Fedora package developers very often submit a test update for a package, get some feedback on it, then submit another test update incorporating further fixes.  This resets the “karma” back to zero, as well as making search results for packages in the Fedora Update system very cluttered.

Did you know that you can edit an existing test update?  Doing this keeps the list of fixed bugs, keeps any user comments about the update, and keeps the karma from previous testing.

After clicking Edit, make your changes but be sure to choose Testing or Stable for the Request field.

I’m about to try installing a Fedora 12 test image onto the spare disk partition in this computer, but it’s taken me a while to work out which partition actually is spare. The reason: most of my filesystems are in logical volumes on LUKS-encrypted devices.

So, for my own reference as much as anything else, here is how to map an encrypted logical volume back to an actual disk partition.

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When I think about it, I can remember more games I used to play on my Commodore 64 than I expect to.  Here’s what I’ve managed to recall.

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To head off the question before I’m asked it: no, HPLIP 3.9.10 will not be in Fedora 12.  We will stick with 3.9.8.

The 3.9.10 release contains a completely re-written print filter, 27 thousand lines of new code, all of it written by HP with no outside review.  There is no public source code repository for HPLIP so 3.9.10 is the first time this code has seen the light of day.

The newest stable branch of CUPS, 1.4, has a different job cancellation behaviour (hey, two words in a row spelt differently in American English!) than 1.3 did.  If you have cancelled a job but it still appears in the job queue, this might explain why.

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