google suggested -16 in its search: for that, a LOT of bugs in redhat and centos. From the end of one bug, I found that -18 worked. But nobody else sems to have those versions.

Looking at Arch, ​https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/intel-ucode they renamed their package back in 2012 and they seem to download the tarball of the microcode, the license and the c program to manipulate the microcode from some random download ID at intel.

At gentoo, they seem to use ​https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-firmware/intel-microcode - details in ​https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-firmware/intel-microcode/intel-microcode-20161104.ebuild

This all looks like fun we could do without.

[bdubbs@…]

I put xmlto on anduin and pointed to that. I did look for other places, but couldn't find anything. The package was last updated Nov 2015.

I also updated the liberation fonts reference to Ken's URL.

Revision 18434.

I'm still ponder what to do about microcode_ctl. I have a copy of a tarball for version 1.17, but I don't like how it works. It is only a singleton microcode_ctl.c (and a .8 man page that doesn't provide any useful information), but I don't like the Makefile. Really the only thing needed is:

gcc -g -Wall -O2 -o intel-microcode_ctl intel-microcode_ctl.c

The data file can be found at ​https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26400/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File. That file looks like microcode-20161104.tgz, but expands to microcode.dat in the current directory. Then

microcode_ctl <filename>

extracts the data and places it into a subdirectory named intel-ucode/.

Those are the details. The question remains about how to present it in the firmware page of the book.

[ken@…]

I've checked the changes for the intel microcode, they look good to me (and I found newer microcode for my Skylake). Closing.

[bdubbs@…]

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[bdubbs@…]

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